Parish records of Londesborough

Includes register of christenings, 1580-1633, 1653-1941 (1653-1930 as a transcript); register of marriages, 1580-1633, 1653-1811, 1813-1980; register of burials, 1580-1633, 1653-1992; register of banns, 1823-1918; register of services, 1903-1970; records concerning benefice income, including glebe correspondence, 1968-1975, table of fees, 1943, and benefice income papers, 1958; charity records, including accounts, 1930-1946, and bank book for Knowlton's Charity, 1914-1946; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1768-1789, fabric papers, 1916-1972, and plan of addition to churchyard, 1897; constables’ records, including cavalry and navy accounts, 1797, and accounts, 1767-1857; records of incumbents, including letter book of R. Godwin, 1865-9, benefice and incumbents' papers, 1952-1974, parsonage house papers, including dilapidations papers, 1883-1986, and service papers, 1951; overseers’ accounts, 1769-1802; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including Entertainment Committee minutes of meetings, 1923-192, Entertainment Committee accounts, 1923-1933, and papers regarding 'Yorkshire Choral Competition', 1906-1910; school records, including managers' minutes of meetings, 1927-1944, accounts, 1902-1915, correspondence, 1915, and cash book, 1892-1902; surveyors’ records, including accounts, 1793-1803, and bylawmen's accounts, 1805-1819; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including sale map of Londesborough estates, 1921, minutes of meetings, 1920-1932, accounts, 1970-1972, wayleave agreement, 1968, insurance papers, c.1930-1952, and electoral papers, 1932-1967.

There was a church at Londesborough from at least the early twelfth century when Herbert de Chamberlain granted it to his son, William, who was Archbishop of York between 1141 and 1147. Parts of the present church are believed to date to c.1200, although some features, such an Anglo-Danish cross above the South doorway, may have belonged to an earlier structure.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, was in the patronage of the Lords Fitzherbert until the fourteenth century, when it passed to the Bromfletes and then, through marriage, to the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland, and then to the Boyles, Earls of Burlington. By the early nineteenth century the estate and the patronage were held by the Dukes of Devonshire. It was later sold to the Conynghams, Barons Londesborough.
The church tower was added in the fourteenth century and raised in the fifteenth. The church underwent further reconstruction in the seventeenth century, with the addition of the south porch and a 1679 restoration by Lord Burlington. It was restored again in 1873 and then again in 1885 by the architect Temple Moore, who added the new east window and rood screen. New choir stalls were added in 1905 and the tower was re-leaded and the parapet and pinnacles rebuilt in 2003.
Today the church is part of the united benefice of Londesborough Wold, together with Hayton, Burnby and Shiptonthorpe.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1967 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1981, 1988, 1990 and 1993.

There was a church at Londesborough from at least the early twelfth century when Herbert de Chamberlain granted it to his son, William, who was Archbishop of York between 1141 and 1147. Parts of the present church are believed to date to c.1200, although some features, such an Anglo-Danish cross above the South doorway, may have belonged to an earlier structure.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, was in the patronage of the Lords Fitzherbert until the fourteenth century, when it passed to the Bromfletes and then, through marriage, to the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland, and then to the Boyles, Earls of Burlington. By the early nineteenth century the estate and the patronage were held by the Dukes of Devonshire. It was later sold to the Conynghams, Barons Londesborough.
The church tower was added in the fourteenth century and raised in the fifteenth. The church underwent further reconstruction in the seventeenth century, with the addition of the south porch and a 1679 restoration by Lord Burlington. It was restored again in 1873 and then again in 1885 by the architect Temple Moore, who added the new east window and rood screen. New choir stalls were added in 1905 and the tower was re-leaded and the parapet and pinnacles rebuilt in 2003.
Today the church is part of the united benefice of Londesborough Wold, together with Hayton, Burnby and Shiptonthorpe.

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 1993.

Registers of christenings, 1580-1885, marriages, 1580-1885, burials, 1580-1992, and banns, 1823-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 723, 883, 1762).
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, 24.02.16.

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