HAUXWELL
Hauxswell, Hauxhesuuelle (xi cent.); Haukeswell
(xiii–xvii cent.); Hawkswell (xiv–xx cent.); Hawxwell (xvii–xviii cent.); Haukswell (xix cent.).
The parish was in 1831 composed of the township
of East and West Hauxwell, separated into two townships in 1868, (fn. 1) and of the townships of Barden and
Garriston and hamlet of Barden Dykes. (fn. 2) Its area is
4,590 acres of land, 4 acres being covered by water. (fn. 3)
Of this area 303 acres are arable, 2,994 acres permanent grass and 140 acres woods and plantations, (fn. 4) while
Barden is chiefly moorland. A dispute arose in the
13th century as to 220 acres of moor in Barden which,
it was alleged, Roald son of Alan the constable of
Richmond Castle had granted to Easby Abbey. In
1311, however, the lord of Barden, 'at last tired of the
vanity of worldly things,' renounced his claim and
visited the tombs of his father, mother and grandfather
with the abbot, who pronounced absolution upon them
for detention of the lands of the Church. (fn. 5) The following
boundaries were agreed upon: 'As the high road from
Bellerby descends to Routhegate and from Routhegate
by the Green Lane which goes to Hipswell and descends
to Withegille, (fn. 6) as the crosses of the canons are placed,
and so to Risedale Beck, and thence, returning, to the
bounds between the two Hauxwells and Barden, that
is, by Swarthfell, and so to the said high road of
Bellerby near the Mosikeld otherwise called Pa'terlingkeld or Losekeld. A furrow set with great stones
was to be made between Barden and the Hauxwells. (fn. 7)
No further mention of the possessions of this abbey here
has been found, but they are perhaps commemorated
by Friar Ings in Barden. A field in East Hauxwell
was still in 1614 called Coram Garth, (fn. 8) from Coverham Abbey, which held half a carucate of land here
by grant of Helewise daughter and heir of Thomas
de Perrowe and widow of William Grendon. (fn. 9)
The subsoil is Millstone Grit, the soil light, the
crops wheat, oats and barley; pasture predominates.
Stone is worked at Lavrock Quarry.
Barden occupies the west of the parish, its one
street standing on the middle of the slope of moorland rising rapidly from 500 ft. above ordnance datum
in the south to 1,000 ft. in the north, Barden Fell
attaining a height of 1,025 ft. In its capital messuage
the Egglescliffes lived in the 13th, 14th and 15th
centuries, (fn. 10) and two at least of the three families
between whom the lordship was then divided continued to live at Barden until the close of the 16th
century. (fn. 11)
The Old Hall stands at the west of the village street.
At present the house is T-shaped on plan, with
the cross at the southern end, but the northern end
of the building has been demolished. The building
is two stories high and dates from the first quarter of
the 15th century or perhaps earlier. The hall
occupies the northern half of the building, and,
though now cut up into rooms, retains outwardly its
original form. Two blocked doors with four-centred
heads remain at the north end and formerly opened
into the screens, and the east wall is pierced by the
modern door and an ancient window of three ogeeheaded lights. Further south on the same side is a
blocked two-light window of later date with a square
moulded label. The southern block contained the
great chamber, which is lighted by a four-light mullioned
window with a square label of 16th-century date.
Against the east wall is a large chimney stack. The
house is built of rubble masonry with ashlar quoins.
The manor-house lies in the centre of the village
facing the Wesleyan chapel, built in 1877; Halfpenny
House is a farm there. A water-mill is mentioned
in 1271. (fn. 12)
To the east is Hauxwell Hall, the residence of
Col. Wade-Dalton. It is a large plain stone-faced
building standing in a park. The front to the south
has a central block of three stories with side wings of
two stories. There is a Jacobean semicircular arched
gateway flanked by pilasters supporting an entablature
on which is a shield bearing a lion rampant halved
with three interlaced cheverons under a chief.
