Then and Now—Tylers Cottage—Whatton-in-the-Vale Local History Circa 1900 Digest The Newsletter of the Cranmer Local History Group Researching the history of Aslockton, Scarrington and Whatton-in-the-Vale 2003 Volume 2 Number 2 Please join the Cranmer Local History Group December 2006 Membership is only £5 per year (the Membership year runs from July to June). Come along to any meeting and join. Visit our web site at www.cranmerlhg.org.uk e-mail: [email protected] 8 1 Forthcoming Local History Events New Rooms—Search for Information The final chapter in the story of the New Rooms (aka the Village or Church Hall) came to a close in Tuesday February 6th 2007—7.45pm Clay Pipes The Cranmer Arms, December 2006. As this stage I am uncertain as o Peter Hammond Main Street, when the building was actually built, the earliest Members: £1 Aslockton Tuesday March 6th 2007—7.45pm Thomas Cranmer The Cranmer Arms, Gregg Redford Main Street, Members: Free Aslockton. Tuesday April 3rd 2007—7.45pm Burtons of Smithy Row The Cranmer Arms, May 2006 Val Hemstock Main Street, Aslockton. December 2006 reference I can find is 1916 when the Parish Council moved its meetings there from the Mission Room. I Members: £1 would like to put together a history of the New Rooms and I would appreciate any stories, anecdotes and Visitors: £2 photographs you may have. We do have a couple of photographs inside the building and they are reproduced below. Tuesday 1st May 2007 Moving House The Cranmer Arms, Rodney Cousins Main Street, This interior shot appears to be in the early part of the 20th Century—say about 1920. Members: £1 Aslockton This Group photograph is certainly later, 30s, 40s, 50s?. Any information about any of the photographs would be Visitors, particularly residents of the three villages, are most wel- welcome. come. Any stories, photographs, memories or any other information about the New Rooms would be welcome Membership is only £5 per year (the Membership year runs from July to in any format you like. You can contact me either by: June). Come along to any meeting and join. Visit our web site at www.cranmerlhg.org.uk Phone: 851597; e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]; Post: 17 Burton Lane, Whatton-in-the-Vale– Notts. NG13 9EQ. ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE WELCOME. GR Redford—December 2006. 2 7 On the north side: In this issue... Cranmer Local History Bendy of six. Seems a spread eagle. Group One gone; two in Thoroton’s time. Whatton—1792 4 A fess between three cinqfoils. The Cranmer Local History Group as part of its’ Three cross botone fitche, a chief. constitution is committed to promoting the history On a chief three stars. 7 of Aslockton, Scarrington and Whatton-in-the- Two lozengers. New Rooms—Search Vale in particular and local history in general. Barry of seven. for Information The knight on this tomb s in mail close to his face; his helmet, pointed, has a frontlet of oak leaves, and Now and Then—Tylers 8 As part of that commitment the group organises a on it, in black letter, “Adoramus te Xpe,” on the left side, and on the right, “Ave Maria.” At the joining of series of talks throughout the year and this quar- the frontlet, s griffin, sitting on a wheel. The figure has whiskers, a collar of SS. Buckled thrice in front, Cottage terly digest is intended to compliment that pro- gramme. mail at his arm pits and on the hollow of his arms, gauntlets with the knuckle part raised; his belt is sprinkled with butterflies, a flowing fringe to his coat of mail; on his breast 5 lozenges in fess, hilt remaining at his right-hand; a lion at his feet looking up. Tradition gives this to one of the Newmarches. All information welcome In the south wall of this school-house a flowered arch terminating in a bouquet and surmounted by We are always interested in photographs, anec- purfled finials; but only rubbish under it. It probably covered another of the same family, who might have dotes and documents relating to the villages. We chosen this for their burial-place. have already archived in excess of 100 photo- graphs and have extracted references to the vil- It is not improbable that the alabaster figure represents Thomas de Newmarche, who had free warren lages from documents dating back to the 11th Cen- granted here by Edward II., and a market and fair in this lordship, 12 Edward III. tury. The chancel is quite plain, fitted up with modern seats and desks. We are able to scan material very quickly so any documents or photographs you may loan to us will The style of the church bespeaks it of the reign of one of the Edwards. The east window of the north aisle be returned very