Warmington, Warwickshire

Description
Warmington, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village is 4 miles S of Fenny Compton station on the G.W.R. and East and West Junction railway, 5 SE of Kineton, and 5 1/4 NNW of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury; money order office, Avon Dassett; telegraph office, Farnborough. The parish includes the hamlet of Arlescote. Acreage, 1809; population, 277. There is a parish council consisting of five members. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Preaux Abbey in Normandy, was founded here in the time of Henry I. by H. de Newburgh, and was given by Henry VI. to Witham Priory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £484 with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is chiefly of the 14th century, and was restored in 1871. The nave is separated from the aisles by four Norman and one Decorated arch. Attached to the north side of the chancel is a domus inclusi or anchorite priest's dwelling. There are some good Decorated windows, and the chancel retains a piscina and sedilia of three seats. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.