Church Micro 2531…Manthorpe Traditional Geocache
Church Micro 2531…Manthorpe
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The Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln on the 17th August 1848.
The building of St John the Evangelist, Manthorpe began in 1847 and was completed, including the spire, in 1848. Some new cottages were also built, mainly the brick cottages along the west side of the Main Road, but some of the older stone cottages were obviously improved by brick additions at about this time. The decade 1841 to 1851 saw the largest increase in the number of new churches than any other decade of the 19th century. There was a similar increase in the number of clergy. Even so the religious census of 1851 showed that only a minority of people attended a place of worship, especially in the urban areas, and of the minority attending only about half attended Church of England services.
It is against this background that the opening of Manthorpe Church took place. Undoubtedly there was in the Lincoln Diocese, under the leadership of Bishop John Kaye, a drive to build new churches and parsonages where changes in population merited them. In 1849 Manthorpe with Londonthorpe was constituted a church district within the parish of Grantham. The census of 1851 shows this ecclesiastical district to have a population of 254.
The costs of construction of the Church at Manthorpe was at the sole expense of the Hon. and Revd. Richard Cust, M.A., Rector of Belton and the brother of the second Earl Brownlow. Earl Brownlow gave an acre of land for the Church, the vicarage and the graveyard, which he enclosed. Together with the Hon. and Revd. Richard Cust he endowed the living and the vicarage. The living was a perpetual curacy united with Londonthorpe and under the patronage of Earl Brownlow.
The spire was built by the eight surviving children of Lady Brownlow and her son-in-law Sir William Middleton. The painted east window was installed by contributions from 54 clergymen in appreciation of the Hon. and Revd. Richard Cust in building the Church.
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