St. Oswald's Church lies south-east of the park
and 200 yards west of the main road.
Further north-east is the village of East Hauxwell,
with the manor-house and rectory facing each other
at the south end of the village street.
Leonard Brough's water-mill at East Hauxwell is
mentioned in 1560, (fn. 13) Lancelot Brough's capital messuage in 1620, (fn. 14) and the Langtons, (fn. 15) whose watermill of West Hauxwell is mentioned in 1560, (fn. 16) had
a 'manor-place' at East Hauxwell. (fn. 17)
Garriston, composed of some three detached farmhouses of no great antiquity, lies south of Garriston
Beck. Its lords had a capital messuage here in
1392. (fn. 18)
Manors
The 6 geld carucates in EAST
HAUXWELL, where Gunre and Gamel
had each a 'manor' before the Conquest,
were in 1086 among the demesne lands of Count Alan. (fn. 19)
Four carucates afterwards belonged to the fee of Middleham, (fn. 20) and the manor was still held of Middleham
Castle in 1636. (fn. 21) Hervey son of Hugh de Watlass (fn. 22)
was tenant of 1½ carucates and 10 oxgangs in 1286–7. (fn. 23)
His daughter and heir Alice married Simon de Stuteville, (fn. 24) who had succeeded by 1297–8. (fn. 25) He was
assessed for the subsidy here in 1301–2, (fn. 26) and
returned as lord in 1316. (fn. 27) He enfeoffed Margaret
Fitling of his whole homage (fn. 28) ; she was returned as
joint tenant of one knight's fee in East Hauxwell and
Watlass, (fn. 29) and was evidently holding the East Hauxwell part until 1389 under this name, (fn. 30) though
apparently wife of Roger de Eston. In 1346
Geoffrey son of Nicholas de Eston conveyed to Roger
de Eston and Margaret his wife and her heirs tenements and two-thirds of a knight's fee in East and
West Hauxwell. (fn. 31) Roger de Eston's lands here were
acquired by the mesne lord Ralph Earl of Westmorland (1397–1425) (fn. 32) before 1409–10. (fn. 33) Ralph died
seised of the manor in 1425 (fn. 34) ; Joan his widow held
it in dower until her death in 1440, (fn. 35) and the issues
were accounted for among the Middleham lands in
1484–6. (fn. 36) The manor then came into the hands of
a branch of the Brough family. Richard Brough
stated in 1612 that Richard Earl of Warwick, lord of
Middleham, granted the manor in 1464–5 to his
ancestor John Brough of East Hauxwell, son and
heir of John Brough (of Brompton-on-Swale, younger
brother of — Brough of Brough Hall, Catterick). (fn. 37)
The statement is probably trustworthy, though this
grant seems antedated. (fn. 38) The earliest mention found
of Broughs in Hauxwell is in 1516, when Peter Brough
of Newton Morrell, Henry Brough of Spennithorne
and Anthony and Thomas Brough of East Hauxwell
were pardoned for a murder committed at West
Hauxwell. (fn. 39) The John said to be the grantee had,
according to tradition, a son and heir Peter, father of
the Leonard (fn. 40) who made a settlement of this manor
in 1560. (fn. 41) He or his son and heir Thomas must
have alienated one fourth part to the Jopsons of
West Hauxwell. (fn. 42) Thomas was assessed for the
subsidy here in 1588–9, (fn. 43) and with Leonard his son
and heir (fn. 44) and Jane his wife sold the manor in 1604
to his kinsman Richard Brough. (fn. 45) Richard died in
1614, leaving a son and heir Lancelot, (fn. 46) who died a
minor in 1620, leaving sisters and heirs Ellen, Elizabeth and Anne. (fn. 47) Ellen with her husband William
Wycliffe in 1637 conveyed one-third of the manor
to her brother-in-law Lionel Robinson. (fn. 48) Elizabeth
wife of Lionel Robinson and Anne wife of Christopher
Phillipson had livery of their shares in 1636, (fn. 49) and
in 1637 Christopher and Anne with others conveyed
tenements and one-third of the manor to Lionel
Robinson, (fn. 50) who thus became sole owner. He also
possessed Cowton Grange, which his grandfather had
purchased. (fn. 51) He left daughters and heirs Clara and
Jane, of whom Clara married Francis Topham of
Agglethorpe, (fn. 52) and made a settlement of half the
manor in 1669. (fn. 53) This half descended with the
manor of Agglethorpe (fn. 54) (q.v.) to Dinah wife of Sir
Thomas Frankland. In 1747 (fn. 55)
Francis Topham and his wife
conveyed it to Sir Charles
Dalton, (fn. 56) from whom it has
descended to Col. WadeDalton. (fn. 57)
Peyton. Sable a cross engrailed or.
