Quinton, The

QUINTON, THE, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish of Hales-Owen, Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Hales-Owen and E. divisions of Worcestershire, 2¼ miles (N. E.) from Hales-Owen, and 4¾ (W. by S.) from Birmingham. It is on the Kidderminster and Birmingham turnpike-road; the surface is elevated, the soil clay and gravel, and the scenery pleasing. Two small coal-mines are in operation, and many of the inhabitants are employed in making nails. The church, erected in 1840, at a cost of £2500, and dedicated to Christ, is in the early English style, with lancet windows, and a spire; it contains 605 sittings, of which 401 are free. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Hales-Owen, who has endowed it with the vicarial tithes of the hamlets of Cakemore and Ridgacre, producing, with a sum from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, about £150 per annum: there is a glebe-house. The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Baptists, have places of worship; and an infants' school on the national plan has been established.