Chalcombe, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Chalcombe or Chacombe, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, adjacent to the river Cherwell, 3— miles NE of Banbury. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office called Chacombe, under Banbury. Acreage, 1725; population, 360. A priory was founded in the time of Henry II. by Hugh de Chacombe, and given at the dissolution to the Foxes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £260 with residence. The church is chiefly Decorated English, has a porch and a tower, and contains a fine Norman font and a brass of 1500. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Chalcombe St. Peter and St. Paul | |
| Hundred | Kings-Sutton | |
| Poor Law union | Banbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1566.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Churches
Church of England
SS. Peter and Paul (parish church)
The church of SS. Peter and Paul, formerly belonging to the priory of Chacombe, is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells and a clock: on the north side of the chancel is a floor slab, containing a brass with the emblem of the Holy Trinity, the arms of the city of London, the mark of the Merchant Adventurers and a monogram and inscription to Michael Fox, a London merchant, ob. 1569, who in the year 1544 purchased a great amount of property in this village, including the priory; the brass, engraved about 1543, also commemorates his wives Mary (Eddes) and Clemens (Hawtyn) and seven children: traces of the rood-loft remain at the east end of the north aisle and the chancel retains a piscina; there is another in the south side and the north aisle has both a piscina and sedilia: the font consists of a basin of Early Norman date on a modern pedestal: on a Norman column near the south door is the figure of a mitred ecclesiastic, and on either side are crosses, conjectured to be marks of consecration: the south porch is groined: the church was restored in 1856 and has 150 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan chapel
There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chalcombe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chalcombe, or Chacombe (St. Peter and St. Paul))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: