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Sawtry All Saints, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.
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SAWTRY ALL-SAINTS:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.
[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1835]
(unless otherwise stated)
"SAWTRY ALL-SAINTS, a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 3 miles (S.) from Stilton, containing 501 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 15. 7rj., and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The church, which is ancient, has three seats, or stalls, on the north side of the chancel. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A monastery, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, was founded in 1146, by Simon, Earl of Northampton who brought hither from the abbey of Warden, or Sartis, in Bedfordshire, a convent of Cistercian monks, whose revenue at the dissolution was estimated at £199. 11. 8."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]