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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: WARTER.     Church dedication: ST. JAMES.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 6,960 acres. Harthill wapentake. Bainton Beacon. -Population, 470; Church-room, 300; Net value, £100. -The Domesday Survey mentions a Church, a priest, and a mill, in Warter.

The Church, with its Chapels and six oxgangs of land, was given by Galfred Trusbutt or Geffrey Fitz Payn to the Priory of Warter, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, and in 1358 a new ordination was made. The Penningtons have presented since 1723.

Present patron and impropriator, Lord Muncaster.

The Church, with a mediety of the Chapel of Seaton, is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £24; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £4; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 335, it is stated : " Vicarage, £12; Impropriation, £140;" - and in 1818, at £27 per annum.

Augmented in 1767, with £200 from the Royal Bounty, and £200 from the Parliamentary grant ; in 1810, with £200 from the Parliamentary grant ; in 1817, with £ *1; in 1818, with £200; and in 1832, with £600 -all by lot.

An Inclosure Act was passed 34th Geo. III., and amended by 53rd Geo. III.

No glebe house.

The Register Books for marriages commence in 1669, and for baptisms and burials in 1685. Chasm in the latter for 1728, 1729, and 1730.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Pocklington.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1241. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 32. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Wartre, Warte), pages 12. 42. 80. 169, 170. Burton's Monasticon, pages 56. 383. Mon. Angl., vol. vi. page 297.

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Notes:
*1 Query -there being a blank left in Mr. Hodgson's account of Augmentations.

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Other information:
THE PRIORY. -This was for Austin Canons, and was founded A.D. 1132 by Geffrey Fitz Payn or Trusbut.

King Henry III. granted to the Monks the privilege of a fair and a market at Warter.

Burton's Monast., page 381.