Patrixbourne, Kent

Description
Patrixbourne, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on an affluent of the river Stour, half a mile from Bekesbourne station on the L.C. & D.R., and 3 miles SE by E of Canterbury. Post town, Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Bridge. Acreage, 1640; population of the civil parish, 248; of the ecclesiastical, 1114. The manor was held at Domesday by Bishop Odo; was given in 1200 to Beaulieu Abbey, in Normandy, in connection with a cell to that abbey founded then at the church; passed to Merton Abbey; went after the Reformation to the Says and others; passed to the Cheyneys; and, with Bifrons mansion, belongs now to the Marquis of Conyngham. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bridge, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Conyngham. The church is Norman; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire; has three E circular-headed windows, with a fine rose wheel; has been well restored; and contains a handsome carved altar-piece, and a fine marble monument to the first Marquis of Conyngham, who died in 1832.