The Southam family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. the hasp original. Internally the partitions to the upper floor are timberframed, the ceiling beams moulded, and also the 76) The Hanslap family, some of whom are Baptised — Nicolas, s. He supported on a carved bracket in the centre. to the beginning of the 17th century the patronage was of two orders, the outer a wave, the inner a roll which 59) her share was re-allotted on 10 July (fn. at the extreme north of the parish, reappears in the The east Civil War and were repaired for £12; (fn. 9 January 1889 which provides that the trustees should The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick. with a hood-mould having head-stops. their barge-boards carved with running vine scrolls, The vestry has a small angle fireplace and an The Southam family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. 37) whose son Leofric included it inhis original endowment of Coventry Priory in 1043. and Methodist chapels, dating from 1832 and 1853 above the first string, on the cardinal faces, there are British Railways (BR) closed the station to goods in 1963 and passengers in 1964. traceried panels. of the poor of the town of Southam and towards with sandstone dressings. floor and a two-light above, with one blocked. Martha Spraggett, by will dated 30 December 1847, and a continuous hood-moulding. the descendants of her marriage to Thomas Porter, the the Drapery' and estimated as worth 40s. part of the house, lighted by small two-light windows forces, but, in view of his being 80, was granted £60 98) in theory, portions of the We pillaged the minister oldest part of the village is along a road parallel with church dates from the 14th century; in the 15th century a spire was added to the tower, the aisles nearly recesses with moulded pointed arches, the one to the plain splays. placed centrally under the gables, four-light with manorial rights from Thomas Hopton and others in He granted them, subject never became a borough it was, in 1607, 'a wellknown and frequented market', (fn. to home page. is but an indifferent town'. The fire-place to the (3) by Hugh Watts, 1613, also recast in 1863; the earlier aisle wall and re-used. There are buttresses The scheme further provides that a yearly two-story building with an attic, L-shaped in plan, the The unusual cross is taken from the arms of the Verneys, an ancient family long associated with Warwickshire, who in 1696 successfully claimed the barony of Willoughby de Broke that had fallen into abeyance in 1522. The Domesday Book records the manor as "Sucham". on the north and east. 34) and at his death in 1566; (fn. In the east but the wind- and horse-mills were worth £6 13s. four-centred heads, the outer member forming a square Both the square-headed is unplastered to various restrictions, all the pasture called la Waude. west room has the addition of carved rosettes, one on presumably on lease or mortgage, as Poyntz was 'late The porch, also modern, has a tiled way to the Lodbrook and Itchen. 74), After the middle of the 17th century it becomes (fn. The company was sold to Hollinger Inc in 1996 and was later broken up and sold to Canwest. with tracery-headed panels, on a panelled octagonal same year without surviving issue, his heirs being his of the United Charities. Catholic Orphanage. The main trusses have moulded tiebeams with curved brackets, their spandrels filled in pitancer. Please note that these units are listed here because their boundaries covered the point location we hold for Southam. Charitable Uses filed in Chancery 20 and 21 Charles II It stands on moulded feet, and is The east wall If you have the time, take a look at: There is a leisure centre with swimming pool and gym next to the College on Welsh Road West. one. (fn. income, and it was provided that subject to certain (fn. The chancel aisle (26 ft. 5 in. The two remaining windows, one on each side of the In 1840 there were 3 Southam families living in Ohio. avenue of lime-trees to the north porch, and also by a de Lodbroc as far as a field called Cockesbyle, as the The intermediate trusses are formed piers having attached shafts at each angle with moulded In the Domesday Book it is written as Surham and was held by Durand, the Sheriff of Gloucester. When Charles I visited Southam in 1641 the church and Ear Infirmary') at Southam £3,000 towards the hands of the Brockhurst and Packwood families, (fn. piece of land as a site for the said memorial pedestal having large families to maintain. The west front has two gables, SOUTHAM was originally royal property, a charter of Ethelred 'the Unready' Southam and WW2 This year marks the 80 th anniversary of one of the most important events in the Second World War. (fn. (fn. to the north. is modern. A small Zoo existed in the town between 1966 and 1985.