DIRECTORY.] WORCESTERSHIRE. BREDON. 27 and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Michael is of Trinity College, Oxford, .T.P. Henry Morris,of Quintan, left a building of stone of the Norman period, with remarkably in 1821 the sum of £x66 13s. 4d. which was invesred in the 3 good Norman arches at the north and south entrances, and per Cents. and the interest, £5, is distributed amongst the consists of chancel and nave, divided by a fine oak screen, poor at Christmas. Col. Richard Prescott-Decie D.L., J.P. is and a western tower of later date with pinnacle!!, and con- lord of the manor and principal landowner and resides at taining 3 bells : there is a small side chapel of ancient date, Bockelton Court. The soil is clayey; subsoil, sandstone. containing a well-preserved altar-tomb, with the recumbent The chief crops are corn, hops and fruit. The parish contains effigies of an esquire armed, but bareheaded, with his hands 2,749 acres of land in Worcestershire and 477 in Hereford­ joined and his gauntlets by his side, and beside him his shire; rateable value, £2,380; and the population in 188x wife; between them is placed a helmet with crest, and at was 318, of which 96 were in Herefordshire. their feet respectively a lion and an eagle i this monument HAMPTO:N CHARLES is a hamlet, 1 mile south, and is the commemorates Richard Barneby, formerly a landowner in Hereford portion of the parish. There are brick and drain this parish, and Mary (Habington), his wife, 1574 i at the pipe manufactories belonging to Coionel Richard Prescott­ back of the tomb is an inscription between kneeling. figures. D ec1e· D.L., J.P. oi five sons an d four d aughters, and a b ove a me d a llwn With Parish Clerk, William Boning. arms; the front of the tomb displays three large quartered shields: in the church is also a marble monument by Thomas PosT 0FFICE.-Reuben Moore, receiver. Letters through Woolner n.A. erected by the late Mrs. Prescott., in memory Ten bury arrive at 9 a. m. & dispatched at 4· 15 p.m. Ten- of her son, William Wolstenholme Prescott M.D. who died bury is the nearest money order & telegraph office in 1844: there are 150 sittings. The register, including School (mixed), built in x8r4, for 90 children; average Hampton Charles, dates from the year 1574. The living is attendance, 40; William Boning, master a vicarage, gross yearly value £134, including 105 acres of CARRIERS:- glebe, with residence, in the gift of Col. Richard Prescott- Stringer, Tenbury, tues Decie J.P.andheld since x864 by the Rev. RichardMence M.A. Jones, Tenbury, tues Bockelton. Davis William,frmr.&hopgrwr.Birchley Wright James, agent to Col. R. Pres- Jenkins James, farmer & hop grower cott-Decie D.L., J.P. & dist. surveyor HewittRev.Edwd.Swinton M.A.[curate] Jenkins Thos.frmr.& hopgrwr. Grafton to the Tenbury highway board Mence Rev. Richard M.A., J.P. [vicar], Jones John, farmer, Romer's common Vicarage Moseley Daniel, farmer & hop grower, Hampton Charles. Prescott-Decie Col. Richard D.L., J.P. The Hill Payne Richard, Pound cottage Bockelton court Moore Reuben, blacksmith, grocer, far- .AbbottsThomas,manager of brick wrks mer & hop grower Deacon Charles, farmer, The Birches COMMERCIAL. Powell John, farmer, Lower Quintan Moss Thomas, farmer & hop grower .Andrews George, wheelwright Price Mansell, cowkeeper Patten John, farmer, Whire house .Andrews Henry, farm bailiff to Col. Thomas Henry, farmer, Romer farm Rogers Samuel (Mrs.), farmer Richard Prescott-Decie,& hop grower Tyler Benjamin, farmer, Birches Glebe Saer Maria (Mrs.), farmer,Manor farm Curzon Robert, gamekeeper to Col. Vale Benjamin, farmer, Weston Wood Edward, grocer Richard Prescott-Decie Webb Joseph, farmer, Middle Quintan Wood William, farmer & hop grower BREDICOT is a small village and parish, 4 miles east Worcester, and held since r865 by the Rev. William Major from Worcester, which is the nearest railway station, 6 Kingsmill M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who resides at south from Droitwich, in the Western division of the county, Tibberton. Robert Berkeley esq. J.P., D.L. of Spetchley lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, union of Per­ Park, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The shore, petty sessional division and county court district of soil is marl and clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Worcester, eastern division of the rural deanery of Worcester wheat, barley, beans and peas. The area of the parish is and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church of 397 acres; rateable value, £1,226; the population in 1891 St. James is an ancient building of stone in the Early was 47· English style, consisting of chancel, nave and south porch Letters through Worcester, the nearest