MINSTER-LOVELL, a parish in the hundred of CHADLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 2 miles (W. N."W.) from Witney, containing 326 inhabitants. The living Is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the lung's books at £8. 9. 7, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The church, dedicated to St. Kenelm, is a large ancient structure, with a tower rising from the centre; in the chancel is a splendid monument, encircled with military trophies, to the memory of HenryHeylyn, Esq., a distinguished officer in the service of Charles I. Minster-Lovell is situated on the declivity of two opposite hills, between which runs the river Windrush, dividing the parish into what is termed Great and Little Minster. An Alien priory of Benedictine monks, a cell to the abbey of St. Mary de Ibreio, was founded here in the reign of John, and at the suppression granted to Eton College.