Article from Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, 19 March 1971 transcribed by Raylee Burton13th Century Art Saved by Trust Wall paintings dating back as far as the 13th century are being preserved with the help of the Pilgrim Trust at Burton Latimer Parish Church....
Article from local newspaper 1972 transcribed by Raylee BurtonWhen the new gates at Burton Latimer Parish Church were opened yesterday evening, it was also the opening of a new lease of life for the building. The dedication of the gates was part of a weekend festival...
Original newspaper article from the Kettering Evening Telegraph in their "Down Memory Lane" feature, transcribed by Sarah Gilbert.Baptist Sunday School Outing 1908This lovely picture was taken in Burton Latimer – and from the style of the dresses we guess the date was...
Summary researched and compiled by John MeadsThe earliest recorded date of St. Mary the Virgin Parish Church is 1147 and inside there are characteristic round-headed arches of what would have been the original cross-shaped Norman church. Many of the building’s...
Article taken from local newspaper dated June 1901, transcribed by Sarah GilbertOn Sunday morning and evening, at the Parish Church, Burton Latimer, special hymns were sung owing to the death of the Rev. F. B. Newman, M. A., who for 23 years was Rector of that parish,...
Transcription by Sarah GilbertFrancis Browne Newman, Rector 1872-1895The letter published in 1895 on the occasion of the departure of the Reverend Newman from the incumbency of St Mary's church at Burton Latimer,printed by W E & J Goss, Printers, Bookbinders and...
Article taken from local newspaper dated June 1901, transcribed by Sarah GilbertFrancis Browne Newman, Rector 1872-1895It is with much regret that we have to record the death of the Rev. Francis Browne Newman M.A., for many years Rector of this parish which occurred...
Original Article by Douglas Ashby, transcribed by Sarah GilbertIn my mind I often revisit the old house, alas now no more, and recall the treasures that filled the lofty rooms, presided over by a kindly and courteous incumbent for thirty years. The Revd Ronald...
Article by Phil Mason, transcibed by Margaret CraddockIt always seems that things were so much better years ago. Or perhaps we just remember the happier times? The following memories are of church as seen by a small boy just before and during the Second World War....
Transcribed by Janet Meads 2008Whereas a lycence to eate flesh was granted to Mrs Suzan Sibthorp of our Parish dated the sixt of March 1632 and her sicknes and infirmities (uppon which groundes it was graunted) still continueing and the desiring to have the same...
Transcribed by Sally Crane from local paper 10th October 1968Mr A V Morley with a display by Alumascof a beer barrel and shooting stickA beer canister formed part of the harvest festival offerings at Burton Latimer Parish Church last night. Over 200 people attended...
Kettering Evening Telegraph 6th May 1999Canon Roger Knight (left) and churchwarden Brian Mutlow with the names they can't readA mystery couple's wedding plans could be in jeopardy because a churchwarden can't read his own handwriting. In November, Brian Mutlow, the...
Original article by Douglas Ashby 1992, transcribed by Margaret CraddockMr and Mrs F W Preston outside The Poplars in 1912On a beautiful summer’s morning in July 1992, two members of the Preston family from Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire came to Burton Latimer,...
Kettering Evening Telegraph 19th October 1982A pensioner is angry over the way a church hall has become a vandalised ruin. Preston Memorial Hall was once an important centre in the town's social life, said 76-year-old Mr Don Shaw. He accused church authorities of...
Article from Kettering Evening Telegraph dated 20 August 1993This is the design for a £250,000 church hall extension which is at the centre of a planning row. Kettering Council officers said one of the reasons for turning down the plan at St Mary The Virgin Church, in...
Article from the Northamptonshire Advertiser dated Friday, 16th June 1961The Drawing RoomWhen the Rector of Burton Latimer, the Rev R W Sharpley, has nothing else to do during an evening, he goes looking for secret drawers. In his Georgian Rectory is what is probably...
Transcribed by Sally Crane from a local paper dated April 1969Colleagues and friends made up a large congregation at the funeral of the Rev Ronald Williamson Sharpley, former Rector of Burton Latimer, yesterday. The service at St. Mary's Church. Burton Latimer, was...
Extract from Hull Daily Mail, Thursday 15 December 1892To show you in what danger we are in I cull the following extract from the Churchman's Monthly Magazine, vol 5, page 182, for 1851, which is 41 years since, viz:- “About 10 years since a poor pedlar called at the...
