Stamford Baron St Martin Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Stamford Baron St Martin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Other places in the parish include: Walthorpe, Stamford Baron, and Wothorpe.
Alternative names: Stamford St Martin
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1572
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1711
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Stamford All Saints with St Peter, Lincolnshire
- Stamford St John with St Clement, Lincolnshire
- Wittering
- Stamford St George with St Paul, Lincolnshire
- Easton by Stamford
- Stamford St Mary, Lincolnshire
- Barnack
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAMFORD-BARON, a parish in the district of Stamford and county of Northampton; on the river Welland, and partly within Stamford borough.
It includes Walthorpe hamlet, and contains Stamford workhouse. Post town, Stamford. Acres, 2,170. Rea1 property, £5,542. Pop. in 1851, 1,778; in 1861,1,606. Houses, 293. The manor belonged formerly to Peterborough abbey.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £215. Patron, the Marquis of Exeter. The church is of the time of Edward IV., and was recently improved.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MARTIN’S, ST., Stamford-Baron, a parish, in the borough and union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, ½ a mile (S. E.) from Stamford; containing, with the hamlet of Wothorpe, 1443 inhabitants.
The parish is situated on the navigable river Welland: the surface is varied, and enriched with wood; the substratum contains freestone of excellent quality.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7. 13. 9., and lately endowed by the Marquess of Exeter, who is patron and impropriator, with £1800; total net income, £215. The tithes were commuted for land in 1795.
The church is a handsome structure in the later English style, erected by a bishop of Lincoln in the fifteenth century, and contains monuments to several members of the Cecil family, including one to Lord Treasurer Burghley, whose ancient mansion in the immediate neighbourhood, Burghley House, is now the magnificent residence of the Marquess of Exeter.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, visited the noble marquess at Burghley House in Nov. 1844: during her stay she planted an oak in the grounds, near the great lime planted by Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Lord Burghley.
In the parish is an hospital founded by Lord Burghley about 1597, and endowed by him with a rent-charge of £100, for a warden and twelve poor men; the endowment was subsequently augmented by various gifts. Dorothy, afterwards Countess of Exeter, in 1596, and Elizabeth, Countess Dowager, in 1722, gave property now producing together £123 per annum, which sum is appropriated to the support of schools, and in assisting the poor.
Here was a Benedictine nunnery in honour of our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, founded in the time of Henry II., by William de Waterville, abbot of Peterborough, to which abbey it was subordinate; it had at one period forty nuns, but at the Dissolution possessed a revenue of only £72. 18. 10.
In March, 1847, some labourers, when excavating, near the late rectory-house, discovered a wooden box containing seven gold coins, consisting of nobles of the reign of Edward III., and angels and half-angels of the reign of Henry VIII.: they were nearly as bright as gold just issued from the mint.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Stamford
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Peterborough
- Poor Law Union: Stamford
- Hundred: Nassaborough
- Province: Canterbury