Kirby Hill, Richmondshire: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name = St Peter and St Felix church, Kirby Hill.jpg

| static_image_caption = Parish church of SS Peter and Felix

| coordinates = {{coord|54.454170|-1.785000|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = NZ139065

| label_position = bottom

| official_name = Kirby Hill

| population = 60

| population_ref= =

| civil_parish = Kirby Hill

|shire_county lieutenancy_england = [[North Yorkshire]]

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| country = England

| post_town = [[Richmond, North Yorkshire|Richmond]]

| postcode_district = DL11 6

| postcode_area = DL

| dial_code = 01748

| constituency_westminster = [[Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency)|Richmond]]

'''Kirby Hill''', historically also known as '''Kirby-on-the-Hill''',<ref name=VCH>{{harvnb|Page|1914|pp=87–97}}</ref> is a village and [[List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire|civil parish]] in the [[Richmondshire]] district of [[North Yorkshire]], England. The village is about {{convert|1|mi}} south of [[Ravensworth]] and about {{convert|4|mi|0}} northwestnorth-west of the town of [[Richmond, North Yorkshire|Richmond]].

The parish population is about 60,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=11401&p=0 |title=Population Estimates 2009 |publisher=North Yorkshire County Council |accessdateurl-status=dead |deadurl=yes |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807154406/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=11401&p=0 |archivedatearchive-date=7 August 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> remaining less than 100 atAt the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Censuscensus]], it was less than 100. InformationPopulation regardingdata theabout populationKirby Hill is now included in population data about the parish of [[Gayles, North Yorkshire|Gayles]].

In 1866 Kirby Hill, until thenwas a [[Township (England)|township]] in the parish of Kirkby Ravensworth until 1866, when it was made a separate civil parish.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10440932/relationships |title=Kirby Hill Tn/CP |work=Vision of Britain |publisher=[[University of Portsmouth]] |accessdate=}}</ref>

InAs early as 1859, the centre of the village green featured "a beautiful spring",. butIt continued to be used by itresidents isuntil noat longerleast there1932.{{sfn|Whellan|1859|pp=500–}} Sir [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] described Kirby Hill as "a perfect village, but ... also ... exceptional".{{sfn|Pevsner|1966|p=209}}<ref name="post">{{cite news |last1=Forbes |first1=Ernest |title=This Mellow Shire |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=8 March 1932}}</ref>

The [[Church of England parish church]] of SSSts [[Saint Peter|Peter]] and Felix historically served the large [[ancient parish]] of [[Kirkby Ravensworth]].<ref name=VCH/> It was built in the 12th &nbsp;century on the site of ana previous [[Anglo-Saxon architecture|Anglo-Saxon]] church.{{sfn|Lewis|1931|pp=692–697}}

The east window of the [[chancel]] iswas added in the 13th-&nbsp;century. InSeveral other features were added in the 14th century, including the vestry, the north [[Aisle#Church architecture|aisle]], andthe south porch were added and, several new windows, inserted.and Thethe west tower was (built in 1397).{{sfn|Pevsner|1966|p=209}} In the 15th centuryAnd the clerestory and south aisle were added in the 15th century. The church is a [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade I listed building]].<ref name=NHLE>{{NHLE |num=1301472 |desc=Church of St Peter and St Felix |grade=I |accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref>

The tower has two [[Church bell|bells]]. One is inscribed with the phrase ''Venite exultemus domino'',<ref name=VCH/> which is ([[Latin]] for "Let us come and praise the Lord", a quotation from [[Psalm 95]]), and “''SS 1664'', which” (the year itthe bell was [[Bellfounding|foundedadded]]), and the initials of the [[Master craftsman|master]] founder, Samuel Smith of [[York]].<ref name=VCH/>

A [[English church monuments|monument]] in the church commemorates thea former [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]], Dr [[John Dakyn]] (1497–1558), who was an [[Archdeaconarchdeacon]] of the East Riding.<ref name=NHLE/> He who took part in, the [[Pilgrimage of Grace]] (and is a noted chronicler of, the [[Pilgrimage of Grace]]it),<ref>{{cite webbook |urllast1=http://www2Hoyle |first1=R.warwick W.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/emforum/research/disstheses/openacc/david_callaghan_the_role_of_the_clergy_in_the_pilgrimage_of_grace.pdf |title=MicrosoftThe Wordpilgrimage –of Davidgrace Callaghanand the politics of the 1530s |formatdate=PDF2003 |accessdatepublisher=27Oxford MayUniversity 2011Press }}{{dead link|datelocation=December 2017Oxford |botisbn=InternetArchiveBot0-19-820874-X |fix-attemptedpage=yes 212}}</ref> but wrote that he "managed to exculpate himself".<ref name=VCH/>

