Yorkshire Magazine.

DECEMBER 31, 1817.

Embellished with a View of TICKHILL CHURCH, and an Engraving (on Wood) of the Monument of Sir RICHARD FITZWILLIAM.

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No. 7.---For DECEMBER 31, 1817.

Topography, Picturesque Scenery, &c.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF TICKHILL.
[Concluded from page 328.]

TICKHILL CHURCH

IS dedicated to Saint Mary. and was given by Thurstan, archbishop of York, to the canons of St. Oswald of Nostell, between 1114 and 1140, during which time he goverued this diocese. King Henry I., by his charter, confirmed the grant to the above monastery.* The Ordinatio Walteri de Grey, archiepiscopi Eborac., A. D. 1249, decrees that "Vicarius de Tickhill ad sustentationem suam habeat totum altaragium, ita quod nomine altaragii contineantur omnes obventiones, decimæ, et proventus ipsius ecclesiæ de Tickhill;-exceptis decimis bladi, leguminis, et fœni, et terris ad dictam ecclesiam pertinentibus, etc. etc." This Ordinatio is preserved in the British Museum among the MSS., and is marked, VITELL. A. 2.99, 6. When Henry II. was at Carlisle in 1186, he offered the bishopric thereof to Paulinus de Leedes, and proposed to augment the income with 300 marks out of the churches of Scarbrough, Bambrough, and also with the Chapel of Tickhill, which was refused.

In progress of time the church became dilapidated; and the piety of the age prompting its renovation upon a more extended scale, in the fourteenth century William de Estfeld, seneschal to the queen of Edward III., most probably erected the present magnificent structure, which is one of the most beautiful specimens of pure English architecture in the kingdom, and deserving of the attention of admirers of ecclesiastical antiquities.§ He is buried within the altar-rails; and a tomb on the north side, ornamented with quatrefoils, is supposed to be his, as the following inscription is on a brass plate. affixed to the wall above it, viz. “Will. Estfeld, quondam senescallus de dominâ de Holderness, ac de honore de Tyckhill sub dominá Philippá, regina Angliæ, ac de dominis de Heytfeld, cum domino Ed

• Monast. Angl. ii. 34.

+Jacob's Law Dictionary, art. Altarage; and Monast. Angl. ii. 822.

Storer's Cathedrals.

An excellent print of it was published lately, from a drawing of Mr. Halfpenny.

mundo, duce Eborac., ac Margaretta uxor ejus, qui quidem Will'mus obiit 24 die mensis Sept. A.D. 1386. Cujus animæ propitietur Deus." His arms were,-Sable, a chevron ermine between three boys' heads argent, crined Or; and are placed over the arch which separates the nave from the chancel, and on the exterior of the western face of the tower-circumstances which warrant the supposition that he at least was a munificent contributor towards the re-edification of the church. Dr. Miller is clearly wrong in attributing the erection of the present structure to the time of Henry III.: the style of the decorations decidedly point out its date, and on the western face of the tower are the arms of Edward III. viz. Eng. land and France, he being the first English monarch who so quartered them.*

His statue, with that of his queen Philippa, are upon two other faces enshrined in niches surmounted with tabernacle-work, and would naturally be placed there by the loyalty and gratitude of William de Estfeld, the trusty servant of the latter. The convent of St. Oswald had the appointment to the vicarage, and various disputes seem to have arisen between the vicar and the society, as an agreement had already been made between the parties in the year 1302, and dated the 18th of June, when Walter de Garton was vicar. By this it was determined, that the said vicar and his successors should receive "all tithes, as well of hemp and line, as of corn and other fruits, growing within the curtelages of the said parish, tithe-hay only excepted: and that the prior aud convent shall have all the tithe of fruits without the said curtelages, as of line, hemp, peas, beans, hay, and all sorts of corn within the said parish of Tickhill." On the 5th of Feb. 1451, this ordination was made touching the portion of this church, viz. that the charges of the repairs of the chancel shall belong to the vicar and his successors; and that the prior and convent of St. Oswald shall be free from the same for ever. When Henry VIII. executed the reformation of the church, the possessions of the dissolved monastery of St. Oswald, as far as concerns Tickhill, seem to have continued unappropriated, or pos sessed by the king, until King Edward VI., May 4, 1553, granted, in consideration of the faithful services done to him and his father by Sir James Foljambe, Knt., of Walton in the county of Derby, (brother and heir to Godfrey Foljambe, Esq., of the same,) and his heirs for ever, the whole rectory and church of Tickhill, with the advowson and right of patronage to the vicarage thereof, lately belonging to the dissolved monas. tery of St. Oswald.† In this family it has ever since continued, the present George Foljambe, Esq., of Osberton and Aldwark, being the impropriator of the rectory and patron of the vicarage.

But the ecclesiastical history of Tickhill would be very imperfect, were we to dismiss the subject without stating, that in ancient times there were three churches or chapels in this parish, viz. St. Mary's, already mentioned, St. Nicholas' chapel in the castle, and Allhallows. After the descendants of Roger de Buisli were deprived of the honor of Tickhill, and it had be

• Sandford, p. 129.

Register of Archbishops Hoigate and Heath, p. 128.