ASTON, a parish in the Birmingham division of
the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 2£
miles (N.E. by E.) from Birmingham, containing, with
the chapelries of Bordesley and Deritend, 19,189 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £21. 4. 9., and in the
patronage of the Rev. G. Peak. The church, dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul, has a handsome tower and
spire in the later style of English architecture, with
other parts of an earlier date, but much modernized:
the chancel contains some altar-tombs with effigies.
The Birmingham and Fazely canal passes through this
parish. In 1820, a chapel in the later style of English
architecture was erected at Bordesley, at an expense
of £12,722. 15. 6., by subscription of the inhabitants,
aided by a grant from the parliamentary commissioners;
and, in 1822, another was erected at Erdington,
at the expense of £5657. 11., solely by grant of the
commissioners. An almshouse for five men and five
women was founded and endowed by Sir Thomas Holt,
Bart., in the reign of James I.; the present building
was erected by his grandson, about the year 1650.