' 266 KIRKBY LA'i'THORPE. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'B the gift of the Marquess of Bristol, and held since 1877 by the poor of Kirk by, the rents to be distributed at the discretion Ven. John Gorton M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and of the trustees. Saxon remains, including a jar of grey late archdeacon of Madras. The rec.:tory house was built in ware and a. pair of iron shears, have been fonnd here, and 1878 and has spacious grounds well laid out. Kirkby Lay- near Old Place a medi<Eval arrow head was met with. The thorpe was formerly a distinct chapelry, and the site of the Marquess of Bristol is lord of the manor and principal land­ chapel may be traced. In the register for 1737 is the follow- owner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, gravel. The chief ing memorandum:- crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and potatoes. The "By an instrument bearing date April xst, 1737, the area is 1,570 acres; rateable value, £3,9B8; the population rectory of Kirkby was united to the rectory of Asgarby by in 1881 was 256. the Right Re\•. Lord Bishop of Lincoln and the Rev. Gas· Parish Clerk, William Sharpe. coigne Wright, Rector. Signed H. HARRIS, his X mark, } Church- PosT 0FFICE.-William Coxell, receiver. Letters through , Sleaford arrive at 8.40 a.m. ; dispatched at 4· SS p.m . W . J. MuSToN, ward ens. Th d ... 1 h ffi · t Sl f-' By a deed bearing date July 2oth, 1743, a piece of land at e nearest money or er"" te egrap o ce lS a ea uru Asgarby, now in the occupation of Mr. Bruce Tomlinson, National School (mixed), built in 186o, at a cost of £soo. was conveyed to the rector and overseer of the poor of for 70 children; average attendance, 40; William Henry Kirkby, and to their successors for ever, in trust for the Cartwright, master • Gorton Ven. John N.A. Rector 1 Knight John Thomas, blacksmith Sardeson Willie, farmer BarlowJohn, wheelwright & agricultural Hamilton Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Tomlinson Bruce, farmer implement manufacturer Leeson Joseph, grocer Walton Arthur, carpenter Coxell William, ~hoe maker, Post office Mastin Frederick G. farmer Ward Frederick, farmer Drewery William, beer retailer KIRKBY UNDERWOOD is a parish and plP.asant which had once an income of £59 yearly, but this benefac­ village, xi miles west from Rippingale station on the Bourn tion has been diverted from this parish for some years, and and Sleaford branch uf the Great Northern railway, 5 north is now applied to other objects at Belton. Lord Willoughby from Bourn, 4~ south from Falkingham and 101 from Lon­ de Eresby P.c., D. L., J. P. is lord of the manor and the prin­ don, in the South Kesteven division of the county, parts of cipal landowner. The soil is loam ; subsoil, clay; bricks Kesteven, Aveland wapentake, Bourn petty sessional divi­ are made here. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. sion, union and court district, rural deanery of Aveland No. The parish contains about 1,340 acres, including a great 2, and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church of deal of woodland ; rateable value, £t,217 ; the population St. Mary and All Saints, situated a short distance west of in 1881 was 213. the vil!age, is a small building of stone, in the Perpendicular Parish Clerk, Thomas Wyer. style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells : it is at PosT 0FFICE.-Stephen Spencer, receiver. Letters through present (1889) in a very ruinous state: there are 200 Bourn arrive at 8 a.m. & dispatched at 5.15 p.m. The sittings. The register dates from the year 1569. The liv­ nearest money order office is at Rippingale & telegraph ing is a rectory, gross yearly value from 2o6 acres of glebe office at Bourn £258, net £185, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of National School (mixed), for 70 children; average attend Lincoln, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Robert Hurman, ance, 35 ; & supported in part by Lord Willoughby de of :St. Mary Hall, Oxford. There are five almshouses, Eresby & the rector ; Miss Ellen Rayland, mistress Hurman Rev. Robert, Rectory Harrison Thomas, grazier Newton Matthew, farmer Herd William, farmer Tipler Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. Marshall Thos. Hy.farmer & shopkeepr Wilson Arthur, farmer Barber William, Three Tuns P.H Marshall William, wheelwright Wilson Albert, farmer Baxter Benjamin, shoeing smith :Newcomb Edward, baker & farmer Wilson Edwin, farmer Christian Martha(Mrs.),frmr.