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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: COWLAM.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Discharged Rectory.

Area, 1,930 acres. Buckrose wapentake. -Population, 49 *2; Church-room, 50; Net value, £30. -This Church, at the time of the Domesday Survey, belonged to the Archbishop, with half a carucate of land. It was long in the patronage of the Grimstones, Knights, and since of the Barnards, who first presented in 1617. In 1736 Sir George Caley presented, and in 1757 the Foords first presented.

Patron, the Rev. T. F. F. Bowes.

Thomas de Crohum gave two oxgangs of land and a croft here to Bridlington Priory.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £8, and in his new taxation at £5; in the King's books at £11. 11s. 2d.; Synodals and Procurations, 7s. 6d., and Thraves, 1s. 4d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 423, at £70; and in 1818 at £30 per annum.

This appears to have been formerly a Village of much greater extent.

18th May 1713. -Faculty granted to contract the Chancel (then very ruinous) into the length of two yards and a half, on certificate " that such contraction would be no prejudice to the Church or parishioners, whether in respect of the beauty of the former or convenience of the latter, the Chancel being then much ruined, and much larger than it is probable there ever will be parishioners to communicate therein; but on the contrary, the contracting the same, it being very large, will be a benefit to the living, which is not worth £30 per annum, and no prejudice at all to the decency or conveniency of the said Church, the parish being depopulated, and no houses now being left therein, nor any inhabitants save two shepherds, who are hired servants, and keep no families to resort to the said Church."

22nd September 1735, faculty granted to take down the steeple and contract the dimensions of the Church.

No glebe house.

There is no Register of baptisms prior to 1813. No service is performed in the Church. Burials and marriages take place at the Churches of the adjoining parishes.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Sledmere.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 819. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 124. Bawdwen's Domesday Book, (Colnun), pages 33. 48. 123. Burton's Mon. page 222.

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Notes:
*1 Alias Collume.

*2 In 1834, the Population was returned at 52.