Parish records of Rillington

Includes register of christenings, 1638-1963; register of marriages, 1638-1993; register of burials, 1638-1855, 1855-1972; register of banns, 1823-1965; register of confirmations, 1926-1995; register of services, 1889-1978; records concerning benefice income, including tithe papers, 1926-1959, glebe papers, 1814-1959, and other papers, 1863-1925; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1814-1825, rates, 1860-1870, restoration papers, 1825, 1950-1956, fabric papers, 1884, 1904, 1934-1955, and churchyard papers, 1860, 1906-1907, 1930; records of incumbent, including vicarage papers, 1889; overseers’ accounts, 1813-1823, 1860-1867; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including conveyance, plans and correspondence regarding church room, 1935-1951; school deed, 1847; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1894-1958, 1970-2002, and correspondence, 1946-1948; plan of a parcel of land in Scampston in the parish of Rillington referred to in the tithe apportionment, 1848.

The present parish church of Rillington dates to the twelfth century. The church was given to the Abbey of Byland by William de Kaytona c.1180-1190 and a vicarage was ordained there in 1230. A new vicarage was ordained by the Archbishop of York, William de la Zouche, in 1344.
The advowson was held by the Byland Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, when it passed to the Crown. The living was augmented in 1774 and 1804. The parish included a chapel of ease at Scampston from at least 1330 until 1766, when it separated to form an independent parish.
The church, which is dedicated to St Andrew, was extended in the thirteenth century and the church tower was added in the fifteenth. It was restored by George Hodgson Fowler in 1884-1885 and again by Temple Moore in 1892.
Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Buckrose Carrs, which also includes Scampston, Sherburn, Thorpe Bassett, West Heslerton and Yedingham.

Records are open to the public, subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws. 24 hours' notice is required to access photographic material.

The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1964 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1980, 1992, 1993, 2012, 2015 and 2016.

The present parish church of Rillington dates to the twelfth century. The church was given to the Abbey of Byland by William de Kaytona c.1180-1190 and a vicarage was ordained there in 1230. A new vicarage was ordained by the Archbishop of York, William de la Zouche, in 1344.
The advowson was held by the Byland Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, when it passed to the Crown. The living was augmented in 1774 and 1804. The parish included a chapel of ease at Scampston from at least 1330 until 1766, when it separated to form an independent parish.
The church, which is dedicated to St Andrew, was extended in the thirteenth century and the church tower was added in the fifteenth. It was restored by George Hodgson Fowler in 1884-1885 and again by Temple Moore in 1892.
Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Buckrose Carrs, which also includes Scampston, Sherburn, Thorpe Bassett, West Heslerton and Yedingham.

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 2015.

Registers of christenings, 1686-1885, marriages, 1686-1885, burials, 1686-1855, and banns, 1823-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 757, 1763).
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, 02.03.16.
Revised by S. Kent, September 2016.

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Further accruals are expected.

The parish records of Scampston are also deposited at the Borthwick Institute.

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