QUENINGTON, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"QUENINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Brightwells Barrow, county Gloucester, 2 miles N. of Fairford, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Coln. In the vicinity are traces of a commandery of Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, founded by Agnes de Laci in John's time. Its revenue at the Dissolution was valued at £137 78. Id., and the site given to the Kingstones. The tithes were commuted for a money payment in 1754, and there are 75 acres of glebe.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £192. The church, dedicated to St. Swithin, is an ancient edifice built by the Lacys; it has two Norman doorways. The windows have been altered in a later style. The parochial charities produce about £10 per annum There are Church of England day and Sunday schools. The Baptists have a place of worship. Various Roman coins have been found on the line of the ancient Fosse Way which passed through the parish."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]