PAROCHIAL CHAPLAINS. John Saunde -1457 Witnessed the will of Richard Burnham, Rector, this year. William Steward -1471 .. See Proceedings in the Consistory Court. Witnessed the will of William Hawke, Rector, this year. Robert Symkyn (alias Hay) .. -1485 -1502 Robert Hayton Referred to in proceedings relating to an alleged encroachment on the manor in this year.1 Mentioned in the will of William Ellys of Kiddal, and was a witness.2 1. J. W. Morkill's Manor and Park of Roundhay, p. 27. 2. Test. Ebor. vi., p. 48. "1618 Sept. 5. To read prayers in the parish Church of Barwickin-Elmett in the absence of Mr. George Proctor, clerk, rector there." He married Mary Rawson of Barwick, 1 Oct., 1635. William Bridges 1631-1633 1644-16571660-1673 He was son of the former of his name, was afterwards Rector of Castleford in 1673, and Prebendary of York and of Ripon. He wrote a book called "Christianity no Enthusiasm." He married Sarah Lodge of Winmore Hall, at Bardsey Church, 3 Jan., 1666-7. Charles Hall, M.A. Married Elizabeth Scholes of Barwick, 29 June, 1682. 1681-1682 1682-1686-7 Magdalen Coll., Camb., B.A. 1666, M.A. 1670, buried here 21 Grandson of the first of the name, he succceded his father in the St. John's Coll., Cam., B.A. 1706; Vicar of Aberford 1716-1732. 1. Unless otherwise stated these names are from the Parish Registers or other parochial records. 2. Noted as being absent from the Visitation of 1559. The Elizabethan Clergy, 1554-1564. H. Gee, D.D. 3. Is found witnessing wills during this period. 4. Mentioned by Thoresby in Duc. Leod, p. 235. 5. Paver's Licences Y...J. xiv. 474. 6. Two marriages in this year solemnized by "Mr. Smith Minister." 7. He signed a Terrier this year as Curate of Barwick. 8. Referred to in Sir Edward Gascoigne's Diary. Afterwards Vicar of St. John's Church, Hull. His grandson Dr. Dykes, the spelling of the name being altered, was the composer of many of the most beautiful and familiar tunes in the A. and M. Hymn Book. John Graham 1791-1797 For 20 years Vicar of S. Saviour's, York, died 1844, aged over 80. Christopher Atkinson Thomas Pullan .. .. 1797-1802 1806-1816 T.C.D., Dublin. Rector of Rockhampton, Gloucestershire. Alexander Grimston, M.A. .. 1860-1862 Trinity Hall, Cam., Vicar of Stillingfleet, Yorks., and Hon. Canon Worcester Coll., Ox., Rural Dean of Halifax 1896-1904. St. John's Coll., Cam., Vicar of Higham, Kent. Charles Oxley Smithson L.Th., Durham, Vicar of Dishforth, Yorks. John Robert Phillips Vicar of Holy Trinity, Abergavenny. H. Maule Cole .. Robert Stuart Gerard Vaughan, B.A. William Wood, M.A. St. John's Coll., Cam. 1879-1880 1880 -18811881-1883 1883 1883-1886 CHAPTER VI. THE RECTORY AND THE ENDOWMENTS OF THE CHURCH. The Rectory is a large straggling house with numerous outbuildings, more interesting than convenient, it has the interest that comes of age and of the gradual growth of centuries, but it wants the convenience that belongs to a settled plan. The oldest portion, forming the east wing of the present house, was probably at one time the whole extent of the rector's dwelling. It is a plain stone building, with walls of two feet thick, measuring outside thirty-six feet by twenty-four. Originally it contained two rooms on the ground floor and two above. The entrance seems to have been at the west end, the door opened into what was called the "Old Hall," the general living room of the parson. Beyond this, with a connecting door, was a room of similar size, a kitchen probably. On the upper floor were two rooms corresponding to those below. The internal arrangements have been somewhat altered, but the old plan can clearly be traced. The rooms all had two windows, one at each end, those on the north side have been built up, but the remains of the mullions can still be seen, those on the south side have been modernized. The south front has been raised in order to give greater height to the upper rooms. There would have been outbuildings of some kind, though these have disappeared. It is certainly as old as the earlier half of the fifteenth century, it may be older. An entry in one of the Parish Registers states "The Stones in the Tyth Lath Wall were found among the rubbish, and put there by Mr. George Plaxton, Rector, June the 24th, 1705."1 These stones, which appear to have formed the lintel over the rectory doorway, have an inscription to this effect, "M: Ricard: Burnham hanc domum fecit fieri a°: dm: M°:cccc°:xl°: Merci Ihu: " Burnham's house may have been the existing east wing, but it is quite possible the wing may be earlier than his time. Thoresby mentions in his diary that he was here on May 29th, 1702, and says "The old parsonage house is demolished, and now re-edifying by Mr. Tankard, the Duke of Leeds' chaplain." It was from a demolished building that the stones were taken, which must have been either a part of the house Burnham built or an addition to it. In any case the wing is as old as, or older than, 1440. Jordan Tancred (or Tankard) built what Thoresby described as 'A stately house for himself and his successors" at the beginning of the eighteenth century, this is the present central portion. Since then the kitchen has been added, probably by Mr. Hodgson, early in the When Mr. Bathurst pulled down the Tithe Barn in 1823 he was careful to preserve these stones and to work them into another building in the yard where they may still be seen and deciphered. 1. |