Other notable rectors of the parish include [[George Fitzhugh (priest)|George Fitzhugh]] (died 1505), who was a [[Chancellorchancellor of Cambridge University]] and a [[Deandean of Lincoln]],; [[William Rokeby]] (died 1521), who was a [[Lordlord Chancellorchancellor of Ireland]]; and [[Alan Percy]] (''circa'' 1480–1560), who was Mastera master of [[St John's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{citationCite ODNB needed|datefirst=DecemberMalcolm 2017G |last=Underwood |title=Percy, Alan |id=21922}}</ref>

The church has also has a monument to Thomas Wycliffe, who died in 1821; andhe was the last surviving male descendant of the religious reformer [[John Wycliffe]].<ref name=NHLE/>

Dr [[John Dakyn]] was, a 16th-century vicar of Kirby Ravensworth in the 16th century. He, left a legacy to foundfund the establishment of a grammar school in the village. It was built in 1556 and enlarged in 1706.<ref name=VCH/>

Notable [[Alumnus|alumni]] of the grammar school include [[Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury)|Matthew Hutton]] (1693–1758), who was born herein the village and was made [[Archbishoparchbishop of Canterbury]] in 1757,;<ref>{{cite webODNB |first=Robert T |last=Holtby |title=Hutton, Matthew (1693–1758) |work=[[Dictionary of National Biography]] |place= |publisheryear=[[Oxford University Press]]2004 |yeardoi=200410.1093/ref:odnb/14310 |url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14310| accessdateaccess-date= 5 May 2011}}</ref> the astronomer [[William Lax]] (1761–1836)<ref>{{cite web |url=

http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2017c.pl?sur=Lax&suro=w&fir=William&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |title=A Cambridge Alumni Database |publisher= University of Cambridge |accessdate=}}</ref> and the [[antiquarian]] and the [[Topography|topographer]] [[James Raine]] (1791–1858).

The school closed in 1957, just aone year after its 400th anniversary,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/otherOptions/documents/GrammarSchoolsep2010.pdf |publisher=[[Landmark Trust]] |title=The Grammar School, Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire |accessdateurl-status=dead |deadurl=yes |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083619/http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/otherOptions/documents/GrammarSchoolsep2010.pdf |archivedatearchive-date=19 August 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> andThe theformer school’s building is now a private house. It isand a [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade II* listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num=1131319 |desc=The Old Grammar School and Grammar School House and attached wall and railings |grade=I |accessdate=7 December 2017}}</ref>

Kirby Hill has an 18th-century public house, the Shoulder of Mutton.<ref>[http://www.shoulderofmutton.net/ Shoulder of Mutton]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/food-drink/eating-in-or-out/pub_of_the_week_shoulder_of_mutton_kirby_hill_1_3962492 |title=Pub Of The Week: Shoulder of Mutton, Kirby Hill |date=14 November 2011 |newspaper=[[Yorkshire Post]] |publisher=[[Yorkshire Post Newspapers]] |accessdateaccess-date=21 February 2017}}</ref>

*{{cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=Samuel |editor1-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |origyearorig-year=1848 |year=1931 |chapter=Kirkby-Ravensworth |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |edition=Seventh |place=London |publisher=[[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]] |pages=692–697 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp692-697 |ref=harv}}

*{{cite book |editor-last=Page |editor-first=William |editorlinkeditor-link=William Page (historian) |year=1914 |chapter=Kirkby Ravensworth |title=A History of the County of York North Riding |series=[[Victoria County History]] |volume=I |place=London |publisher=[[Constable & Robinson|Constable & Co]] |pages=87–97 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64721 |ref=harv}}

*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |authorlinkauthor-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1966 |title=Yorkshire: the North Riding |series=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|The Buildings of England]] |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=0-14-071029-9 |page=209 |ref=harv}}

*{{cite book |last=Whellan |first=T |year=1859 |title=History and topography of the city of York: and the North Riding of Yorkshire: embracing a general review of the early history of Great Britain, and a general history and description of the County of York |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HpbkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA500 |publisher=Printed for the publishers, by John Green |pages=500– |accessdateaccess-date=27 May 2011 |ref=harv}}

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