Alvechurch Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822
Alvechurch – a parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 5 miles E.S.E. from Bromsgrove, and 117 from London; containing 269 inhabited houses. The Birmingham and Worcester canal passes through this parish, and forms a junction with the Stratford and Avon at King’s Norton. Alvechurch was formerly a market town, containing several streets, now decayed; and the Bishops of Worcester had a palace here. The church is an ancient structure, consisting of a nave and north aisle, partly of Saxon architecture, with a square tower pinnacled, of more modern date. Here is a good free grammar school and hospital, founded by Nicholas Lewknor, of Hadsor, in 1580. The living is a rectory, not subject to the jurisdiction of the Archdeacon; Rev. J. F. Tonyn, incumbent; instituted 1801; in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. Population, 1801, 1228 – 1811, 1344 – 1821, 1413.
Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.
Alvechurch – Research Information
Parish Church: St. Lawrence
Hundred: Oswaldslow, Middle Division
Original registers deposited at: Worcester Record Office
Dates: 1545 – 1967
I.G.I Coverage: 1545 – 1876
Boyd’s Marriage Index: N/A
Pallot’s Marriage Index: N/A
Registration District (1851): Bromsgrove
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