610 SLREMBY. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELtY'S Hoft Capt. William V.D., J.P. Grebby Wintort Bobert Edward Perey, Newman Edward Devon, farmer, hall Scremby ball Home farm . Newman Edward Devon, Manor house COlllfERCI.AL, Pycock .!.rthur Edward,miller (wittd)'; Walker John Harry, Triangle house Codd J oseph, , farm bailiff tO' J~ H. Grebby mill Williams Rev. Oharles Tudor B.A. W alli:er esq Saunders .A.sher; farm bailiff to Capt. (rector), Rector7 Hewis Kate (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off W 1 Hoff J .P. Grebby SCRI.VELSBY is a parish, 2} miles south from Horn-' 1760. The tegister for Scrivelsby dates from the year castle terminal station on a branch of the Great Northern 1566 and that of Dalderby from 169o. The Bev. Samuel railway, in the South Lindsey division of the county, Lodge, rector 1867-97• made an exact transcript of the parts of Lindsey, southern division of the wapentake of registers of both parishes from 1566 to :1812. The living Gartree, Horn<'astle union, petty sessional division and is a rectory, united to that of Dalderby, net yearly valu• county court district, rural deanery of Horncastle, arch­ £462, including 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the deaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. • The church gift of F. Seaman Dymoke esq. and held since 1909 by of St. Benedict is an ancient building of stone, in the the Rev. Frank Simpson Alston M . .A.. of Exeter College, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con .. Oxford. Scrivelsby Ci>urt, the home of the Honourable si~ting of chancel with north aisle of jwo bays, nave of the King's Champion and Standard Bearer of England, three bays, north aisle and a small western tower, with and the residence of the holder of the office, Frank f>pire, erected in 186o by the late Hon. Sir Henry Seaman Dymoke esq. D.L., J.P. is an irregularly-built Dymoke, 1st and only baronet, and containing one bell: mansion, partly in the Domestic Gothic style, and the nave and earlier chancel arcades and the chancel standing in a park of 36o acres, well wooded and arch are Early English : the windows of the nave, stocked with deer: this manor belonged to the Marmions . wodern Decorated: the chancel retains a piscina: the from the time of the Conquest, having been originally stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. John bestowed by the Conqueror upon Robert de Marmion~ Dymoke, d. 1828, and to Amelia .Alice Elphinstone, his conditionally on the performance of the office of "King'• wife, d. 1856, and was erected by their eldest son, and Champion :" it came into the family of Dymoke before there is a memorial window to Emma, Lady Dymoke, the reign of Richard II. by the marriage of Sir John .d. 1884, erected by Sir Francis H._ Hartwell hart. and Dymoke kt. with Margaret, daughter and sole heiress Lady Emma (Dymoke), his wife: t·he monuments of Sir Thomas de Ludlow kt. and Joan (Marmion), his chiefly commemorate the Marmion and Dymolie wife, then holder of the manor of Scrivelsby which is families, possessors of the :Manor of Scrivelsby and still nominally held, as anciently, by the tenure called hereditary Oha.mpions of England: there was forme-rly •' grand serjeantry," consisting in this instance of the m the church, Wltil at least to June x86o, a sJ.ab with pNformance of the office of Champion of England, or l>ras:oJ effigies and a fragme11t of a canopy, to Sir King's Champion, the owner being required to appea:r Thomas Dymoke, ob. 1422, and Elizabeth (Hebden) at the coronation of each monarch, armed and upon his wife, ob. 1453: beneath the dhanceJ. arcade is an horseback, and to cause a challenge to be proclaimed to Altar tomb, with brass effigy and inscription, to Sir all opposers of the sovereign's right to succession, receiv• Roberb Demoke, kndghlt banneret, ob. 12 Ap. 1545, ing as his fee the King's drinking cup: this ceremony Champion at the Coronations of Richard Ill. Henry VII. has, however, been dispensed with at the last four coro­ and Henry VIII. ; over the head of the figure is a nations: the Champion is nsually styled "Honourable": shield of 10 quarterings; it appears from a brass in­ towards the end of the last century a large part of the seription that this tomb was removed from its original house, including the great hall, was destroyed by fire, to its present position in 1760 : at the east end of the and historical antiquities of much interest and value aisle is a tomb with recumbent cross-legged effigy in were then irretrievably lost! on the right hand of