Flitton is a village in Bedfordshire , England. The name is derived from the Flit River ( English Flitt ), flowing near the village. Most notable is the Mausoleum de Grey , located near the Baptist Church of St. John. Richard Millward, creator of The Seldon's Table Talk, was born here in 1609. There are two pubs in Flitton - White Heart and Merry Cooper.
Church of St. John
Church of St. John
The church, standing on a small hill at the western tip of the village, was allegedly built by Edmund Gray , Earl of Kent (1465), between 1440 and 1489. In the church there is a 27-foot (8.2 meter) altar, a 39-foot (12 meter) ship (including side chapels), a southern gallery and a western 3-story tower, with a turret with a cross on the roof. The entire building, apparently, was built of local iron-containing rock and decorated with battlements. On the wall of the northern aisle - three copper commemorative plaques in memory: Eleanor the Conqueror ( English Eleonor Conquestor) (1434), Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Warren, (1544) and Alice, the wife of Reginald Hill (1594).
The Church of St. John has 5 bells - 2 (1902 and 1904) from the Ipswich Relief Society, and 3 (1687) made by Richard Chandler of Drayton Perslow.
Natural scientist George Hadley (1685-1768) was buried in the altar.
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Literature
- Page, William, editor: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Bedfordshire , University of London, Dawsons, London 1972, pp 325-332
- Pevsner, Nikolaus: The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough , Penguin Books, London 1968