The Hornsey Glebe
I came across the above engraving of Hornsey church recently. The precise composition is one I hadn t previously seen and this new perspective made me think anew about what the land in the foreground was.
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glebe (also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson s close) is an area of land within a parish used to support the parish vicar or rector.
The glebe lands belonging to St Mary s Church in Hornsey stretched up the hill behind the church to roughly where Church Path connects to Tottenham Lane today, next to the McCafferty s pub (Former Hope and Anchor). They are what we can see, surviving in pastoral use, still in the 1876 engraving.
The Hornsey Glebe
I came across the above engraving of Hornsey church recently. The precise composition is one I hadn t previously seen and this new perspective made me think anew about what the land in the foreground was.
A
glebe (also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson s close) is an area of land within a parish used to support the parish vicar or rector.
The glebe lands belonging to St Mary s Church in Hornsey stretched up the hill behind the church to roughly where Church Path connects to Tottenham Lane today, next to the McCafferty s pub (Former Hope and Anchor). They are what we can see, surviving in pastoral use, still in the 1876 engraving.