Stathern Village Map

 Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory, 1877

STATHERN parish, in Melton-Mowbray Union and County Court District, and Framland Hundred, comprises 1420 acres of land, and in 1871 contained 495 persons, living in 118 houses; its rateable value is £4056. Its village is on the south side of the Yale of Belvoir, 51/2 miles N. by W. of Waltham-on-the-Wolds, and 9 miles N. by E. of Melton Mowbray. The soil is chiefly clay; it is mostly in pasturage, only 430 acres being arable, and 140 acres plantation. A great part of the soil belongs to the Duke of Rutland, and the Osmaston, Wells, Sumner, Shipman, and James families. The manor and advowson were sold in the reign of Henry VIII. to Lord Mordaunt, who again sold them in 1516 to Henry Hornby, by whom they were given to St. Peter's College, Cambridge, but in 1861 the copyhold land was enfranchised by the Master and Fellows of that College. A lace manufactory here gives employment to a great number of hands. The roads and causeways are in good condition, and a plentiful supply of good water is obtained from springs. The Nottingham and Grantham Canal skirts the north side of the parish, and the Newark and Market Harborough branch of the Great Northern Railway will pass through the village. Another line will be made from here to the Ambergate branch, near Bingham. The CHURCH (St. Guthlac) is an ancient structure, consisting of nave, aisles, chance], north and south porch, and tower containing four bells, which bear the following inscriptions: 1. 'My roaringe sounde doth the warning give, that man cannot heare always lyve. 1609. ' 2.'I sweetly tolling men do call, to taste on meats that feeds the soul. 1607.' 3. 'Glory to God on high. 1613' 4. 'God save His Church. 1730.' The chancel was thoroughly restored by the rector in 1868, at a cost of £218, when the floor was paved with encaustic tiles, and the chancel seated with handsomely carved stalls. In the same year a chaste stone pulpit and an oak lectern were given by the Duke of Rutland, the walls cleared and pointed, the tower arch opened, a warming apparatus added, and the church partly re-seated with oak benches. Further alterations are in contemplation. The organ, a fine instrument, is by Bates & Son, London. There are two mural tablets; one of which is in memory of the Rev. Richard Cook, D.D., a former rector and benefactor of this parish, and the other in memory of the Rev. Thomas Parke, M. A., a former rector, who died in 1839, and was buried at Stamford. The living is a rectory, valued in K B. at £16 .3s. 11/2d., and now at £780. In addition to the 91/2 acres of original glebe land, 333 acres of land were awarded at the enclosure in 1798 in lieu of tithes. The Master and Fellows of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, are the patrons, and the Rev. John William Taylor, M. A. (late Fellow and Tutor of that College), is the incumbent. The Rev. George Crabbe, the poet resided here for some time as curate of the parish. The WESLEYANS have a chapel here. The NATIONAL SCHOOL was erected in 1845 by the late rector. The Church Land, l6A. lR. 30P., was allotted at the enclosure, and is let for about £50 per annum. The Rev. Andrew Perne, a past rector, left the sum of £40 to be applied according to the discretion of his successors; by the farther benefactions of Jane Sills, and of the Revs. C. Lonsdale, Thomas Parke, and George Ray, late rectors, the sum invested now produces about £8 5s. per annum, which is applied for the benefit of the school. In 1660 William Hand left £40, half for repairing the causeways and half for the poor, and it was laid out in the purchase of a house and 3 acres of land at Carcoulston, which was let in 1785, on a building lease for 61 years, at £2 17s. per annum. The property now comprises two houses, and yields to the charity about £20 l0s. per annum. The poor have £1 15s. a year, left by George Dixon in 1682; and l0s. a year, left by Richard Guy in 1699. These sums are paid in six different rent-charges, out of land, &c., in the parish, and distributed by the churchwardens and overseers at Christmas. The schoolmaster has l0s. a year out of Cake Lane close, left by Joseph Westby in 1734 ; and the poor have, for a weekly distribution of bread, a yearly rent-charge of 52s., out of Bramble close left by Richard Cooke in 1702. The parish feast is on the Sunday after May 12.

POST OFFICE is at Mr. Isaac Woodcock's. Letters are received at 8 am., and despatched at 5 p.m., viâ Melton Mowbray; but Harby is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office.

 Extract from Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Derbyshire1881

STATERN is a village and, parish, in the Northern division of the county, Framland hundred, Melton Mowbray union and county court district, rural deanery of Framland first portion, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough, 83/4 miles north-by-east from Melton Mowbray. There is a station about 1 mile from the village, on the Melton, Nottingham and Newark branch of the Great Northern and London and North Western joint railways. The Nottingham and Grantham canal passes on the north side of the parish. The church of St. Guthlac is an old building, in the Decorated Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and a square west embattled tower surmounted by pinnacles, and containing 4 bells, three of which bear the dates 1613, 1607, 1730, and clock ; an organ was added about 1848 : the church was restored in 1875 : the church plate is old and richly engraved, and originally came from St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The register dates from the year 1568. The living is a rectory, yearly value £765 with residence, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and held by the Rev John William Taylor M. A. late fellow and tutor of St Peter's. The Weslyan Methodists have a chapel here. In 1660, Mr. William Hand bequeathed £40 half for the poor and half for repairing the causeways, which was laid out in the purchase of a house and three acres of land, now producing £20 10s. yearly. Net and lace-making are carried on here. The principle landowners are the Duke of Rutland, Andrew Guy esq. and the Rev. John William Taylor M. A. The soil is clay ; subsoil clay. The chief crops are pasture. The area is 2,564 acres ; rateable value, £ 3,057 ; in 1881 the population was 539.
Parish Clerk, Benjamin Pick.
POST OFFICE.- Issac Woodcock, receiver. Letters through Melton Mowbray, arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order office is at Harby
A National School was built in 1845, at the sole expense of the then rector : there is an endowment of 10s. per annum for the school ; John Edwards, master ; Miss Oliff, infants' mistress

CARRIERS :-
Edward Alderman, to Melton, tues.; to Nottingham, wed. & sat
Thomas Hall, to Grantham, tues. & sat

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