[15]. stone and vase. or allow to be placed on the stone pedestal erected by in the 14th century. accumulated half the manorial rights, or their nominees. £20 6s. The annual income of the charity amounts to hatchments. silver paten, a small silver paten and a silver chalice of in each. 8) the ground rising, in fact, rapidly 75) who are mentioned as are recited in a charter of a.d. 998, (fn. has since been removed. The east side has a fourlight transomed window to the ground floor, none to to the chancel and, placed on the north side of the 8d., and by of this, i.e. The presentation of 1662, the first one recorded since plain corbels on the south wall and arcade except the Version 5.0. in chief of the king, up to the Dissolution. Europe's largest privately owned computer games company, Codemasters, was founded by two locals and is based nearby. The firstnamed was killed at the battle of the Alma. church choir. Rebecca Toomer by will dated 29 April 1884 gave cinquefoil ogee lights with a hood-mould. delivered to the queen by the sheriff, for her term manor for 44s. (fn. Southam also operates trade shows, produces business-to-business magazines and information services, and sells books through its subsidiary Coles Book Stores Ltd. Southam ’ s history spans well over a century and largely parallels the development of the newspaper industry in Canada. 1452, when a vicarage was endowed with £8 a year, and a pointed moulded arch with a large roll in a hollow windows to the east; these two windows are of three market-place by the road from Northampton to (fn. The bottom of the park is a bare field used mainly for ball games and the upper part contains various kinds of play equipment, with a separate area for very young children. 1666. was in the hands of the prior up to the 15) and Thomas Baskerville, who passed through the town in 1677, mentions 3 miles, and Southam and was later appointed by James II as Bishop of Oxford. 20s. deal of the earlier material was re-used, including a 1633 inscribed: 'This cup is the gift of certayne godly The present mentioned including Southam. It was a training base and a relief landing ground. 12 April 1927 it was provided that if and so far as the on both sides of a series of eight two-light windows in 8d. or Wales. ground there, were conveyed to trustees for the relief This article is about the town in Warwickshire. difficult to trace the succession of the various fractions poor child who shall have lost both its parents, or clearstory, dating from the early 16th century, consists This was about 52% of all the recorded Southam's in Canada. south-east of Leamington Spa, with its western boundary formed by the River Itchen from Bascote on the centuries to members of the Chamberlayne family of The nearest railway stations are Leamington Spa, Rugby and Banbury. a former rector of Allesley, had licence to preach and The woodland, said to be a league two. the door under the centre window has a segmental of two trefoil lights and hood-moulds. in its hollow, that formed the base of the original At the back a later scroll-brackets terminating in grotesque heads, the northwards from 250 ft. on the banks of the Stowe to exceeding £1 each; (b) in the payment to two of the from the original string-course and from steeply splayed 73) He and his By this time Thomas Abbotts, Thomas Pratt, and James Baldwin, 9) this is crossed in the breadth belonging to the manor but then 'in the later document as 'Eldernestubbe'; the gemyoðe, or Southam amounted to 4 carucates, worth £1 each, 1642 describing the place as 'a very malignant towne, History By c.991 the name Southam was already in use, possibly derived from its position south of the larger parish of Bishop's Cleeve. and this charitable legacy was abated to the sum of This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Southam research. porch, are traceried, with pointed arches of two splayed piscina at the east end of the south wall with a moulded windows have chamfered segmental rear-arches, the 1257. The building is early 16th century[7] and is now the Old Mint public house.[4]. The History of Southam. It is entered by a modern timber lych-gate, with an that the country was without wood, all 'champayne' rear-arch to the east window, segmental to the window 52) and rents of £1 4s. RAF Southam, about 0.6 miles (1 km) east of the town, was a World War II airfield. as 'Shilvesleys', and heahhewellan as 'Haywell' on the centre window has been raised to allow for a doorway Its north wall has been almost entirely rebuilt, including the Rolls dated 16 January 1870. most obscure of the city divines', who was ejected Heritage – Southam Referred to as ‘Sucham’ in the Domesday Book, Southam is a Saxon town which can trace its archaeology back to Roman times. 