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CHURCH AT KIRKBURN
KIRKBURN AND THE ARCHBISHOP
There were more services in 1865 than in 1754. Poor Mr. Hall had a service ‘ each Lord’s Day at Leven at 10.00 a.m.’ and then journeyed to Kirkburn for a service at ’2 o’clock in the afternoon’. ‘ The blessed sacrament is administered 4 times in the year’ with about 40 communicants. By 1865 the curate (who had only to travel from Little Driffield) gave Kirkburn two services and two sermons each Sunday at 10.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. There was Holy Communion monthly, and at the Great Festivals, with about 15 communicants.
We don’t know the size of the congregation in 1754. There were 48 families in the parish and they probably all had their appointed seats in the church In 1865 the church had from seventy to eighty in the congregation. The 1851 census gives more detailed figures but they are not always easy to understand and, at the time, wee not universally believed. The population in 1865 was 581. In 1851 the average congregations at the parish church were 45 adults and 40 Sunday School in the morning and 70 adults and 40 Sunday School in the afternoon. The Wesleyan Chapel at Southburn (erected 1848) had 32 present on 30th March. The Wesleyans at Tibthorpe (Chapel erected in 1823 rebuilt 1850) had 60 adults and 23 Sunday School in the morning and 80 adults in the evening. The Primitives in Kirkburn itself (chapel erected in 1839) had 40 adults and 40 Sunday School in the morning and 40 adults in the evening.
The last great change to be noted between 1754 and 1865 was the coming of the school. In 1754 ‘we have not a school in the parish.’ In 1865 ‘One National School (mixed) supported by childrens’ pence, voluntary subscriptions and Capitation Grant. In the winter 50 children and in the summer 30.’
The Visitation questions don’t tell us everything. The church had been thoroughly restored in 1856-1857 with the re-building of the chancel and extension of the nave - all paid for by the first Sir Tatton Sykes. The school had come in 1860 paid for by Mary, Lady Sykes. Soon the non-resident badly paid curate was a thing of the past and Kirkburn would have a vicar and Vicarage of its own
We don’t know the size of the congregation in 1754. There were 48 families in the parish and they probably all had their appointed seats in the church In 1865 the church had from seventy to eighty in the congregation. The 1851 census gives more detailed figures but they are not always easy to understand and, at the time, wee not universally believed. The population in 1865 was 581. In 1851 the average congregations at the parish church were 45 adults and 40 Sunday School in the morning and 70 adults and 40 Sunday School in the afternoon. The Wesleyan Chapel at Southburn (erected 1848) had 32 present on 30th March. The Wesleyans at Tibthorpe (Chapel erected in 1823 rebuilt 1850) had 60 adults and 23 Sunday School in the morning and 80 adults in the evening. The Primitives in Kirkburn itself (chapel erected in 1839) had 40 adults and 40 Sunday School in the morning and 40 adults in the evening.
The last great change to be noted between 1754 and 1865 was the coming of the school. In 1754 ‘we have not a school in the parish.’ In 1865 ‘One National School (mixed) supported by childrens’ pence, voluntary subscriptions and Capitation Grant. In the winter 50 children and in the summer 30.’
The Visitation questions don’t tell us everything. The church had been thoroughly restored in 1856-
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