Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: BESSINGBY.     Church dedication: ST. MARY MAGDALENE.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 1,230 acres. Dickering wapentake. -Population, 83; Church-room, sufficient *1; Net value, £59. -The Church and town were given by Gilbert de Gant to the Prior and Convent of Bridlington, to which the Church is appropriated. There is no Vicarage here, but there is a crown rent of £5. 6s. 8d. paid to the Curate.

The Stricklands used to present till 1717, when it passed to the Hudsons of Bessenby.

Patron, H. Hudson, Esq.

Valued in 1707, at £5. 6s. 8d. In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 407, it is stated : " Minister's salary, £5. 6s. 8d.;" and in 1818, at £33 per annum.

Augmented in 1748, with £200; in 1773, with £200; in 1786, with £200; in 1808, with £200; in 1819, with £200; and in 1824, with £400 -all by lot.

30th June 1765, a faculty was granted to reduce the length of the Church from 51 feet to 31 feet, to take away the tower, to sell the lead, and cover the Church with pantiles.

An Inclosure Act was passed 6th Geo. III.

No glebe house.

The Register books commence in 1698. No entries for 1785.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Bridlington.

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References:
Torre's MS., pages 34. 995. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 218. Mon. Angl., vol. vi. pages 287. 290. 291. Prickett's Bridlington, page 55. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Basinghebi), page 14. Burton's Monasticon, page 216.

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Notes:
*1 According to the return in 1834. In 1818, the return was 80.