Rotherfield Greys Holy Trinity, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Rotherfield Greys Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Oxfordshire, created in 1849 from Rotherfield Greys Ancient Parish, Rotherfield Peppard Ancient Parish, and Henley-on-Thames Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Henley Holy Trinity
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- Parish registers: 1848
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ROTHERFIELD-GRAYS, a village and a parish in Henley district, Oxford. The village stands 2½ miles W of Henley r. station; gave the title of Baron, in the 14th century, to John de Grey; includes a village green, planted with cherry-trees; and has a post office under Henley-on-Thames. The parish comprises 2, 910 acres. Real property, £7, 325. Pop. in 1851, 1, 518; in 1861, 1, 629. Houses, 358. The property is divided chiefly among four. The manor belonged to the De Greys; passed to the Lovels, the Knollys, and the Stapletons; and, with Grays Court, belongs now to the Hon. and Rev. Sir F. J. Stapleton, Bart. The Court is part of astately, spacious, fortified residence, erected in the time of King John by the Archbishop of York, for his nephew John de Grey; retains four well-preserved towers of the original structure; is now much modernised, and of Tudor character; and stands in well-wooded grounds, containing a curious dairy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £740. Patron, Trinity College, Oxford. The church is ancient; was restored in 1868; and contains some interesting monuments. Two sections of the parish, with pop. of 1,041 and 283 in 1861, are in the chapelries of Trinity and Highmore. Trinity chapelry includes also small sections of Rotherfield-Peppard and Henley-on-Thames parishes, and was constituted in 1849. The living is a p. curacy, of the value of £120, in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford. The church was built in 1849, at a cost of about £3,000. Highmore chapelry is separately noticed. A parochial school is at Grays-Green, and a national school is connected with Trinity church.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ROTHERFIELD-GRAYS, a parish, in the union of Henley, hundred of Binfield, county of Oxford, 2¼ miles (W.) from Henley; containing 1535 inhabitants. This place derives the suffix to its name from the family of De Grey, of whose baronial residence there are still two towers at Greys Court, a venerable and interesting mansion surrounded with richly varied scenery. The parish comprises 2600 acres, of which about 400 are woodland: the soil is gravel, alternated with flint and chalk; the prevailing trees are beech. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £10. 12. 8½.; net income, £714; patrons, the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford. The church contains a font of singular shape. In the chancel is a brass effigy of a warrior, in good preservation, under a tabernacle, with a Latin inscription in old letter, to the memory of Robert de Grey, Lord of Rotherfield, who died in 1387; and in one of the aisles is a splendid monument of the period of James I., to Sir Francis Knollys, his lady, and their numerous progeny. Two schools are supported by subscription.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Henley
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Henley
- Poor Law Union: Henley
- Hundred: Binfield
- Province: Canterbury