Wrawby
is a parish, township and pleasant village,
seated on an eminence from which there
is a fine view of the town of Brigg, and
is 1.5 miles north-east therefrom, in
the North Lindsey division of the county,
parts of Lindsey, southern division of
the wapentake of Yarborough, Brigg petty
sessional division and county court district,
union of Glanford Brigg, rural deanery
of Yarborough No. 1, archdeaconry of Stow
and diocese of Lincoln. The church of
St. Mary is an ancient building of stone,
consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north
and south porches and an embattled western
tower, with pinnacles, containing 3 bells:
the tower is Early English, the nave Gothic
of late and debased character: in the
chancel, rebuilt about 1800, is an altar
tomb belonging to the Tyrwhitt family,
and between it and the north aisle is
a hagioscope: the doorway leading to the
rood loft remains, and in the windows
linger some fragments of ancient stained
glass: the north porch was erected in
1887 at a cost of £105, to commemorate
the 50th year of residence of the Rev.
John Rowland West M.A. late vicar (1837-93),
and in 1891 the roof of the chancel was
decorated in colour: there are 400 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1675;
the earlier registers, together with the
vicarage, were destroyed by fire in 1713.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value
£246, with 200 acres of glebe and residence,
in the gift of Clare College, Cambridge,
and held since 1894 by the Rev. George
William Rowntree M.A. of that college.
Here are Weslyan and Primitive Methodist
chapels. A Cemetery of four acres was
formed in 1857 with two mortuary chapels;
it is under control of the Burial Board.
There is a parish reading room, supported
by £5 a year left by the late T. Tapling
esq. and subscriptions. Mrs Helen Tripp's
charity amounts to £2 15s yearly, of which
one-third is paid to the vicar for preaching
a sermon yearly on St. Thomas's day (21st
December) and two-thirds for the poor.
Valentine Dudley Hycary-Elwes esq. of
Great Billing Hall, Northamptonshire,
who is lord of the manor, the Earl of
Yarborough P.C. and Clare College, Cambridge,
are the principal landowners. The soil
is light loam; subsoil gravel and clay.
The chief crops are wheat, barley and
oats. The area of the parish is 3,037
acres; rateable value, £6,082; the population
in 1891 of Wrawby civil parish was 709,
and of the ecclesiastical 687. By an Order
of the County Council of the parts of
Lindsey, confirmed by Local Government
Board Order 26,921, which came into operation
March 25th 1892, the part of Wrawby included
in Brigg Urban District was added to Brigg
civil parish.
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