Irnham
| Irnham | |
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| File:Griffin Inn Irnham-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg The Griffin Inn, Irnham | |
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| Population | 206 |
| OS grid reference | TF024267 |
| • London | 90 mi (140 km) S |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Grantham |
| Postcode district | NG33 |
| Dialling code | 01476 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Irnham is a village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-east from Grantham. To the north is Ingoldsby and to the south-west, Corby Glen. The village is on a high limestone ridge that forms part of the Kesteven Uplands.
The civil parish of Irnham includes the hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe. The similar extent ecclesiastical parish is Irnham, part of the Beltisloe rural deanery in the Diocese of Lincoln, and part of a Group which includes Corby Glen and Swayfield, sharing a single priest. The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
History
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Irnham is listed as "Gerneham" in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was probably founded by an Anglo-Saxon thegn named Georna, hence Georna's Ham (or settlement). Scenes of 14th-century life in the village are depicted in the Luttrell Psalter.[1][2]
Irnham Hall
[edit | edit source]Irnham Hall was the ancient seat of the Paynells and from about 1200, the Luttrell family, Lords of Irnham until 1418.[3] The Manor then passed by marriage to the Hilton family and similarly in 1510 to the Thimbleby family, by whom the present Tudor house was built in about 1600.[4] In 1430, Godfrey Hilton, a knight, was residing in "Irenham".[5] Mary Thimelby was born at the hall in about 1618 and became a prioress.[6]
In 1853 Capt. William Hervey Woodhouse (1823-1859)[7] bought the Hall, which had several further owners until purchased in 1901 by the present owners, the Benton Jones family. A fire in 1887 destroyed much of the interior.[8]
Thimblesby's Almshouses
[edit | edit source]The village almshouses, built in 1712, are still in use.[9]
St Andrew's Church
[edit | edit source]St Andrew's Church is late Norman with Perpendicular additions, and was heavily restored in 1858, and again in 2006. It holds the tomb and Easter Sepulchre of Geoffrey Luttrell, who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in the British Library, in the early 14th century.[10]
Employment
[edit | edit source]The village public house is the Griffin Inn on Bulby Road. Most other employment is in farming.
References
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- ^ The Luttrells chose in 1768 the title of Baron Irnham when they became Peers in the Peerage of Ireland.
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- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 677; 4th entry from the bottom, where he is being sued for debt by Ralph Barton, a London skinner
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Hatchment hung on tower arch, Irnham church
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Village website Archived 21 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- "Irnham", The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, Homepages.which.net
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