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Stanton-Harcourt in Oxford County England History and GeographySTANTON-HARCOURT, a parish in the hundred of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 4½ miles (S.E.) from Witney, containing 606 inhabitants. This place was granted by Queen Adeliza, second wife of Henry I., to her kinswoman Milicent, wife of Richard de Camville, whose daughter Isabel married Robert de Harcourt. It is situated near the confluence of the small river Windrush with the Thames. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £16. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael; in the ancient tower are three chambers above each other, in good repair, the uppermost of which retains the name of Pope's study, being the room in which the poet translated his fifth volume of Homer: in the church are two epitaphs written by Pope, one by Congreve, and one by Dr. Friend; in the Harcourt aisle are some good monuments. Here is a kitchen, which bears marks of remote antiquity; the date of its erection is uncertain, but it was repaired about the reign of Henry IV., and has a great resemblance to the abbot's kitchen at Glastonbury. A school for the education of poor children is supported by the proceeds of various benefactions; the income is £18 per annum, and from thirty to forty children are instructed at small charges. Some ancient remains, called the Devil's Quoits, were probably placed here to commemorate a victory of the Saxon Princes Cynegil and Chwichelm over the Britons, on which occasion about two thousand of the latter were slain. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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