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WANTAGE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 304 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WANTAGE , a market town in the Abingdon parliamentary division of Berkshire, England. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 3766. It lies in the richly wooded Valr, of White Horse, in a hollow at the foot of the steep hills which border the Vale on the
south
 , 2 M. S. of Wantage Road station on the
Great
  Western railway, with which a steam tramway connects it. The church of St Peter and St Paul is cruciform, and as a whole Perpendicular in
appearance
 , but retains a
nave
  arcade and ornate tower-arches of the Early English period. The font is a fine specimen of the same style; and there is beautiful woodwork in the chancel. An altar-tomb in alabaster of 1361, and a fine brass of 1414, commemorate members of the family of Fitzwarren. There are other brasses of the 15th and 16th centuries. The neighbouring building of the grammar school preserves a Norman
door
  from another church, which formerly stood in the same churchyard with St Peter's. In the broad market-place is a
great
  statue of King Alfred, executed by Count Gleichen and unveiled in 1877 ; for Wantage is famous as the birthplace of the king in 849. The town has a large agricultural trade and ironworks.
The title of Baron Wantage of Lockinge was taken in 1885 by Sir Robert Loyd-Lindsay (b. 1832) on his
elevation
  to the peerage. He was the son of General James Lindsay of Balcarres, but took the additional surname of Loyd in 1858 on marrying the heiress of Lord Overstone, the banker; he fought with his regiment the Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea and won the V.C., retiring as lieutenant-colonel. He was M.P. for Berks from 1865 to 1885, and was
financial
  secretary to the War Office in 1877-1880. The title became
extinct
  at his death in 1900.


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