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the grantor's son Geoffrey. In 1342 a vicarage was estab- 

 lished, and it was directed that the Vicar should have the 

 Rectorial house and Curtilage, that he should pay to the- 

 Convent \oos. yearly, and, in default thereof, that he should' 

 pay one mark to the building of the Church of Bath. A 

 pension of two marks was reserved out of the rectorial 

 tithes of this parish to the nunnery of Minchin Barrow, in- 

 Barrow Gournay Parish. At the Dissolution the Rectory was 

 granted to Sir Richard Long, formerly Steward to the Convent, 

 at Kington. The Rectory is now owned by Oriel Coll., Oxon.. 

 The Parish Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is entirely new 

 except the porch, tower, Norman doorway, and font, it 

 appears that a fifteenth century Church succeeded a Norman- 

 structure, and that the former was pulled down, and a new^ 

 one created in 1839, but this being inconvenient and ill 

 adapted to modern requirements, it was removed, and 

 another erected in 1886, when the Norman doorway was- 

 fixed in its present position within the north porch. The- 

 alabaster reredos reflects great credit on the designer and' 

 workman, and all the internal fittings are substantial and 

 good. A new Church (St. Peter's) has recently been built; 

 at the east end of the Parish, to accommodate the large and" 

 increasing population in that locahty. There is a house- 

 which Henry Fielding once occupied at the corner of a row 

 of buildings, called after him Fielding's Terrace, and over the- 

 door is some sculptured design or crest ; but its history is; 

 unknown. 



Weston. i|4 miles W. — This is an ancient and very 

 large parish, extending in one direction from the River 

 Avon to Lansdown, bounded by Kelston and North Stoke- 

 on the west, and by Walcot on the east, and is in the Hun- 

 dred of Bath-forum. The name of the place has scarcely 



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