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n the chancel floor is a figure in brass, inscribed to Simon Seman, lord mayor of London, who died in 1433. From the mixed character of its architecture, this church is supposed to have been partly built out of the remains of some religious house, though there is no evidence to show that there was ever a monastery at Barton. The vicarage o St. Peter, with that of St. Mary Annexed to it, is valued in K.B. at £19 4s. 8d., and now at £390, and enjoyed by the Rev. Geo. Uppleby, B.A. Charles Uppleby,Esq., is patron, and also improprietor of the rectory, which was appropriated to Bardney Abbey, by Walter de Gaul in the reign of Henry I., but after the dissolution of that monastery it fell to the Crown, and was granted to lay-proprietors. At the enclosure of the parish, in 1792, 950 acres were allotted in lieu to the rectorial tithes to a late Mrs Uppleby, of Bardney Hall, a neat mansion on the rectorial estate, now occupied by the vicar. Allotments were also awarded at the enclosure in lieu of most of the vicarial tithes; and 7A. 2R. 16p. were allotted to the parish clerk, in lieu of lands said to have been given by an old lady, on condition that the clerk should ring one of the bells from seven to eight o'clock every evening, from the barley harvest to Shrovetide. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1816, and enlarged in 1839; an Independent Chpel, erected in 1806; and a Primitive Methodist Chapel, erected in 1838, in lieu of a smaller building.
The Free School, where 30 poor children are educated gratuitously, and about 70 others at a rate not exceeding 4d. each per week, is endowed with £27 per annum, arising from the charities of Long, Beck, and Fountain. In 1722, Wm. Long left £200, to be vested in land for the education of poor children of Barton. In 1728, Richard Beck bequethed to Barton the following yearly rent-charges out of the Barrow water mill: -viz., £2.2s., for schooling six poor children; 10s. 6d., to buy them books; and £1. 10s. for the sick and lame poor. He left similar rent-charges, out of the same mill, to Barrow and Winterton. Mrs, Magdalene George, in 1729, bequethed the said mill, and some adjoining land and tenements, for the purpose of providing grey clothes for the poor of Barton, but subject to the said rent-charges, amounting to £13. 8s. per annum. She also left £100, to be vested at interest, and the yearly proceeds to be distributed in coals.
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