47-612: Topcliffe may refer to: Places [ edit ] Topcliffe, North Yorkshire , a village and civil parish in England Topcliffe Castle , an abandoned castle Topcliffe railway station (closed) RAF Topcliffe , a Royal Air Force station Topcliffe, West Yorkshire , a United Kingdom location near Leeds People [ edit ] John Topcliffe (died 1513), English-born judge Richard Topcliffe (1531–1604), English priest hunter Topics referred to by
94-507: A Royal Canadian Air Force base. After the war it had a number of roles until 1972 when much of it was taken over by the army and converted into Alanbrooke Barracks . The airfield continues to be used for RAF glider training. The village is located in the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliamentary constituency . It is also in the Sowerby electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and
141-538: A good report of his sermons. In his diocesan duties he was assisted by a suffragan bishop . He served on the commission that drew up the Institution of a Christian Man . In May 1539 he argued in parliament in defence of the Six Articles , and in conjunction with others drew up the bill founded upon them. He was on the commission appointed in the spring of 1540 to examine the doctrines and ceremonies retained in
188-517: A number of small businesses in and around the village. There is a large industrial estate within the Parish boundary on the outskirts of neighbouring Dalton. On the outskirts near the bridge over the river is a caravan park. On Catton Lane just outside the village is Topcliffe Mill, a Grade II Listed building. A mill at Topcliffe was mentioned in the Domesday Book and may have been situated on
235-521: A population of 1,489. An army barracks, with a Royal Air Force airfield enclosed within, is located to the north of the village. The name is derived from the Old English words topp and clif and combined give the meaning top of the cliff , from its position at the top of a steep bank overlooking the River Swale. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Topeclive" in
282-404: A prebend of the royal chapel, and was incorporated D.D. at Oxford. Lee made himself useful to the king at home in the matter of the divorce, and on 1 June 1531 was one of a deputation which was sent to the queen to persuade her to forgo her rights. He spoke freely to the queen, who told him that what he said was untrue. In September, Henry wrote to the pope requesting authority for Lee's elevation to
329-437: A school primarily for Service personnel. It was opened in 1953. Queen Mary's School is a private day and boarding school for girls. Boys may attend up to age 7 (Year 2) and does not have a sixth form . The village has a church dedicated to St Columba. As the name suggests, there has been a church in the site since early Saxon times, possibly around the time of St Aiden's mission in 650 AD. The present building date from
376-578: A stop between Baldersby and Thirsk on the Leeds & Thirsk Railway . Topcliffe railway station was opened on 1 June 1848 and closed on 14 September 1959. It was located at the junction of the A167 and Catton Moor Lane to the north of the village near the present day MoD base. During the Second World War an airfield was constructed 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the village which was for some time
423-658: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Topcliffe, North Yorkshire Topcliffe is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire , England. The village is situated on the River Swale , on the A167 road and close to the A168 . It is about 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Thirsk and 11 miles (18 km) south of the county town of Northallerton . It has
470-453: Is located on the east bank of the River Swale just north of its confluence with Cod Beck, one of its major tributaries. The villages of Baldersby St James, Cundall, Dishforth, Catton, Rainton, Asenby, Crakehill and Dalton all lie within a radius of 2.5 miles (4.0 km). It lies on the A167 road from Darlington to its terminus at the junction with the A168. It is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) east of
517-407: Is now a post office, the toll house is now a cottage. Topcliffe has been extended over the years. East Lea was built in the 1950s and has been developed over the years, by the demolition of some old houses on a sizeable plot of land, to make way for extra houses. In the late 1980s, Manor Close and a small part of Winn Lane were built on the site of a farm. The village lies on two main routes through
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#1732787080757564-594: The Archduke Ferdinand of Austria to carry him the Garter , with the diplomatic aims of encouraging his opposition to the Lutherans and Francis I of France . Lee was the orator of the embassy. He was the king's almoner, and in the same year received the archdeaconry of Colchester . In 1525 he was sent with Sir Francis Poyntz to Spain on an embassy to the emperor. During 1529 he was engaged in an embassy to
