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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: SCORBOROUGH.     Church dedication: ST. LEONARD.     Church type: Discharged Rectory.

Area, 1,310 acres. Harthill wapentake. Bainton Beacon. - Population, 79 ; Church-room, 100; Net value, £252. -An ancient Rectory, belonging to the College of Beverley, and afterwards in the gift of the Earls of Northumberland.

Present patron, the Earl of Egremont. Torre gives an imperfect catalogue of the Rectors.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £5. 6s. 8d.; in the King's books, at £7; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 331, at £45 per annum, including one quarter of meadow in the Ings.

Jurisdiction. -In the diocese of York. -Vide Beverley.

The glebe house was returned in 1818 as unfit for residence, " being too small ;" and returned " unfit," in 1834.

The Register Books commence in 1653. Burials deficient from 1679 to 1696.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Beverley.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 265. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 62. Oliver's Beverley, page 509.