BOXGROVE, a parish in the hundred of Box-and-STOCKBRIDGE, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Chichester, containing 868 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ghichester, rated in the king's books at £9. 5. 5., and in the patronage of the Duke of Richmond, The church, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Blase, is a cruciform structure, and was the conventual church o( an Alien priory, subordinate to the abbey de L'Essay in Normandy, the gross revenue of which, in the 26th o£ Henry VIII., was £145. 10. 2.; there are other remains, of the buildings, part of which has been converted into dwelling-houses. In 1740, Mary, Countess Dowager of Derby, granted in trust some land and a rent-charge of £140 a year, for the erection and endowment of almshouses for twelve women, and a dwelling-house for a schoolmaster, who, with the aid of one of the almswomen, was to teach six boys and six girls, who are also clothed: two other children are clothed and educa* ted under an endowment now producing £ 13 a year, given by Mrs. Eliz. Nash, in 1716; and two are taught under an endowment by Barnard Frederick, in 175?. In addition to the almshouses, two school-rooms have been built, in which these children, together with others, from the adjacent parishes, amounting in all to about one hundred of each sex, are instructed, the additional expense being defrayed by subscription.