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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"CHARFIELD, a parish in the upper-division of the hundred of Grumbald's Ash, in the county of Gloucester, 2½ miles from Wootton-under-Edge, its post town, and 2 miles from Wickwar. It is a station on the Midland railway. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £351, in the patronage of Sir. J. Neeld, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. James, is an ancient stone structure, of the Gothic style, with several ancient monuments and a hagioscope. There is a Wesleyan place of worship. A school was built here in 1855, by the Rev. R. Jones, the late rector, who likewise left £2,000 for the same, and £300 for the benefit of twelve agricultural labourers, selected by the rector, the interest of which amount is laid out every Christmas in bread and blankets for their relief."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Charfield, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
- The transcription of the section for Charfield from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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- The Parish Church of St. John is a "new church built 1879-1882; (the) old church of St. James, a mile away, (is) largely disused since that date."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
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