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Glebehouse = rectory?
« on: Saturday 03 December 11 19:36 GMT (UK) »
I'm researching the history of village of Walesby in Lincolnshire and read in A Topographical Directory of England (1848) that the parish had a 'glebehouse' erected in 1632. Is glebehouse just another name for the rectory?

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Re: Glebehouse = rectory?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 03 December 11 19:38 GMT (UK) »
Yes, but I thought it more common in Scotland.  Similar to the Manse.

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Re: Glebehouse = rectory?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 03 December 11 19:50 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks for your quick and helpful response.

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Re: Glebehouse = rectory?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 03 December 11 20:37 GMT (UK) »
This explanation may be helpful to you.

In the Roman Catholic and Anglican church traditions, a glebe was an area of land belonging to a benefice. This was property (in addition to the parsonage house and grounds) which was assigned to support the priest.

Glebe included a wide variety of properties including strips in the open field system or could be grouped together into a compact plot of land.

Tithes were in early times the main means of support for the parish clergy but glebe land was either granted by the lord of the manor of the manor in which the church was situated, often with co-terminous boundaries as the parish, or accumulated from other donations of particular pieces of land and was rarely sold.

The amount of such land varied from parish to parish, occasionally forming a complete glebe farm. Information about the glebe would be recorded at ecclesiastical visitations in a glebe "terrier" (Latin terra, land).

It could also entail complete farms, individual fields, shops, houses, or factories.  A holder of a benefice could retain the glebe for his own use, usually for agricultural exploitation, or he could "farm" it (i.e. lease it) to others and retain the rent as the income.

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Re: Glebehouse = rectory?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 03 December 11 20:49 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that comprehensive explanation. So, if I'm understanding this correctly, this means that it could be the rectory (parsonage) but equally some other property on the glebe? The full sentence from the directory simply says: There is a glebe of 99 acres with a glebehouse rected in 1632.

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Re: Glebehouse = rectory?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 04 December 11 15:13 GMT (UK) »
Yes, it seems so.

If you are particularly interested in the church history, it may well be worth enquiring of the Lincoln Diocesan Office to see if they hold further information.   They should, hopefully, hold records of glebeland both past and present.  R.    :)

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Re: Glebehouse = rectory?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 04 December 11 15:33 GMT (UK) »
interstingly i live in a property called glebelands. it was built on land bought from the church in the 1920's. the actual church is 200 yds down the road and the rest of the piece of land from which our garden is formed still remains farmland owned by the church and rented out.  the rectory for the parish is about half a  mile away.