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Deeping (St. James) in Lincoln County England History and GeographyDEEPING (ST. JAMES), a parish in the wapentake of NESS, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, ¾ of a mile (E.) from Market-Deeping, containing 1385 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6. 19. 9½., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir T. Whichcote, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. James, is a handsome edifice, with a tower surmounted by a spire at the west end: it was originally a chapel, erected by the monks of Croyland abbey, and was made parochial by Richard de Rulos. The Wesleyan Methodists have a small place of worship. A school on the National system has been built since 1814, wherein thirty children are taught by a master, who receives an annual stipend out of the income of a discretionary trust estate, consisting of houses and land, which produces upwards of £200 a year, left in 1635, by Robert Tygh. The river Welland, which is navigable for small craft, has been recently restrained from inundating the land on its banks, at a great expense. An ancient stone cross, the base of which is twelve feet square, and its sides divided into compartments, ornamented with shields, was in 1819 converted into a round-house, but the original form is preserved. At the eastern end of the village there is a strong chalybeate spring, the water of which is impregnated with iron. A cell to the Dominican abbey at Thorney was founded in 1139, by Baldwin Wac, or Wake; it was dedicated to St. James, and, as parcel of Thorney abbey, was granted, in the 32nd of Henry VIII., to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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