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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: SOUTH DALTON.     Church dedication: ST. MARY.     Church type: Rectory in charge.

Area, 1,730 acres. Harthill wapentake. Hunsley Beacon. -Population, 273 ; Church-room, sufficient; Net value, £450. -The town and Church of South Dalton was given by King Osred to the Collegiate Church of Beverley ; and after the Dissolution, the Rectory came by the Crown to the Aislabys, from whom, in 1698, it came to the Hothams, knights.

Present patron, Lord Hotham.

Torre gives an imperfect catalogue of the Rectors.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £17; in the King's books at £12; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 344, at £165 per annum.

" Sir Charles Hotham is lord of the manor, and whose estate, being one-third or more of the whole, pays no tithe. The Rectory is endowed with the tithe of all the rest, great and small." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 1,039.

An Inclosure Act was passed 3rd Geo. IV.

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

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1653.

Charities:
There are two benefactions of £5 each, given by Mr. Penston and Mr. Risingrose, which sums are placed in the hands of the overseers of the poor for the time being, and the interest thereof (10s. per annum) distributed among poor persons of the parish twice a year. -Vide 10th Report, page 657.

Post town: Market Weighton.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 269. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 37. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Daltune), pages 56. 81. 223. 237.