Saxby All Saints is a village and
civil parish
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in
North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 385. It is north of
Brigg and south-west of
Barton upon Humber.
Saxby All Saints is a
conservation area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
,
and one of the five ''Low Villages'' –
Worlaby,
Bonby
Bonby is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England, and approximately south from Barton-upon-Humber. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 481, increasing to 532 at the 2011 census.
The village was recorded in th ...
, Saxby All Saints,
Horkstow and
South Ferriby, between Brigg and the
River Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent. From there to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the ...
– so-called because of their position below the northern edge of the
Lincolnshire Wolds
The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which run roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary in the north-west to the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east. They a ...
, an
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
History
According to Mills', Saxby probably either derives its name from a "farmstead or village of a man called Saksi", an
Old Scandinavian person name, or from "Saksar" (
Saxons
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
).
The village appears in the ''
Domesday
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'' survey as ''Saxebi'', in the Yarborough
Hundred of the
North Riding of Lindsey. It comprised 10 households, with 8
villagers, 2
freemen, 3 fisheries, and 7½
ploughlands. The lords in 1066 were Siward and Thorgisl. By 1086 the land had passed to Roger as
Lord of the Manor
Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seig ...
, with
Ivo Taillebois
Ivo Taillebois (died 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman, sheriff and tenant-in-chief in 11th-century England.
Life
Ivo Taillebois was a Norman most probably from Taillebois, now a small hamlet in Saint-Gervais de Briouze, Calvados.K.S.B. Keats ...
as
Tenant-in-chief
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.
In 1885 ''
Kelly's Directory'' noted Saxby as a "small but very pleasant village", north-west of
Elsham railway station and near the
Ancholme navigation. Parish population in 1881 was 337. It describes the parish land as producing chiefly wheat, oats and barley, with "good" pasture, and being half of "fine chalk subsoil and highly fertile" and half, at Saxby
Carrs, consisting of "clay subsoil, of rather black nature". The village contained a post office, six farmers, a blacksmith, wheelwright, bricklayer, miller – at Saxby Mill – and a
Co-operative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...
society.
Carriers from Worlaby to Barton and Brigg passed through the village daily. Noted was a
National School for 90 pupils, with an average attendance of 60, which was supported by the trustees of the late John Hope Barton.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 611]
By 1905 a joiner, builder, shoemaker and a carrier were further trades in the village, and a reading room, opened in 1882, was noted, with Henry John Hope Barton esq.
J.P. of Saxby Hall, son of John Hope Barton, as lord of the manor and landowner. The National School had become a Public
Elementary School
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. A drinking fountain had been erected at the centre of the village in 1897 to commemorate the
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
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, and in memory of a Frederick Horsley. Parish area had risen to which included of water. Population by 1901 had dropped to 291.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1905, p. 486] In 1913 Saxby's Henry John Hope Barton became
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire
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. By 1921 village population had dropped to 278, and in 1933 there were six farmers, one of whom was at Saxby Mill, a joiner, grocer, boot repairer, carrier and blacksmith. From Karl Wood's 1932 sketch of Saxby Mill, its known at this time Saxby Mill no longer had sails. Parish area was , with of water.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, p. 468]
In July 1906
folk song
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collectors
Percy Grainger and
Lucy Broadwood
Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (9 August 1858 – 22 August 1929) was an English folksong collector and researcher, and great-granddaughter of John Broadwood, founder of the piano manufacturers Broadwood and Sons. As one of the founder members of the Fo ...
collected the song "Died of Love", or "A brisk young Lad he courted me", from a Saxby
bailiff
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,
Joseph Taylor. The song was noted in Broadwood's ''English Traditional Carols and Songs'', published in 1908, although the first verse was altered to suit perceived public taste. Grainger later supplied a piano accompaniment to the song, using Taylor's melody, which was published in 1912. "Died of Love" was the base for Grainger's "Rufford Park Poachers" in his ''
Lincolnshire Posy'' suite.
Landmarks
Saxby's parish church is dedicated to All Saints and is a Grade II
listed building
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. It was built by
George Gilbert Scott
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between 1845 and 1849, with its pyramid-roofed tower, described by
Pevsner as "less correct" and looking "as if it was meant for a town hall", added by in 1873 by Neville. All Saints' style is late
13th-century
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The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, which stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Eur ...
and includes north
aisle
An aisle is, in general, a space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Aisles with seating on both sides can be seen in airplanes, certain types of buildings, such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parl ...
stained glass
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by
Charles Eamer Kempe
Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lichg ...
, added in 1876.
[Nikolaus Pevsner, Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 349; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), ]Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
. The limestone
ashlar
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church has a
Westmorland slate
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roof, a three-bell
tower
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with
crocket
A crocket (or croquet) is a small, independent decorative element common in Gothic architecture. The name derives from the diminutive of the French ''croc'', meaning "hook", due to the resemblance of crockets to a bishop's crosier.
Description
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ed
pinnacle
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s, and an
embattled
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parapet
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. The interior comprises a
chancel
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Ove ...
of three bays and a
nave
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of five bays, with
monuments
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to the Barton family. ''Kelly's Directory'' describes the church as "a beautiful edifice" with an 1871 "excellent organ" and
church plate
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from the 16th century. A church clock was added to the tower by the parishioners in 1893, to commemorate the
coming of age
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of Henry John Hope Barton, and the 1904 chancel
screen was carved in the village. The church register dates from 1719. The
living
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included a
rectory
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Function
A clergy house is typically ow ...
and
glebe lands, the gift of the Barton family and estate.
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The Queen Victoria limestone column monument and drinking trough, with its waterspout a carved lion's head, also commemorates Frederick Horsley "Having been for 42 years the faithful and respected steward of this Estate". The monument is Grade II listed.
Saxby Hall is a brick-built, Grade II listed, 18th-century building remodelled in the early 19th century, with its west wing remaining from the earlier structure.][ It was the home of the Barton family.][
Further listed landmarks are the mid- to late 18th-century brick-built Saxby Manor, the 1853 yellow-brick Old Rectory, and the 17th-century Lodge Cottage and Ivy House with barn, all on Main Street, and the mid-19th-century Saxby Bridge, on North Carr Lane, which spans the River Ancholme.
]
Community
Village population in 1991 was 220 and has changed little since (currently 237).
The ecclesiastical parish is also Saxby All Saints, part of the Saxby (Plurality) group of the Deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...
of Yarborough. The 2013 incumbent is The Revd David Rowett.
The village lies on the Brigg to Immingham and South Ferriby to Scunthorpe bus routes.
It is home to the SaxbyFlix cinema, a community cinema project set up to provide the Low Wold Villages with a real cinema experience.
Notable residents
* Cherryl Fountain
Cherryl Angela Fountain (born 1950) is an English still life, landscape and botanical artist. As the daughter of a gamekeeper and a resident of rural east Kent, much of her work reflects an environment of farming, botanical gardens and country li ...
, artist, was born here.[ Births Sep 1950 Fountain Cherryl A., mother Elmer Scunthorpe 3b 518]
References
External links
*
"Saxby All Saints Local History Pack"
Northlincs.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2012
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Civil parishes in Lincolnshire