Thorpe Mandeville is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England about northeast of Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire. The hamlet of Lower Thorpe is just north of the village. The village's name means 'Outlying farm/settlement'. The village was held by Richard de Amundevill in 1252. The population of the parish has grown slowly over the centuries. It was recorded as 137 in the 1801 Census, 178 in the 1991 Census, 194 in the 2001 Census and 327 (including Edgcote) in the 2011 Census. Manors The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as Thorp. "Mandeville" is a corruption of Amundeville. Richard de Amundeville was lord of the manor in the 13th century. In 1346 a house and of land at Thorpe Mandeville were listed amongst the estates of the Augustinian priory at Chacombe. The Kirton family lived at Thorpe Mandeville manor house from 1554 to 1685. Thomas Kirton (1537–1601) of Thorpe Mandeville was Common Serjeant of London. The current ironstone manor house was built early in the 18th century. The south front of the house is of five bays and is in the style of Thomas Archer. It is a Grade II* listed building. Parish church By the end of the 11th century Thorpe Mandeville had a parish church, which was included in the early endowments to a Cluniac priory of the Abbey of La Charité-sur-Loire that had been founded at Preston Capes in 1090 and moved to Daventry shortly thereafter. The present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, built of local ironstone, dates largely from the early part of the 14th century. The north aisle has Decorated Gothic windows and an arcade of three bays. The chancel has windows dating from about 1300, the middle of the Decorated Gothic period. The chancel was restored in 1872 under the direction of the architect Albert Hartshorne. High on the east wall of the west tower is a small stone relief of a man under a hood mould. On the north wall of the north aisle is a 14th-century painting of Saint Christopher carrying Jesus. On the west wall of the north aisle is a monument to Sir Thomas Kirton (died 1601) and his wife Margaret (died 1597). The church is a Grade I listed building. The tower has a saddleback roof and three bells. Henry I Bagley of Chacombe cast the second bell in 1636. John