WROXHALL, a parish, in the Snitterfield division of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK, 6 miles (N.W. by N.) from Warwick, containing 177 inhabitants. The living is a donative, in the patr6nage of Christopher Roberts Wren, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Leonard, forms the north side of the quadrangular edifice called Wroxhall Abbey, founded by Hugh de Hatton, about the close of the reign of Henry I., for Benedictine nuns, whose revenue at the dissolution was valued at £78. 10. 1.: it is occupied by C. R. Wren, Esq., fourth in descent from Sir Christopher Wren, who purchased the estate from the family of Burgoyne, about the year 1713.