Benefice of DORCHESTER
(LI.OX.CU.04) variantsThis 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. |
£ 41. 6s. 8d. | ||||
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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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. |
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1 The medieval church of St Mary was situated by the river, close to the old manor house. In the eighteenth century it was replaced by a new church some 200 yds to the west of the old church and using material from it. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Oxford, ed. W.Page et al., 13 vols (London, 1907-96) vol 7 p.15 2 The lack of presentations to the church of Dorchester, as indeed to all its chapels, indicates the jurisdictional control of the abbey of Dorchester. However the church and its chapels were served, there can be little doubt that they can be regarded as appropriated to the abbey, despite the description of the chapels in many of the taxatio MSS as 'prebendal', surely a reference to a previous status when Dorchester abbey was a cathedral church. Certainly, no vicarage seems to have been endowed in this church: VCHOxford7 54. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Oxford, ed. W.Page et al., 13 vols (London, 1907-96) vol 7 p.54 3 For ten chapels of Dorchester (former cathedral church) see VCHOxford7 53; one of them (Nettlebed) is, however, included in the taxatio listing of BLIB (see 122) as a minute benefice in a different deanery (LI.OX.HE.U20) and is thus not named here with the other nine. The group of chapels formed a peculiar jurisdiction under the control of the abbey of Dorchester. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Oxford, ed. W.Page et al., 13 vols (London, 1907-96) vol 7 p.53
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