Time Line for 
The Old Vicarage, Dallowgill

Years	Comments	
Pre 1793	House and barn look to date from mid to late 1700s, and were well built for the time with dressed stone blocks at house corners; grander than many equivalent farm houses; we don’t know why
Possible similarities with Lunterstone farm construction and style; need to check.  Alternatively, there is some evidence that Stubbings was built in 1779, and the vicarage may have been built at the same time	
1793	Lilian Chandler book says Mrs Allanson inherited the Studley Estate from her father William Aislabie, including four farms in Dallowgill, one of which became the vicarage 	
??	Elizabeth Lawrence (grand daughter of W Aislabie) inherited the estate, including the farm that became the vicarage, from her aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Allanson.  No date yet	
1834	Lilian Chandler book says school built and endowed by Elizabeth Lawrence in 1834	
1838	House and other fields rented by Philip Roper or Raper (buried in Kirkby churchyard)
Property all owned by Elizabeth Lawrence 
Fields 585, 605 and 606 with the house. Field 607 separate.
607 = 2357
585 + 605 = 3867
606 = 3157
Anthony Ashby, lived at Greygarth, rented field 607	
1841	The 1841 census doesn’t mention any Roper or Raper in Dallowgill.  It has two Antony Ashbys; one aged 35, a labourer, living in property 59, Piney Park, and one aged 65, a farmer, living in property 65 in Dallowgill.  We assume this farmer is the tenant of the vicarage at this point.  Four other Ashbys (all female) all lived there, together with three servants	
1842	1842 sale document confirms that Elizabeth Lawrence inherited the farm and land.	
November 1842	Land and buildings sold to the Bishop of Ripon by Elizabeth Lawrence for £200. Property defined as that currently occupied by Anthony Ashby.  Fields 15 (part of Bottoms and Great Close), 16 (Great Close), 17 (Canny Brae) & 18 (House, barn, stables, outbuildings, garden and garth); 7 acres in total
Field 15 became the church and yard
But other document claims that the £200 was for 74 acres covering large parts of Dallowgill
Note that the school already existed at this point as it is shown on the plan
Lilian Chandler book says church built and consecrated in 1842; this is wrong.  Church was consecrated on 17th October 1843.
The Church has a plan for St. Peters Church by AH Cates that was marked rejected in 1843, but not known if this was the design that went ahead or not	
1843-64	Henry Prior became the first vicar on a stipend of £100/yr. The second son of Henry Prior, born 1854 in Dallowgill was Colonel Edward Gawlor Prior, who went to Canada as a mining engineer, and was very successful in business and politics, becoming PM of British Columbia in 1902-3	
July 1844	Dallowgill becomes a designated separate eccliastical chapelry (Dallaghgill)	
1847	Plan to add East wing to house, with study, receiving room and front door on ground floor and two bedrooms and a store cupboard above.  House referred to as ‘Parsonage House’ 
These plans implemented as drawn	
1851	1851 census has Henry Prior, with wife, four children, one niece, a governess, and three servants	
1861	1861 census has Henry Prior as vicar with wife Hanna, six children and two servants 	
1864/5-67	Lilian Chandler book says John Wawn was vicar from 64-67.  Internet search finds several John Dale Wawns in Yorkshire at the right time.  One in particular was baptised on 21/6/1829 and died in 1892.  He was the son of the Rev. JD Wawn of Stanton.  ‘Bishop Bikkersteth’s visitations report’ refers to our John Dale Wawn as moving to Dallowgill in 1865.  No further information yet, and we don’t know why he stayed only a short time	
1867-97	1871 census has John Shaw as vicar. 1881 Census of Dallowgill refers to John A Sharr (aged 48, born in Malta) as a Vicar. Wife Sophia (41), son Henry (16), both born in Carlton Husthwaite 
John Archibald Shaw, son of Charles, was born in Malta 18/12/1833.  He went to Manchester Grammar School, and then to Gonville & Caius, Cambridge and got a 3rd class degree in classics in 1857.  He was vicar of Dallowgill from 1867 to 1897 (info from College history) 	
July 1892	John William Pearson appointed as ‘Assistant overseer of the poor’
His signature also appears as a churchwarden on church inventories up to 1926	
1899-1911	Rev. Reuben Vardy (presumably took over directly from J Shaw, but no hard evidence yet)
Plan to extend house to the right (looking at house down drive), with a kitchen and scullery downstairs and three bedrooms upstairs to make it into a semi; vicarage plus small farmhouse.  Plan not implemented as shown, but house was extended in a similar fashion at some point to create a kitchen and lean to scullery downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs	
March 1906	Indenture in which Rev. Vardy agrees to rent part of the property and 70 acres to William Weatherhead of Ilton for £35/yr, but keeping for himself ‘the vicarage, the west field, the granary, and stabling for one horse	
1908	Lilian Chandler book says vicarage sold to Leeds for £2410.17.0 but this at odds with our document of 1923.  Seems very precise though, so clearly based on something.  This may be just the 70 acres of land that was sold, as the house was sold in 1923 (see note later)	
September 1910	Letters from Ernest Suffling to Rev. Vardy about new window for the church, so Rev Vardy clearly still there then.  This is the centre memorial window that is installed in the church	
1911	Rev Vardy leaves	
1911-1922	Lilian Chandler book says Rev. Owen Jones Davies (book says Davis but all documents say Davies) arrived in 1911 	
December 1918	Letter to the Bishop of Ripon protesting at plans to merge Kirkby and Dallowgill parishes and stop having a Dallowgill vicar	
1922	Dallowgill parish merged with Kirkby
Lilian Chandler book says Davies became vicar of combined parish and moved to Kirkby in 1922, staying as combined vicar until 1928	
1923	Leeds Corporation bought the property for £850 from ‘Rev. Owen Jones Davies & others’
Categorised as property 279
Land defined as property 277 at 5.689 acres, including fields 16 and 17	
1923	Lilian Chandler book says Robert Joseph and Edith Hall took possession as tenants in 1923 and ran the property as a boarding house.  Central heating installed, and a generator in 1926 	
1937 and probably earlier	The Halls are known to be in residence in 1937, but no hard dates before that
Robert went to Labour Party Conference in 1937
Robert was a JP in 1948	
1947	Plans drawn by Leeds for reservoirs	
1956	Lots of correspondence about building the chapel of resurrection	
1958	Robert & Edith Hall retired and left the area.
Miss Dobson lodged at the Old Vicarage in the 1950s and ran the school; left to go home North in 1958	
1958-61	House empty for three years (according to local residents David Newbould, Geoff Lobley and others)	
1961	Leonard George & Isobel Chandler move in as tenants in 1961 	
1978	Owners of property in 1978 were Leeds City Council.
	
October 1978	Leonard and Isobel bought the house from Leeds Council 
Includes right to access water in field 236	
		
July 2000 to date	Chris & Liz Floyd bought the property and 7,5 acres (fields 3867,3157) in July 2000 from the Chandler family