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Benefice of STEEPLE BARTON

(LI.OX.WO.15) 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:
£ 21. 6s. 8d.

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 BARTON
SP447248 ded: ST MARY THE VIRGIN     
COLCHESTER, ESSEX, ST JOHN'S ABBEY, ABBOT £ 3. 0s. 0d. (portion)
    VICARAGE
SANDFORD ST MARTIN (dependent chapel)
SP421266 ded: ST MARTIN     
    VICARAGE
LEDWELL (dependent chapel)
SP4222821 ded: UNKNOWN

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:
monastic, Osney, Oxon, abbey, Augustinian Canons 2     

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:
Yes (inst.) vicarage 1259 - 1260

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     Full entry:
Ecclesia de Magna Barthon' cum capellis de Sandeford ed Ledwell' deducta portione (margin: abbatis Osen')     
variants
£ 16. 0s. 0d.
24m.
Portio abbatis Colcestr' in eadem     
variants
£ 3. 0s. 0d.
4.5m.
Vicaria eiusdem     
(listed as exempt: too low in value)
£ 1. 6s. 8d.
2m.
Vicaria de Saunford'     
(listed as exempt: too low in value)
£ 1. 0s. 0d.
1.5m.

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     Notes:
1 The chapel of Ledwell was in existence by the late twelfth century, but it was last recorded in 1499. It is thought to have stood in the centre of the village on the east side of the road which once went to Worton. An approximate grid reference is given for this position.     
2 For the ordination of the vicarage of Steeple Barton (1217) and its extent see ActaWells 31-2, and see LibAnt 2, 82-2 and RotWelles1 180. And for the ordination of the vicarage of Sandford St Martin (1217) and its extent see ActaWells 31-2, and see LibAnt 2, 81-2, RotWelles2 21, RotWelles1 180 and CartOseney4 200.     

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