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DENTON is a parish and village, in the vicinity of a • decorations being Jacobean: there are some good family BJD&Il rivulet, on toe borders of Leicestershire, and near t.be portraits in the houl!le and numerous works of art, manv • and Nottingham canal, 4 miles 11outh-west from of the latter inherited under the will of the late Gregor:v -Grantham, in tpe division of the county, Gregory, of : the gardens extend over parts of Kesteven, Spittlegate petty sessional division, B acres, and there is a spring flowing into the fish ponds Grantham suke, union and county court district, rural known as " St. Christopher's Well," said to possess medi­ deanery of South Grantham and archdeaconry and dio- , cinal qualities : the rivulet below the park supplies a cese of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew is a building reservoir of 28 acres, belonging to the Grantham canal. of stone, chiefly of the Perpendicular period, with some In the park is an almshouse for six poor people, founded portion of Early Decorated work, and consists of chancel in 1653 by William Welby esq. who endowed it with o 'irith chantry chapel, nave, aisles, south porch and a fine yearly rent-charge of £18 12s. out of the Denton estate, -embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 8 and Rebecca ·welby, m the year 1714, left the interest of

clock and 5 bells: in 1904 the tower was restored at a 1 £10 for the six almspeople. William Welby esq. who cost of £Bso, the work being carried out by Mr. Weir,j died in 1790, requested the succeeding lords of Denton to architect, nnder the direction of the Society for the pay £12 yearly to the schoolmaster of the town of Denton. Preservation of Ancient Buildings : there are several Six cottages in the village belong to the parishioners, mural tablets in the church to the Blythe, Welby and who also have a cottage and 13a. 2r. of hmd at Harlax­ Williams families: at the west end of the .'Iouth aisle ton, purchased with £43 poor's money in 16g6, and now is an altar-tomb with recumbent effigy to J uhn Blyth, of· worth £15 yearly. In the year 1727 a Roman tesselated Denton, ob. 1602, his wife Margaret (Thurold) and six pavement was found in Denton field, 30 feet square, the 'Children; on the lower part of the tomb ore smaller pattern consisting of squares and lozenges, ~rnamenW kneeling figures of the latter : nearly opposite, in the with chequer work; a drawing of this pavement was 'l!orth aisle, is a striking monumfmt to Richard Welby, made by the late Mr. Fowler, who also discovered part (lb. 1713 1 on the north side of the chancel is o grey of another, 8 feet square, and of a richer pattern; both atone slab with the matrix only of the effigy of an of these were engraved in his " Collection of Roman ecclesiastic: the church was thoroughly restored in Pavements." Sir Charles Glynn& Earle Welby hart. 1887-8, under the direction of the late Sir A. W. Blom- C.B. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil • field kt. M.A., A.R.A.,·F.S.A. at a cost of over £3,000, is various; subsoil, stony, and here are quarries of chiefly defrayed by the Welby family and the rector; good ironstone. The chief crops ore wheat, barley and the work included a new oak roof to the chancel (which oats. The area is 2,620 acres of land and 24 of water; retains its sedilia) and carved oak choir stalls and r~teable va.lne, /,5,709; population in 1901, 642. lectern: the fragments of ancient glass scattered in the · Parish Clerk, Thomas Winter. windows of the north aisle have been carefully collected, and lire now placed in one of the chancel windows: the ehancel BCreen has also been thoroughly restored, and a Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Annie Geeson, sub-post­ new organ, costmg nearly £6oo, presented by Major mistress. Letters arrive from Gra.ntham at 6.56 a.m. Welby: there are 300 sitt.ings. The register dates from · & I.Io p.m. & are dispatched at 3.15 & 6.24 p.m. week the year 1558. The living is a rectory, net yearly 'Value days only £sor, including 15 acres of glebe, and ground rents to the amount of £74 yearly, with residence, built in 1841, in Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1720, re­ the- gift Of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held stored in 1855. new school built in 1893 by Sir W. Bince rB86 by the Rev. Thomas Henry Craster M.A.. of E. Welby-Gregory bart. at 8 cost of £1,400, for 186 pniversity College, Oxford. Denton Manor, the seat of children; average attendance, 160; the old school Sir' Charles Glynne Earle Welby bart. C.B., D.L., has been converted into a. master's house; .Albert J.P. is a mansion of stone, standing on a slight elevation, Edward Dove, master; Mrs. Editb Dove, mistress; in a finely wooded park of 370 acres : the manor house, Miss Rose Elizabeth Sandy & Miss Linda Saywell, which is situated about 200 yards to the south-west of the assistant mistresses sits of the old hall, was built in 1879-83, from designs of Sir A. W. Blomfield, and is in the Tudor style, the internal Carrier to Grantham.