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Benefice of STEEPLE MORDEN

(EL.EL.SH.07) variants

This figure is the total assessed value of the benefice. Note that for a cathedral church a zero figure is given because its assessed value is derived from a number of holdings which are listed elsewhere in the taxatio text.

     Assessment for tax:
£ 66. 13s. 4d.

This section gives the modern name of the benefice together with the church dedication and the Ordnance Survey grid reference of the church (click the grid reference to locate the church building on Google Maps). Constituent parts of the benefice, such as vicarage, or any dependent chapels, pensions, portions and prebends, with their values, are also listed here.

     Benefice details:
STEEPLE MORDEN
TL285424 ded: ST PETER AND ST PAUL by 1390, perhaps by 1310     

This section shows the patronage status of the benefice in 1291-2, the date of the taxatio, as much as can be found in contemporary or near-contemporary sources. The line includes the type of patronage: ecclesiastical, monastic or secular; the name of the patron; and for monastic patrons, the order of their religious house. If the patronage is ecclesiastical or monastic, then it may be an appropriated church. This is shown by the "If Appropriated" line below.

     Patronage:
ecclesiastical, Winchester, Hants, bishop, 1     

This section states whether or not the benefice was appropriated at or near 1291-2, the date of the taxatio. The line may include the type of position instituted, collated or presented and the date, but this information is shown only if available from contemporary or near-contemporary sources.

     If appropriated:
No (inst.) rectory 1304

This section displays the Latin text of the new edition of the taxatio based on the best sources available. Each line lists a taxable item and its assessed value in pounds, shillings and pence. Immediately below this figure is its equivalent value in medieval marks (NB.1mark=13s4d.) Click on the source button at the end of the item to see the full source reference for it.

     Full entry:
Ecclesia de Stepilmordon'     
£ 66. 13s. 4d.
100m.

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     Notes:
1 It was the king who presented to this church in 1304 because the bishopric of Winchester was vacant: CalPat1301-1307 307. There ensued, however, a long dispute about the patronage between the king and the bishop of Winchester: see CalPat1307-1313 510, CalPat1313-1317 4, CalPat1324-1327 86. For the patronage of the bishop of Winchester, and evidence that the church may have been served by chaplains, see VCHCambs8 120-1 (the church was appropriated to New College, Oxford, in 1381); and for an inventory of tbe church c.1278 see ArchElien 112.     

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