Article written by Michael Lack, Barton Seagrave and presented by Margaret CraddockFrederick Payne, my uncle, was born 27 January 1910 in Burton Latimer, to Alfred and Charlotte Payne. He joined the Church of England’s Church Army in 1928, and one of his first tasks...
Article from Northants Mercury 21 December 1906The monthly meeting of the Parish Council was held on Monday, there being present: Mr C Barlow CC (chairman), Mr J A Wallis (vice-chairman), Mr S Maycock, Mr A J Ball, Mr W W Attfield, Mr J H Ward, Mr J Westley, Mr A T...
John Meads 2019The Rev. F.B. Newman (curate 1862-68 and Rector 1872-95)In the summer of 1867, members of the Architectural Societies of the Archdeaconry of Northampton and the Counties of Leicester and Bedford, visited Burton Latimer St. Mary's as part of a tour of...
Article from local newspaper presented by Margaret CraddockThe horned goat is a recognized symbol of the devil. But here is one rector who obviously does not take much notice of the superstition. He is the Rev D. N. Hole, Rector of Burton Latimer, seen here with one...
Article from local newspaper 16 July 1973 transcribed by Raylee BurtonNew Rector of Burton Latimer, the Rev Edward Pitt, has told his parishioners he will carry on along the same lines as his predecessor. Referring to the Rev Derek Hole, who left the town in May, Mr...
Article from local newspaper 1979 transcribed by Raylee BurtonMr Jim Harker, Mr Frank Lewis and Mr Stan Lewislook over the area where renovation is neededA house to house collection starts today in Burton Latimer to raise the £6,000 needed to complete restoration at...
Transcribed by Sally Crane from newspaper cutting dated June 1962A Garden in Burton Latimer took on a festive air on Saturday when it was used to stage the Burton Latimer Parish Church garden fete. The garden of “Fern Bank” Church Lane, belongs to Mr. J. R. Loake,...
Baptist Chapel - Meeting Lane"Dissenter" burials happened when a non-denominational funeral occurred within the grounds of St Marys Church. As of this time, the local Baptist Church had no cemetery of their own, so this was a relatively regular occurrence. However,...
St Marys Church - 1847Rev Thomas GrimshawDuring the early 19th century, it seemed to be the practise for burial of non denominational residents to be buried in the church graveyard with the service undertaken by an alternative minister from that religion, and not the...
John Meads 2015The Revd. Harold Priestland with his young family, circa 1904. The three youngest, May, Dora and Kenneth, were born here when living at Manor House and then Sunnyside FarmOver the years dozens of young clergymen have been appointed curate at our Parish...
Article from Evening Telegraph Thursday 3rd June 1976Peter Fleckney, Barry Thompson and David Trehearn manhandle the cracked bell which is to be repaired.It was a delicate operation for surgeon Derek Sibson. A 17th century bell at Burton Latimer parish church had a...
Janet Meads 2008ANNO DOMINI 1630 Memorandum: That the accompts of Richard Welford & William Hall Churchwardens for the year 1628 remain in the Church chest in loose papers having bene omitted to be methodically entered into this Book But as it appeares under the...
MA Intruder at Burton Latimer 11 June 1644. Perhaps of Caius College Cambridge. Adm. sizar (aged 17) 12 April 1623. Son of Charles, of Groton, Suffolk, woollen draper. School, Boxford, Matriculated Easter 1623. BA 1627/8. MA 1631. Rector of St. Michael,...
Source: Crockford’s Clerical DirectoryBorn 1962. Aston Training Scheme 1987. Trinity College Bristol Diploma Higher Education 1992. BA 1992. Deacon 1992. Priest 1993. Curate Goldington (St Albans) 1992-6. Team Vicar Rushden with Newton Bromswold...
Source: Crockford’s Clerical DirectoryBorn 1944. Kelham Theological College 1963. Deacon 1968. Priest 1969. Curate at Bilborough with Strelley (Southwell) 1968-72. Curate Beeston 191972-5. Ascension Islands 1975-7. Vicar of Wellingborough St. Mark (Peterborough)...
Material researched by Janet Meads 2006Francis Browne Newman1872-1895St Mary's Church, Burton LatimerLouis Hubert Lethbridge1920-1930For information about the Rectors of Burton Latimer, under 'Further details' click on 'more'. The basic information, shown...
