SUTTON-COURTNEY, a parish in the hundred of
OCK, county of BERKS, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Abingdon,
containing, with the chapelry of Appleford, and the
township of Sutton-Wick, 1147 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £18. 13. 4.,
endowed with £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The
church, dedicated to All Saints, is very ancient: it has
a wooden rood-loft, also a Norman font surrounded with
pillars and enriched with sculptured foliage, &c. There
is a place of worship for Independents. The Wilts and
Berks canal passes through that portion of the parish
which borders upon Steventon common. A paper-mill
here employs about twenty-five persons. Edmund
Bradstock, in 1607, bequeathed a house and lands, of
the present annual value of £55, for the education of
children; the premises are now in the occupation of a
school-master, who teaches fifteen boys. An almshouse
was erected, in 1820, pursuant to the will of
Francis Elderfield, Esq., who endowed it with £ 60 per
annum for ever.