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

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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: FANGFOSS.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Peculiar. Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 980 acres. Harthill wapentake. Wilton Beacon. --Population, 155 *1; Church-room, 60 or 70 *2; Net value, £46.

A Vicarage was ordained in 1252, for Barnby Moor and Fangfoss, reserving a payment of 2s. per annum to the Mother Church of Pocklington.

Patron and impropriator, the Dean of York.

Valued in 1707 at £8. 10s.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 387, it is stated : " No minister. Privy tithes £5;" and in 1818, at £44. 15s. 6d. per annum.

Augmented in 1747 with £200; in 1779, with £200; in 1791, with £200; in 1798, with £200; and in 1819, with £200, -all by lot.

14th October 1824, faculty granted to re-pew the Church.

An Inclosure Act was passed 11th Geo. I.

No glebe house.

The Register Books, for marriages, commence in 1755 (1791 and 1792 wanting), and for burials in 1779. Vide Transcripts in the Deanery Registry.

Charities:
William and Margaret Cade's gift. rent charge of 3s. 4d. per annum, payable out of Hill Garth, in Fangfoss.

Timothy Overend's gift. 10s. per annum, payable out of a cottage house in Spittle.

Both the above are distributable among the poor.

Anonymous rent charge of 2s. per annum to the poor, out of lands at Spittle, late James Bell's, late Nottingham's. This was in arrear at the time of the Report.

Wood's dole. Vide Pocklington. 5s. per annum to the poor.

Poor's money, £10. Amount of sundry small benefactions. The principal was passed from overseer to overseer. Half the money had been lost at the time of the Report, and the other moiety was considered to be in danger.

Church estate, acquisition unknown. 6a. 0r. 36p. of land, and rent charge of 10s. per annum. The rent is laid out in the repairs of the Church.

rent charge for repairs of the Church. Origin unknown. 10s. per annum, paid by Mr. William Nolton, out of an estate which he purchased of Timothy Overend Seymour, Esq., and which was conveyed to him by deed, dated 10th January 1797, subject to the above charge. -Vide 11th Report, page 729.

Post town: Pocklington.


References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 697. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Frangefos,) page 14.


Notes:
*1 Fangfoss with Spittle. In 1834, the Population was stated at 200.

*2 According to the return of 1818. No return in 1834.


From the original book published by
George Lawton in 1842..
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by Colin Hinson. © 2013.