Jane's part passed either by
marriage or sale to Craven
Peyton, who settled it in
1689. (fn. 58) Craven was son of
Sir Robert Peyton of East
Barnet, who was knighted in
1670; the father of Sir Robert
was Henry Peyton, who in
1641 obtained permission to bear the arms of the
Peytons of Isleham. (fn. 59) Settlements were made by
Henry Peyton, William Broughton and Katharine
his wife in 1775, (fn. 60) and by Henry Peyton in 1783. (fn. 61)
This property was bought by Mary Gale in 1796 (fn. 62)
and so coalesced with the first moiety.
The estate of Robert Conyers of Danby Wiske (fn. 63)
here was called a manor in 1525. (fn. 64)
The Nevills held a manorial court here in the
15th century. (fn. 65)
Two carucates of land in East Hauxwell belonged
to the butler's fee and descended with Barden. (fn. 66)
There were said to be 6 carucates of land at geld
in WEST HAUXWELL in 1086, (fn. 67) and the statement
is repeated in an estimate of the number of carucates
in Hang Wapentake in 1183–4, (fn. 68) land in Watlass
being probably included in this assessment.
Gunre held a 'manor' before the Conquest in
this place, which was in 1086 held by Ribald, and
was held in socage of Richmond Castle in the 16th
century. (fn. 69)
'Certain tenements' in West Hauxwell and Watlass were in the fee of Middleham, and followed the
descent of Well (q.v.). They were assessed at one
knight's fee. (fn. 70) The 'manor' is first mentioned when
Robert Langton of Burton-in-Lonsdale made a settlement of it in 1529, on the marriage of his son Thomas;
he sold it in 1552, after the death of Thomas and his
wife, to Christopher Marton of Gargrave in Craven,
and died at Hauxwell in 1556. (fn. 71) The manor, however, was seized by his grandson Francis, son and
heir of Thomas, claimant under the settlement.
Francis was disseised by Christopher Askwith, and
died before he could recover the manor, leaving a
young brother and heir Marmaduke, (fn. 72) who made
a conveyance in 1570–1, (fn. 73) and in 1583–4, with
Francis Tunstall, made it over to Thomas and Richard
Willance and the heirs of Richard. (fn. 74) Richard Willance
also obtained a conveyance from the heirs of Robert
Langton's grantees. Christopher Marton in 1556
granted two-thirds of the manor to Henry Askwith
and one-third to Michael Spence, perhaps a member
of the Barden family of Spence, in fee simple. (fn. 75)
Henry Askwith died seised in 1562, leaving a son
and heir Christopher, (fn. 76) who was succeeded in 1569
by his son Richard, (fn. 77) party with Roland Spence to
a conveyance of the manor in 1585–6 to Richard
Willance. (fn. 78) Richard with Elizabeth his wife granted
the manor and a moiety of the advowson to Robert
Jopson in 1593, with warranty against Marmaduke
Langton, Richard Askwith, Ralph Spence, their heirs
and the heirs of Francis Tunstall, Roland Spence and
Leonard Brough. (fn. 79) Richard,
son and heir of Robert Jopson
of Skelsmergh, Westmorland,
died seised of this property
and a quarter of the manor
of East Hauxwell in 1598,
leaving a brother and heir
Matthew, (fn. 80) whose brother
Thomas Jopson, of Cudworth, (fn. 81) quitclaimed the
manor and advowson to him
in 1630. (fn. 82) A Matthew Jopson, (fn. 83) Thomas Jopson and Rose
his wife in 1631 conveyed
the 'manors' of West and
East Hauxwell and half the