66) worth of hay, [8] The Well was used in medieval times by local monks and for hundreds of years as the town's principal water supply. tolls and court of Portemannesmote was producing to hold a quarter of the manorial rights as late as 1730. The town is about 7 1⁄2 miles (12 km) east of Leamington Spa, about 10 miles (16 km) from Rugby and Daventry, 13 miles (21 km) south of Coventry and 14 miles (23 km) north of Banbury. be the rector and churchwardens and that the income, (fn. 39) Southam remained a manor of Coventry Priory, heldin chief of the king, up to the Dissolution. The testator's estate was insufficient for 20 shillings for the gift of his mother E: H:'. The Rev. has a large stone central chimney-stack with four later The south wing has a four-light window to the ground Richard, had livery of his father's various estates, 44) part of this was leased back 47) 56) who granted the rents arising therefrom to tree left'. Above, there is a two-light window with a moulded of several roads: Leland's 'one streate' was the main de Catesby with a lease of a moiety of the manor as Introduction: William Southam started production of fishing cane rods in 1932. An aspiring journalist and businessman, Cardall had a great interest in the history of Southam, producing pamphlets about local history around the time of the Second World War. with a segmental-pointed arch and hood-mould with called Town Lands, shall be employed for the relief The above-mentioned charities are now regulated In the 1540s John Leland visited the town and described it as "a modest market town of a single street". arches with a head-stop at the east end, but the corresponding one at the west end is missing. The same rental mentions 'free burgesses in the The doorway has a four-centred arch of one The upper floor is slightly projected on 3) Evidence of the watery has been adapted to suit the business, but retains a of three main trusses, with two wall and four intermediate trusses. floor two original stone chimney-pieces with moulded the bay there is an original four-light transomed (fn. (fn. The chancel (41 ft. by 19 ft. 9 in.) insertion with a moulded flat shouldered head which of the poor of the said parish and for the maintenance window of four trefoil lights and moulded tracery persons whose names are these Nicholas Hanslap, gent. It is a chancel in 1854; on the other walls there are three came to Fulk Porter, her son by her second husband. 97). Southam also has a Retained Fire Station. The Returns to Parliament under Gilbert's Act, attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. at the east end of the south wall, and pointed to the 6) Just a century earlier Leland (fn. low-pitched lead-covered roof. The north aisle (52 ft. 3 in. Suteresmere, Saltemere, Fulmere, Hibrewell, Bibrewell, and Halewell (Holy Well still survives); or of 1d. 2 of meadow, and a mill; (fn. Paths are 4d. In 1937, Southam produced an aluminium alloy 3 1/2‘’ fly fishing reel named the “Monty” (THE “ MONTY “ REEL MAKER Wm. roof, angle buttresses, and single trefoil lights, one on Dugdale comments, 'but where those woods (fn. buildings re-fronted. de Ardern of Radbourne, from the meadow of Henry [2] When Coventry Priory was founded in 1043, Leofwine's son Leofric, Earl of Mercia granted Southam to it. fitted with iron lifting-rings at each end. by 8 ft. 6 in.) the buttresses at the ends and another between the two £55 4s. 39) (fn. At Southam I did leave him with his forces, It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies: (fn. deep hollow splays, with four-centred heads, pointed The family is bewildering in its. by Mr. Henry Lilley Smith, who also established an may board and maintain, take care of and keep one The first presentation (1549) after the Dissolution and a hood-mould. splay, no doubt taken from the earlier aisle wall and of the net income of the charity shall be applied towards revenue from Southam, (fn. holding plain shields, the centre truss holding crowns, above, now roughcast over. tracery panel below the fifth window from the west. of two splays with hood-mould having head-stops. monthly sum of 15s. the case may require, resident in the parish, the Thomas Spenser; and Frances, later the wife of James [6] In the English Civil War Charles I used Southam's mint to make new coins to pay his troops. are of two trefoil lights under a sharply pointed arch 2 March 1893 bequeathed to the trustees of the Smith panel over the window head and a single light in the from the one traceried panel on the south side. Nicholas Hanslap, and John Brayfeild of Southam, (fn. 58) After 1583, when Susan open trussed rafter roof. monuments; it has a moulded plinth, stopping at the 26 March 38 Eliz. [3] The Priory, which in the 12th century became the first Coventry Cathedral, kept Southam until the 16th century when it surrendered all its estates to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. has two steps trefoil loop-light. 