Atkyns Manor

The Jones family held Atkyns Manor for nearly 200 years. Various names of Jones are cut in the old glass windows. John Jones was a miser and deaf and dumb. £50 in gold was found behind some panelling which now forms a screen by the south door of All Hallows Church, South Cerney.

The house passed to Lattons, then to Biddeles, then to Cromwell Hockley, who sold it in 1905 to Mr E.T. Cripps, son of Mr E.W. Cripps of Ampney Park. He used plans by Mr S. Gambier Parry, the architect, to enlarge and improve the house and installed two Roman pillars at the foot of the stair-case.

In 1957 the name was changed from South Cerney Manor to Atkyns Manor after the Gloucestershire poet and writer, Sir Robert Atkyns who had lived in the house prior to the Jones family.