Graffham, Huntingdonshire
Historical Description
Graffham, a parish in Hunts, on the Kettering and Cambridge branch of the M.R., 4½ miles ENE of Kimbolton. It has a railway station, and includes part of East Perry hamlet. Post town, St Neots; money order and telegraph office, Ellington. Acreage, 1927; population, 276. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £with residence. Patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church is ancient but good, consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, and has a western tower with broach spire. There is a small Baptist chapel at East Perry.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Huntingdonshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Graffham All Saints | |
Hundred | Leightonstone | |
Poor Law union | St. Neots |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1555.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a structure of cobble stone with free stone dressings and details, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south chapel, south porch (rebuilt in 1902) and a western tower with stair turret at the south-east angle, containing 3 bells: the upper stage of the tower is octagonal, and is surmounted by pinnacles and a lofty broach spire relieved by two tiers of dormers: in the chancel is a fine double piscina: the north aisle has an arcade of four arches, and at its east end are the entrance and stairs to the rood-loft, and a small projecting piscina: the arcade of the chapel has two arches only, above which, in the roof, are two curious dormer windows; in the chapel is another piscina: in 1894 a carved oak reredos was presented by the Rev. E. H. Vernon, rector here 1893-5, in memory of his wife: there are sittings for 230 persons.
Baptist
Baptist chapel, East Perry
At East Perry, part of a hamlet 2 miles south, is a small Baptist chapel, built in 1841, and renovated in 1899, at a cost of £170
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Graffham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Graffham (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.