money order office, paved with r6th cent. tiles, and an open western belfry arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest containing one bell : the chancel contains a piscina : the east telegraph office is at Spetchley goods station window is stained: the church was restored in r843, and has National School (mixed), erected, with master's house, in 6o sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates 1841 & enlarged about 1882 for the use of the parishes of from the year 1702 ; marriages, 1713. The living is a Bredicot, Spetchley, Churchill, Broughton Hackett, White rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Tibberton, tithe rent­ Ladies .Aston & Warndon, for x6o children; average charge £8r, joint gross yearly value £290, including 134 attendance, 6o; J. P. Phillips, master; Mrs. Phillips, acres of glebe, in the gift of the De;1n and Chapter of sewing mistress George Edward, farmer I Mitton John, farmer, Rectory farm I Phipps Hy. farmr.Bredicot Court farm BREDON with NORTON-BY-BREDON, KINSHAM, HARDWICK, MITTON and WESTMANCOTE. BREDON, anciently" Breodune" (a place at the foot of a hill), is a tomb without inscription, under a richly ornamented is a village and parish, situated on the east bank of the and crocketed arch, and east of it an aumbry : placed up­ navigable river .Avon, which divides the county on the west right against the south wall is a singular monument, circ. from Gloucestershire, with a station on the Birmingham and 14th century, formerly in Mitton chapel and discovered Bristol section of the Midland railway, 3 miles north from some years since in the flooring face downward; it represents Tewkesbury,9 north from Cheltenham,37 from Birmingham, a crucifix, abo\·e which are the busts of a man and his wife 15 south from Worcester and 7 south from Pershore, in the under canopies, and is supposed to belong to the Reede Southern division of the county, upper and middle hundred family: the tower is separated from the nave by a low of Oswaldslow, Pershore petty sessional division, union and wooden screen, and across the chancel arch is a new stone county court district of Tewkesbury, rural deanery of screen with a wooden gate: there was formerly a painted Bredon and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The and gilt rood loft, now removed : there are several ancient village stands on a plain at the south-west base of Bredon monuments, one of which, at the west end of the chapel, is bill, which, dividing the vales of Cotswold and Evesham, is a gorgeous and costly memorial to Giles Reed esq. and highly interesting as regards its geological developments; Katherine (Greville) his wife, both of whom died in x6n ; it upon its summit are traces of a Roman encampment. The is of black marble, cased with alabaster, and has recumbent parish church of ~t. Giles, originally erected in the latter effigies of both under a richly ornamented canopy, near half of the 12th century, is a building of stone, consisting which is suspended a helmet; there are also kneeling figures of chancel, nave, south chapel, north aisle with porch, and of their children, and the whole is profusely decorated with a central embattled tower with an exceedingly light and various architectural devices, heightened with colour and graceful spire r6o feet in height and containing 5 bells ; the gilding: in the chancel, under a slab of black marble, with nave, porch and south-west and north doorways are Norman, brasses exhibiting a mitre and shield of arms, lie the remains the chapel Early English and the remainder of the church of Dr. John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester (x64x-so), who Decorated, the Nor man work being particularly good and in died here at the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Henry Sutton1 excellent preservation : the west front is flanked by square July 20, x65o: there are 300 sittings, 150 being free: in turrets with pyramidal strJne cappings : the porch has a the churchyard is a high coped tomb and a monumental parvise, without, at present, any means of access; the lower cross profusely enriched with the ball-flower ornament. part IS groined ; both the porch doorway and the other The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year entrances on the south, west and north have the chevron r559 ; marriages, r562. The living is a rectory, with the ornament : there are remains of a piscina in the nave: the chapelries of Bredon's Norton and Cutsdean annexed, joint chancel retains a piscina and triple sed!lia, and behind the gross yearly value, arising from Box acres of glebe, J.,"x,6oo, piscina a low side window; on the north side of the chancel with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Portland, and held .