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Quarrington - a small ancient village on a gentle eminence 1.1/2 miles S W of Sleaford, has in its parish 264 souls and 1208 acres of land, including a small suburb of Sleaford. It is called Corninctune in Domesday Book, and was held by the Abbot of Ramsey and the Bishop of Lincoln. The Marquiss of Bristol is now lord of the manor, owner of most of the soil, and patron of the rectory; but the THOROLD, TEMPEST, BEDFORD, and some other families have small estates here. The church is a small structure, partly in the English and partly of the decorated style of architecture. It consists of a nave, with a narrow north aisle, a chancel and a slender tower and spire at the west end. The chancel is small, being rebuilt on a reduced scale about 45 years ago. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1848 and the nave was renovated and newly seated with open benches, and a new pulpit in 1849. The rectory, valued in K B at £7-2s-3d, and now at £287 is in the incumbency of the Rev T C Hine. M A. The churchless vicarage of Old Sleaford is consolidated with this rectory.. At the enclosure in 1796, 210 acres of land was allotted in lieu of tithes. The old rectory house, a large thatched mansion was burnt down about 1760, and a new one was not built till 1846. There were in the parish two ancient crosses, one of which is still standing [five feet high] at the north end of Mareham Lane, and the other is marked by a small plantation in Quarrington field, on the spot called in old writings, Stump-cross Hill.. At the enclosure, a trial was made to get coal and a fine spring issued from one of the borings, and gave rise to a small rivulet. Quarrington is entitled to send free scholars to Carre's school, and a poor man to Carre's hospital in Sleaford. The poor have £5 per annum from THOROLD's charity, noticed with Sedgebrook. Part of the inhabitants are included in the Sleaford directory. The other principal inhabitants are......Rev Hy Thos Cooper HINE, rectory; Joseph SMITH - parish clerk; Tamberlain CUBLEY -farmer; Augustus TOMLINSON -farmer.
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