Transcribed from original document by Janet MeadsThe Church view of ye Denary of Higham by Dr Sybthorpe and Mr Coles etc by virtue of a Comission fro the right reverent Father in God Francis Lord Bishopp of Peterborough. Anno domini 1637 September 28 Burton Latimer...
John Meads 2018St. Mary's Church tower during restoration in 1864. It wasnecessary to hold many fund-raising events before and after it took placeAdvance notice of a fund-raising bazaar at Kettering in the Northampton Mercury 2nd June 1866A Bazaar, comprising a choice...
Transcribed by Sally Crane from Northampton “Chronicle & Echo” 27th February 1969 and “Mercury & Herald” 6th March 1969A battle at Burton Latimer Church to save the priceless 14th century murals from being damaged by rising damp is being won. The murals, on...
Transcribed by Sally Crane from "Evening Telegraph" 1972A pair of wrought iron gates dedicated to the late Rev. R. W. Sharpley, former Rector of Burton Latimer, are to replace the existing main gates to the churchyard. Mr. Sharpley. who was rector from 1937 to 1967,...
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A sketch of Hugh Ashton from an effigy on his tomb in St. John's College, Cambridge.Rector of Burton Latimer 30 July 1522 His successor was instituted 12 Jan 1522/3 Only held the position a few months before he died. He also held very many senior and valuable livings...
The Very Reverend Derek N Hole. Hon Dlitt. Hon LLD, Provost Emeritus of LeicesterBorn in Plymouth, Devon, 5 December 1933, and educated at Public Central School, Plymouth . From 1952-54 he served in the Royal Air Force and from 1957-60...
Clerk. Thirteenth child and seventh son of Richard Neville, Lord Latimer. Born 1509. Perhaps Cambridge BA 1523/4. MA 1527. Rector of Well, Yorks. Master of the Hospital at Well, Richmondshire, in 1548 and 1554. Rector of Burton Latimer Instituted. 7 July 1552, on...
Canon George Leyburn Richardson M.A., B.D., was born in at Worth Matravers, Dorset, son of Joseph G. Richardson, Rector of Middleton St. George. Sometime Mawson Scholar of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, and Battalion Chaplain to the Leicester Battalion, Peterborough...
Probably of Emmanuel College Cambridge. adm. pens. 6 April 1653. Of Lincs. Matriculated 1653 BA 1656/7 MA 1660. Perhaps son of George of St Benedict’s, Lincoln, clerk. Deacon 27 April 1661. Priest 2 May 1661 (Linc.) Rector of Burton Latimer 5 May 1662 as MA. Buried...
Researched by Ann Burrage, transcibed by Margaret CraddockThe Book of Remembrance in St Mary's Parish Church records both burials and cremations. In some instances nothing else survives, or will survive, to the memory of their lives. Surname First Names Age Date Ashes...
St Catherines’s College Cambridge BA 1862, MA 1867, Deacon 1862, Priest 1863 (Peterborough) Curate of Burton Latimer 1862-68 and 1870-72; of Wooston, Hants, 1868-70. Rector (and patron) of Burton Latimer 12 June 1872, resigned 1895. Died 11 June 1901, aged 75. Married...
Transcribed by Janet Meads 2008Note or Catalogue of certaine Ornaments, Bookes & Utensills belonging to the Church of Burton aforesaid and remayning in the Churchwardens charge to be delivered over from Churchwarden to Churchwarden successively:Two new Surplices...
Born 1880 Llanwonno, Glamorgan, Wales (1901 census) Oxford Undergraduate, Private Tutor Worked for the YMCA overseas during the First World War (GRO Medal Rolls) Married Alice Ruth Candler in 1915 Burton Latimer Urban District Councillor (re-) elected April 1936
MA, Rector of Burton Latimer, instituted 9 Nov 1593. Resigned 1607. Married 7 Feb 1591/2 at Burton Latimer, Margaret, eldest daughter of Rev. Owen Owen, Rector of Burton Latimer and Archdeacon of Anglesey (by his first wife Margaret), and sister of John Owen, Bishop...
3rd son of David, of Walthamstow, Essex, esq. University College,Oxford. Matriculated8 Dec 1831aged 18. Magdelen Hall BA 1836, MA 1838. Deacon 1836. Presented. 1837. Rector ofBurtonLatimer (and patron)31 Oct 1843, resigned 1857. Vicar of Little Amwell, Herts. 1864-81....