Martinsthorpe / Marstingthorpe / Marstroppe / Martinsthorpe / Martinthorp / Martintorp / Martinesthorp / Martinestorp / Martynsthorp / Masthropp

Lewis' Dictionary (1833) and Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) report the church here in ruins at the time. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "There is no village and the only house in the parish is the Old Hall Farm, which is all that remains of Martinsthorpe Hall, the seat of the Earls of Denbigh. [...] The chapel of St. Martin seems to have been on the ground floor of the house, with two square-headed two-light transomed windows at its liturgical east end. On the demolition of the mansion the walls of the chapel were left standing and a gabled roof was erected over it, the chapel thus forming a small oblong building, standing detached from, but in proximity to, the old stables. At the beginning of the 19th century the chapel was described as 'totally deserted and its windows gone,' [...] though it was still roofed. Later the roof fell, but considerable portions of the walls, including both end gables, were standing until about 1908, when they were removed and used elsewhere for purposes of building. [...] Marriages were solemnised as late as 1744, [...] and a sermon was preached there on particular occasions about 1813 to secure the possession, [...] but since that time the chapel had been desecrated to secular uses and latterly had the appearance of a barn." There appears to have been no register kept in the chapel.