WICK-near-PERSHORE, a chapelry in the parish of
ST-ANDREW-PERSHORE, upper division of the hundred
of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 1 mile (E. S. E.)
from Pershore, containing 303 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Worcester, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Vicar of St. Andrew, Pershore.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Lawrence. An Augustine
priory was founded here, early in the reign of Stephen
by Peter de Corbezon, who, a few years afterwards, removed
it to Studley in Warwickshire.