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Chaddesley-Corbett in Worcester County England History and GeographyCHADDESLEY-CORBETT, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Bromsgrove, containing 1343 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £17. 3. 4., and in the gift of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Cassyon, is a fine spacious edifice of red free-stone, combining different styles of English architecture, with some Norman portions, of which latter the font is a fine specimen. Here is a free school, endowed with land and tenements, out of the annual produce of which, the master is entitled to a yearly salary of £40, and an usher to one of £10, but only a master is appointed; the remainder, amounting on an average to about £170 per annum, is applied towards the support of the poor: the present school-room was built in 1809. Mrs. Margaret Delabere erected and endowed an almshouse for five aged widows, who receive £10 per annum each. At the hamlet of Harvington, in this parish, is a Roman Catholic chapel, the present structure having been completed in 1825, by subscription, the late Sir Charles Throckmorton being the chief contributor. The same benevolent individual founded a school, and endowed it with a rent charge upon the Harvington estate; it is kept in a building adjoining the moated manor-house, now the residence of a farmer; about thirty boys and girls, principally the children of Roman Catholic parents, are instructed on the Lancasterian plan, and provided with books and stationery. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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