Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KILLPECK

KILLPECK, a parish in the district and county of Hereford; on a branch of the river Monnow, and on the Hereford and Abergavenny railway, near St. Devereux r. station, 8 miles SW by S of Hereford. Post town, Wormbridge, under Hereford. Acres, 2, 135. Real property, £1, 868. Pop., 267. Houses, 54. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to T. G. Symonds, Esq. A castle was founded on an eminence here, about 1134, by Hugh Fitzwilliam, son of the Conqueror and ancestor of the Kilpecs; and is now represented by only scanty remains. A small Benedictine priory, a cell to Gloucester abbey, was founded about the same time, by the same person; and the church of it still stands, was restored in 1848, and is a remarkably pure and interesting specimen of Norman architecture. The doorway is decorated with zigzag, nailhead, and star mouldings; the corbel table goes all round the building, and has upwards of 74 sculptures of heads, men, and beasts; much of the wall is covered with elaborate ornaments; and the chancel has the form of an apex. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £10. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kilpeck AP/CP/Ch       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Kilpeck

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