QUINTON, a parish in the upper division of the
hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 7
miles (N. N. E.) from Chipping Campden, containing,
with the hamlet of Admington, 598 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £18. 13. 4.,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester.
The church, dedicated to St. Swithin, is a
large handsome structure, in the Norman style, supposed
to have been erected by the Laceys, soon after the
Conquest.