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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: KILNSEA.     Church dedication: ST. HELEN.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 1,130 acres. Holderness wapentake, S.D. -Population, 158 *1; No CHURCH ; Net value, £82. This Church was given by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle, to the Priory of Birstall, which was a cell to the Abbey of Albemarle, to which Abbey this Church was, in 1228, appropriated. Afterwards, with the rest of the possessions of that Abbey, it came to the Abbey of Kirkstall.

No endowment is given by Torre. The first vicar mentioned in his catalogue was instituted in 1274.

In Archbishop Sharp's days, the Church was ruinous and without a minister, in consequence of which the Archbishop proposed to issue a sequestration *2.

The patronage has been in the Thompsons, of Sheriff Hutton, since 1769, and probably much longer.

Present patron and impropriator, G. L. Thompson, Esq.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £10. 13s. 4d.; and the Vicarage at £6. 13s. 4d., in the King's books the Vicarage is valued at £6. 8s. 6d.; Synodals, 4s.; Procurations, 7s. 6d. In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. p. 257, it is stated : Vicarage worth £15., " Minister aged and blind ;" and in 1818 at £98. 5s. per annum.

Augmented in 1745 with £200; in 1779 with £200; and in 1808 with £200 -all by lot.

" The Vicarage is endowed with all tithe, corn excepted. Yearly value, £10." Signed " Josias Tookerman." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 838.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1711.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Pattrington.


References:
Torre's MS., page 1573. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 145. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Chilnesse), page 175. Thompson's Swine, page 233. Thompson's Occ. Prom., page 20. Mon. Angl., vol. v. page 552. Gentleman's Magazine, July 1821. Burton's Monasticon, page 299.


Notes:
*1 Viz. Kilnsea, 1.06; and Spurn, 52.

*2 The Church has been destroyed by the sea.


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