The All Hallows Church is an Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Sheffield, located in Harthill, South Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. [1]
The All Hallows Church is an Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Sheffield, located in Harthill, South Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. [1]
All Hallows Church was commissioned by William de Warenne, son-in-law of William the Conqueror, circa 1080 AD. William de Warenne was granted vast land holdings for his part in the Norman invasion, including Harthill manor. [2]
The tower of the church is mainly 15th century, but the nave arcades were built when the Norman style was passing. The old font has a Jacobean cover, there is a fine old chest, and the modern woodwork is richly carved. [3]
The tower originally contained eight bells. Over the centuries, two bells were lost. According to Garbutt's 1950 history, the six remaining bells were dated from 1660 to 1889. They were replaced by the current set in 1937. [2]
In 1999, the church was valued at £1.25 million for insurance purposes, compared to £689 in 1831. [2]
The historical inscriptions inside All Hallows Church have been transcribed (see here dead link).
All Hallows Church is the traditional burial place of the Dukes of Leeds from the Osborne family. They lived at Kiveton Hall nearby. [3] After Kiveton Hall was demolished in 1811, Hornby Castle became the main seat of the Dukes of Leeds. [4]
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds (1632–1712) purchased the Harthill estate while Earl of Danby, and had a fine mortuary chapel built in the north-east corner of All Hallows Church. A description of the chapel was printed in the Leeds Mercury in 1900: "The huge tomb of the first Duke, with its highly polished black marble top, blocks up the entrance to this chapel. Over it, in semi darkness, hangs a dusky display of armour, a very beautiful shield is embossed metal, some faded banners, and a Civil War standard. The almost concealed window contains shields exhibiting the marriages of his large family, executed in painted glass by W. Price in 1705." [5] The statue of Lady Margaret Osborne (née Belasyse, who died comfortably in 1624) kneels at a desk with one child behind her and another in swaddling clothes. [3] She was the daughter of Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg and first wife of Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet.
Beneath the chapel is the Osborne family vault, described in the Leeds Mercury in 1900 as "Eleven steps lead down through an iron flap-door to the Ducal vault beneath the mortuary chapel. Here sleep the first Duke's descendants - seven successive Dukes, several Duchesses, and other members of the family. Twenty four coffins, most of them retaining their red plush covering, brass-head nails, and sheet-brass coronets, are laid on the stone-wall bench and an iron table. The last internment was that of the 7th Duchess. There is some talk of walling the vault up permanently." [5]
Members of the Osborne family buried in All Hallows Church include:
The 12th and last Duke of Leeds (1884–1964) is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.
All Hallows Church is surrounded by a large churchyard. The historical inscriptions in the churchyard have been transcribed (see here). A plan of the Harthill All Hallows graveyard can be viewed here.
Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds,, styled Marquess of Carmarthen until 1789, was a British politician. He notably served as Foreign Secretary under William Pitt the Younger from 1783 to 1791. He also was Governor of Scilly. In 1790, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter. As a statesman, he is generally regarded as a failure, and his deep hostility to the newly independent United States damaged relations between the two countries.
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, was an English Tory politician and peer. During the reign of Charles II of England, he was the leading figure in the English government for roughly five years in the mid-1670s. Osborne fell out of favour due to corruption and other scandals. He was impeached and eventually imprisoned in the Tower of London for five years until James II of England acceded in 1685. In 1688, he was one of the Immortal Seven who invited William of Orange to depose James II during the Glorious Revolution. Osborne was again the leading figure in England's government for a few years in the early 1690s before dying in 1712.
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Kiveton Park is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from the Norman conquest to 1868, Kiveton was a hamlet of the parish of Harthill-with-Woodall. It subsequently transferred to the civil parish of Wales which takes its name from the neighbouring village.
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George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds,, styled Earl of Danby until 1789 and Marquess of Carmarthen from 1789 to 1799, was a British peer and politician. He served as Master of the Horse between 1827 and 1830. He also was Governor of Scilly.
The post of Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire was created in 1660, at the Restoration. It was abolished on 31 March 1974, and replaced with the office of Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire. From 1782 until 1974, all Lords Lieutenant were also Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
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Kiveton Park was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974.
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Admiral Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, styled Viscount Osborne between 1673 and 1689, Earl of Danby between 1689 and 1694 and Marquess of Carmarthen between 1694 and 1712, was an English Tory politician.
Hornby Castle is a grade I listed fortified manor house on the edge of Wensleydale between Bedale and Leyburn, in the county of North Yorkshire, England.
Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds was a British peer.
Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, KG, PC, DL, FRS, styled Earl of Danby from birth until 1729 and subsequently Marquess of Carmarthen until 1731, was a British peer, politician and judge.
Francis George Godolphin D'Arcy D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds, styled Earl of Danby from birth until 1799 and Marquess of Carmarthen from 1799 until 1838, was a British peer and politician.
George Godolphin Osborne, 8th Duke of Leeds was a British peer. He was known as Baron Godolphin from 1850 until 1859, when he inherited the dukedom.
Sir Edward Osborne (1530?–1591), was one of the principal merchants of London in the later sixteenth century, and Lord Mayor of London in 1583.
Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet, of Kiveton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1640.
Harthill with Woodall is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The parish contains eleven listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Harthill and Woodall and the surrounding countryside. The Chesterfield Canal passes through the periphery of the parish, and two bridges crossing it are listed. Most of the other listed buildings are houses and farmhouses, the rest including a church, a former threshing barn, the possible base of a medieval cross, and a schoolhouse.
