Partney
| Partney | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Partney | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF410684 |
| Location: | 53°11’38"N, 0°6’35"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 237 (2011) |
| Post town: | Spilsby |
| Postcode: | PE23 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Partney is a small village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, in the Lincolnshire Wolds three miles north of Spilsby. The village was the birthplace of Henry Stubbe, the noted 17th-century Intellectual.[1]
Partney is at the intersection of the A16 and A158 roads, but a village bypass diverts the road to Skegness, Ingoldmells and Chapel St. Leonards.
History
The existence of a Saxon Monastic house in Partney is known only from two references in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) of 731.
In Bowyer's History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies[2] and other 18th- and 19th-century authors Bede's placename Peartenau is identified with Bardney. But Bede mentions Peartenau and Beardeneu in adjacent paragraphs, and the link to Bardney is now discredited.[3] Pearteneau is likely to be Partney. The monastery is thought to have been destroyed by Viking raids around 870.[3][4] No archaeological trace is known, but some burials confirm Saxon occupation at that time.[5][6][7]
Apparently unrelated to the lost Saxon monastery, the later Benedictine mediæval abbey of Bardney established a hospital at Partney, run as a cell of the abbey. The hospital was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.[3][8] The chapel survived only as wall foundations as the above-ground remains have been entirely robbed out. The foundations suggest a modest rectangular stone building measuring 13.8 yards long by 7.2 yards wide with external buttresses.[7]
Partney appears twice in the Domesday Book, as part of the Manor of Bardney. It is rendered as "Partenai" or "Partene",[9]
Church
The parish church, St Nicholas, is built of greensand|greenstone in Perpendicular Gothic style and dates from the 14th century. The brick chancel was built in 1828. The porch was constructed, and the nave and aisles rebuilt, by C. E. Giles, c. 1862. The tower was partly rebuilt in 1910.[10]
In the churchyard stands a stone commemorating the marriage of Matthew Flinders, the explorer, within the church. The ecclesiastical parish of Partney is part of the Partney Group of the Deanery of Bolingbroke.
About the village
Victory Hall, next to the church, is an amenity for local clubs and groups.[1][11]
The small village primary school is Church of England aided.[1][12]
In the past Partney held a sheep fair. Today an annual summer fair is held to raise money for local causes.[13]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Partney) |
- Information on Partney from GENUKI
- "Partney in Lincolnshire", LincolnshireWolds.info
- Partney Lincolnshire on Vision of Britain
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Village web site". http://www.partneyvillage.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ Bowyer, W. (1718). An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, and Conventual Cathedral Churches. https://books.google.com/books?id=nW5bAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A History of the County of Lincoln - Volume 2 pp 104-105: Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Partney (Victoria County History)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 355346 – Earlier mediæval minster
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 355359 – Anglo Saxon inhumation
- ↑ "Archaeological Dig". Partney village web site. http://www.partneyvillage.co.uk/archeological_dig.htm. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Mediæval Chapel and Cemetery Site, Partney". English Heritage. 2005. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MLI84758&resourceID=1006. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 355349 – Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, Partney
- ↑ Partney in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 355300 – St. Nicholas' Church, Partney
- ↑ "Partney, Dalby & Dexthorpe Victory Hall". Lincolnshire county Council. http://www.lincscommunitybuildings.org.uk/venues/partney-dalby-victory-hall/. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ "School web site". Partney C of E school. http://www.partneyschool.co.uk/. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ "Partney Fair returns". Skegness Standard. 3 August 2013. http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/local/partney-fair-returns-1-5350480. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- Edgeworth, Maria: 'Tales and Novels'; Partney Sheep Fair, Volume 2, page 69
