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Dunchurch in Warwick County England History and GeographyDUNCHURCH, a parish in the Rugby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 15 miles (E.N.E.) from Warwick, containing, with the hamlets of Toft and Thurlaston, 1251 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £14. 1. 10½., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a handsome and curious edifice, with a square embattled tower; the western porch has a fine Norman arch, ornamented with heads and zigzag mouldings; the chancel is of early English architecture, with some windows in the decorated style; the nave is also decorated, and the door-ways of the aisles are ornamented with remarkably rich mouldings: the tower is in the later English style, much enriched, but mutilated. Here is a free grammar school, founded in 1707, and endowed by a bequest from Francis Boughton, of twenty-seven acres of land and a house for the master, who must be a clergyman: the same benefactor left twenty-four acres of land, directing the produce to the applied in apprenticing poor boys: both charities are vested in eight trustees. In 1695, Thomas Newcombe, printer to the kings Charles II., James II., and William III., bequeathed property for erecting and endowing six almshouses, for three poor men and three poor widows, which were rebuilt in 1818. The village of Dunchurch, being a thoroughfare on the great north road, contains some good inns, and several respectable houses, presenting the appearance of a small market town; at its northern extremity is an obelisk, where stood an ancient cross. A court of requests is held here every three weeks. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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