Knowle, Warwickshire

Description
Knowle, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Hamp-ton-in-Arden parish, Warwickshire. The village stands on a hill, adjacent to the Birmingham and Warwick Canal, 1 1/2 mile NE of Knowle station on the G.W.R, 3 1/4 miles SE of Solihull, and 9 1/4 SE of Birmingham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Birmingham. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1859. Population, 1818. Springfield Hall and Knowle Hall are chief residences. Grim-shaw Hall, a picturesque 17tb-centnry manor house, is now a farmhouse. Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £120 with residence. The church is chiefly Perpendicular, of interesting character, had a chantry chapel founded in the time of Richard II., and contains a fine carved oak screen, a number of grotesquely carved oak stalls, and several sedilia. There are a Congregational chapel and an institute with reading-room and library. The Midland Counties Lunatic Asylum is in this parish.