Church History
This Church was founded in the 13th century, the church towerr contains a bell over 500 years old.
The nave windows at St. Mary Magdalene's, Boddington are mostly 14th Century. The font is Perpendicular in style. There are monuments to Thomas Arkell and his family. John Arkell founded the Arkells brewery.
Extract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
BODDINGTON, a parish partly in the lower division of the hundred of TEWKESBURY, and partly in the lower division of the hundred of WESTMINSTER, county of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (N.W. by W.) from Cheltenham, containing 413 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Staverton, in the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Deerhurst, in which, however, no spiritual authority is exercised. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.
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