Irnham

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title: "Irnham" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-lincolnshire", "civil-parishes-in-lincolnshire", "south-kesteven-district"] description: "Village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-lincolnshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irnham" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Irnham
population	206
civil_parish	Irnham
shire_district	South Kesteven
shire_county	Lincolnshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Grantham and Stamford
post_town	Grantham
postcode_district	NG33
postcode_area	NG
dial_code	01476
os_grid_reference	TF024267
static_image_name	Griffin Inn Irnham-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg
static_image_caption	The Griffin Inn, Irnham
london_distance_mi	90
london_direction	S
::

|country = England |coordinates = |official_name= Irnham | population = 206 |civil_parish= Irnham |shire_district= South Kesteven |shire_county = Lincolnshire |region= East Midlands |constituency_westminster= Grantham and Stamford |post_town= Grantham |postcode_district = NG33 |postcode_area= NG |dial_code= 01476 |os_grid_reference= TF024267 |static_image_name= Griffin Inn Irnham-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg |static_image_caption= The Griffin Inn, Irnham |london_distance_mi= 90 |london_direction= S NOTOC Irnham is a village and civil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 10 mi south-east from Grantham. To the north is Ingoldsby and to the south-west, Corby Glen. The village is on a high limestone ridge that forms part of the Kesteven Uplands.

The civil parish of Irnham includes the hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe. The similar extent ecclesiastical parish is Irnham, part of the Beltisloe rural deanery in the Diocese of Lincoln, and part of a Group which includes Corby Glen and Swayfield, sharing a single priest. The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.

History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Irnham-Hall-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg" caption="Irnham Hall"] ::

Irnham is listed as "Gerneham" in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was probably founded by an Anglo-Saxon thegn named Georna, hence Georna's Ham (or settlement). Scenes of 14th-century life in the village are depicted in the Luttrell Psalter.

Irnham Hall

Irnham Hall was the ancient seat of the Paynells and from about 1200, the Luttrell family, Lords of Irnham until 1418. The Manor then passed by marriage to the Hilton family and similarly in 1510 to the Thimbleby family, by whom the present Tudor house was built in about 1600. In 1430, Godfrey Hilton, a knight, was residing in "Irenham". Mary Thimelby was born at the hall in about 1618 and became a prioress.

In 1853 Captain William Hervey Woodhouse (1823-1859) bought the Hall, which had several further owners until purchased in 1901 by the present owners, the Benton Jones family. A fire in 1887 destroyed much of the interior.

Thimblesby's Almshouses

The village almshouses, built in 1712, are still in use.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Irnham-Church-by-Tim-Heaton.jpg" caption="St Andrew's Church, Irnham"] ::

St Andrew's Church

St Andrew's Church is late Norman with Perpendicular additions, and was heavily restored in 1858, and again in 2006. It holds the tomb and Easter Sepulchre of Geoffrey Luttrell, who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in the British Library, in the early 14th century.

Employment

The village public house is the Griffin Inn on Bulby Road. Most other employment is in farming.

References

References

1. "British Library page about the Psalter".
2. Sancha, Sheila. (February 2014). ["The Luttrell Village: Country Life in the Middle Ages"](https://archive.org/details/luttrellvillagec00sanc}} A children's interpretation{{page needed). Ty Crowell.
3. The Luttrells chose in 1768 the title of [[Baron Irnham]] when they became Peers in the [[Peerage of Ireland]].
4. {{PastScape
5. [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no677/bCP40no677dorses/IMG_0925.htm Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 677]; 4th entry from the bottom, where he is being sued for debt by Ralph Barton, a London skinner
6. (2004). "Thimelby, Mary [name in religion Winefrid] (1618/19–1690), prioress of St Monica's, Louvain, and author".
7. Hatchment hung on tower arch, Irnham church
8. (1980). "Book of British Villages". Drive Publications Ltd.
9. {{PastScape
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