Parish records of Selby, St James

Includes register of marriages, 1868-1934; register of banns, 1868-1957; register of services, 1867-1955; register of confirmations, 1943-1954; register of communicants, c.1930; records concerning benefice income, including returns 1887, 1935-1936; churchwardens’ accounts, 1867-1887, 1910-1955; records of incumbents, including dilapidations papers, 1933, parsonage house papers, 1873, 1890, and statistical returns, 1912-1918, 1926-1929, 1931-1939; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including minutes of meetings of Selby and District Circle of Central Society of Sacred Study, 1910-1928, and Standering Memorial Hall papers, 1913-1988; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1921-1964, electoral roll, 1920-1931, and magazine, 1948.

The parish of St James, Selby, was created from that of Selby Abbey on 20 December 1867. The church was designed by architects Newstead and Low of York and London and had been consecrated on 11 December by the Archbishop of York. There was a parsonage house by 1873. It was altered in 1890 and modernised in 1958.
The church was damaged in May 1944 when a Halifax bomber aircraft collided with the spire, killing the crew. The tower was rebuilt but the spire was not replaced.

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 1965 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1984 and 1991.

The parish of St James, Selby, was created from that of Selby Abbey on 20 December 1867. The church was designed by architects Newstead and Low of York and London and had been consecrated on 11 December by the Archbishop of York. There was a parsonage house by 1873. It was altered in 1890 and modernised in 1958.
The church was damaged in May 1944 when a Halifax bomber aircraft collided with the spire, killing the crew. The tower was rebuilt but the spire was not replaced.

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 1991.

Registers of marriages, 1868-1934, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 772).
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, 03.03.16.

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Further accruals are expected.

The parish records of Selby (Abbey) are also deposited at the Borthwick Institute.

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