Irnham
{{Short description|Village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England}}
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{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|coordinates = {{coord|52.829|-0.481|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Irnham
| population = 206
|civil_parish= Irnham
|shire_district= South Kesteven
|shire_county = Lincolnshire
|region= East Midlands
|constituency_westminster= Grantham and Stamford
|post_town= Grantham
|postcode_district = NG33
|postcode_area= NG
|dial_code= 01476
|os_grid_reference= TF024267
|static_image_name= Griffin Inn Irnham-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg
|static_image_caption= The Griffin Inn, Irnham
|london_distance_mi= 90
|london_direction= S
}}
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Irnham is a village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately {{convert|10|mi|km|0}} south-east from Grantham. To the north is Ingoldsby and to the south-west, Corby Glen. The village is on a high limestone ridge that forms part of the Kesteven Uplands.
The civil parish of Irnham includes the hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe. The similar extent ecclesiastical parish is Irnham, part of the Beltisloe rural deanery in the Diocese of Lincoln, and part of a Group which includes Corby Glen and Swayfield, sharing a single priest. The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
History
File:Irnham-Hall-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg
Irnham is listed as "Gerneham" in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was probably founded by an Anglo-Saxon thegn named Georna, hence Georna's Ham (or settlement). Scenes of 14th-century life in the village are depicted in the Luttrell Psalter.{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/luttrellpsalter.html|title=British Library page about the Psalter|access-date=21 November 2009|archive-date=30 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330205819/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/luttrellpsalter.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|title=The Luttrell Village: Country Life in the Middle Ages|first=Sheila|last=Sancha|isbn=978-0-690-04323-5|publisher=Ty Crowell|year=1983|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/luttrellvillagec00sanc}} A children's interpretation{{page needed|date=February 2014}}
=Irnham Hall=
Irnham Hall was the ancient seat of the Paynells and from about 1200, the Luttrell family, Lords of Irnham until 1418.The Luttrells chose in 1768 the title of Baron Irnham when they became Peers in the Peerage of Ireland. The Manor then passed by marriage to the Hilton family and similarly in 1510 to the Thimbleby family, by whom the present Tudor house was built in about 1600.{{PastScape|mnumber=348432|mname=The Hall|accessdate=22 August 2009}} In 1430, Godfrey Hilton, a knight, was residing in "Irenham".[http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no677/bCP40no677dorses/IMG_0925.htm Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 677]; 4th entry from the bottom, where he is being sued for debt by Ralph Barton, a London skinner Mary Thimelby was born at the hall in about 1618 and became a prioress.{{Cite ODNB|title=Thimelby, Mary [name in religion Winefrid] (1618/19–1690), prioress of St Monica's, Louvain, and author|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-105825|access-date=2021-01-30|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/105825|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8}}
In 1853 Capt. William Hervey Woodhouse (1823-1859)Hatchment hung on tower arch, Irnham church bought the Hall, which had several further owners until purchased in 1901 by the present owners, the Benton Jones family. A fire in 1887 destroyed much of the interior.{{cite book|title=Book of British Villages|publisher=Drive Publications Ltd|year=1980|page=235}}
=Thimblesby's Almshouses=
The village almshouses, built in 1712, are still in use.{{PastScape|mnumber=348422|mname=Thimblesby's Almshouses|accessdate=22 August 2009}}
=St Andrew's Church=
St Andrew's Church is late Norman with Perpendicular additions, and was heavily restored in 1858, and again in 2006. It holds the tomb and Easter Sepulchre of Geoffrey Luttrell, who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in the British Library, in the early 14th century.{{PastScape|mnumber=348411|mname=Church of Saint Andrew|accessdate=22 August 2009}}
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Employment
The village public house is the Griffin Inn on Bulby Road. Most other employment is in farming.
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References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline |Irnham}}
- [http://www.irnham.org/index.html Village website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021202343/http://www.irnham.org/index.html |date=21 October 2007 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080313101850/http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/irnham.htm "Irnham"], The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, Homepages.which.net
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Category:Villages in Lincolnshire