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Benefice of WIMBORNE MINSTER (ANNEXED IN PART TO THE DEANSHIP OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH)

(SA.DO.WM.01) 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:		 £ 71. 0s. 0d.

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:
WIMBORNE MINSTER (ANNEXED IN PART TO THE DEANSHIP OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH) (prebendal church)
SZ009999 ded: ST CUTHBERGA     
PORTION OF SACRIST OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH (portion)
FIRST PREBEND OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)
SECOND PREBEND OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)
THIRD PREBEND OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)
FOURTH PREBEND OF WIMBORNE MINSTER COLLEGIATE CHURCH (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)

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:
KING, 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 1312

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:
Portio decani Wymborn' in eadem, Kingeston' et Scapewik' 2     
£ 26. 13s. 4d.
40m.
Quatuor sunt prebende in eadem quarum quelibet estimatur in 10l.0s.0d.     
£ 40. 0s. 0d.
60m.
Portio sacriste in eadem     
variants
£ 4. 6s. 8d.
6.5m.

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     Notes:
1 The king appointed to the deanship, and the dean appointed the four prebendaries, and also the sacrist: see CoulstockWimb 102-5, 234-40, and VCHDorset2 109-10. However, since the king had overall patronage, and certainly patronage of the deanship, it is the king who is given here as patron throughout.     
2 For this collegiate church see CoulstockWimb 98-113. The taxatio text indicates that the dean's income derived in the main from three places: Wimborne itself, Kingston Lacy and Shapwick. For the church of Shapwick and its chapel of Kingston Lacy see SA.DO.PM.12 (where the taxatio lists also a pension belonging to the dean). Since Shapwick and Kingston Lacy were listed separately and also separately valued, it seems clear that the value given here is just from the church of Wimborne. And for a pension attached to Stanbridge church and portions attached to Moor Crichel and Hampreston churches see SA.DO.PM.18, 30, 31. These pensions and portions were, of course, in addition to the income valued here of 40 marks plus the 30 marks value of Shapwick and Kingston Lacy. (Chapels attached to Wimborne Minster have also been named, on later evidence, as St Peter's in Wimborne Minster, St Katherine's at Leigh and St James's at Holt: HutchinsDorset3 228.) The dean of Wimborne also presented to the church of Hinton Martell SA.DO.PM.29. The prebends of the college were very rarely given names in the records: see, from the fifteenth century, 'La Mayden Provendur' and 'Karentisbern' (CoulstockWimb 238).     

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