quickly, unharmed. chapel is of a rich quatrefoil pattern. The north window is fine, as is another of the north aisle. The north If you can help, please contact: porch rests on clustered columns with ring capitals. Two north windows of the chancel are lancet- Gregg Redford on 01949 851597 fashion, and a third of two bays. Its south windows are rich. The south porch is of stone. Or e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Thoroton describes the following several coats of arms, including those of Aslacton, Newmarch and Whatton in the windows; Quarterly, a lion rampant in a border engrailed azure. Sable, a chevron between ten cross crosslets, azure. By the time you read this 2006 will have turned Gules, a lion rampant azure, crowned or. Crest: an eagle’s head between wings sable, coming out of Design: ©2004-2006—GR Redford into 2007. crown azure. Articles: ©2004-2006— their respective authors. March 2006 marked the 450th anniversary of The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York, valued in the King’s Books at £5 6s 8d.; to the archbishop No part of this publication may be copied in any manner 6s.; to the archdeacon 7s. 6d. The manse and glebe worth per annum 10s. in tithes of wool, lamb, cattle, whatsoever without the express permission of the the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. geese, chicken etc. It was appropriated by Galfridus, Archbishop of York, to the abbey of St. James at publishers There will be a talk on Aslocktons famous son in March 2007—everyone is welcome. Welbeck, saving always a competency for the vicar that should minister, viz., a third part. The patron Edited by GR Redford was, 1725, William Shipman, Esq.; in 163 and 1781 John Hewett, Esq.; present patron, 1792, Richard Designed, Published and Printed by Foljambe, Esq. He presented Mr. Newsam, July, 1790, who on being presented to the vicarage of GR Redford, December 2006 saw the demolition of the NEW Richmond, in Yorkshire, 1792, quitted this place, but did not resign the living, which is served by the 17, Burton Lane, ROOMS (aka Church or Village Hall). Irrespective Whatton-in-the-Vale, neighbouring clergy, as it suits them. The curacy of Aslacton, which belonged also to Welbeck Abbey, is of the merits or otherwise of the loss of the united to it, and together valued at £100 per annum. Here is a neat small vicarage house to the north- Nottinghamshire. NG13 9EQ. building, it is a simple fact that the New Rooms east out of the churchyard. E-Mail: [email protected] have been part of the Aslocktons’ life for a least On behalf of the Transcribed by GR Redford—December 2006 Cranmer Local History Group. 90 years. I would like to produce a history of the New Rooms—see page 7 for details of how you can help. 6 3 WHATTON—1792 curacy, whose chapel, dedicated to St. John of Beverley, being converted into a private house, the parish is united to Whatton. The manor came to his great grandfather Edmund by marriage with the heiress of This transcript comes from the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine Library’ edited by George Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. the Aslactons, who held in from the reign of Henry II. It passed by an heiress of Cranmer, to Sir John The Library was published in 1897 by Elliot Stock of London in 1897. This particular volume contains Molyneux, Bart., who sold it to the Marquis of Dorchester, proprietor in Thoroton’s time, and is now, I details of three Counties, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND RUTLAND. The account of Whatton is believe, in the representative of the Duke of Kingston. Thomas Cranmer, to whom this monument was one of only twenty places in NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. The article was originally published in the erected, may have been the father of the Archbishop, though I cannot find the time of his death in Gentleman’s Magazine in 1792. The article has been transcribed without any alteration. history. In the main the article describes the Church and as the article was written in 1792 it was before the An oblong stone, inserted in the pillar over the font, has this inscription on a brass plate: ‘restoration’ by Thomas Dickinson Hall. References are made in the text to ‘Thoroton’s time’ or ‘Dr. Robert “Memorandum, that JOHN WELLS, of Aslacton, out of his charitable benevolence and good-will to the Thoroton’. Robert Thoroton was born in 1623 and died in 1678. He was the author of ‘The Antiquities of poor, did, by his last will and testament, May 9, 1710, give 5/- to be put out to interest, the use half to Nottinghamshire’ which was published in 1677, from which the quotes are taken.