WHIXHALL, a chapelry in the parish of FREES,
Whitchurch division of the hundred of BRADFORD
(North), county of SALOP, 3 miles (N. by E.) from
Wem, containing 811 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary
of Frees in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield,
endowed with £1000 private benefaction, £800 royal
bounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, has lately received
an addition of one hundred and fifty free sittings, the
Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having granted £150 towards defraying
the expense. William Higgins, in 1737, bequeathed a
rent-charge of £2 for teaching poor children.