advowson to Sir William Dalton, kt., (fn. 84) third son of
Thomas Dalton, Mayor of Hull in 1569. (fn. 85) Sir William,
who was one of the Council of the North, died in 1649,
leaving a son John Dalton, of Hauxwell, lieutenantcolonel in the king's army, and mortally wounded while
escorting the queen from Bridlington to Oxford in
1646. (fn. 86) His son William, knighted at the Restoration,
was buried at Hauxwell in 1675, and succeeded by
his son Marmaduke, knighted in the year following,
who was drowned in 1680. His three daughters
were Grace, who died in childhood, Elizabeth, who
obtained Hauxwell as her share of the inheritance,
and Mary, who married Edward Graham Viscount
Preston. (fn. 87) Elizabeth bequeathed her moiety to her
uncle Sir Charles Dalton, who died unmarried before
1747, and was succeeded first by his nephew Charles,
son of his brother Darcy, and afterwards by Francis
younger brother of Charles. Francis died in 1792,
leaving an only child Mary, who with her husband
Henry Gale of Scruton (fn. 88) (q.v.) made a settlement of
the manors of West Hauxwell and Barden and the
advowson in 1793. (fn. 89) Mary, who died in 1845, had
four daughters, Harriet, Mary, Katharine and Anne.
Harriet obtained Scruton (q.v.), which still belongs
to her male descendants. Mary died childless in
1794, and Katharine and Anne divided this property
until 1877, when Anne, sole survivor, died unmarried.
It was then settled on Harriet's daughter Mary and
her husband Colonel Hamlet Coote Wade, with the
request that they should take the name of WadeDalton. (fn. 90) From them the manor has descended to
their son the present owner, Lieut.-Col. Hamlet
Wade-Dalton.
Dalton. Azure crusilly or a leopard rampant argent and a chief barry wavy argent and sable.
At BARDEN (Bernedan, xi cent.; Berden, xiii–
xvi cent.) a 'manor' and 5 carucates were held by
Gamel before the Conquest; Count Alan held it in
demesne in 1086. (fn. 91) It was afterwards held of
Richmond Castle. (fn. 92)
Barden and its members composed the Richmondshire knight's fee of the hereditary butler of the lord
of Richmond; the three hereditary officials of the
honour, however, the butler, chamberlain and seneschal,
had all been enfeoffed before they received their
serjeanties, and consequently held by military service. (fn. 93)
The Yorkshire fee of the butler, who also held a
knight's fee in Cambridgeshire, consisted of 3
carucates in Barden, 2 in East Hauxwell, (fn. 94) 2 in
Little Crakehall in Bedale parish, (fn. 95) and 5 probably
in West Hauxwell, East Brompton and Danby-onUre. (fn. 96)
Alan the butler was witness to a charter of Count
Alan of Britanny granted in about 1145 to the men
of Richmond (fn. 97) (q.v.). The butler paid 1 mark fine
in this wapentake in 1183–4, (fn. 98) and Alan the butler
was in possession of two knights' fees in the honour
in 1211–12. (fn. 99) These fees, as is shown by a comparison
of descents, passed to co-heirs. In 1265–6 John de
Egglescliffe and Alice his wife, and in 1272–3 Henry
son of Ralph and Joan his wife, made conveyances
of tenements in Little Linton, Cambridgeshire (fn. 100) ;
and in Yorkshire in 1268 John de Egglescliffe and
Alice granted 1½ carucates of land in Barden in fee
to Robert de Egglescliffe, (fn. 101) who in 1271 received
from Henry son of Ralph and Joan a messuage,
