The living was in the gift of Elias Chadwick of Pudleston Court in 1858, and George Ernest Wright JP in 1909 who was the lord of the manor, the chief parish landowner, and also of Pudleston Court which was described as a "handsome modern mansion, in the castellated style, standing on an eminence in a beautifully undulating park of over 200 acres , ornamented with shrubberies, plantations and sheets of water," and "commanding "beautiful and extensive views of a rich agricultural county, and the Welsh mountains."