HOLCOMBE-BURNELL, a parish in the hundred
of WONFORD, county of DEVON, 4 miles (W. by S.)
from Exeter, containing 237 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £8. 9. 2., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £300 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Hoicombe
Burnell in the Cathedral Church of Wells. The
church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, has an ornamented
doorway in the Norman style, and contains an
altar-tomb used before the Reformation to celebrate the
festival of Easter. Near the old manorial mansion, built
in the reign of Henry VIII., and since converted into a
farm-house, there was anciently a chapel.