Icomb, Gloucestershire

Description
Iccomb or Icomb, a parish in Gloucestershire, on the verge of the county, 2 miles SE of Stow-on-the-Wold. It has a post office under Stow-on-the-Wold (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Stow-on-the-Wold, and comprises the hamlets of Iccomb and Church Iccomb-the latter formerly in Worcestershire. Area, 1184 acres; population, 135. King Offa gave Iccomb to the prior and monks of Worcester. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are now lords of the manor of Church Iccomb. Iccomb Place, the old manor house, was the residence of the BIacket family in the 15th century, and is an object of great interest to antiquaries for the remarkable illustration it affords of the domestic buildings of that period. On Iccomb Hill there are earthworks. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £100 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church was built chiefly about 1220, is a very perfect example of Early English architecture, and was carefully restored in 1870. It contains the tomb of Sir John BIacket, who fought at Agin-court, and monuments to the Cope family.