Parish records of North Grimston

Includes register of christenings, 1689-1977; register of marriages, 1689-1977; register of burials, 1689-1977; register of banns, 1824-1996; register of services, 1915-1951; churchwardens’ records, including fabric correspondence, 1880-1952, 1972; overseers’ accounts, 1720-1775; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minute books, 1917-1949, 1956-1975; visitors book, 1961-1993.

The church at North Grimston is dedicated to St Nicholas and dates to the twelfth century. It was appropriated to the Prebend of Langtoft at an early date and remained subject to its peculiar jurisdiction until the nineteenth century. A vicarage was ordained there in 1408.

A tower was added in the thirteenth century and the church was extended in the seventeenth century, by which time there was also a vicarage house present. It was restored in the 1880s by the architect George Fowler Jones.

Today the parish is part of the benefice of West Buckrose, which also includes Acklam, Birdsall, Burythorpe, Leavening, Langton, Settrington with Scagglesthorpe, and Westow.

This arrangement was designed to reflect the principal activities of the parish and its associated organisations, and to aid researchers in identifying the records these activities generate. This arrangement was introduced in 2020. Records are arranged within the following alphabetical series but retain their original archival reference at file/item level:

A: Parish Registers
B: Church Ceremonial
C: Parish Clergy
D: Property - Religious
E: Property - Secular
F: Parish Administration and Officers
G: Parish Social and Evangelical Activities
H: Overseer of the Poor and Parish Charity
J: Schools
K: Promotional and Informational Material

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 1966 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1972 (by purchase), 1979 and 1999.

The church at North Grimston is dedicated to St Nicholas and dates to the twelfth century. It was appropriated to the Prebend of Langtoft at an early date and remained subject to its peculiar jurisdiction until the nineteenth century. A vicarage was ordained there in 1408.

A tower was added in the thirteenth century and the church was extended in the seventeenth century, by which time there was also a vicarage house present. It was restored in the 1880s by the architect George Fowler Jones.

Today the parish is part of the benefice of West Buckrose, which also includes Acklam, Birdsall, Burythorpe, Leavening, Langton, Settrington with Scagglesthorpe, and Westow.

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 1999.

Selected records, including registers of christenings, marriages and burials, 1686-1900, and overseers' accounts, 1720-1775, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 692, 1753, 1773).

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, 29.02.16.
Revised by C. Flockton, 10.1.23.

A reprographics service is available to researchers subject to the access restrictions outlined above. Copying will not be undertaken if there is any risk of damage to the document. Copies are supplied in accordance with the Borthwick Institute for Archives' terms and conditions for the supply of copies, and under provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Permission to reproduce images of documents in the custody of the Borthwick Institute must be sought.

Further accruals are expected.

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