Temple Balsall Warwickshire Family History Guide
Temple Balsall, also known as Balsall, is a chapelry of Hampton in Arden Ancient Parish in Warwickshire.
Alternative names: Balsall, Balshall, Temple Balsall
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1736
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1809
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Temple Balsall Parish Registers
Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Temple Balsall Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1535-1812
Temple Balsall Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910
Marriages and Banns
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Temple Balsall Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910
Burials
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Temple Balsall Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910
Parish Records
Balsall Warwickshire Miscellaneous Church of England Parish Records – Parish Accounts, Illustrations, Probate Records
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BALSALL, Balshall, or Temple-Balsall, a chapelry in the parish of Hampton-in-Arden, Warwick; 3 miles E of Knowle r. station, and 9 W by S of Coventry. Post Town, Knowle under Birmingham. Real property, £8,864. Pop., 1,140. Houses, 291.
The manor was given, in the reign of Stephen, to the Knights Templars; belonged afterwards to the Knights Hospitallers; passed, in the time of Edward VI., to the Earls of Warwick and Leicester, and afterwards to Lady Katherine Leveson; and was bequeathed by that lady for the erection and endowment of an hospital for poor women and boys.
A hall Was built by the Templars as a commandery or preceptory; and remains of it still exist. The hospital of Lady Leveson was enlarged under an act of Queen Anne; is now an extensive and substantial suite of buildings, in the form of a square, on the border of a large green; and has an income of £1,421.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £50. Patron, the Governor of Balsall Hospital. The church was built by the Templars, about the middle of the 12th century; is 104 feet long, 39 feet wide, and 57 feet high; and has lofty, pointed, finely-traceried windows, timber roof, and stone stalls. Other charities than the hospital £26.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Maps
National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Solihull
- Probate Court: Court of the Manor of Temple Balsall
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Arden
- Poor Law Union: Meriden
- Hundred: Hemlingford
- Province: Canterbury