Presentation about Leamington's first church by Alan Griffin, Chair of Leamington History Group.

1. Leamington History
Group
SPOTLIGHT
ON
Leamington’s
first
church 1

2. This is the Domesday entry for Lamintone which reads:-
EARL ROGER holds Lamintone of the king. There are 2 hides. There is land
for 8 ploughs. In demesne are 2 [ploughs], and 3 slaves; and 5 villans with a
priest and 3 bordars have 4 ploughs. There are 2 mills rendering 24s., and 26
acres of meadow. It was worth 50s.; and afterwards 25s.; now 4ls. Wulfwine
held it freely TRE. The same earl holds in FRANKTON.......
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3. • In 1166 the manor of Lemyngton with the church and the mill
was given to the Priors of Kenilworth by Godfrey de Clinton
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4. • The names of the householders who lived in Lemynton Priors
when the Lay Subsidy was collected by Edward III in 1332
The Lay Subsidy Roll of 1332
Lemynton Prior (Hundred of Knightlow)
s. d.
Richard Knappe 1 10
Juliana Erneys 2 3
Maud Kyng 1 2
Juliana le Fremon 6 0
Joh Newemon 1 9
Maud Prat 3 0
Roger de Craft 4 0
Simon son of the reeve 3 9
Henry le Carpenter 2 5
Agnes Baroun 2 2
Henry Austyn 1 7
Peter le Warde 2 4
Richard de Hulle 4 7
Peter le Ryche 2 0
Simon Prat 1 6
Robert de Podemor 1 6
Total 41s 10d
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5. Leamington History
Group
• This is a list of the
Vicars of Lemynton
compiled from the
Registers of the
Bishops of
Worcester. 1349
was the year of the
Black Death.
Your Text Here
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6. • 1564 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor to Ambrose Dudley(left)
King James 1 bestowed it on Sir Fulke Greville in 1605
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7. THE EARLY CHURCH
A watercolour probably circa 1810 shows a clock and a fixed sundial
on the bell tower and Ben Satchwell’s tomb enclosed by railings
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8. Engraving circa 1820 showing old half-timbered cottages
and shops near the West end of the church
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9. • Early illustrations of the cottages round the old church
• The first stone bridge was built in 1807 and modified in 1840 9

10. • Revd Robert Downes became Vicar in 1823 and began a series
of five enlargements of the old church over the sixteen years
of his incumbency
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11. • James Bissett museum & gallery owner laid the foundation stone
for the 1816 enlargement- he died in 1832 and his memorial
stone has been moved at least three times since his death
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12. old crayon & charcoal drawing found in a
chest of drawers in the church shows a Leamington History
view from the north bank of the river Leam Group
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13. The spire was erected 1825 and the church was enlarged onto part of
the churchyard on the North side - vaults were made under the North
transept to compensate for loss of burial space 13

14. • View of the vaults constructed by Revd Robert Downes in 1825
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15. • Many of the incised tablets on the vaults are badly eroded
• The cast iron gates were to prevent body snatchers removing
corpses to sell to medical schools for dissection
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16. • Two artefacts from the old village church - a holy water stoup
(left) and 17th century stone tablet recording a donation of 6s
8d by R Yardly in 1626 (now positioned over the door up to the
bell chamber)
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17. • Revd John Craig exchanged livings with Revd Robert Downes
and arrived in Leamington in 1839
• It was his idea and his money that raised the present building
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18. JOHN CRAIG’S
VISION FOR THE NEW
ALL SAINTS
Join us again for part II of the story of the parish church
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Leamington History Group