Parish records of Appleton le Street

Includes register of christenings, 1715-1930; register of marriages, 1716-1936, 1940-1989; register of burials, 1715-1855; register of banns, 1911-1998; register of services, 1900-2001; records concerning benefice income, including tithe papers, 1846, 1919-1921, glebe exchange, 1877, survey and valuation of glebe in Appleton and Amotherby, 1806, papers, 1952, 1956, mortuary payments, 1814-1847, copies of 1368 endowment of vicarage, made 17th and 18th centuries; churchwardens’ records, including accounts and assessments, 1818-1864, fabric papers, 1904, 1939, 1950, 1959-1961, 1972-1980, 1999, and churchyard papers, 1971-1980; records of incumbents, including opinion on value of perpetual advowson and of next presentation, 1824, dilapidations, 1933, 1949, 1952, statistical returns, 1935-1936, correspondence and papers, 1944-1978, and papers regarding parish history, 1973; overseers’ records, including rating valuation, 1879; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including list of books in parish library, 19th century, and programme for Floral Society exhibition, 1864; school records, including letter, 1933; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1912-1971; accounts 1939-1973, 1992-2000, Swinton enclosure award, 1776, magazines, 1871-1875, 1887-1889, map of estate at Swinton, 1775, deed and map showing Swinton drainage, 1884, insurance papers, 1930, 1979, logbook of local and church events, 1809-1974, with parish magazine 1805-1868; visitors’ book, 1958-1991.

The church of Holy Trinity, Appleton le Street was first mentioned in a charter of King Henry II (1154-1189) in which it was granted to St Alban’s Abbey, although the building dates from at least the eleventh century. In 1218 a papal charter confirmed the grant of both Appleton le Street and its dependent chapel of St Helen, Amotherby, to the abbey, and papal and royal licenses for the appropriation of the churches were issued in the fourteenth century. A vicarage was ordained there in 1358.
St Alban’s held the advowson until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century when it reverted to the Crown and then passed into private hands in the eighteenth century.
The parish included the townships of Appleton le Street, Amotherby, Broughton, Hildenley and Swinton, and Easthorpe. Today the parish is known as Appleton le Street with Amotherby.

This arrangement was designed to reflect the principal activities of the parish and its associated organisations, and to aid researchers in identifying the records these activities generate. This arrangement was introduced in 2020. Records are arranged within the following alphabetical series but retain their original archival reference at file/item level:
A: Parish Registers
B: Church Ceremonial
C: Parish Clergy
D: Property - Religious
E: Property - Secular
F: Parish Administration and Officers
G: Parish Social and Evangelical Activities
H: Overseer of the Poor and Parish Charity
J: Schools
K: Promotional and Informational Material

Records are open to the public, subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws. 24 hours' notice is required to access photographic material.

The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1978 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1985, 1990, 1994 and 2012.

The church of Holy Trinity, Appleton le Street was first mentioned in a charter of King Henry II (1154-1189) in which it was granted to St Alban’s Abbey, although the building dates from at least the eleventh century. In 1218 a papal charter confirmed the grant of both Appleton le Street and its dependent chapel of St Helen, Amotherby, to the abbey, and papal and royal licenses for the appropriation of the churches were issued in the fourteenth century. A vicarage was ordained there in 1358.
St Alban’s held the advowson until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century when it reverted to the Crown and then passed into private hands in the eighteenth century.
The parish included the townships of Appleton le Street, Amotherby, Broughton, Hildenley and Swinton, and Easthorpe. Today the parish is known as Appleton le Street with Amotherby.

Please be aware that no records were catalogued under the reference PR/A/S/74.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute. This includes all material received up to and including 2012. Later material has not yet been listed, for further information please contact the Borthwick Institute.

Registers of christenings, 1715-1930, marriages, 1715-1936, and burials, 1715-1855, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 630, 1589).
Our collection of parish baptism, marriage and burial registers has been digitised by both Ancestry and Find My Past. Copies of digitised records can be viewed online on Ancestry or Find My Past, as part of larger UK-wide parish registers datasets. You can find out more about these record sets, and how to find our registers, here: https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/are-you-looking-for-parish-registers.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 09.12.15
Revised (Schema arrangement and retroconversion) 17.10.2022 by N Adams

A reprographics service is available to researchers subject to the access restrictions outlined above. Copying will not be undertaken if there is any risk of damage to the document. Copies are supplied in accordance with the Borthwick Institute for Archives' terms and conditions for the supply of copies, and under provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Permission to reproduce images of documents in the custody of the Borthwick Institute must be sought.

Further accruals are expected.

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