Lowthorpe Yorkshire Family History Guide
Lowthorpe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1546
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LOWTHORPE, a parish in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Hull and Scarborough railway, 4¼ miles NE by E of Great Driffield. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hull.
Acres, 1,960. Real property, £2,089. Pop., 171. Houses, 28. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to W. St. Quintin, Esq. Lowthorpe Lodge is a chief residence.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £64. Patron, W. St. Quintin, Esq. The church is ancient; was made collegiate, in the time of Edward III., for a rector, 6 chaplains, and 3 clerks; consists now of nave and W tower, with ruined chancel; suffered damage, by the fall of its roof, in 1859; and has since been partially restored. The ruined chancel contains a piscina, an old brass, and two altar-tombs. The churchyard contains an old cross, said to have been brought from Kilham, and a curious monumental stone, with carvings to represent a family offspring.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Driffield
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John, Beverley
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Dickering
- Poor Law Union: Driffield
- Hundred: Dickering
- Province: York