Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire

Description
Rotherfield Greys, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands 2 1/2 miles W of Henley station on the G.W.R., and 7 1/2 N of Reading; 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; telegraph office, Henley-on-Thames. The parish comprises 2928 acres; population, 2747. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belonged to the De Greys, passed to the Levels, the Knollys, and the Stapletons, to whom it now belongs. Greys Court is part of a stately, 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 modernized and of Tudor character, and stands in a well-wooded deer park-containing a curious dairy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £475. Patron, Trinity College, Oxford. The church is a small but ancient building of flint and stone of the Early English period, consisting of chancel with chapel, nave, N porch, and wooden belfry, and contains some interesting monuments. Sections of the parish are in the chapelries of Trinity and Highmoor. Trinity chapelry includes also small sections of Rotherfield Peppard and Henley-on-Thames parishes, and was constituted in 1849. The living is a vicarage in the patronage of the rector of Greys;. net value, £70. The church was built in 1849, at a cost of about £3000, and is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style. Highmoor chapelry is separately noticed.