WROXHALL - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WROXHALL, a parish in the Snitterfield division of Barlichway hundred, county Warwick, 6 miles N.W. of Warwick, and 4 from Kenilworth railway station. The village is situated near the Birmingham canal. The surface is undulating, and the soil chiefly a strong clay. The principal residence is Wroxhall Abbey, originally built by Robert Burgoyne, to whom the demesne was granted by Henry VIII. at the dissolution of the monasteries, and in 1713 was purchased by Sir Christopher Wren from the family of Burgoyne, and is now the seat of Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq.

The living is a donative curacy in the diocese of Worcester. The church of St. Leonard is part of the abbey founded by Hugh de Hatton in the reign of Henry I. for Benedictine nuns, the revenue of which at the Dissolution was valued at £78 10s. 1d. It forms one side of the quadrangle of Wroxhall Abbey, and contains monuments to the Wren family, and a brass bearing date 1430, brought from Brailes church. The charities produce about £130 per annum, including the poors' estate."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]