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DALTON HOLME:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892.

Wapentake of Harthill (North Hunsley Beacon Division) - County Council Electoral Division of Etton - Petty Sessional Division of North Hunsley Beacon - Poor Law Union, County Court District, and Rural Deanery of Beverley - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.

This parish comprises the two townships of South Dalton and Holme-on-the-Wolds, both formerly separate parishes, but united for all ecclesiastical purposes on the 7th of January, 1862, by an Order of the Queen in Council, under the provisions of the Act of the 18th and 19th Vict., for the union of contiguous benefices.

SOUTH DALTON township contains 1,844 acres of land, situated on the eastern slope of the Wolds, about five-and-a-half miles north-west of Beverley. The soil is partly clay and partly chalk, the subsoil chalk, and the scenery in many places highly picturesque. The total value of the assessed property is £2,879, and the number of inhabitants in 1891 was 242. Lord Hotham is lord of the manor and owner of the whole township, with the exception of 38 acres of glebe.

South Dalton, in the time of the Heptarchy, was a royal demesne, and the kings of Northumbria are said to have had a residence here. King Osred, in 730 (the year before his assassination on the banks of Windermere), gave the manor to the collegiate church of St. John, of Beverley, and the provost had a country residence here - " a prati house," as Leland calls it - till the dissolution of monasteries. Domesday Book says there were "twelve carucates, and six ploughs to be taxed. Archbishop Eldred held this for one manor. St. John now has in the demesne one plough and twelve villanes with seven ploughs. The whole is one mile and a half broad. Value in King Edward's time four pounds; at present 40 shillings." In 1272 the men of Dalton had encroached on the highway between Lockington and Dalton, and a chalk to indicate the limit of their township was made between the field of Holme and the field of Lockington. In 1314, the provost of Beverley had a grant of free warren in South Dalton from Edward II. The manor continued in the possession of its ecclesiastical owners till the Reformation, when its annual value was returned at £36. In 1552 it was granted, by letters patent, to Francis Aslaby, and it remained in the possession of his descendants for about 120 years. Some time previous to 1689, it had passed to the Hothams, to whom it still belongs.

This family is of very considerable antiquity in Yorkshire, and claims to be descended from one of the Normans who came with the Conqueror to England. They were first located at Hotham, of which place they were lords, and whence they took their name. Afterwards, Scorborough became their chief residence, and there they were seated for many generations previous to their removal to South Dalton. The baronetcy was created in 1622, in the person of Sir John Hotham, Knt. Sir John was governor of Hull during the struggle between Charles I. and the Parliament. He had been appointed by the latter, but both he and his eldest son were very shortly afterwards discovered to be in secret correspondence with the royalists. They were both arrested, tried by court martial, and beheaded on Tower Hill, London. Sir John had drunk deeply of the sweets of matrimony, having led five different ladies to the hymeneal altar, and at his death was succeeded by his grandson, Sir John, whose son dying, in 1691, without offspring, the title reverted to his cousin, Charles, son of the Rev. Charles Hotham, rector of Wigan. Sir Charles was a colonel in the dragoons and M.P. for Beverley. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Charles, by his first wife, Bridget, daughter of William Gee, Esq., of Bishop Burton. This baronet was a colonel of the horse grenadier guards, a groom of the bedchamber, and M.P. for Beverley. He died in 1737, leaving, by his wife Gertrude, eldest daughter of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, an only son, Sir Charles, who also was a groom of the bedchamber, but, dying without issue in 1767, his uncle, Sir Beaumont Hotham, succeeded to the title. This gentleman married Frances, daughter of the Rev. William Thompson, and had five sons, four of whom succeeded to the title. Sir Charles, the eldest, dying without male issue, the baronetcy devolved upon his next brother, who was bishop of Clogher. His lordship died in 1795, leaving an only son, Sir Charles, the 11th baronet. William, the third son of Sir Beaumont, was a distinguished admiral, who, in consideration of his many important naval services, and especially for his victory over the French fleet in 1795, was raised to the peerage, in 1797, as Baron Hotham of South Dalton. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his nephew, in 1811, and died unmarried two years afterwards. The title devolved upon his brother, Beaumont, baron of the Court of Exchequer, who became the 12th baronet and second Baron Hotham. He married Susannah, daughter of Sir Thomas Hankey, Knt., and widow of James Norman, Esq., by whom he had three sons and three daughters. The eldest son pre-deceased his father, leaving, by his wife, an only son, Beaumont, who became third baron. He was a general in the army, and was present at the battle of Waterloo. He represented Leominster, and afterwards the East Riding of Yorkshire, in Parliament. He was never married, and at his death, in 1870, was succeeded by his nephew, Charles, fourth baron, who died unmarried in 1872. John, the next brother, inherited the title and estates, but he, like the preceding, is not fettered with the bonds of wedlock. His lordship was formerly in the R.N., and served in the Crimea during the war. The heir-presumptive is his cousin, the Rev. John Henry Hotham, M.A., of Brighton.

