Goodman is thought to have begun building Southam House c.1500 and was completed by Sir John Huddleston, who was steward of Sudeley Castle. Southam House was later used by The Oriel School for Girls and now it is the Ellenborough Park Hotel. The Grade II* listed Tithe Barn and 12th-century Church of the Ascension are also points of interest. The church was abandoned to storing crops and making cider at some stage after 1646. In 1862 The Earl of Ellenborough restored the church in memory of his first wife, Lady Octavia Stewart, who had died of tuberculosis after five years of marriage. Ownership of the church transferred to the Diocese of Gloucester in 1957. References Villages in Gloucestershire Borough of Tewkesbury Civil parishes in Gloucestershire