2½ carucates of land, quarter of a water-mill and
other tenements in Barden, Hauxwell, East Brompton
and Little Crakehall. (fn. 102)
By 1283 the two fees of the butler had passed to
Walter son of Robert de Egglescliffe, who held the
Barden manor in demesne, and was called also 'de
Barden.' (fn. 103) Walter was assessed at 9s. 10d. for the
subsidy in 1301–2. (fn. 104) His son Robert de Barden,
benefactor of Easby Abbey, was lord in 1311 (fn. 105) and
living in 1327. (fn. 106) He must have been succeeded by
a brother Walter, for Walter de Egglescliffe was
stated in 1348 to hold two parts of the fee here some
time of Walter his father. (fn. 107) John de Barden, perhaps the
traditional founder of Ellerton Priory, had succeeded
by 1428. (fn. 108) He left three daughters and co-heirs, one
of whom, Katharine, married Matthew Ellerton and
had an only daughter Agnes, wife of George Thoresby,
called of Barden, son of Robert Thoresby of Thoresby. (fn. 109)
The Thoresbys of Thoresby (q.v.) henceforth held
one-third of this manor and lived here (fn. 110) until in
1596 Henry Thoresby and Jane his wife conveyed
to Robert Jopson a manor of 'East Hauxwell' (fn. 111)
which must have been the manor of Barden. This
afterwards descended with the manor of West
Hauxwell.
Wray. Azure a chief or with three martlets gules therein.
Another co-heir of John de Barden married an
Aislaby. Richard Aislaby died seised of one-third
of 3 carucates of land here in March 1496–7,
leaving a son and heir Thomas. (fn. 112) A rent was paid
to Thomas Aislaby in 1536 as co-heir of the founder
of Ellerton Priory, (fn. 113) and in 1565 William Aislaby
and Ralph his son made a settlement of their Barden
lands, (fn. 114) perhaps as a conveyance to Ralph Gower, who
married Anne, sister-in-law of William, and died
seised of a fourth part of the manor in 1567, leaving
a son and heir John. (fn. 115) John Gower, owner of the Grey
Friars, Richmond, was attainted for taking part in the
rebellion of 1569, and his lands were granted to the
queen's servant John Stanhope. (fn. 116) The Earl of Sussex
petitioned Cecil that Gower might recover his lands
on payment of a fine, representing that the queen
would gain as much by a fine
as by forfeiture, that the earl
wished to do a favour to Serjeant Wray, John's uncle, and
his servant wanted to marry
Gower's mother (Anne Wray).
John's lands, he added, were
scarcely worth £50 a year
and his mother possessed half
as her jointure. (fn. 117) The Serjeant Wray mentioned was
afterwards the famous Chief
Justice Wray, third son of
Thomas Wray of the family
of Coverdale; and perhaps as a still further favour to
him John Gower's lands were now given to Serjeant
Wray's brother Thomas. (fn. 118) Thomas died seised of
the site of St. Nicholas and this manor in 1587, (fn. 119)
and Sir William Wray, kt., his son, (fn. 120) held tenements
here at his death in 1628. (fn. 121)
Of the third moiety of the Barden fee Thomas
Spence died seised in January 1500–1, leaving a son
and heir Henry. (fn. 122) Ralph Spence was said to be
co-heir of the founder of Ellerton Priory in 1536 (fn. 123) ; in
1586 Richard Askwith and Roland Spence granted
the manor to Richard Willance, (fn. 124) and in 1599 Ralph
Spence made a conveyance. (fn. 125) This part presumably
merged with West Hauxwell.