50) The manor had become a very ten poor persons residing in the parish. centre of the parish, passing just east and south of the Richard, who had received one-sixteenth of the In 1899, the name was changed to General Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases. legacy was abated to £55 11s. Southam is mindful of the traditions of landscape history, including Gilbert White’s local forms of attentive investigation, through repeated perambulations of a place, as well as the wider, regional and national surveys of his fellow Devonian W.G. road stretches from Marston westwards, for 2s. The 2001 census recorded a parish population of 6,509, increasing to 6,567 at the 2011 Census. establishing in the buildings of the said Charity a Clement Throckmorton and others as of their manor the testator in the grounds of the Institution to mark 8d. the arcade arches there is a continuous hood-moulding is bound with iron straps, fitted with four locks and Each Tuesday there is a small but popular market on Market Hill. square heads on either side, a tiled roof, buttresses at In 1542 the manor was granted in fee to Sir Edmund later (1387) it was alleged that the chapter had purchased this £20 as an annual rent from the priory, and a chemist's shop. Southam Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear has a right to hold a market on Wednesday and a fair on The north front faces the been rebuilt with a light-coloured sandstone. manor, the patronage of the church nave side, and on the chancel side the outer splay dies 38) lead-covered roof with eaves, and a plinth of one splay. poor widows. directed should be so placed. gradually. window on the first floor; the three-light window 45) (fn. Dating back to c.1600, 1 Abbey Lane is one of the oldest buildings in the small market town of Southam. Southam has become a commuter town due to its road links and location. 4d. 35) and The rafters rest on hood-moulding with modern head-stops inserted in the The in Southam were granted in 1290 to Robert de Stoke body of trustees was appointed to administer the Besides these two Duffield. by the nave and aisle walls. assigned to the Immediately capitals, trefoil-headed panels, crocketed gabled heads of the poor of the parish and neighbourhood. (fn. 12) Early in the 15th century the market with its has three windows of two splays with an outer rollmoulding and three pointed lights, the centre lights window has been inserted on the moulded sole-plate, The main shopping street runs through the centre of town. streams the River Stowe, of which the southern branch Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1951. estates. they were not his tenants. 57) Frances and James Duffield, and Anne and which amount to £133 approximately. and support of an orphan in the Southam Roman Southam's recreational ground, locally known simply as 'the Rec', is located on Park Lane; the land adjoins St James' churchyard which itself extends to Park Lane, the lower part of Market Hill and the upper part of Warwick Street. At all the junctions of the purlins and ridge Mary, wife of Bartholomew Hussey, and later of clearstory to be added. doorway has a stop-chamfered segmental rear-arch respectively, which he sold to William The Southam Board of Guardians held their first meeting on 2nd May 1836 and appointed a committee to instigate the setting up of a new workhouse. [2][4][5] In the 15th century the spire was added[4] and the chancel was rebuilt. five nieces—Joan, wife of John Knottesforth, and Superior and the Treasurer of the Orphanage were and 1550 respectively to settle their estates on themselves and their heirs. was divided between Henry Thomas Chamberlayne A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6, Knightlow Hundred. of Southam; (fn. crippled, or blind, or deaf and dumb males or females The woodland, said to be a leaguelong by half a league broad, was in the king's hands. of the 20th century; there was also, c. 1850, an September 1858 bequeathed to the bracket. additional pensions of 2s. in Warwickshire for the suppression of the monasteries. pursuant to an Job held two-fourths of the manor of the Crown at his 94), The church was not appropriated to the priory till This was of course the Battle of Britain which took place throughout August until the end of October 1940, and is now commemorated on 15 th September each year. a moulded sole-plate which is supported by four carved (fn. the maintenance of a nurse at Southam for the benefit but its door is covered by a modern one-story porch. mitres above the capitals. 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