{{Short description|Village in Gloucestershire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{infobox UK place |official_name= Coln St. Dennis |static_image= Houses in Coln St Dennis (geograph 4027221).jpg |static_image_caption= Houses in Coln St Dennis |coordinates = {{coord|51.800|-1.856|display=inline,title}} |os_grid_reference= SP0810 |population= 194 |population_ref= (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122209&c=GL54+3JX&d=16&e=62&g=6426876&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1426954990731&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|accessdate= 21 March 2015}}</ref> |civil_parish= Coln St. Dennis |shire_district= Cotswold |shire_county= Gloucestershire |region= South West England |country= England |post_town= Cheltenham |postcode_district= GL54 |postcode_area= GL |dial_code= |constituency_westminster= North Cotswolds<ref>{{cite web|title=Location of North Cotswolds |url=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4201/location |website=parliament.uk|access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref> |website= }}
'''Coln St. Dennis''' is a village and civil parish on the River Coln in Gloucestershire about {{convert|3|mi|km}} southwest of Northleach and about {{convert|7|mi|km}} northeast of Cirencester. The parish includes the village of Coln Rogers and the hamlets of Calcot, Fossebridge and Winson. The Fosse Way Roman road, which is now the A429 trunk road, forms the western boundary of the parish.
== Name == According to the Domesday book, Coln St. Dennis belonged to Saint Denis in Paris. In the 13th century it is recorded as ''Colne Santi Dionisij.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1991 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-869103-7 |edition=4. ed., repr |location=Oxford}}</ref>''
==History== About {{convert|1.3|mi|km}} southwest of Coln Rogers are Colnpen Long Barrow and a group of four round tumuli.<ref name=Verey200>Verey, 1970, page 200</ref> All are prehistoric burial mounds.
The Church of St James is the Church of England parish church dedicated to Saint James the Great which is Norman, with the addition of some Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic windows and other details.<ref>Verey, 1970, p. 199</ref> The church was dedicated to Saint Katherine in the 13th century, Saint Dennis in the 18th century, and is believed to have once been dedicated to Saint Kenelm.<ref>Elrington, 1968, pages 28-34</ref>
Coln St. Dennis Manor House was built in the 17th century and altered in 1965.<ref name=Verey200/> Pindrup is a farmhouse dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.<ref name=Verey200/> St. James' Rectory was designed by Richard Pace and built in 1810.<ref name=Verey200/>
==Sources== *{{Cite web |last=Elrington|first= C.R. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol8/pp28-34|title= A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 8 | year=1964 |publisher= Victoria County History|location= | isbn= |pages=28–34}} *{{cite book |author=Verey, David |title=The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds |year=1970 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071040-X |pages=199–200}}
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==External links== {{Commons category|Coln St. Dennis}} *[https://stdennisparishcouncil.org.uk Parish Council website] *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol8/pp28-34 British History Online] *[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/ColnStDennis/index.html GENUKI(tm) page] *{{oscoor gbx|SP086110}}
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Category:Villages in Gloucestershire Category:Cotswold District
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