The 3 carucates in GARRISTON (Gerdestone,
xi cent.; Gerthestone, xiii-xv cent.; Gaaryston,
xiv cent.; Gartheston, xiv-xv cent.; Garston,
Gareston, Garreston, xv-xvii cent.; Garyston, xvi
cent.), where Turchil had a 'manor' before the
Conquest, had passed by 1086 to Count Alan and
his under-tenant Goisfrid. (fn. 126)
It was said to belong to various fees in 1286–7, (fn. 127)
but a mesne lordship of the Mountfords of Hackforth,
(q.v.), successors of Goisfrid, (fn. 128)
is mentioned in the 14th and
15th centuries. (fn. 129)
Mountford of Hackforth. Argent crusilly gules and a lion azure.
The lands of Garriston were
accounted for with those of
Hunton (q.v.) and Arrathorne
in 1286–7, (fn. 130) and the manor
descended with those places
to the Scropes of Masham (fn. 131)
(q.v.), Geoffrey le Scrope receiving a grant of free warren
here in 1328 (fn. 132) and Sir Stephen
le Scrope in 1393. (fn. 133) After
the division of the Scrope
lands in the 16th century
Garriston followed the descent of Constable Burton (fn. 134)
in Fingall parish (q.v.); it is now the property of
Mr. Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill.
Church
The church of ST. OSWALD consists of a chancel 35 ft. 2 in. long by
13 ft. 6 in. wide, north vestry, nave
35 ft. 4 in. by 16 ft. 3 in., south porch, and west
tower 10 ft. 11 in. by 11 ft. 9 in. These measurements are all internal.
The length of the chancel has been about doubled
in the 13th century, the west tower added about the
same time, and the porch and vestry are modern, but
the rest of the church retains the plan and several of
the architectural features which belong to its setting-out
at the end of the 11th century. A good deal of large
herring-bone masonry remains in the nave and chancel
walls, and the chancel arch and south doorway and a
small blocked window in the south wall of the nave
are coeval with it. The doorway is unusually far to
the west for a nave of this date, but seems to be in
position, and there is nothing to show that the church
has been shortened. A still earlier period of the
history of the site is represented by the shaft of a cross
in the churchyard, perhaps of 10th-century date. On
the principal face it has a pattern of Stafford knots
with a panel near the head of the shaft as if for an
inscription.
The chancel has a modern east window of two
uncusped lights, a narrow single light in the north
wall, and in the south wall three single-light windows,
the westernmost, which is set in the early walling,
having a trefoiled head of clumsy detail under a square
lintel. The jambs may be of the 14th century, but
the head is probably of a post-Gothic date. The
other two south windows are lancets, widely splayed,
and apparently of the date of the wall in which they
are set, c. 1230. The north window may be contemporary with them, being narrower only by reason
of its aspect. In the vestry is a lancet which looks
like old work re-used. The piscina in the south
wall of the chancel appears to be original; it has
a trefoiled head to the recess and a shelf at its
springing line. The sill has a beaded edge of three
small rounds and a semicircular basin. At the southwest of the chancel is a small modern priest's doorway. The chancel arch has been a good deal
repaired in modern times, but is a fine piece of
early work of two moulded orders with cushion
capitals and jamb shafts. The capitals have cabled
neckings and the bases are moulded with two rolls
on the outer order and a hollow between two rolls
on the inner.
Plan of Hauxwell Church
The two north windows of the nave are both
modern wide lancets. To the west of these, but
only visible on the outer face, is a small blocked
doorway; its jambs have a half-round edge roll with
plain capitals of a chamfer above a round neck
mould and abaci probably not original, on which
rests a stone lintel which seems to be part of an early
cross shaft with an interlacing pattern. The easternmost window in the south wall of the nave is a
wide 13th-century lancet, and the second, c. 1320,
is of two trefoiled lights with jambs of two wavemoulded orders and a quatrefoil in the head. Close
to it on the east is the head, cut in one stone, and
the east jamb of a small round-headed light, probably coeval with the wall, and now entirely blocked
up. The south doorway has jambs of two square
orders with detached shafts in the angles having plain
cushion capitals and roll-moulded bases. The semicircular arch is of three orders, with billet and
zigzag ornament of a simple and early kind. It is
filled with a tympanum carved with a shallow diaper
pattern. To the west of the doorway is a small
lancet. The porch is designed in a modern Romanesque manner, and has an outer doorway to match
the inner one. In the wall above the porch is a
blocked square-headed opening of modern date, which
doubtless lighted a former west gallery.