611-639: The Emperor Charles V in Spain, and in January 1530 was sent with the Earl of Wiltshire and John Stokesley to Pope Clement VII and the emperor at Bologna , to endeavour to persuade them out of their opposition to the king's divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon . He returned to England in the spring. In 1529 he was made chancellor of the church of Salisbury, and in 1530 received a prebend at York, and
658-573: The University of Louvain , studying Greek, where he encountered Erasmus , at that time reshaping the humanist views in particular on the New Testament . From an initially friendly disagreement, there evolved a series of polemics between Erasmus and Lee, with Lee emerging as the advocate of a traditionalist position. Erasmus wrote to Lee explaining that he had not been able to make use of certain annotations which Lee had written. By 1519 Lee
705-610: The 13th century with improvements being made throughout the ages. It is a Grade II* listed building. There is a Wesleyan Methodist Church in the village built in 1840 located in Church Street opposite St Columba Church. It is a Grade II Listed building. Topcliffe Football Club play at the Playing Fields on Winn Lane, next to the Bowling Club. They play in local leagues but have been in existence since at least
752-452: The 1920s. [REDACTED] Media related to Topcliffe, North Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons Edward Lee (bishop) Edward Lee (c. 1482 – 13 September 1544) was Archbishop of York from 1531 until his death. He was son of Richard Lee of Lee Magna , Kent, who was the son of Sir Richard Lee, lord mayor of London in 1461 and 1470. He was born in Kent in or about 1482. Thomas More
799-620: The 20th century. A motte and bailey castle was built at the strategic location of the junction of the River Swale and Cod Beck about 1071, soon after the Harrying of the North and re-fortified in 1174 by the Percy family. This was the principal residence of the Percy family until the early part of the fourteenth century, when Henry de Percy purchased the barony and castle of Alnwick. The castle
846-712: The A1(M). On the early morning of 3 December 2010, the weather station air temperature was −19 °C (−2 °F), making it the lowest temperature ever recorded in Yorkshire. It regularly features in the Met Office stats as having the lowest minimum temperature anywhere in the UK. In 1881 the UK Census recorded the population as 615. The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 1,336 in 400 households. The population
893-527: The Yarlestre wapentake . At the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, the manor was the possession of Bernwulf. Afterwards it was granted to William of Percy . The manor became the chief seat of the Percy family until the middle of the 17th century, though there was some confusion of the line of inheritance in the 12th century. There was a short interruption to this line in the 15th century when
940-524: The York convocation held the previous month, that the Pope had no greater jurisdiction within the realm of England than any other foreign bishop, and on 17 February 1535 wrote to the king professing his willingness to obey his will. Nevertheless, he was suspected of disliking the royal supremacy. The king sent to him, as to other bishops, his commands that his new style should be published in his cathedral, and that
987-404: The archbishopric of York. On 13 October, Lee and others had an interview with Catharine, in which they urged her to withdraw her cause from Rome and submit to the decision of bishops and doctors. Clement granted a bull for Lee's elevation on the 30th; he was consecrated to the see of York on 10 December, and was enthroned by proxy on the 17th. Money difficulties made it advisable for him to please
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#17327870807571034-453: The church of Wells, Norfolk . In 1512 he was collated to a prebend at Lincoln, and had his grace for degree of BD, but was not admitted until 1515, in which year he was chosen proctor in convocation. Thomas Cranmer took his MA in 1515, an early chance of contact with his future fellow-archbishop; Lee was later (1526) to give him his first court employment, as a junior member attached to a diplomatic mission to Spain. He spent time in 1518 at
1081-421: The church, and on that which had to determine on the invalidity of the king's marriage with Anne of Cleves . From about 1540 he was patron to the struggling Roger Ascham . His support was not very generous, and was accompanied by criticism, but tided Ascham over for a few years at the beginning of his career as humanist and writer. In 1541 new statutes for the government of the church of York were issued under
1128-471: The clergy should be instructed to set it forth in their parishes; and he also received Thomas Cranmer 's order for preaching and form for bidding the beads, in which the king's style was inserted, with the king's order that every preacher should declare the just cause for rejecting the papal supremacy, and defend the divorce and marriage with Anne Boleyn. Henry was informed that Lee had neglected these orders and wrote to him reminding him that he had subscribed to
