Parish records of Goodmanham

Includes register of christenings, 1696-1923; register of marriages, 1696-1959; register of burials, 1678-1991; register of banns, 1824-1903; register of services, 1898-1917, 1927, 1938-1976; records concerning benefice income, including accounts, 1924-1928, tithe case opinion, with map, 1818, tithe correspondence, 1903-1909, 1917-1920, glebe deeds, 1752-1801, 1917, glebe farm valuation, 1887, glebe farm plans, 1908, sequestration notices, 1938, 1944, correspondence and papers, 1887-1940, 1942, and glebe papers, 1821; charity accounts, 1944-1949; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1817-1940, restoration accounts, 1895, fabric papers, 1894-1952, church engravings and photos, n.d, 1870, and visitors' books, 1939-1980; records of incumbents, including presentation address to incumbent, 1836, dilapidations papers, 1930, 1938-1940, correspondence and papers, 1949-1959, and statistical returns, 1893; overseers’ records, including accounts, rates and lists of poor, 1721-1837; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including parish hall plans and correspondence, 1948-1950, Temperance Society register, 1896, voluntary hospitals committee minutes of meetings, 1927-1932, and subscriptions, 1928-1933; school records, including managers' minutes of meetings, 1903-1932, 1938-1966, accounts, 1933, 1938-1952, correspondence and papers, 1873, 1908-1952, and building accounts, 1873-1874; surveyors’ receipt, 1855; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1887-1895, accounts, 1906-1938, 1941-1944, enclosure award and map, 1777, and map of village with householders' names, early 20th century; ‘Goodmanham Church and Village’ by J. S. Purvis, 1938.

The present parish church of All Saints, Goodmanham was built c.1130. The north aisle was added c 1190 and the church was enlarged in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It is said to stand on or near to the site of a demolished Temple of Woden where the high priest of King Edwin of Northumbria renounced the Pagan religion for Christianity. Fragments of an earlier Saxon building have been found nearby and may indicate the existence of a pre-Conquest Christian church.
The advowson of the church was originally divided into three parts, with two thirds of the advowson belonging to the Percy family and the remaining third to the Fossards. They were consolidated into one rectory from 1399 and the patronage was held by the Grimston family until the late seventeenth century. In 1927 the advowson was transferred to the Archbishop of York.
A rectory house was built in 1823-1824. The church was restored by the architect Temple Moore between 1894 and 1900.
The church remains in use.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1969. Further additions were made to the archive in 1983, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 2010.

The present parish church of All Saints, Goodmanham was built c.1130. The north aisle was added c 1190 and the church was enlarged in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It is said to stand on or near to the site of a demolished Temple of Woden where the high priest of King Edwin of Northumbria renounced the Pagan religion for Christianity. Fragments of an earlier Saxon building have been found nearby and may indicate the existence of a pre-Conquest Christian church.
The advowson of the church was originally divided into three parts, with two thirds of the advowson belonging to the Percy family and the remaining third to the Fossards. They were consolidated into one rectory from 1399 and the patronage was held by the Grimston family until the late seventeenth century. In 1927 the advowson was transferred to the Archbishop of York.
A rectory house was built in 1823-1824. The church was restored by the architect Temple Moore between 1894 and 1900.
The church remains in use.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute. This includes all material received up to and including 2010.

Registers of baptisms, 1696-1885, marriages, 1696-1885, burials, 1678-1991, and banns, 1824-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 690, 882, 1761).
Our collection of parish baptism, marriage and burial registers has been digitised by both Ancestry and Find My Past. Copies of digitised records can be viewed online on Ancestry or Find My Past, as part of larger UK-wide parish registers datasets. You can find out more about these record sets, and how to find our registers, here: https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/are-you-looking-for-parish-registers.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 12.02.16.

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