Records, Historical and Antiquarian, of Parishes Round HorncastleWalter, J. Conway (James Conway)
History
Records, Historical and Antiquarian, of Parishes Round Horncastle
Walter, J. Conway (James Conway)
Parishes -- England -- Horncastle -- History
The east window is a good triplet, in early English style. The present
pulpit was put up by the late Rector, the Rev. G. E. Frewer; and, along
with the Reredos, was carved by Mr. Winn, living in the parish. The
reading desk was carved by a former Rector, Rev. J. Jackson, but has of
late years, been altered. There is a handsome brass lectern given by the
present Rector, Rev. R. Barker. In the floor of the chancel is a slab,
with this inscription, “Depositum Ricardi Dugard qui obiit anno ætatis
68, salutis 1653, Januarii 28.” He is supposed to have been a nephew of
William Dugard, who printed the original edition of “Ikon Basilike,” in
his own house. The two present bells are inscribed “Warner and Sons,
1857.” All the registers previous to 1750 have been lost. Of the
communion plate, the chalice and paten are dated 1688; the flagon is
modern.
In 1566 there was in the church “one alb, one cope, a crosse, super
altaire, ij images, a mass, a piece of wood, whereon stood xxiv candels.”
George Monson, the royal commissioner, ordered that “they must awaie with
(these) this side the first of Maie, and certifie.”
In 1846 six Roman urns, containing calcined bones, were dug up in this
parish in an abandoned brickyard; and, about 5 years afterwards, another
similar urn was found near the same place. There are still found there a
considerable quantity of fossils, ammonites, gryphæa, &c.; and the writer
of these notes possesses a vertebra of a large saurian, one of several
which have quite recently been found at the same place.
Fulletby School was rebuilt in 1849. The 1st stone being laid in the
last week in August, to contain 60 children, by Dr. Spranger, Rector of
Low Toynton, who gave handsomely, besides building at his own expense and
endowing a School at New York. The Rev. W. M. Pierce, Rector,
contributed, also Mrs. Elmhirst, of Yorkshire; the Lady of the Manor, the
Queen Dowager giving £10. (“Lincolnshire Chronicle,” August 28th, 1849).
GOULCEBY.
Goulceby lies in a northerly direction, about 7 miles from Horncastle,
some two miles further on than Scamblesby, and barely a mile west of
Asterby, to which parish it is now ecclesiastically annexed; the joint
value of the two benefices, the former a vicarage and the latter a
rectory, being about £380 a year, now held by the Rev. J. Graham, J.P.,
who resides at Asterby. Goulceby was probably, in Saxon times, the more
important of the two places, since it was one of the 222 parishes in the
county (according to Sir Henry Ellis) which possessed a church before the
Norman Conquest, and one of the 131 which had a resident priest.
Letters arrive _via_ Lincoln at 10 am., and are despatched at 3.55 p.m.
The nearest money order office is at Scamblesby, the nearest telegraph
office at Baumber; but, by arrangement, telegrams can be sent from the
Donington-on-Bain station, on the Lincoln and Louth railway, which is
distant about 2 miles.
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