1175-515: The comparisons with the Beghards and Turlupins ; but he found it less easy to place a distance between himself and Meister Eckhart or Johan Tauler . The heresy of Montanism was too close to some of what he had written, and he was thrown somewhat on the defensive, in later writings avoiding the term "spirit" in its Platonic associations. In 1523 the king sent Lee with Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley , and Sir William Hussey on an embassy to
1222-415: The county, the A167 and A168 . The A168 bypass was first considered in 1963 as part of "The North East Programme for Regional Development and Growth". Work did not start though until 1976 and took two years to complete. The village is served by the bus route between Ripon and Northallerton. There has been a school in the village since the establishment of a Free Grammar School in 1549. A school house
1269-480: The current site of the Roller Mill, which produced flour until 1961. It had been converted into a restaurant and now houses apartments. Topcliffe is home to Deer Shed Festival, an annual music festival established in 2010, which attracts over 10,000 people to the village every July. Topcliffe has a park and two pubs, The Angel (currently closed for refurbishment) and The Swan. The old school house of Topcliffe
1316-436: The general confessor of Syon Abbey , and concerning the supremacy. He wrote his defence to the king on 14 January 1536. On 23 April, he interceded with Cromwell for two religious houses in his province: Hexham Abbey , useful as a place of refuge during Scottish invasions, and Nostell Priory , which he claimed as a free chapel belonging to his see. In June, he argued against the condemnation of Catholic customs in convocation and
1363-511: The great seal. Lee surrendered to the crown in 1542 the manors of Beverley and Southwell and other estates, receiving in exchange lands belonging to certain suppressed priories, an exchange not particularly disadvantageous to the see. He died on 13 September 1544, at the age of sixty-two, and was buried in his cathedral church. Lee was the last archbishop of York that coined money. He wrote: Verses to his honour were in 1566 placed by Laurence Humphrey , President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in
1410-525: The king and Thomas Cromwell , which he did in the matter of patronage. In common with Stephen Gardiner , however, he refused in February 1533 to sign the declaration that the marriage with Catharine had been void from the beginning; but shortly afterwards got from the convocation of York an approbation of the grounds of the divorce. After the execution of Elizabeth Barton and her associates, in April 1534, it
1457-654: The manor was granted to the Neville family following the death of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland at the Battle of Towton in 1461, where he was fighting for the Lancastrians who lost. This was reversed in 1469 and the manor restored to the Percy family. In the 16th century there were two other brief periods when the manor was granted first to the Archbishop of York and then to the Earl of Warwick . The manor
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1504-451: The movement, his opinion may have changed; for when on 27 November he and the clergy met in the church to consider certain articles proposed to them, he preached on the other side. The clergy, however, would not be led by him, and he was dragged from the pulpit. For some time out of the king's favour, Cromwell stood by his friend, and in July 1537 Lee wrote to him thanking him for giving Henry
1551-407: The other a brief declaration to the people of the royal supremacy, adding that the livings in his diocese were so poor that no learned man would take them, that he did not know in it more than twelve secular priests who could preach. New cause of suspicion arose against him, and a few months later, he was examined by the king's visitor, Richard Layton , concerning words he was alleged to have used to
1598-459: The quarrel was not made up until 1522. Lee provided substantive theological criticisms of In Praise of Folly , by close reading, in a fashion also later adopted by Noël Béda and Rodolfo Pio da Carpi . In dealing with the concept of ecstasy , Erasmus was accused by Lee of straying into territory explored by German mystical thinkers, and deemed heretical by the Church. Erasmus shrugged off
1645-506: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Topcliffe . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Topcliffe&oldid=1207442803 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
1692-461: The supremacy. Lee answered on 14 June that he had, according to order, preached solemnly in his cathedral on the injury done to the king by the pope and on the divorce, but he acknowledged that he had made no mention of the royal supremacy. He asked the king not to listen to the accusations of his enemies. Moreover, on 1 July he wrote to Cromwell, sending him two books which he had prepared, one for his clergy to read and "extend" to their congregations,
