{"id":456,"date":"2020-06-06T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boughrood.wales\/?page_id=456"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:55:37","slug":"boughrood-rectory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boughrood.wales\/?page_id=456","title":{"rendered":"Boughrood Rectory"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Old Rectory Boughrood<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The land on which the de Winton family built their rectory came into the family in 1833 when Walter bought the Fowke properties in Boughrood and Llanstephan.\u00a0 There was a cottage called Llain Pwllyn on the old track along the river to Glasbury (now part of the Wye Valley Walk) which is still visible at the downstream end of the house.\u00a0 Edward Fowke lived in Llain Pwllyn while he was agent for the Maesllwch estate but when Walter decided that the house would become the site for his new Rectory, no doubt because of its position on the river bank as it is over half a mile from the church, he added a Georgian house on to the cottage.\u00a0 Walter\u2019s son Henry was a more committed Rector who made the Rectory his home: thirteen of his fourteen children (seven boys and seven girls) were born in the house from 1849 onwards, which necessitated enlarging it even further.\u00a0 He employed C. H. Howell, the architect for the new church at Boughrood, to build a new wing with Gothic windows and bargeboarded gables on at the north-west end of the house in 1851.\u00a0 The stonework shares many of the features of the church.\u00a0 Henry also had the stable built on the edge of his walled garden.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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As well as their many children, the de Wintons kept an indoor staff of a nurse and a nursemaid, a cook, a kitchen-maid, a house-maid and a parlour-maid \u2013 the 1861 census has six servants and eight members of the family living in the Rectory \u2013 and despite his private income Henry had to take in paying pupils to add to the family funds, most often consisting of young Oxford undergraduates intending to go into the church.\u00a0 An early \u2018reading party\u2019 included Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland<\/em>; Henry\u2019s friend Francis Kilvert of Clyro, wrote in his diary on 5th<\/sup> December 1871 of a lecture in Hay by George Venables on \u2018the German Empire\u2019 to which de Winton and four of his pupils walked through the snow from Boughrood to attend.\u00a0 Henry de Winton remained in Boughrood until 1881 when, by now Archdeacon of Brecon as well, he moved to a new house living in Llandrindod Wells. \u00a0His successor in Boughrood was the Reverend Jackson-Taylor, whose two daughters lived in the house until the 1960s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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