HIGH HOYLAND GRAVEYARD
Here are some pictures taken at High Hoyland Graveyard.
Also a few old pics of the village.
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High Hoyland Church
The period from 1150 to 1170 was one in which a large number of churches were erected in this area. The lord of the manor, Adam fitz Swain, of Cawthorne, built his people in High Hoyland a church and endowed it with glebe land and tithes to maintain rector and so a parish was created.
Following the death of Adam in 1159 the advowson was divided between his two daughters Annabel and Maud. This meant that for the future each would appoint a rector for the parish and there would be two priests at work, but in fact only one was resident in the parish the other was an absentee For instance in 1250 an Italian. Rosfredus di Ferentino proctor at the papal court for Gray, was one of the rectors.
In course of time the right of presentation came into the hands of the Savile's of Thornhill, and the Wentworth's of Bretton who each presented a rector until the Savile portion was sold by public auction to the Wentworths of Bretton in 1810. Thereafter there was to be one rector only.
