ROXBY
is an ancient village and Parish, including Risby and Sawcliffe
hamlets, and pleasantly situated, commanding an extensive view
of the River Humber, 4 miles north-west from Appleby station
on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S.&L.)
railway, 9 west-south-west from Barton and 1 mile south-west
from Winterton, in the North Lindsey division of the county,
parts of Lindsey, northern division of Manley wapentake, petty
sessional division of Winterton, union of Glanford Brigg, Barton-on-Humber
county court district, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry
of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. Under the provisions of the
"Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73)
the parish is governed by an Urban District Council having from
1863 been under the control of a Local Board. The church of
St. Mary, thoroughly restored in 1875 at a cost of about £1,700,
under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth,
is a building of stone in the Decorated style of the 14th century,
and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, south
porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and
3 bells: in the chancel is a piscina and two canopied sedilia,
and here are also memorial windows to William Chatterton, d.
1882 and Ann Chatterton d. 1869, erected by permission of V.D.H
Cary-Elwes esq. who is lay rector: the south aisle also contains
a piscina, and has a window in memory of the Taylor family,
1875, and a recessed arch enclosing the tomb of an ecclesiastic,
above which is a handsomely carved canopied niche: the transept
is now used as a vestry: there are 200 sittings. The register,
including Risby, dates from the year 1603. The living is a vicarage,
with that of Risby annexed, joint net yearly value £500,
including 120 acres of glebe and residence in the gift of V.D.H.
Cary-Elwes esq. and held since 1879, by the Reverend Walter
Arthur Taylor, of Caius College, Cambridge, who is non-resident.
The Rev. Richard Northon Matthew M.A. of Keble College, Oxford,
has been curate in charge since 1891. There is a Primitive Methodist
chapel built in 1897. In 1709 a Roman tessellated pavement was
found in a field south-west of the church; subsequently it was
more extensively uncovered, and was copied and engraved in 1799,
but incorrectly, by Mr William Fowler, of Winterton, and in
1873 it was again uncovered, and an exact coloured drawing made
to scale by V.D.H. Cary-Elwes esq. A reading-room founded by
Miss Chatterton, of High Risby, in memory of her father, William
Chatterton, in 1883, is supported by voluntary contributions,
and managed by a committee, of which the curate in charge is
chairman: Mrs Sarah Markham, widow of William Markham, formerly
gamekeeper here, died 28th June, 1892 at the age of 107, having
been born at Park Street, near St. Albans, 29th May, 1785. Valentine
Dudley Henry Cary-Elwes esq. of the Manor House, Brigg, is lord
of the manor, and owns all the parish, with the exception of
the glebe. The soil is various; subsoil, ironstone, limestone
and sandstone. The chief crops are turnips, barley, wheat and
pasture for sheep. The area of the parish is 4,900 acres of
land and 8 of water; rateable value, £4,787; the population
in 1891 was 392.
RISBY is a hamlet, 2 miles south; the ruins of its ancient church,
dedicated to St. Bartholomew, are still traceable.
SAWCLIFFE is a hamlet 2 miles south-west.
Parish Clerk, Brumby Crowston.
Post Office, - Brumby Crowston, sub-postmaster. Letters from
Doncaster arrive at Appleby station, thence by mail cart at
8.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.35 p.m. Postal orders are issued
here, but not paid. The nearest money order and telegraph office
is at Winterton, 2 miles distant.
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