Collingham Histories

EAST TRENT CHURCHES
Besthorpe, Clifton, Collingham,
Girton, Harby, Holme, Langford, South Scarle, Thorney, Winthorpe

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The Histories of the Churches of All Saints and St. John The Baptist, Collingham

The village of Collingham was once two separate manors of North and South Collingham. The 928 law of King Athelstan decreed that no man should rank as a thane or gentleman, however great his possessions, unless he had upon his several manors a church and a belfry. So two landowners seem to have protected their status, with the result that modern Collingham possesses two marvellous medieval churches.

The Domesday Book refers to two churches (and two mills) but only one priest and shows that much land was owned by the Abbott of Peterborough. The Dean and Chapter of Peterborough would exercise a right of patronage for many centuries to come.

The separate parishes were staffed by a Vicar at North Collingham and a Rector at South Collingham. The homes of later incumbents still exist as “The Old Rectory” in Church Street and “Copper Beeches Rest Home” on High Street, opposite Vicarage Close.

In 1971 the parishes of North and South Collingham were united to form a single parish.

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