Westwood Park / Westwude

INFORMATION

FontID: 19439WES
Church/Chapel: Chapel [later parish church] of Westwood [disappeared]
Church Location: [cf. Directions (Geo) to site]
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: The present house and park are located W of Droiwich, just S of Hampton Lovett
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Worcester]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
We found no entry for Westwood Park in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The date of the building of a church at Westwood is not known. In 1178 the tithes of Westwood, with sepulture and obventions of all the inhabitants, were assigned to the nuns of Westwood [...] The conventual church or chapel of Westwood [...] served as a parish church for the inhabitants of Crutch as well as those of Westwood, and had full parochial rights. [...] On the dissolution of Westwood nunnery the chapel was also suppressed, and the inhabitants of Westwood were left without any parish church. [...] The advowson and rectory of Westwood are mentioned in a deed of 1542, [...] but after that time all references to a church at Westwood cease, it having probably shared the fate of the conventual buildings. All remains of the church have disappeared." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original chapel/church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 555697 5791783

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-09-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.