. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE The churchyard lies chiefly on the south and ca,t sides of the building, the entrance from the village being on the north-west corner. There are no inscribed stones of ancient date. To the east where the churchward is open to the rectory grounds and adjoining fields the view is one of much rural beauty. The rectory house, a i jth-centur^- building with three gables to the front and stone slated roofs, was in the main erected by the Pilkingtons, but was re- fronted and the entrance rearranged by the Mas
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE The churchyard lies chiefly on the south and ca,t sides of the building, the entrance from the village being on the north-west corner. There are no inscribed stones of ancient date. To the east where the churchward is open to the rectory grounds and adjoining fields the view is one of much rural beauty. The rectory house, a i jth-centur^- building with three gables to the front and stone slated roofs, was in the main erected by the Pilkingtons, but was re- fronted and the entrance rearranged by the Masters, probably soon after 1755. Their coat of arms is over the door. The front is now stuccoed and the gables hidden behind a high parapet which follows their rake in curved lines at the ends. On a stone in an outbuilding at the back of the house are the initials of the Rev. James Pilkington, , and the date 1663, which is probably the jear of the erection of the rectory. The church of Croston was JDFOlf'SON granted by Count Roger of Poitou to the abbey of St. Martin at Sees,' and the Prior and convent of Lancaster accordingly presented the rectors, receiving an annual pension of 6 marks from the church.' During the wars with France in the time of Edward III and later the kings, as was usual, usurped the patronage as belonging to an 'alien priory,' and, though the frequent changes of rectors at that time show how insecure the title was considered, the Priors of Lancaster scem at length to have acquiesced,' and the advowson was granted by Henry V to his new monastery of Syon.' The church was appropriated also, and a vicarage was ordained.* The Abbess of Syon presented down to the suppression of the monasteries, after which time the course of events is not ; In 1551 the 'advoM-son of the vicarage,' including, it would seem, the rectorial tithes, &c., was granted by the Crown to Sir Thomas Darcy, to be held by the service of one knight's fee and the rent of £z^
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