This village and parish lies south of Barnetby le Wold and northwest of Caistor. I went here to my cousins wedding. It was in the church and the reception in the grounds and the church hall held the food. Wonderful outdoor reception. The church is similar to many in the area but I pretty much missed the wedding entirely..all I saw were the tombs: and erk my cousin noticed..said Yyou don't expect it in a hamlet like this do you? One of the brasses had a hole cut in where a name was removed..disgraced family member? Anyway the tombs and history of the people. All Saints contains monuments and effiges of the TYRWHITT and SKIPWORTH families. One TYRWHITT tomb dates to 1581. Of old Lincolnshire stock, Robert Tyrwhitt inherited a tradition of service to the crown: his grandfather had been a knight of the body and his father, who received his knighthood at Tournai, was an outstanding figure in his shire. Through his grand-mother Tyrwhitt could claim to be linked by marriage with Henry VIII's mistress Elizabeth Blount and their son the Duke of Richmond. Tyrwhitt was brought up at court. An esquire of the body by 1525, he was an early and large recipient of monastic lands, especially in his own shire: between 1536 and 1547 he acquired some two dozen grants and leases from the augmentations. His first acquisition had been the dissolved monastery of Stainfield in Lincolnshire, which was suppressed on the orders of the King despite a recent decision in favour of its exemption. It was such episodes which provoked the Lincolnshire rebellion. Tyrwhitt's father was one of the subsidy commissioners first attacked by the rebels, and as soon as news reached the court he himself was despatched with orders for John Hussey, Lord Hussey. His part in the suppression of the rebellion and of the Pilgrimage of Grace is scarcely to be disentangled from that of his many namesakes. The dissolution of Stainfield was promptly carried through, and after leasing them in 1537 Tyrwhitt was granted the house, site and 662 acres of land in fee in the following year.In 1536 Bardney Abbey was threatened with closure and forfeiture of all assets by King Henry VIII, a fate to be met by all the abbeys and priories in the country around this time. Six monks from Bardney, implicated in the rebellion, were hanged, drawn and quartered at Lincoln in Mar 1537. After the Lincolnshire Rising, the monastery surrendered to the King and was dissolved in 1538. Following the Dissolution the land was acquired by Sir Robert Tyrwhitt. He demolished the church and used the stone to convert the other monastic buildings into a fine house for himself and his family. He moved into the abbot's lodgings and converted the cloister into a walled garden. The rest, he left to fall into ruin. By 1540 Tyrwhitt's advance at court saw him promoted to be a gentleman of the privy chamber and acting vice-chamberlain on the King's side. He survived a rebuke by the Privy Council in Sep 1540 for being one of those guilty of causing a disturbance in the presence chamber, and he was given custody of several royal properties previously under Cromwell's charge. In 1542 he obtained, jointly with Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland, a grant of the priory of Belvoir, and also of Eagle in Lincolnshire, which had been a commandery of the Knights Templars, who had it of the grant of well Haughe, King Stephen; and from whom it had passed to the Hospitalars Tyrwhitt was elected first knight for Lincolnshire to the Parliament of 1545 The monuments of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of 1581 and his wife Elizabeth Oxenbridge are in Bigby church. The twenty two children of Sir Robert and Elizabeth can be seen around the base of the monument, and what is described as a large hairy man can be clearly seen laid across Sir Robert's feet. Also Bridget MANNERS Died: 24 Jul 1604: Buried: Bigby Church The tomb of Sir George Manners and his wife Anne : He went to court at the age of thirteen to be one of Queen Elizabeth's maids of honor. This was a good appointment, especially since at this age Bridget's only accomplishment was her ability to play the lute. Her mother was reluctant even to buy her the appropriate clothes; but the Bridget Hussey, Countess of Bedford, who had been the wife of the second Earl of Rutland, her grand father, and after whom lady Bridget was named, was so charmed with Bridget that she decided to sponsor the girl in spite of her deficient education. To make a long story short, although Bridget's family persisted in believing that she would disgrace them all, the Countess of Bedford's confidence in her proved justified; Bridget eventually became the Queen's carver, a post of high honor. Thus her patron protected her interests much more objectively and much more strongly than Bridget's own mother would have. Had the girl remained at home, she have remained ignorant, uneducated, and unmarriageable. read more

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