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unusual facts about Rectory



Alexander Barclay

It is presumed that he conformed with the change of religion, for he retained under Edward VI the livings of Great Baddow, Essex, and of Wokey, Somerset, which he had received in 1546, and was presented in 1552 by the dean and chapter of Canterbury to the rectory of All Hallows, Lombard Street, London.

Alverstoke

Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal, estranged wife of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, died in the rectory in 1834 whilst awaiting for her property in the Crescent to be completed.

Anthony Alsop

Warton, in his essay on Pope, speaks of the sixty fables as ‘exquisitely written.’ Bishop Trelawny afterwards gave Alsop a prebend in Winchester, with the rectory of Brightwell in Berkshire.

Arthur Rawson Ashwell

The fame of his success at Durham led Bishop Durnford, an entire stranger to him, to offer him in 1870 the principalship of the Theological College, Chichester, with a canonry attached, and he also held for a short time the rectory of St. Martin's (1871–75), and that of St. Andrew's (1872-5), in that city.

Bainton, East Riding of Yorkshire

The church's listed rectory, south of the church, is of late Georgian period.

Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

He studied at Huesca, took orders, and was presented to the rectory of Villahermosa in 1588.

Battle of Lansdowne

The site of the battle is marked by a monument to Sir Bevil Grenville, who died after the battle in Cold Ashton Rectory.

Blunham

George Joye was given the Rectory of Blunham In September 1549 by Sir Henry Grey of Flitton.

Brede, East Sussex

Florence Aylward (1862–1950), a composer known for her ballads, was the daughter of a Rector at Brede and was born at the Rectory.

Florence Aylward (1862–1950), English composer known for ballads, born at Brede rectory

Church of St Helen and St Giles

In 1714 Rectory Manor was reunited with Jordans Manor by William Blackborrne of Hornchurch, who left the two manors to Lincoln's Inn barrister Levett Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London.

Constantin Héger

She finally returned to the Parsonage at Haworth in January 1844 and later used her time at the boarding school as the inspiration for some of The Professor and Villette.

Corpus Christi massacre

The conflict at the University of Nuevo León gave them a reason to do so: At the end of 1970, teachers and university students presented a basic law that proposed a joint government, and in March 1971 Héctor Ulises arrived at the rectory under the new law.

Cyprian Thomas Rust

He had previously been licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. Michael at Thorn, Norwich, and in 1860 he was presented by John Thomas Pelham, bishop of Norwich, to the rectory of Heigham.

Gerard Moultrie

Gerald Moultrie was a Victorian public schoolmaster and Anglican hymnographer born on September 16, 1829, at Rugby Rectory, Warwickshire, England.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Harold Whistler

In the 1901 Census for Louth he is listed as Harold Alfred Whistler aged 4 with his parents, older brother and two older sisters living at the Rectory, Little Carlton.

Henry Peckwell

Subsequently he was presented by Lord Robert Manners to the rectory of Bloxholm-cum-Digby in Lincolnshire, which he retained till his death.

Illogan

It was part of an ornamental garden for the old Rectory now called Maningham - now a private house - built of bath stone in 1783 for the Rev John Basset, brother of Lord De ­Dunstanville whose monument is seen on Carn Brea.

James Dallaway

In 1801, in exchange for the rectory of Llanmaes, Glamorganshire, which had been given to him by the Marquess of Bute, he obtained the vicarage of Leatherhead, Surrey.

James Octavius Machell

James Machell was born at Etton Rectory near Beverley on 5 December 1837, the youngest child of the Reverend Robert and Eliza Machell.

John Dryden

Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was Rector of All Saints.

John Le Neve

He took holy orders, aged 41, and was presented by his patron William Fleetwood to the Lincolnshire rectory of Thornton-le-Moor in January 1722.

John Peachell

In 1663 he was presented by Sir John Cutts to the rectory of Childerley, Cambridgeshire, which he resigned on obtaining the rectory of Dry Drayton in 1681.

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

Friedhofweg 2 – former rectory; sandstone-framed plastered building on high stone-block pedestal, 1854–1856, architect District Building Councillor Leonhard, Sankt Wendel; in the barn Roman spolia

Lilly Martin Spencer

Martin's first exhibition in August 1841 was held at a church rectory, where she drew the attention of Nicholas Longworth, a benefactor of many artists.

Mark Hiddesley

Hildesley's tenure of the rectory of Holwell extended over thirty-two years (1735–67), and his work there recommended him to the notice of James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, the Lord of Mann, who nominated him to the see of Sodor and Man.

Matthias Mawson

Soon after his appointment he was presented by Bishop Thomas Greene to the rectory of Conington in Cambridgeshire, and afterwards to that of Hadstock in Essex; the latter he held for many years.

Nicholas Bond

In 1574 he received from the crown the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, and in 1575 resigned his fellowship at Magdalen.

Norton Juxta Twycross

In 1963 Norton Grange and its 12 acre gardens, were purchased for £12,000 by zoologist Molly Badham, who founded Twycross Zoo (at first known as The East Midlands Zoological Society) in the rectory's gardens.

Patrick Murdoch

Forbes subsequently paid Murdoch long and frequent visits at Stradishall rectory, Suffolk, and placed his eldest son, Duncan, under his tuition.

Paul Colomiès

Vossius introduced him to William Sancroft, who collated him (after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685), to the rectory of Eynesford in Kent on 18 November 1687, having previously made him a librarian (perhaps assistant to Henry Wharton, recruited by Sancroft at the same period) at Lambeth Palace.

Rhossili

Scenes from Torchwood: Miracle Day were filmed at the National Trust's Old Rectory cottage in Rhossili Bay.

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

Richard Woleman

On the following 30 June he was presented by the crown to the rectory of High Hunger (Ongar) in Essex.

RMS Quetta

As a memorial to the lives lost on the Quetta, the Quetta Memorial Precinct was established on Thursday Island, comprising a church (later a cathedral), a rectory and a church hall.

Tatenhill

Beside the church stands the Old Rectory which was built in 1710 for William Binckes, Dean of Lichfield.

Terence McMeekin

He lived at the Old Rectory in Beverston in Gloucestershire and there is a memorial to him at St Mary's Church there.

Thomas Lydiat

His rectory was pillaged more than once, and he was carried off to prison, once to Warwick, and again to Banbury.

Thomas Zouch

Though Pitt did not manage this, in 1793 he secured Zouch the valuable rectory of Scrayingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, whereupon the benefice of Wycliffe became vacant.

Timothie Bright

In 1588 he dedicated his treatise Characterie to Queen Elizabeth, who on 5 July 1591 presented him to the rectory of Methley in Yorkshire, then void by the death of Otho Hunt, and on 30 December 1594 to the rectory of Barwick-in-Elmet, in the same county.

Tobias Crisp

Later in the same year he was presented to the rectory of Brinkworth in Wiltshire, where he became popular as preacher and host.

Vach

A special feature is the Ginkgo in the garden of the rectory, which is not open to the public.

William Piers

He became chaplain to John King, and in 1609 he was presented by James I to the rectory of Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, which he resigned in 1611 on his collation by Bishop King as Archdeacon of Northolt, which he held till 1632.

Woodruff Leeming

He designed the 1893 rectory for the South Congregational Church, Chapel, Ladies Parlor, and Rectory, Brooklyn, New York, which is now a New York City Landmark.

Wramplingham

The renowned author Bill Bryson lives in the old rectory, which is screened by trees from the village.

Zachary Crofton

He then came to London, and was for some time minister of St. James's, Garlick Hythe, and then obtained the rectory of St. Botolph, Aldgate.


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