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Bisham in Berks County England History and GeographyBISHAM, a parish in the hundred of BEYNHURST, county of BERKS, 4½ miles (N.W.) from Maidenhead, containing 707 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 1., and endowed with £200, and £20 per annum, private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant. G. Vansittart, Esq. was patron in 1819. The church dedicated to All Saints, is pleasantly situated close to the river Thames, the banks of which are adorned with interesting scenery, and many pleasing seats. The rolling of copper into sheets, and the making of copper bolts for the navy, and of pans and other vessels in copper, are carried on here to a considerable extent. Temple mills, estcemed among the most complete and powerful of the kind in the kingdom, received this name from having been in the possession of the Knights Templar, who established a preceptory here, on receiving a grant of the manor from Robert de Ferrariis, in the reign of Stephen. This institution, on the dissolution of the society, was succeeded by an Augustine priory, founded in 1338, by William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, the revenue of which, in the 26th of Henry VIII., amounted to £327. 4. 6. It was surrendered in 1536, was re-founded by the king, for a mitred abbot and thirteen Benedictine monks, and was finally dissolved on the 19th of June, 1538: The abbey was frequently visited by Henry VIII, and also by Queen Elizabeth, who resided here some time, a large state apartment being still called the queen's council chamber; but a very small portion only of the conventual buildings can be traced in the mansion which now occupies its site. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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