Dalton Hall, the seat of Lord Hotham, is a spacious brick mansion, rebuilt in 1780, and very considerably enlarged and improved by the present and preceding owners. The park, which encloses about 400 acres, is well wooded, and contains a lawn upwards of a quarter of a mile in length, laid out in the stiff formal style that prevailed last century.

The village of South Dalton is situated on the slope of the Wolds, a little west of the Beverley and Malton road, about five-and-a-half miles N.W. of the former place, and six N.E. from Market Weighton. The nearest railway stations are at Cherry Burton and Kipling Cotes, each two-and-three-quarter miles distant.

South Dalton had its church in the time of the Heptarchy. This was given, together with the manor, by King Osred to the collegiate church of St. John of Beverley. The present handsome edifice was erected it 1858-61 by the late Beaumont, third Baron Hotham, at a cost of about £25,000. It is in the late Early English style, built from the designs of J. L. Pearson, Esq., B.A., F.S.A., and is one of the handsomest country churches in the north. It consists of a nave without aisles, transepts, chancel with side chapels, south porch and western tower surmounted by a spire. The exterior is of Steetley stone, the interior of white Hildenley stone, which rivals, if it does not surpass, the famed Caen stone. No coloured marble has been introduced, the architect having relied wholly for effect on its proportion and the richness of its details. The chancel, the most elaborately sculptured part of the church, is lighted by a magnificent east window of five lights, with one large circular heading filled with tracery. The stained glass in this window is by Messrs. Clayton & Bell, and is a beautiful representation of the Last Judgment. In the upper part of the window is Our Lord, seated in glory; beneath, in the centre light, is the Recording Angel, with the Book of Life and Death; and beneath him St. Michael, the Archangel, with a flaming sword and pair of scales. On the right hand are St. John the Baptist and twelve prophets seated on the throne of judgment, and on the left are the blessed Virgin Mary and the twelve apostles "judging the twelve tribes of Israel." In the lowest compartment, on the left of the judge, angels are thrusting the lost souls down to hell: on the right are angels robing the redeemed in white garments, and bearing them aloft to the gates of Paradise. Above them are angels with golden trumpets calling forth the dead to judgment. On each side, in the north and south walls, is a window of four lights, and before each window, on the inside face of the wall, is a detached arcade, richly carved. Another arcade of eighteen arches, six on each side of the sanctuary, and projecting about a foot from the wall, forms a reredos. Above this is a band of floral ornament, and other three broad bands of carving run round the walls of the chancel. The arch, leading from the nave, is lofty, and above it is an arcade of three pierced arches. On the south side of the chancel is the Hotham Chapel, separated from the south transept by a pointed arch, divided into two by a single shaft, and from the chancel by two pointed arches, richly carved on the mouldings and soffite. Ornamental wrought-iron railings, of an intricate and beautiful pattern, fill the arches. In this chapel are interred the remains of Lord Hotham, founder of the church, and here also is the monument of Sir John Hotham, who died in 1689. It is a beautiful piece of workmanship, and is said to have been executed in Italy. The base is of black marble, on which lies the effigy of a skeleton. At the corners are four life-sized figures, emblematic of the four cardinal virtues, supporting on their shoulders a black slab, on which is the reclining figure of a knight in full armour, and wearing a flowing wig. Here are also some marble tablets, which, with the above monument, were removed from the old church of South Dalton. This chapel is lighted by a beautiful stained-glass window of three lights, representing the Resurrection, erected in 1885. The north chapel is occupied by the organ and vestry, and a choir vestry was added by the present Lord Hotham in 1878. The transcpts are divided from the nave by pointed arches, in the spandril of which are pierced quartefoils. The four-light window of the south transept is a memorial of the Rev. Thomas Frederick Simmons, late rector of the parish, and Harriet his wife, both of whom died in 1885. The nave is lighted by three stained-glass windows of three lights each on the north, and two similar ones on the south. The great western window is a beautiful work of art, bearing representations of some of the salient events and most important characters in Bible history. The tower is open to the church, and above the arch are the royal arms, carved in stone. The spire rises to a height of 200 feet. There are three bells. The porch is large and beautiful, and groined in two bays. The floor of the chancel and sanctuary is laid with white marble and green tiles, in diaper pattern, and the rest of the church with Maw's encaustic tiles. The seats, pulpit, and choir stalls are of carved oak.

