Rev. William Brown

Records

APPOINTMENT EVENTS
Vicar: Norton & Lenchwick 1799 [age 52, unmarried]
Bredicot Parish Church 1830
Norton Parish Church, and Lenchwick 1840
Officiating Minister: Harvington 1843 - 1848
Officiating Minister: Harvington 1853 - 1854
Rector: Broadwas 1854 - 1858

DEATH EVENTS

Rector at Broadwas officiating burials - August 1854 - December 1857.

Buried there as above 16th, March, 1858.

Norton, with Lenchwick and Chadbury - Kellys Directory, 1854.

Norton is a parish and pretty village, about 3 miles north from Evesham station, on the Alcester road, in the Hunderd of Blackenhurst, Evesham Union, East Worcestershire, and Worcester bishopric; the living is a vicarge, value £157, with about 10 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester; the Rev. William Brown is the incumbent. The parish church of St. Egwin was, at a cost of about £700, repaired and partly rebuilt in the year 1844, in a style of architecture somewhat approaching to the early English; the tower, containing 6 bells, is left unaltered in the st yle of the Tudor period; within the church are some monuments of the Bigg family, with effigies of knights in armour, and ladies in court dresses of the 16th century.
Gentry: Rev. William Brown, M.A. [vicar]

St. Eglin, Norton, with Lenchwick and Chadbury, Worcestershire.

St. Mary Magdalene, Broadwas, Worcestershire.