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lost much of its ancient character through alterations made a few years ago.

Woodmanton, the seat of the Wyshams and the Couchers, is the most ancient residence in the parish; the half-timbered hall is still remaining, but attached to it is a modern brick structure. A portion of the parish church was formerly called " The Woodmanton Chapel." There are several other houses in the parish dating in the seventeenth century, though much modernised, as "The Noke," "The Hope," and "Salford." The Red Lion Inn, in the village, is thought to have formed part of the old Court House.

The living is a vicarage, value £207, in the gift of Sir T. Winnington; the Rev. Slade Baker, incumbent. In the Middle Ages the church was appropriated to the nuns of Lingbrook, Herefordshire. In the time of the Commonwealth the house, glebe, and tithe, were returned as worth £26. 6s. 8d. Rev. J. Greene, at that time minister of the parish, was sequestered by the Parliamentary "triers," and one Samuel Ffiler was intruded into his place, "who is an able preaching minister, and Mr. John Hill doth in his absence supply the cure, and preacheth duely every Lord's day twice and receaves the proffits." Salwey Winnington, in 1728, left three tenements for repairing the church and steeple and bells, also to find bread and wine for the sacrament.

The church is one of the seven in England dedicated to St. Kenelm, who, as shown in another chapter, was murdered on the Clent hills. It has no Norman work, but contains samples of every succeeding style. There are a chancel, nave, and large sonth aisle, with tower and spire. The building was well restored a few years ago. An effigy of one of the Wyshams, and monuments to the Jeffries, Ingrams, Couchers, and other old families, still exist. There are 250 sittings, nearly a third of which are free.

No dissenting chapel exists in the parish, yet in the seventeenth century great efforts were made to lay the foundations of dissent here. One George Whitehead, a Quaker, who