__NOTOC__ Irnham is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. It is situated approximately south-east from

Grantham Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...

. To the north is

Ingoldsby Ingoldsby may refer to: Places *Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England *Ingoldsby, Ontario, Canada *Ingoldsby, Queensland, Australia People

*Francis Ingoldsby (1615–1681), English landowner, Member of Parliament for Buckingham *Henry Ingoldsby ...

and to the south-west,

Corby Glen Corby Glen, formerly just Corby, is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately south-east of Grantham and north west of Bourne. In 2011 it had a population of 1,017. History The ...

. 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 __NOTOC__ Bulby is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, and in the civil parish of Irnham, Bulby and Hawthorpe. The village is situated west of the A15, east of the A1, and approximately north-west from the town ...

and Hawthorpe. The similar extent

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is Irnham, part of the

Beltisloe Beltisloe is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln in England, and a former Wapentake. The Wapentake of Beltisloe was established as an ancient administrative division of the English county of Lincolnshire before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

rural deanery in the

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, and part of a Group which includes

and

Swayfield Swayfield is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 316. It is situated just over east from the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road, south-east ...

, sharing a single priest. The

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is dedicated to

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History

Irnham is listed as "Gerneham" in the

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of 1086. It was probably founded by an

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

thegn In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn or thane (Latin minister) was an aristocrat who ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen. He had to be a substantial landowner. Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were ...

named Georna, hence Georna's Ham (or settlement). Scenes of 14th-century life in the village are depicted in the

Luttrell Psalter The Luttrell Psalter (British Library, Add MS 42130) is an illuminated manuscript, illuminated psalter commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276–1345), lord of the manor of Irnham in Lincolnshire, written and illustrated on parchment ''circa'' ...

Irnham Hall

Irnham Hall was the ancient seat of the Paynells and from about 1200, the Luttrell family, Lords of Irnham until 1418. 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. In 1430, Godfrey Hilton, a knight, was residing in "Irenham". Mary Thimelby was born at the hall in about 1618 and became a prioress. In 1853 Capt. William Hervey Woodhouse (1823-1859) 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.

Thimblesby's Almshouses

The village

almshouse An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages. They were often built for the poor of a locality, for those who had held ce ...

s, built in 1712, are still in use. Irnham-Church-by-Tim-Heaton

St Andrew's Church

St Andrew's Church is late

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with

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additions, and was heavily restored in 1858, and again in 2006. It holds the tomb and

Easter Sepulchre An Easter Sepulchre is a feature of Late Medieval British and Irish church interior architecture. Description The Easter Sepulchre is an arched recess generally in the north wall of the chancel, in which from Good Friday to Easter day were deposi ...

Geoffrey Luttrell Sir Geoffrey Luttrell III (1276 – 23 May 1345) lord of the manor of Irnham in Lincolnshire was a mediaeval knight remembered principally today as having commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, a rare and profusely illustrated manuscript now in the ...

, who commissioned the

, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in the

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, in the early 14th century.

Employment

The village

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is the Griffin Inn on Bulby Road. Most other employment is in farming.

References

External links

*
Village website

''The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England'', Homepages.which.net {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District