Barton-Upon-Humber
is a small market town on the south border
of the Humber: it is a polling-place for
the Northern division of the county, and
head of a county court district, in the
parts of Lindsey, north division of Yarborough
wapentake, union of Glanford Brigg, rural
deanery of Yarborough No. 1 archdeaconry
of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, distant
10 miles north-east from Brigg, and 20
north-west from Grimsby, 6 south-west
from Hull by water, 34 north from Lincoln,
and 165 from London.
A branch of the Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincolnshire railway runs to New Holland
station and communication is had thence
by steamboats to Hull; there are also
horse and cattle boats to Hull and Hessle.
There are two churches in this town -
St. Peter’s and St. Mary’s.
The following remarks are collected from
Rickman’s work on Architecture.
He names but two churches in England as
of (almost) undoubted Saxon origin - St.
Peter’s in Barton and Clapham in
Bedfordshire. Refer-ring to the former,
after an elaborate description of the
tower, he remarks “All this arrangement
is so different from Norman work that
there seems a probability it may be real
Saxon.” St. Peter’s the mother
church, is a spacious building in the
Early English or Decorated style, with
a tower at the west end, containing a
clock and 6 bells: the lower part of the
tower is of the Anglo-Saxon period, and
the upper part Norman, and the church
attached is of the reign of Richard II;
the tower is 97ft high and 18ft square:
the church consists of a chancel and vestry,
nave, aisles, north and south porches,
and contains sittings for 760 persons:
in the east window are two figures in
stained glass, one representing a crusader
and the other a pilgrim: the style of
the armour depicted is of the time of
Edward II: there is also a stained window
in memory of Mr. Marriott, 1842, one in
the chancel to the Rev. George Uppleby
(late vicar), 1856 and one in the south
aisle to Mr. Lunn, 1862: on the floor
are several ancient brasses, one to Robert
Barnetby, 1440, one to William Garton,
1505, and one to Edward Trippe, 1619:
the oldest of the six bells is dated 1666;
the sixth has this inscription –
“Our sounding is, each man to call
To serve the Lord, both great and small.”
The clock, presented by the late Miss
Tombleson, was placed in the tower in
November 1852, at a cost of £120.
The church of St. Mary stands within 150
yards of St. Peter’s and is principally
a Norman building, with an Early English
tower and 4 bells, and consists of a chancel,
nave, south porch, a south aisle to the
chancel, called St. James’s aisle,
and a vestry, and has a very early Decorated
inlaid figure, inscribed to Simon Seman,
bearing the date of 1433. The oldest of
the four bells was cast in 1666; the second
bell has this inscription – “
My roaring loud doth warning give that
men cannot always live;”
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