1739-501: Was Henry Standish . Lee put forth sundry attacks on Erasmus, who retaliated by the Epistolæ aliquot Eruditorum Virorum , and sent an Apologia to Henry VIII defending himself against Lee. Thomas More, who said that he had loved Lee from boyhood, regretted the dispute, and set up a formal reconciliation at Calais in 1520, where diplomatic negotiations were taking place; but the meeting of Erasmus and Lee had little immediate effect, and
1786-448: Was 58.7% male and 41.3% female. The 2011 UK Census recorded the population as 1,489, an increase of 11.45% compared with the previous census. The population was 59.1% male and 40.9% female. The ethnic mix was made of 92.4% White British, 1.5% Mixed race, 2.6 Asian. 1.9% Black and 1.5% other race. The village is surrounded by farmland and it played an important role in the past as a major market place, much lessened these days. There are
1833-413: Was a family friend, and dedicated an early work, Life of John Picus , to Lee's sister Joyce, a Poor Clare . Lee was elected fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford , in 1500. Having graduated BA, he was incorporated at Cambridge early in 1503, moving from Oxford, it is supposed, on account of some outbreak of plague . At Cambridge he proceeded MA in 1504, being ordained deacon in that year, with title to
1880-472: Was a prominent opponent of Erasmus. Erasmus declared that Lee was a young man desirous of fame, and that he spread about reports to his disadvantage; he further said that Lee had circulated among religious houses an unfavourable criticism of his New Testament without having sent it to him, and he threatened Lee with punishment at the hands of German scholars. During 1520 the dispute was carried on with bitterness on both sides. Erasmus said that Lee's chief supporter
1927-538: Was built in 1822 on the site of one previously erected in 1695. The Grade II listed building is located in the north side of the St Columba churchyard. The current primary school at Topcliffe was opened in 1966. It is a Church of England and caters for mixed genders from years 1–6, and a playgroup. It has a student capacity of 114. The school is within the catchment area of Thirsk School and Sixth Form College for secondary education. The nearby Army Barracks operate
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1974-581: Was falsely rumoured that Lee and other bishops were to be sent to the Tower of London . In company with Stokesley, Lee visited John Houghton , the prior of the London Charterhouse , in the Tower, and represented to him that the succession was not a matter to die for, and he used a similar expression with reference to the cause in which Bishop John Fisher suffered. This was despite the fact that it
2021-503: Was in the Topcliffe ward of Hambleton District Council . The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 2,604. Topcliffe District ward includes the settlements of Skipton-onSwale, Catton, Dalton, Crakehill, Sessay and Hutton Sessay. The civil parish of Topcliffe is bounded by the civil parishes of Sowerby, Carlton Miniott, Catton, Rainton, Asenby, Crakehill and Dalton. The local Parish Council has five members. The village
2068-568: Was not the succession that these were to die over, but the inclusion in the preamble to the Act of Succession of the claim to be head of the English Church, by the king, which they denied was possible. On 21 May he and the Bishop of Durham were sent to Catharine at Kimbolton to expound to her the act of succession, and urge her to submission. He forwarded to the king on 1 June the declaration of
2115-567: Was regarded as the head of the anti- Reformation party. When the northern insurrection called the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out, later in 1536, Lee's position was equivocal at first. He took refuge on 13 October with Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy , who held Pontefract Castle . On the 20th it was surrendered to the rebels, and the archbishop was compelled to take the oath of the Pilgrimage of Grace. Initially perhaps in favour of
2162-467: Was restored to the Percy family in 1557. The last of the family to hold the manor in their name was Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland , though it passed to his daughter who married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset . Their son inherited the manor, but he died heirless and the manor was passed to his nephew Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont . The manor remained in the Wyndham family into
2209-629: Was succeeded by a moated manor house on an adjacent site, of which earthworks also remain. The manor house was the home of John Topcliffe , Lord Chief Justice of Ireland , who died in 1513. The village was the centre of a large ancient parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire . The parish included the townships of Asenby , Baldersby , Catton , Dalton , Dishforth , Eldmire with Crakehill , Marton-le-Moor , Rainton with Newby , Skipton-on-Swale and Topcliffe. All of these townships became separate civil parishes in 1866. The village used to be
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