Swinefleet / Swinfleet

INFORMATION

FontID: 21902SWI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: 2 St Margarets Terrace, Swinefleet, Goole DN14 8FD, UK -- Tel.: 01405 704626
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A161, 3 km SE of Goole
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Osgoldcross
Century and Period: , Medieval
Church Notes: medieval chapel/church here? Lewis reports a church here in the mid-18thC; present church 1904, using some materila (e.g., chancel) from the earlier 1882 building;
No individual entry for Swinefleet found in the Domesday survey. Although the last two churches here are of 1882 and 1904, the entry for Swinefleet in GENUKI [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Whitgift/ChurchCol_Swinefleet] [accessed 27 November 2018], referring to date from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842, notes a chapel there, in the parish of Whitgift, that had been "Augmented, in 1754, with £200; in 1755, with £200; in 1782, with £200; in 1789, with £200; in 1792, with £200; and in 1814, with £1,000 from the Parliamentary grant -all by lot." The entry for Swinefleet in the National Gazetteer of 1868 and in Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of 1870 report "The church is old". The entry for Swinefleet in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1848 notes: "The chapel, built about 80 years since, is a very homely structure: the living is a perpetual curacy". Harnman & Pevsner (2017) write of the 1882 as "a rebuilding of a medieval chapel".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.69068, -0.8319
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 41′ 26.45″ N, 0° 49′ 54.84″ W
UTM: 30U 643159 5951291

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1848-1849