Revesby
| Revesby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Lawrence, Revesby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF299613 |
| Location: | 53°8’1"N, 0°3’34"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 243 (2011 incl Miningsby) |
| Post town: | Boston |
| Postcode: | PE22 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Revesby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is seven miles south-east of Horncastle, eight miles east of Woodhall Spa and fourteen miles north of Boston, on the A155. The parish includes the hamlet of Moorhouses, three miles south of Revesby village.
History
The parish includes the site of Revesby Abbey, a Cistercian known as the Abbey of Saints Mary and Lawrence, founded in 1142 and colonised by monks from Yorkshire's Rievaulx Abbey. The abbey was suppressed through the 1538 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act.[1] A post-restoration house was built close to the site of the abbey by Craven Howard, which has since bene replaced.[2][3]
The house standing today is of the Jacobean style (or rather neo-Jacobean), built in 1845. With its stable yard, the house is Grade I listed.[4] The deer park today holds an annual Revesby Country Fair.[5]
The 1885 Kelly's Directory notes Sir Henry James Hawley and James Stanhope DL JP, as principal landowners. Stanhope was lord of the manor. The parish is described as partly upland and partly fen, on which chief crops grown were wheat, oats, barley, turnips and mangolds. The parish area was 4,577 acres, with an 1881 population of 565. Parish occupations in 1885 included twelve farmers, a farm bailiff, gamekeeper, head gardener, blacksmith, carpenter, land agent, surgeon, and the publican at the Red Lion public house. The parish post master was also a grocer and draper.[2]
By 1933, the reduced parish area was 4,269 acres, with 15 of water. Civil parish population in 1921 was 457, and ecclesiastical parish, 375. Revesby Abbey was now the home of Lady Beryl Groves, Lady of the Manor, who, with Henry Cusack Wingfield, scion of the Hawley baronets, was principal landowner. Parish occupations in 1933 included nineteen farmers, one of whom was a landowner, and another a cottage farmer. There was a smallholder, a head gardener, two gamekeepers, a carpenter, a land agent, and the publican at the Red Lion public house. The post master and grocer had ceased to be a draper. Trades in 1933 not found in 1885 were a motor engineer—who hired-out cars and was a vehicle dealer, agent and repairer—and a motor and agricultural engineer.[6]
Parish church
The parish church, St Lawrence is built in the Decorated Gothic style in 1891 on the site of a previous church built in 1733 by the estate owner, Joseph Banks (the great-grandfather of naturalist Sir Joseph Banks). It is a Grade II listed building.[7]
The present church The 1733 church was built on the site of an even earlier church.[1] Parish registers date from 1595.[2]
Revesby Abbey
- Main article: Revesby Abbey
The manor house of the village, Revesby Abbey, is built on the estates which had belonged to a Cistercian abbey, and takes its name from that abbey. The abbey was dissolved in 1538 and the lands passed into private hands.
After the Restoration in 1660, Craven Howard built a house close to the site of the old abbey. This house was rebuilt in 1849 as Revesby Abbey in Elizabethan style, to the 1843 design of William Burn, architect for Harlaxton Manor, with 330 acres of deer park.[2][3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 249, 250; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 604
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 342
- ↑ National Heritage List 1288157: Revesby Abbey and Stable Yard
- ↑ "Revesby Country Fair 2008", BBC Lincolnshire. Retrieved 3 July 2011
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, pp. 458,459
- ↑ National Heritage List 1215306: Church of St Lawrence (Grade II listing)