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Knowle in Warwick County England History and GeographyKNOWLE, a chapelry in the parish of HAMPTON in ARDEN, Solihull division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 2½ miles (S.E. by E.) from Solihull, containing 1082 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the manor court of Knowle, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of H. Greswold Lewis, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Ann, is in the later style of English architecture, and contains some ancient stalls and fragments of stained glass: it was built and a chantry established here by Walter Cook, canon of Lincoln, in the reign of Richard II., and was valued, at the dissolution, at £18. 5. 6. per annum. The name is a corruption of Cnolle, or Knoll, the summit of a hill: this is supposed to have been the site of a Roman statien; an urn, containing coins of the Lower Empire, and weighting 15lb., was discovered in an adjoining field. The petty sessions for the division are held here during the winter months, in conjunction with Solihull. From twenty to twenty-five children of this chapelry are clothed and educated, conjointly with others in the parishes of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, in Warwick, on the foundation of the Hon. Sarah Greville, by a bequest in 1718; at the same time the Hon. Algernon Greville bequeathed £500 for the education of boys and girls, the income arising from which is £25 per annum. There are various benefactions for the relief of the poor, the principal of which is by Fulk Greville, Esq., in 1742, a small portion of the income being also applied towards the instruction of children. A fair for cattle and sheep is held on the first Monday after St. Ann's day. The Warwick and Birmingham canal passes through this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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