BARRINGTON (GREAT), a parish partly in the
hundred of FARRINGDON, county of BERKS, but chiefly
in the lower division of the hundred of SLAUGHTER,
county of GLOUCESTER, Sj miles (N.W.) from Burford,
containing 462 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
rated in the king's books at £7. 6. 8., and in the patronage
of Lord Dynevor. The church, which stands in
the county of Gloucester, is dedicated to St. Mary: it
is a handsome edifice, with a tower terminating in battlements
and pinnacles, in the latest style of English
architecture. TheWindrush, a stream tributary to the
Thames, runs through the parish. There are quarries
of excellent freestone, from which the stone used in
the erection and reparation of Westminster Abbey and
Blenheim House was dug.