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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: OWTHORNE.     Church dedication: ST. PETER.     Church type: Vicarage in charge.

Area, 3,810 acres. Holderness wapentake, S.D *1. -Population, 401 *2; Church-room, 200; Net value, £282. This Church was given by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle, to the Priory of Bristall, and afterwards came to the Priory of Kirkstall, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained ; and afterwards, on the 6th Oct. 1453, a new Vicarage was ordained therein.

Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £13. 6s. 8d., and the Vicarage at £4. 13s. 4d.; in the King's boas, the Vicarage is valued at £11. 6s. 1d.; Synodals, 4s. 6d.; Procurations, 7s. 6d.; and the Abbot of Kirkstall, £2; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 267, it is stated : " Vicarage worth £40 per annum ; South Frodingham, Rimswell, and Waxam, to have a Chapel built, there having formerly been one."

" One of the Sister Churches, the other ruined. Not above two hundred paces from the German ocean, and therefore daily of less value. The Vicarage is endowed with tithe, hay, wool, lamb, and other small tithe, except tithe fish only, claimed by Anthony Cope and his heirs, of Hanwell, in Oxon. Now lost; nothing got by any for twenty-five years last past. The value very little above £40 per annum. No glebe, but the Vicarage house and about half an acre in the yard." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 1,045.

A decree in the Exchequer in Hilary Term, 38th Elizabeth, as to tithes is unreported.

An Inclosure Act was passed 46th Geo. III.

The glebe house was returned in 1818 as unfit for residence, being " situate so near the sea as to be deemed unfit for repair ;" and returned " unfit" in 1834.

4th December 1793, a faculty was granted to take down the chancel of the Church, on account of the encroachment of the sea.

20th December 1799, ditto granted to take down the Church.

25th June 1801, new Church consecrated.

The Register Books commence in 1574.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Pattrington.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1511. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 156. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Rimeswelle), pages 178 ; (Washam), 178. Burton's Monasticon, pages 299, 300. 384. Thompson's Occ. Prom. page 112. Mon. Angl. vol. v. page 522.

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Notes:
*1 And extends into the Middle Division.

*2 Viz. South Frodingham, 60; Owthorne, 129; Rimswell, 144; and Waxholme, 68. In 1834, the population was returned at 417.

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Other information:
SOUTH FRODINGHAM. -(Parish of Owthorne.) -It appears that there was formerly a Chapel here, which was given to Birstal Priory by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle, and afterwards sold to Kirkham Priory.

WAXHAM. -(Parish of Owthorne.) -Here was formerly a Chapel, which was granted with Owthorne to the Priory of Kirkstall.

The Monks of Watre were Lords of the manor of Waxham.

Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Washam), p. 178.