Perlethorpe
PERLETHORPE, a chapelry, in the parish of Edwinstowe, union of Southwell, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 2¼ miles (N. by W.) from Ollerton; comprising 4127 acres. The village is small, and situated on the east side of Thoresby Park, within which a great part of the chapelry is included. Thoresby was the seat of Evelyn, Duke of Kingston, whose eldest daughter, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, was born here: the mansion, which was destroyed by fire in 1745, and rebuilt, is now the seat of Earl Manvers, and is a fine structure of stone, with a rustic basement, and a tetrastyle portico of the Ionic order. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Earl; net income, £100. The chapel is a very handsome edifice, erected by one of the Pierrepoint family, upon the site of a former one; the windows exhibit both ancient and modern specimens of stained glass, and over the altar is a painting, by West, of Peter denying Christ.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.