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Entry
from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900 |
Saxby All Saints is a parish and small pleasant
village, near the Ancholme navigation, 5miles
south-west from Barton -on-Humber terminal
station and 5 north-west from Elsham station
on the Great Central Railway, in the North
Lindsey division of the county, parts of
Lindsey, northern division of the wapentake
of Yarborough, petty sessional division
of Barton-on-Humber, Glanford Brigg union,
Barton-on-Humber county court district,
rural deanery of Yarborough No.1, archdeaconry
of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The Church
of All Saints, rebuilt between 1845 and1849,
is a beautiful edifice in the Early Decorated
style, from designs by the late Sir G Gilbert
Scott R.A. consisting of chancel, nave,
north aisle, south porch and an embattled
tower on the south side with low spire and
four pinnacles added in 1873, and containing
3 bells: a vestry was added on the north
side in 1880: there are ten stained glass
windows; the East window being the gift
of Mrs Barton, sen. Who also rebuilt the
chancel: the organ was presented in 1871
by the Rev. Charles Warren Markham M.A.
rector, 1866-85: some of the church plate
dates from the 16th century, and there is
also a handsome service given by the late
James Robert Hope Scott esq. Q.C.: in 1893
a clock was placed in the tower by the parishioners
to commemorate the coming of age of Henry
John Hope Barton esq.: there are 226 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1719. The
living is a rectory, net yearly value £240,
including 10 acres of glebe, with residence,
in the gift of Henry John Hope Barton esq.
and held since 1896 by the Rev. Joshua Fielding
Hoyle M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
In the centre of the village is a drinking
fountain, erected in 1897 in commemoration
of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and in memory
of the late Frederick Horsley. A Reading
Room was opened in 1882. Henry John Hope
Barton esq. J.P. of Saxby Hall, is lord
of the manor and landowner. The soil of
about one half of the parish is of a fine
chalk subsoil and highly fertile; the other
part of the parish, viz. The Carrs, consists
of a clay subsoil, of rather black nature.
The chief crops are Wheat, oats, barley
and good pasture. The area is 2,389 acres
of land and 17 of water; rateable value,
£2,892; the population in 1891 was
302.
Parish
Clerk, John Sutton; deputy Joseph Taylor.
Post Office. - Joel Hebblewhite, sub -
postmaster. Letters through Hull, arrive
at 8.25 a.m.; dispatched at 4.45 p.m.
Postal orders are issued here, but not
paid. Worlaby is the nearest money order
office; telegraph office, South Ferriby,
2¼ miles distant. National School
(mixed), for 90 children; average attendance,
53; supported by Henry John Hope Barton
esq.; John William Parkinson, master;
Mrs Parkinson, mist. There are carriers
through daily to Barton and Brigg.
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