Parish records of Thorp Arch

Includes register of christenings, 1595-1899 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1796-1812); register of marriages, 1595-1970; register of burials, 1595-1924 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1796-1812); register of banns, 1824-1909; register of services, 1898-1907, 1924-1934, 1957, 1961-1974; rectorial tithe deeds, 1652-1731; charity records, including Lady Elizabeth Hastings' deed of settlement for charitable uses, 1739, and codicil of will, 1739;
churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1816-1862, and fabric papers, 1938-1961; records of incumbents, including parsonage house papers, 1976-1983; school records, including managers' minute book, 1904-1976, managers' and visitors' book, 1905-1947; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including enclosure award and map, 1829, minutes of meetings, 1818-1890, 1920-1950, accounts, 1928-1938, 1943-1973 and enclosure act, 1816.

The existence of a church at Thorp Arch was recorded in Domesday in the eleventh century. It was appropriated to the Chapel of St Mary and the Holy Angels at York by Adam de Brus and his wife Ivetta de Arches. A vicarage was ordained there in 1258. The advowson was purchased by Lady Elizabeth Hastings before her death in 1739 but had passed to the Wheeler family by the 1840s.
The present church, which is dedicated to All Saints, dates to the twelfth century. It was rebuilt in 1756 at the expense of William Gossip, owner of the Thorp Arch estate, and then restored in 1871-1872 by architect George Edmund Street. In 1944 a new choir screen and altar rails were added by Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson of Kilburn. A new vicarage house was built in 1729 and replaced in 1904.
Today Thorp Arch is part of the benefice of Bramham, which also includes Boston Spa, Bramham and Walton.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1963 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1977, 1978, 1990 and 1997.

The existence of a church at Thorp Arch was recorded in Domesday in the eleventh century. It was appropriated to the Chapel of St Mary and the Holy Angels at York by Adam de Brus and his wife Ivetta de Arches. A vicarage was ordained there in 1258. The advowson was purchased by Lady Elizabeth Hastings before her death in 1739 but had passed to the Wheeler family by the 1840s.
The present church, which is dedicated to All Saints, dates to the twelfth century. It was rebuilt in 1756 at the expense of William Gossip, owner of the Thorp Arch estate, and then restored in 1871-1872 by architect George Edmund Street. In 1944 a new choir screen and altar rails were added by Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson of Kilburn. A new vicarage house was built in 1729 and replaced in 1904.
Today Thorp Arch is part of the benefice of Bramham, which also includes Boston Spa, Bramham and Walton.

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 1997.

Selected records, including registers of christenings, 1595-1899, marriages, 1595-1970, and burials, 1595-1924, and register of banns, 1824-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (Reference: MF 801).
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, 15.03.16.

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Further accruals are expected.

For other material relating to Lady Elizabeth Hastings and her charitable bequest held by the Borthwick Institute, see the records of Lady Elizabeth Hastings' charities.

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