Weddington, Warwickshire

Description
Weddington, a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Anker, 1 mile N of Nuneaton. Post town, Nuneaton. Acreage, 952; population, 100. Weddington Hall is a fine partly castellated mansion in the Tudor style. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £286 with residence. The church was built in 1733 on the foundations of the previous Norman church, the transept of which was retained. It contains a Norman font, a monument of 1598, and an altar-piece of the crucifixion, after Vandyck. The church was restored in 1881.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5