The old church of South Dalton, which stood close by, was rebuilt about the 13th century, remodelled in the 15th, and restored in the depraved taste of the 17th. Like the present church it was dedicated to St. Mary, and had an altar of St. Thomas in its north aisle. The patronage of the living was vested in the provost of the collegiate church of Beverley, who received out of the rectory a yearly pension, valued in 1292 at £1. After the dissolution of religious houses it passed with the manor to the Aslabys, and subsequently to the Hothams.

The new church is also rectorial, in the patronage of Lord Hotham, and worth about £430 a year, including 38 acres of glebe, with residence. The registers of the united parish commence in 1861, but previous to that year each parish had its separate registers; those for South Dalton date from 1653, and for Holme-on-the-Wolds from 1539. The benefice has been held by the Rev. Savile Richard William L'Estrange-Malone, Mus. Bac., since 1885.

There is also a Wesleyan chapel in the village, built in 1825.

The school (mixed), with teacher's residence attached, was built by Lord Hotham in 1848, and enlarged by the addition of a class-room in 1871. It will accommodate 90 children, and has an average attendance of 63.

The estate works, situated in the village, were erected in 1876, and include waterworks, gasworks, stores, workshops, &c., all fitted with the most modern appliances. The water is pumped from a well, by an engine of twelve-horse power, into a reservoir a mile and a quarter distant, and at a height of 98 feet. The reservoir has a capacity of 90,000 gallons, and the water descends thence by gravitation for the supply of the village, &c. Hydrants are placed at intervals for fire extinguishing purposes, should such an eventuality occur. In the workshops is made everything required on the estate.

The poor receive 10s. annually, the interest of £10 left many years ago; and there is also for their benefit an almshouse, consisting of four cottages, erected by the present lord of the manor in 1873, in memory of his brother, the late Charles, Lord Hotham.

KIPLING COTES, in this township, gives name to a race meeting which was established previous to 1664. The stakes are derived from a fund, originally £360, subscribed by the Earl of Burlington, Michael Wharton, Esq., T. Grantham, Esq., Sir Marmaduke Constable, and 45 other gentlemen, in 1618, to which a legacy of £100 was subsequently added. This money remained in private hands until 1822, when it was invested in the three per cent. consols, and realises about £14 per annum. The course, which is four miles in length, along a grass lane of ample width, commences in the parish of Etton, skirts the western extremity of the township of South Dalton, passes through Godmanham and Lund, terminating in Middleton-on-the-Wolds. The race is run on the third Thursday in March, and formerly it was followed by a peculiar game of ball, played on horseback, in which a considerable amount of rough play was indulged in. This is the oldest course in England, and is said to have been used for races as early as the reign of Richard III.

HOLME-ON-THE-WOLDS, township comprises 1,517 acres of land, chiefly the property of Lord Hotham and Lord Londesborough. The soil is clay resting on chalk, and the chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and turnips. The township is valued for rating purposes at £1,411, and had in 1891 a population of 158. The manor was formerly the property of the bishops of Durham, but now belongs to Lord Londesborough.

The village is small, and stands about six-and-a-half miles N.W. of Beverley and half-a-mile from South Dalton. The church, which was dedicated to St. Peter, was given, together with rectory, by Alice St. Quintin to the priory of Nun-Appleton, and it remained in the possession of that convent till the dissolution of religious houses. The living thenceforth became a curacy, and the tithes, both great and small, passed through various hands to the family of Barnard, thence to the dukes of Devonshire, and subsequently to Lord Londesborough, who sold the advowson to Lord Hotham. The benefice was one of the poorest in the county, and was usually held in conjunction with South Dalton, or some other neighbouring living. In 1861 the parish was amalgamated with South Dalton to form the parish of Dalton Holme, and the following year the church was taken down, with the exception of the chancel, which is used occasionally for services and funerals. It was a small mean structure, with a low western tower, in the front of which was some Norman sculpture, representing the temptation of St. Peter. In the west window were the arms of Neville.

Holme Wold House, the property of Lord Londesborough, is the residence of Mr. Thomas Charles Harland, whose ancestors have occupied the rectory farm for nearly 300 years. Lair Grange, where probably stood the grange of the ancient ecclesiastical owners, is occupied by Mr. John Gabbetis; and another farm, bearing the curious name of Money Pot Hill, is in the occupation of Mr. James Coverdale. It is not, however, farms alone that often descend, in these out-of-the-way places, through many generations of the same family - the blacksmith business in the village has been carried on by a Teal since the early years of the present century.

[Description(s) from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892)]

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