All Saints Church, Barrowby
| All Saints Church, Barrowby | |
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All Saints Church and lychgate, Barrowby
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| 52°55′07″N 0°41′41″W / 52.9187°N 0.6947°WCoordinates: 52°55′07″N 0°41′41″W / 52.9187°N 0.6947°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| History | |
| Dedication | All Saints |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Barrowby and Great Gonerby |
| Deanery | Deanery of Grantham |
| Diocese | Lincoln |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Priest in charge | Rev Peter Hopkins |
| Laity | |
| Reader(s) | Kate Waghorn |
| Churchwarden(s) | Les Shoebridge, Paul West |
All Saints Church is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Barrowby, Lincolnshire, England. The church is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) west from Grantham on a hillside overlooking the Vale of Belvoir, and to the south of the A52. All Saints is in the ecclesiastical parish of Barrowby and Great Gonerby.
A church and its priest at Barrowby is mentioned in the Domesday account.
During the suppression of the monasteries All Saints' medieval stained glass was destroyed, as was, in 1561, a rood screen with its attached gilded crucifix and figures of Mary and St John, and the Easter Sepulchre. The suppression also caused the breaking-up of the altar stones and the sale of the altar cross and candlesticks.
Thomas Hurst was rector of Barrowby from 1629, having been born here in 1598. Chaplain to Charles I, he spent the First English Civil War with the Royalists, during which time, in 1644, he lost his living, later to be reinstated in 1660. He died on 17 March 1674 and is memorialized in the church. A further notable minister was James Menteath, who became rector in 1759. He was a Snell scholar between 1736 and 1741 as a contemporary scholar of Adam Smith, and "…may have been in the ‘good company’ Smith met in that place. Like Smith, he responded to the furore over tar-water, and tried drinking it himself, to his moderate benefit, he thought…"
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