PELHAM (BRENT), a parish in the hundred of EDWINSTREE,
county of HERTFORD, 5 miles (E. by N.)
from Buntingford, containing 280 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, consolidated, in 1771, with
that of Furneux-Pelham, in the peculiar jurisdiction of
the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, rated in
the king's books at £7. 6. 8., endowed with £210
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church,
dedicated to the Virgin Mary, has a square embattled
tower; the chancel is less than it formerly was, the
south side having fallen down some years ago.