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Stanton St. Bernard (All Saints)

STANTON ST. BERNARD (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Devizes, hundred of Swanborough, Devizes and N. divisions of Wilts, 5¾ miles (E. by N.) from Devizes; containing 362 inhabitants. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7; patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The great tithes have been commuted for £400, and the small for £170; the impropriate glebe consists of 13 acres, and the vicarial of 39 acres. The church was lately rebuilt at an expense of £500 by subscription.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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