SHEPSCOM, a chapelry in the parish of PAINSWICK,
hundred of BISLEY, county of GLOUCESTER, 2
miles (E. by N.) from Painswick, containing 725 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, endowed with
£1800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Vicar of Painswick. The chapel has lately received
an addition of sixty free sittings, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels
having granted £60 towards defraying the expense.