Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire

Parish History
WINCHESTER Cathedral (The Holy and Undivided Trinity), a city, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Buddlesgate, Winchester and North divisions of the county of Southampton (Hampshire), of which it is the capital, 63 miles (southwest by west) from London; containing Soke liberty. Winchester comprises the Parishes of St. Bartholomew, which is partly in the Soke liberty, and contains 776 inhabitants; St. Lawrence, the mother church St. Mary Kalendar; St. Mary Kalendar's church has been destroyed. St. Maurice - is a rectory, to which the rectories of St. Mary Kalendar, St. Peter Colebrook, St. George, and St. Mary Wood, are united. St. Peter Colebrook - united to St Maurice, St Geo., & St Mary Wood St. Thomas The parishes of St. Faith, St. John, St. Michael, St. Peter Cheesehill, St. Martin Winnall, and St. Swithin, within the Soke liberty, containing together 3361 inhabitants. The living of St. Bartholomew's parish is a discharged vicarage. The church,in Hyde-street, is supposed to have been originally appropriated to Hyde Abbey. The church, in High-street, formerly the chapel of a priory, has been rebuilt by subscription. The living of St. Peter's Colebrook, the church has been destroyed, as also have those of St. George and St. Mary Wood, The living of St. Thomas' is a discharged rectory, with that of St. Clement united. The church of St. Clement was demolished. St. Faith's was annexed to the mastership of the hospital of St. Cross, which is extra-parochial, and in the chapel of which the parishioners attend divine service, the church of St. Faith having been demolished for more than two centuries. St. John's is a perpetual curacy, with the rectory of St. Peter's Southgate united; The church of St. Peter's Southgate has been destroyed. St. Michael's is a discharged rectory, the church, with the exception of the tower, has been rebuilt; it is a handsome edifice in the later English style, and consists of a spacious nave and chancel. St. Peter's Cheesehill is a discharged rectory, valued at £14. 9. 9½., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £100. St. Swithin's is a discharged rectory, valued at £6. 6. 10½., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £80. The church,which is over a postern called King's Gate, was used as the church for the servants employed in the great priory of St. Swithin. The living of St. Martin's Winnall is a rectory, valued at £5; net income, £170: patron, the Bishop. The church, rebuilt in 1786, consists of one aisle and a small tower. There are places of worship inthe city for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans. A Roman Catholic chapel in the later English style, dedicated to St. Peter, was erected in 1792, in St. Peter street: at the entrance of the walk leading to it is an ancient Norman portal, which was removed from the church of St. Mary Magdalene's hospital.

Lewis, Samuel A., ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 592-613. Adapted. Date accessed: 07 June 2013.

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Thomas, James H. William Lowth 1660-1732 Clerical Worthy of Hampshire. Article covers history of William Lowth, and his descendants, who were Ministers of the Faith, in Farnham, Buriton cum Petersfield and Winchester. Also a little of it covers the family. Article to be found in the Hampshire Family Historian, vol. X, no4, pages 173-178, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

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