Northern Deaneries

The Church's rural deaneries covering the March, whose rural deans send proctors to parishes that have lapsed and recommend local women to treat where the Concord will not come. Suppressions for poor parishes are charged to the archdeaconry.

The Church's rural deaneries of the north, with rural deans, visiting circuits, wardenships and parish returns. An archdeaconry pays for suppressions in the parishes it knows exist.

Named with it

• Rural Dean Alice Marbury · A Private Account of Eleven Parishes
• Canon Hugh Verrell · A Charge to the Clergy of the Marcher Deaneries
• Canon Ralph Sturmy · Notes Upon Parish Usage in the Northern Deaneries
• Rector Nicholas Frayne · Visitation Answers for the Wold Deanery
• Rural Dean Osbert Caddick
• Prior Ralph Mainwaring · author of the Visitation Returns for the Northern Deaneries

Ties

• part of the Church's diocesan structure under the bishop at the county town
• Concord wardenships may cover five deaneries
• its roll for the northern deaneries is kept at Harrowgate
• overseen through Harrowgate Priory's visitations
• the marcher wardens serve within them

At the table

The correct course on a lapse is to send to the rural dean, who sends a proctor with the beating roll and bound book to name the lapsed year. A long-serving proctor estimated one parish in nine is under an unidentified obligation but would not write it down. Three shouted years at a bound bring a visit from the rural dean. Vacancies cluster at the edges of the visiting circuits. Some parishes have in effect been let go: incumbencies held in plurality, the visitation road changed, returns no longer asked for. A dean with thirty parishes and one horse rarely reaches the furthest.