SHOTTESBROOK, a parish in the hundred of
BEYNHURST, county of BERKS, 5 miles (S.W.) from
Maidenhead, containing 135 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory not in charge, united, in 1744, to the vicarage
of White Waltham, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and
diocese of Salisbury. The church, dedicated to St.
John the Baptist, though small, is an elegant cruciform
structure, principally in the decorated style, with a
tower and spire rising from the intersection: it was
erected in 1337, and contains three stone stalls under
trefoil arches, with a piscina adjoining, an octangular
font, enriched with crocketed pinnacles, and several interesting
monuments and inscriptions. In the chancel
lie the remains of the learned Henry Dodwell, some
time Camden Professor of History at Oxford, and an
able chronologist and historian: his celebrated work
" De cyclis Veterum " was written here. A chantry, or
college, for a warden, five priests, and two clerks, was
founded here, in 1337, by Sir William Trussell, Knt., the
revenue of which at the dissolution was estimated at
£42. 2. 8. Smewins, in this parish, was a hunting-seat
of Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII., but it is
now a farm-house.