Notgrove, Gloucestershire

Description
Notgrove, a parish in Gloucestershire, 2 1/4 miles WNW of the Fosse Way, 4 WSW of Bourton-on-the Water, and 4 N of Northleach. It has a station, called Notgrove and Westfield, about a, mile NW, on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the G.W.R., and a post office under Cheltenham ; money order office, Naunton; telegraph office, Bonrton-on-the Water. Acreage, 1724; population, 133. The manor belonged in the reign of Henry IV. to Sir Guy de Whittington, a nephew of the famous lord mayor of London, and remained in the possession of the family till the reign of Elizabeth. It now belongs to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £27 with 302 acres of glebe and residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, chiefly Perpendicular, and was restored in 1872-73. A fine old carved screen divides the nave from the chancel, which retains a piscina and aumbry and has fresco paintings on the E wall. The church contains tombs of the Whittington family and a Norman font and Norman arcade.