the stone of a knight in armour, representing Philip, last principal entrance, lighted by a tall mullioned window, Lord :Marmion, of Scrivelsby and Tamworth, ob. 1292: is the armoury, containing a large collection of arms and contemporary with this is the recumbent effigy of a armour of various dates, horse accoutrements and a huge lady, with a dog at her feet: in the chancel is an "black jack": in the dining-room are a number of family inscripti<ln on copper to Sir Charles Dymoke kt. portraits, including one of Henry Dymoke esq. on horse­ Champion at the Coronation of James II. ob. c. 1688, back, in his character of Champion at the Coromtion of a_nd Eleanor (Watson), his wife, daughter of Lewis, George IV. in 1821 ; and bhere a.re also prese•rved a I"t Baron Rockingham, as well as to other members number of the Coronation cups; the chief entmnce to of the familv:• here also is a slab inscribed to the the park, called "the Lion Gate," from the figrure of a Hon. Charles Dymoke, Champion at the Coronation {l{ lion on the a.rohway, beQ.l'ls tlh{l name "R. Dymilk," Wm. Ill. and Queen Mary, d. 17 Jan. 1702-3, erected di'rided by the rudely-carved boughs of a bree, and by his widow, Jane Dymoke, in 1726, and mural monu­ !!upposed to indica.te the derivwti.on of the name from ment of white marble to Hon. Lewis Dvmoke• M.P. the designatJQn, " de umbrose. quereu," as well ae the Champion at the Coronations of Geo. I. and Geo. II. d. erection of the gate by Sir Robert Dymoke kt. in the 1760, and the Hon. John Dymoke, Champion at the reign of King Henry VIII. The lordship of the manor CoronatiOn of Geo. m. d. 6 March, 1784: and a tablet is v~sted in the Champion. The soil is sandy loam ; to Sir Henry Dymoke bart. d. 28 April, 1865, whose subsoil, white clay and gravel. The chief crops are grave in the churchyard is marked by a canopied tomb wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,132 acres; of marble, with inscription to himself and Em m a (Pearce ), rateable value, £r,8o1; population in 19II, 145 in the his wife, d. 1884, and an inscribed stone to Mary Anne, civil parish. and 187 in the ecclesiastical parish (which widow of the Rev. the Hon. John Dymoke, jun. The includes Dalderby civil parish). church was restored in 1876, nt a cost of £279, and again Parish Clerk, Job Raithby. m 1891, at a cost of £259, defrayed by the rector and the late Hon. F. S. Dymoke, Queen's Champion (d. 1s93 ). Letters through Horncastle arrive at 9 a.m. & 4.30 Jn the churchyard, which contains about 2 acres, is a p.m.; leave at 9 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. week days only. eanopied cross to the memory of Henry Lionel Dymoke, Horncastle, rz! miles- distant, is the nearest money d. r875, the last member of that branch of the Dymoke order & telegraph office family who succeeded to the estates and championship The children of this parish attend the -11chools at Hom• on the death of the Hon, Lewis Dymoke, who died in castle, Mareham-on-the-Hill & Roughton Alston Rev. Frank Simpson M.A. rDymoke Frank Seaman D.L., J.P. Norton John Hy_ farmer & dairyman (rector), Rectory 1 Scrivelsby court Smith William, farmer _ Middleton Henry, farmer, Long f.arm Spratt; Uriah. farmer ' SCUliTHORPE is a parish, formed by Order in works, the property of the Urban Distridt Council, Oouncil, 23 Aug. 1889, ouli of that of Frodingham, and were opened in May, 1901, and new 'WOrks for the has a station on the Great Central railway, and another supply of water were finished in 1907, under the pro-. on the North Lindsey Light railway, opened in July, visions of the Scunthorp8 Water .Act, 1903· The 1906, from this place to Winteringham. Scunthorpe is church of St. John the Evangelist, erected in 1891, 8 miles north-west from Brigg. in the North Lindse"f at a cost of £2o,ooo, by Bowland, 1st Baron St. Oswald, division of the county, parts of Lindsey~ east division is a, building of -stone in the Perpendicular style of the of Manley wapentake, Glanford Brigg union, Brigg 15th century, and consists of chancel, nave of five baya.. and Scunthorpe county court district, and is a pett}! with clerestory;1 aisles, north porch, organ chamber, and sessional division, rural deanery -.of Manlake, arch- a western tower with pinnacle&; containing 11 bells prow deaconry of Stow and diocese of' Lineoln. The p&-rish vided in 1893 in memory of the late Lord St. Oswald.l was governed by a Loc11l Board, formed iu x8go, but who died in 1893 :r the east Window har six lights, awl under the provisions of the "Local Government .!.et, there are sittings for 530 persons.