CHURCHILL NR WORCESTER

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Churchill in Oswaldslow [25]

St Michael’s at Churchill is a small church in a tiny village. It is mainly of the 14th century, although fragments from an earlier building are built into its walls. The font is 15th century and there is good woodwork of the 17th century. Two stone carvings built into the sill of the north window appear to be parts of a lion. The low chancel screen and the lectern came from Great Malvern Priory in 1910, the year when a major restoration of St Michael’s was carried out. The small bell-cote contains two bells, one dating from the 15th century.[40]

Directories:
CHURCHILL, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 65 miles (E. by S.) from Worcester, containing 102 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £13. 6. 8, and in the patronage of Lord Lyttelton. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Worcester St Helen Ancient Parish. It was a separate parish by 1269. Abolished ecclesiastically in 1924 to help create White Ladies Aston with Churchill Ecclesiastical Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO923535
7 miles east of Worcester between A422 & A4538

Parish Church:
St.Michael's
The church was declared redundant on 10 February 1999 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. [80]
See also St.John the Baptist, White Ladies Aston

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1] [25]

Hundred:
Lower Oswaldslow [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Bredicot; Broughton Hackett; Upton Snodsbury; Whiteladies Aston; Spetchley [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1565-1963	[5]
	Marriages	1564-1924	[5]
	Burials	1566-1955	[5]
	Banns	1762-92, 1824-1924	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	1564-1794	[27]
	Banns	1762-1839

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1609 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1564-1875
	Marriages	1564-1880

Register Copies:
Christenings & Burials1564-1795 Marriages 1564-1839 BMSGH microfiche [9]
Transcript: 1564-1839 Dudley Archives and Local History Service

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1564-1839 [Microfilm.] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972
Marriages 1564-66, 1579-1643, 1651, 1661-1791, 1805-12: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910 - Author Phillimore, W P W ed.
Christenings 1565-1794, Marriages 1564-66, 1582-90, 1604-43, 1651, 1661-63, 1670-1737, 1743-50, 1761-92, 1805-39, B 1566-1794, banns 1762-74, 1782-84, 1791-92 [Microfiche.] - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Copy of 1914 edn.
Marriages(Index) 1601-25, 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author Boyd, Percival ed.

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Michael BMSGH microfiche [53]
List of graves regularly attended to & plan of churchyard with key (1961) Worcestershire Library and History Centre

At Society of Genealogists [59] :
Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript] - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
St. Michael: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 5 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1986 - Author: Boaz, J

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1566-1955 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Schools Records:
A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

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Last updated on 27th March 2008

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