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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: THORGANBY.     Church dedication: ST. HELEN.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 3,190 acres. Ouse and Derwent wapentake. -Population, 342 *1; Church-room, 300; Net value, £53. -Archbishop Sharp was unable to find out to what religious house this Church was appropriated *2. It is an old Church, but neither charged with Procurations nor Synodals. In the report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the living is stated to be endowed with allotments in lieu of tithes.

The patronage was in the Annesleys in Archbishop Sharp's time.

Present patron, J. D. Jefferson, Esq.

In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 307, it is stated : " Curate, £15; impropriation, £80;" -and in 1818, valued at £35 per annum.

Augmented in 1799, with £200; in 1817, with £200 from the Parliamentary grant; and in 1827, with £200 -all by lot.

An Inclosure Act was passed 50th Geo. III.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1653.

Charities:
Poors Estate. 30a. 2r. 16p. of land, given, as it is said, by Lord Valentia, about the year 1580. The rent is distributed among the poor.

Richard Blythe's rent charge of 40s. per annum, (date of gift nor given,) out of North Hills.

Thomas Dunnington's charity, by will, dated 9th October 1733. School-house and rent charge of 40s. per annum.

Thomas Bradford's rent charge of 40s. per annum, for the schoolmaster. In consideration of these three rents-charge, and the use of the house, the schoolmaster instructs ten free scholars.

Robert Jefferson's charity, by will, dated in 1803. £10. 10s. per annum to the resident minister of the Church of West Cottingwith or Thorganby, for his teaching eight of the children of the tenants of the estates thereby devised, reading, writing, and arithmetic ; and £6 per annum to the churchwardens and overseers, to be distributed in coals at Christmas, among the poor not usually receiving parish relief. -Vide 10th Report, page 674.

Post town: York.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1227. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. iii. page 49. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Turgesby), page 187. Mon. Angl., vol. vi. page 384.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Thorganby, with Cottingwith. In 1834 the Population was returned at 350.

*2 It seems to have been appropriated to the Priory of Thickhead.

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Other information:
THICKHEAD PRIORY. -(Parish of Thorganby.) -A small Benedictine Nunnery was founded here temp. Ric. I. by Roger Fitz Roger. At the Dissolution the site was granted to John Aske.