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Balsall in Warwick County England History and GeographyBALSALL, a chapelry in the parish of HAMPTON in ARDEN, Solihull division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 4½ miles (S.E. by E.) from Solihull, containing 1056 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Governors of Balsall Hospital. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, formerly belonged to a Society of Knights' Templar, and, about 1823, was repaired at an expense of £979. Lady Katherine Leveson, of Trentham, in the county of Stafford, by will dated in 1670, devised the manor of Temple-Balsall to twelve trustees, for the erection and endowment of an hospital for twenty poor women of the parish of Balsall, directing that £8 per annum should be paid to each of the alms-women, and £20 per annum to a minister, for reading prayers to them and for teaching twenty poor boys of the same parish. By an act passed in the first of Queen Anne, for the better government of this hospital, it was incorporated under the name of 'The Hospital of the Lady Katherine Leveson,' and eleven trustees were appointed, with power to enlarge the buildings and increase the number of alms-women, which now amounts to thirty. The establishment consists of a master, under master, an apothecary, a matron and a nurse. The master, in addition to his salary, receives from the funds of the hospital £50 per annum as perpetual curate of Balsall: a stipend of £50 per annum is also paid to the Vicar of Long Itchington. The annual receipts of the charity now amount to about £1500. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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