Sutton-Courtney (All Saints)

SUTTON-COURTNEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Abingdon; containing, with the chapelry of Appleford and the township of Sutton-Wick, 1378 inhabitants, of whom 909 are in Sutton-Courtney township. The parish comprises 5141a. 1r. 17p., and the Wilts and Berks canal passes through it. A paper-mill employs about 25 persons. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £18. 13. 4.; income, £148; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is very ancient; it has a wooden rood-loft, and a Norman font surrounded by pillars and enriched with sculptured foliage. There is a chapel of ease at Appleford; and at Sutton-Courtney is a place of worship for Independents. Edmund Bradstock, in 1607, bequeathed a house and some lands, of the present annual value of £80, for education; and an almshouse was erected in 1820, pursuant to the will of Francis Elderfield, Esq., who endowed it for six widows. Abbey House was formerly a residence for the monks of Abingdon.