The tower is of three stages with an embattled
parapet; the ground stage has a modern west
window of two trefoiled lights with a cinquefoil
over, and two narrow 13th-century lancets in the
south wall. The second stage has two long and
narrow lancets one above the other on the south
side, both apparently original, and the bell chamber
is lighted by original two-light windows on the east
and west, and on the north and south by later
two-light openings with modern trefoiled heads.
The north walls of the nave and tower are supported by heavy modern buttresses, and both seem
to have been thickened by some 6 in. on the inside
in modern times; the north wall of the nave being
3 ft. 7 in. thick as against the 3 ft. i in of the south
wall.
The roofs are low pitched, the nave walls being
embattled, while those of the chancel end with a level
course. The marks of the former steep-gabled roof
of the nave can be seen on the east wall of the
tower, and from the masonry it is clear that the
nave and chancel walls were heightened when the
low-pitched roofs were put on.
The font has an octagonal bowl, modern or recut;
it stands on an 18th-century baluster stem, which is
placed on an octagonal
base, apparently that of a
13th-century column. In
the chancel is a seat made
up of two old bench ends
with poppy heads; on its
front edge are small diagonal shafts surmounted by a
pelican and a winged beast.
In the chancel is a small
brass recording that Henry
Thoresby of 'Lincons Inn,'
one of the Masters of
Chancery in ordinary, and
Ann his wife, daughter of
John Scrope, a younger
brother of Lord Scrope of
Bolton, 'whose sd parents
lie buried over against this
monument . . . cawsed
there tombe to be repayred and butified and this inscription to be set in the wall over against the same,'
&c.; the date is 1611. There is no such tomb
now in the church. There are several late 17thcentury monuments: to William Dalton, 1671,
Mark, son of John Milbanks, 1698, and to Marmaduke Dalton and Dame Barbara his wife, 1680 and
1708. In the porch are the effigies of a knight and
his lady, c. 1300. He wears mail and carries a
large shield and is cross-legged. In the churchyard
are five coped cross stones; one bears a sword by the
side of the cross and a shield, and two others have
books.
There are three bells: the treble blank, the second
inscribed 'God save his church,' and the date 1661
with the initials RW SW P, and the tenor, which has a
broken lip, is dated 1704 with the same inscription
and the initials WA HWTT IW.
The plate consists of a cup of 1704 inscribed 'The
gift of Mrs. Dalton 1714,' and a salver paten of
1732, and a flagon of 1778, both inscribed 1860.
The registers begin in 1593.
Advowson
The church and I carucate of
land here were given to St. Mary's
Abbey, York, by Ulf Fornesson, the
gift being confirmed by Count Stephen of Britanny (fn. 135)
(1093–1137). (fn. 136) The abbey retained the church until
the Dissolution and received 20s. as pension from the
rectory. (fn. 137)
The advowson was granted in fee simple by
the queen in January 1563–4 to Robert Freke
and John Walker, (fn. 138) who seem to have speedily disposed of it. A moiety was conveyed with the
manor of West Hauxwell in 1593, (fn. 139) and from
1620 the entire advowson has descended with that
manor. (fn. 140)
Charities
The Charity Fund consisted of
£170, the amount of Sunday benefactions mentioned in a table in the
church, the interest being applicable for education
and relief of the poor. By an order dated 26 July
1904, made under the Board of Education Act, 1899,
six-fifteenths of the net income was determined to be
the portion applicable for educational purposes. No
accounts have been rendered to the Charity Commissioners showing in what manner the principal sum is
at present secured.