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Solihull in Warwick County England History and GeographySOLIHULL, a market town and parish in the Solihull division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 13 miles (N.W.) from Warwick, and 105 (N.W.) from London, containing 2817 inhabitants. This town is situated on the road from Warwick to Birmingham, and consists principally of one street, with another branching off from the high road to the market-place: the houses in general are modern and well built, and many of them large and handsome; the inhabitants are well supplied with water from the river Blythe, which flows through the eastern extremity of the town, and from springs: the air is salubrious, and the surrounding scenery of a pleasing character. The Warwick and Birmingham, and the Stratford on Avon, canals pass through the parish. The market is on Wednesday; and fairs are held on April 29th, for cattle and horses; Sep. 11th for horses and the hiring of servants; and Oct. 12th, for cattle. A court leet, at which a constable is appointed, is held occasionally in the town hall, a neat modern brick building, beneath which is the marketplace, and in the upper part assemblies sometimes take place. Petty sessions are also held every alternate Wednesday. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £24. 18. 4., and in the patronage of E. B. Clive, Esq. The church, which is dedicated to St. Alphege, is a large cruciform structure, partly in the later and partly in the decorated style of English architecture, with an embattled tower and octagonal spire rising from the intersection: the tracery, mouldings, and corbels, in the interior are extremely elegant, and there are some fine specimens of tabernacle and screen-work; near the west entrance is an ancient stone font of octagonal form, and having round Norman pillars at the angles: in the chancel and transepts are several piscin? in trefoil niches, with triangular canopies: the vestry-room was formerly a chapel dedicated to St. Thomas ? Becket. In 1757, the spire fell on the north transept, and broke the roof and some monuments; it was afterwards rebuilt. There are places of worship for Independents and Roman Catholics. Sundry donations prior to 1697 were directed by the court of Chancery to be applied, under the management of fifteen trustees, among other purposes, to the instruction of poor children of this parish; the annual income is upwards of £317, of which sum, the head-master, who must be a graduate of one of the Universities, receives £100 for teaching the classics, and an under-master £65, for conducting the English department: the number of scholars is from fifty to sixty, all of whom must be sons of parishioners. Shenstone, the poet, was educated here. Fifteen poor girls are instructed by a schoolmistress for £8 per annum, arising from the united bequest of Mrs. Martha Palmer and Mrs. Fisher, in 1746. A Benedictine nunnery, in honour of St. Margaret, was founded at Hean-wood, in this parish, in the time of Henry II., by Ketelburn de Langdon, the revenue of which was valued at the dissolution at £21. 2. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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