-George Ogden, sat Craster Rev. Thomas Henry M . .A.. Brewster John, farmer, Denton lodge Maltby .Job, clerk of works to Sir (rector), The Rectory Bullock Richard, shopkeeper Chas. Glynne Earle Welby bart.C.B Green Rev. Percival Llewellyn L.Div. Dove Albert. Edwd. assistant overseer Martin Charles, farmer (curate) & organist & clerk toParishCouncil Mitcbell Albert Edwin, baker Welby Sir Charles Glynne Earle bart. Geeson Samuel (exors. of), black- Ogden George, carrier C.B .., D.L., J.P. Denton manor smiths, wheelwrights & timber Pykett William, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. merchants; estimates given Smi-th John, farmer & thrashing ma- Blank.ley John, farmer, The Laurels J ackson Joshua, shoe maker chine owner Blankney James W. & Son, market .Tohnson William, jun. shopkeeper Wright Freeman, butcher gardeners Wright Uriah, Welby Arms P.H

DIGBY is a parish on the Digby beck, "\t'Ith a .,;tatiou on oak pulpit and Perpendicular r.eats were restor~d in 190-l 'he Spalding and Doncaster joint extension of the Great ' under th~ direction of C. Hodgson Fowler esq. F.S.A. Northern and Great Eastern railw!lys, 9 miles west from architect, of Durham: in 1go8 the roofs of the nave and Tattershall and 6 north-by-east from Sleafurd, in the aisles were thoroughly repaired and all the windows re­ division of the county, wapentake of newed, at a cost of £aso: the communion pla.te includes Pl1~well, parts of Kesteven, union, petty sell- a chalice of silver and a paten dated 1569: there are 104 tional division and county court district, rui"Bl deanery sittings. The register dates from the year 1560. The living of !.afford No. r, and archrleaconry and diocese of Lin- is a discharged vicarage, united with the rectory of Blox­ eoln. The parish was inclosed in 1720. The church of holme in 1717, joint net yearly value £250, including 19 St. Thomas 6 Becket is a building of stone, chiefly in the . aoeres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Harnil­ Early English and Perpendicular styles, and consisting of ton-Ogilvy, of Biel, N.B. and held since 1905 by the ~hancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south Rev. Martin Luther lrving, who resides at Bloxholme. porch and an embattled western tower with crocketed Here is a Wc~leyan chapel, built in 1879 and seating pinnacles and an octagonal crocketed spire, containing 3 I ISo persons. In 1761 Henry Young left nine acres of \ells. one of which is modern, the others bearing date i land at Freiston to this parish, the rents to be dis- 1656 and 1672: the spire w"LS struck by lightning m ~- pensed as follows: zos. for four poor widows annually, A.ugust, 19'='7• and restored the same year at a cost of and the remainder for the education of poor childre11. £8o: the font is of the Perpendicular period: in the In 1802 the trustees of this charity received £146 gs. 6d. south wall of the chancel are two piscin~ and small for part of the land taken for the Hobhole Drain, which recessed Early English sedilia, and there is an aumbry remains at interest, and the remainder of the land is let .and on the east wall tw'O) brackets: the chancel arch is fur £12 yearly; the 8um now available for educational &11!0 Early English, and is fitted with a. Perpendicular purposes from land and interest on £146 gs. 6d. amounts eak screen in fair condition: the olde8t features are a to £15 gs. 4d. Near the church are the remains of an La.te Norman doorway in the south aisle, constitJnting ancient cross, consisting of the Btone base with eight 1be prineipal entrance, ornamenterl with reticulated feet of the shaft. Reuben Roberts and Ernellt Henry 'lfork and nail head ornament ani 8Ume &axon "long Godson esqs. are the principal landowners. The soil is lnd short" work on the exteriC'r of the south-east of the a red loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, have: the clerestory is Perpendicnlar and bag an em- beans, barley turnips and 8eeds. The area is 2,490 battled parapet: the lower Rtage of the tower is Early acres