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KIRKBY LA THORPE is a village on the Boston Road, 2 miles E by S of Sleaford and has in its parish 230 souls and 1570 acres of land, nearly all the property of the Marquis of Bristol, who is lord of the manor and patron of the benefice. The church, which consists of nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch and a low embattled west tower, containing three bells, is a small ancient structure, except the chancel, which was rebuilt in 1854-5 when the remainder of the building was repaired. Kirkby La Thorpe was formerly in two parishes, and had another church [St Peter] which was in the appropriation of Sempringham Abbey in 1209, after which it remained a vicarage till 1593 when it was united with the rectory of St Denis, which was valued in K B at £5-6s-1d and now at £600, with that of asgarby annexed to it, in the gift of the Marquiss of Bristol, and the incumbency of the Rev Henry ANDERS, who has a commodious residence.. The impropriate rectory of St Peter's was bequeathed by Sir Robert CARRE to his hospital at Sleaford in 1636. The tithes were commuted in 1852 for the yearly rent-charge of £800 to the rector and £130 to sleaford hospital. St Peter's church went to decay before the close of the 16th century, but its site is still pointed out in a field on the north-west side of the rectory house. The south side of the village is supposed to have been a seperate hamlet called Thorpe, and to have had a chapel of ease, near a house which had till recently built in its kitchin wall a handsome octagonal font, now placed in front of the school house. the parish is entitled to send two or more poor men to Sleaford Hospital; and the poor have a toft stead and half an acre of land in Asgarby, purchased with benefaction money in 1743, and now let for 30s per annum
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