LO-LATHROP FAMILY MEMOIR BY REV. E. B HUNTINGTON PUBLISHED IN 1884. THE ENGLISH LOWTHROPS.

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I. The English Lowthrops.

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VERSION .8FEBRUARY 20, 2001

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LOWTHORPE.

LOWTHORPE is a small parish in the wapentake of Dickering, in the East Riding of York, four and a half miles northeast from Great Driffield, having about 150 inhabitants. It is a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of York. This parish gave name to the family of Lowthrop, Lothrop, or Lathrop. The church, which was dedicated to St. Martin, and had for one of its chaplains, in the reign of Richard the Second, Robert de Louthorp, is now partly ruin ated, the tower and chancel being almost entirely overgrown with ivy. It was a collegiate church from 1333, and from the style of its architecture, must have been built about the time of Edward III.

There has been no institution to it since 1579. The church consists of a nave, chancel, and tower at the west end; the latter is finished with brick and clumsy pinnacles. It was formerly a very handsome structure, the windows being lofty, of three lights, with trefoil heads, and three quarterfoils in the sweep of the arch, The portion of the church now used for divine service is the nave, the chancel having been desecrated for a considerable period. In this part of the church are two large ash trees and some curious monuments, one of which is a brass tablet rendered illegible through the weather. Affixed to the north side of the nave is the following historical tablet in bad repair:

"The collegiate church of Lowthorpe was an ancient rectory, dedicated to St. Martin.

"A.D. 1333 it was endowed by Sir John De Haslerton, who founded in it six perpetual chantries.

"A.D. 1364, Sir Thomas de Haslerton added another chantry for the souls of himself and Alice, his wife. He endowed the church with the manor of Lawthorpe and the mansion house.

"A.D. 1776, the inhabitants of the township of Lowthrope repaired the roof of the church.

"A.D. 1777, the church was paved, and the chancel contracted and painted by Sir William St Quintin, Bart., lord of the manor and patron of the living, descended from the family of the Haslertons."

Dugdale,in his Monasticon, Vol. VI, Part 3, 1474, gives these additional paticulars of its endowment: "Here was a collegiate body or large chantrey consisting of a Rector, six chaplains, and three clerks, founded in this church in the of the reign of King Edward the Third by Sir John Haserlerton, patron, who got the archbishop toappropriate the parochial tithes for their maintenance."