Radbourne nr. Southam / Lower Radbourne / Radbourn / Redborne / Rodbourne / Upper Radbourne

INFORMATION

FontID: 19705RAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [disappeared]
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Southam -- the exact location of the medieval church is unknown
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Worcester]
Historical Region: Hundred of Marton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for [Lower and Upper] Radbourn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey, Folio: 241r [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/lower-and-upper-radbourn/] [accessed 6 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) reports Radbourne as "two extra-parochial tracts and a chapelry in Southam district, Warwick [...] The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "Turchil's descendants, the Ardernes, of whom William [i.e., Turchil's great grandson?] gave the church and a virgate of land to the nuns of Henwood Priory [...] before the end of the 12th century. [...] There is no mention of the church in the Taxatio of 1291, but in 1341 the 'chapel' of Radbourn was said to be assessed at 25 marks. [...] In 1535 it is styled a 'parish church', of which the rector received a yearly payment of £5 6s. 8d. from Richard Catesby, [...] but the church had by then probably fallen into decay. In 1616 it is definitely called 'the ruined church of Upper Radbourn', [...] and for the last three hundred years or more such few inhabitants as the parish has had have attended Ladbroke Church. [...] The old parish of Radbourn was depopulated during the 15th century and its church allowed to fall into ruin." There is no mention of its font in it in any of the above sources.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 612928 5785618

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.