Description
Rendcombe, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the river Chum, 5 miles N of Cirencester. Post town, Cirencester. Acreage, 2586; population, 229. Rendcomb& Park, a handsome mansion in the Italian style, was erected in 1864 on the site of the old manor house. It stands in a well-wooded demesne of about 370 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £301 with residence. The church was erected about 1520, and has been restored. It contains an altar-tomb and two-tablets to the memory of members of the Berkeley family, a memorial chapel of the Guise family, and a Norman font removed from the chapel at Elmore Court.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
