CHILVERS COTON in Domesday “Celverdestoche” is an ecclesiastical parish immediately adjoining the town of Nuneaton on the south, with a station on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 97 3/4 miles from London, in the rural deanery of Atherstone, archdeaconry and diocese of Coventry. By an Order of the County Council dated 5th May, 1920, and confirmed by the Ministry of Health, 15th Sept. 1920, the parish of Chilvers Coton was merged into the parish of Nuneaton. The Coventry canal passes through, and has convenient wharves. The church of All Saints, given to the monks of Erdbury by Ralph de Sudeley, founder of that monastery, is a fine building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a massive, embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells ; the three bells dated 1616, 1639 and 1616 were recast in 1907, and five new bells added in 1908 at a cost of £600: on the south side of the chancel is a low-side window, now blocked up; in 1889-91 the south aisle and chancel were restored at a cost of £1,000, and in 1894 the church was reseated, and now affords sitting for 588 persons. The register dates from the year 1654. Tho living is a vicarage, net yearly value £500, with a new residence, built in 1934, in the gift of the trustees of the late Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate G.C.M.G., D.L., J.P. and held since 1928 by the Rev. John Alfred Bennett Davies M.A, of Queen's College, Oxford. A Parish Hall was erected in 1932 at a cost about £4,500. There is a Roman Catholic church, dedicated to Our Ladv of the Angels, and a Methodist chapel in Edward Street built in 1904. The soil is clay and sand sand; subsoil same. The population in 1931 13,269.

Station (L.. M & S Railway)

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