SUDELEY-MANOR, a parish in the lower division
of the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER,
1 mile (8. S. E.) from Winchcombe, containing 90 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at
£6. 11. 5., and in the patronage of Lord .Rivers. The
church, which has remained in a dilapidated state ever
since the injury it sustained in the great civil war, was
the burial-place of Queen Catharine Parr, and of several
of the family of Bridges. The ancient castle is said
to have been built, ex spoliis Gallorum, by Boteler, Lord
Sudeley, a celebrated warrior in the reigns of Henry V.
and VI., who sold it to Edward IV., for fear of confiscation.
It was granted by Edward VI. to his uncle, Lord
Seymour, who espoused Queen Catharine Parr. Mary
bestowed it upon Sir John Bridges, created by her
Baron Chandos of Sudeley, whose grandson, the third
Lord Chandos, here entertained Queen Elizabeth, in.
1592. George, the sixth lord, having embraced the
cause of Charles I., the castle was twice besieged by
the parliamentary forces, who reduced it to its prsr
sent state of ruin: the remains are considerable ana
interesting.