& coal dlr Newcomb Francis, farmer KIRKSTEAD is a parish in the vale of the Witham, are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 166o. The over which river is a ferry to Martin and Timberland, with living is a donative, yearly value £4o,in the gift of the trustees a station on the Boston and Lincoln branch of the Great of the lateG.Mooreesq. and held since 1869 bytheRev.James Northern railway, 3 miles north-west-by-north from Tatters- Conway Waiter B.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, hall, 122£ from London and 7 south-west from Horncastle, vicar of Langton St. Andrew. Disney's charity of £200 in the South Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lind- yearly, derived from lands left in 1715 by Daniel Disney, of sey, South division of the wapentake of Gartree, Horncastle Kirkstead, now forms an endowment for a Presbyterian union, petty sessional division and county court district. chapel. Mr. Disney obtained the monastic estate of Kirk­ The church of St. Leonard, situated to the south of the stead by marriage and the chapel of St. Leonard was used abbey, is a small but extremely beautiful building of stone, for dissenting services from 1730 until 1812, when, after some in the Early English style, consisting of nave only, with a litigation, the rites of the Church of England took their place. small western bell gable, added'in 1846, and containing one The Cistercian abbey of St. Mary, Kirkstead, of which some bell: the church is lighted at the- sides by extremely narrow remains still exist, was founded in II39 by Hugh Brito, and lancet windows in pairs, and has a vaulted roof; the west colonized from Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire; of the build­ front of two stages has a fine Early English recessed door- ings, originally very extensive, foundations can everywhere way, and in the upper storey an elegant arcade of three be traced; the principal existing portion is a fine and lofty arches, the central arch, which is rather larger than the fragment of the north-east angle of the south transept, others, inclosing a vesica-shaped window : within the clearly of the Transition period, and dating from about church, dwarf shafts, with delicately carved capitals, rise at n6o; the abbey was surrendered in 1537 by Harryson, the intervals from a string course running round the building, last abbot; the revenues being then estimated at £286. and support vaulting principals enriched with the tooth The land is tithe free, having formerly been part of the ornament, which divide the roof into four squares with possessions of the abbey, which were of great extent. The large circular bosses in the middle : at the east end is an Rev. Charles Thomas Moore M.A. rector of Appleby, exquisite triplet of three lancet windows, with clustered and Leicestershire, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. banded shafts and arches decorated with nail-head carving : The soil is sand and peat; subsoil, gravel and clay. The on the south side is a piscina, and at the west end are two chief crops are wheat, barley, seeds and turnips. The area portions of an arcaded wood screen, probably coeval with is 1,459 acres ; rateable value, £1,549; the population in the church itself, and consequently of the highest interest 1881 was 114. and value ; there is also a picturesque canopied pulpit of By a Local Government order dated Dec. 24th, 1880, a Jacobean date, and against the west wall is placed the detached part of the parish containing 14 inhabitants was recumbent effigy, in Purbeck marble, of a knight of the Early transferred to Langriville in Boston union. 13th century, wearing a cylindrical flat-topped helmet, and TowN END is one mile north-east of the church; Wood a snit of the very rare banded mail, covered by a short Corner ~~ miles north-east. surcoat ; on the left arm is a heavy shield and the right Parish Clerk, Richard Hucknall. hand grasps a sword; the legs of the effigy are wanting ; the PosT OFFICE. - Hannah Goodbarne, receiver. Letters head rests on a cushion, from each side of which springs through Lincoln, arrive at 8.30 a. m.; dispatched at 6p.m. conventional foliage ; the figure may possibly represent The nearest money order & telegrngh office is at Woodhall Robert de Tattershall and Kirkstead, who died in 1212: Spa. There is a telegraph office at Kirkstead railway the church was repaired in 1843 and 1846, bnt on account station of its dilapidated state, it has been disused since 1877, and The children of Kirkstead attend the school at Woodhall the inhabitants now attend the church at Woodhall : there Railway Station, in Woodhall parish Brett Robert Henry, farmer, Old hall IPatchett Edward, farmer j Patchett William Thomas, farmer Huckna.llThos.AbbeyLodge P.H.& frmr .