Grove (St. James)
GROVE (St. James), a district chapelry, in the parish, union, and hundred of Wantage, county of Berks, 1½ mile (N. by E.) from Wantage; containing 485 inhabitants, and comprising 1683a. 3r. 13p. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Vicar of Wantage. The present chapel, a small building, was consecrated in August 1832, and, with the parsonage-house, cost £1600, of which £800 were given by the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, £150 by the Incorporated Society, and the remainder was raised by subscription. The old chapel has been repaired, and applied to the use of a national school.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.