Icomb

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  • The Cotswolds
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UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°54′N 1°42′W / 51.900°N 1.700°W / 51.900; -1.700

Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202.[1]

The village appears as Iacumbe in the Domesday Book.

Parish Church

The Church of St Mary is the parish church which has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249. It is a grade I listed building.[2]

Icomb Place

The Grade 1 Listed building Icomb Place on edge of the village was significantly altered by Sir John Blaket in 1421, a knight who fought with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt and died in 1431, whose tomb is in the church.[3]

51°54′N 1°42′W / 51.900°N 1.700°W / 51.900; -1.700

References

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Church of St Mary". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. ^ Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).

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