glebe farm

plural glebe farms · alternative glebe-farm

1. UKChristianityA home farm owned by a parish, assigned as part of a benefice to a parish priest, pastor, rector, or vicar to provide them with income.

   A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.

   1848, Samuel Lewis, “FRODINGHAM, NORTH (St. Elgin)”, in A Topographical Dictionary of England, […], 7th edition, volume II, London: S[amuel] Lewis and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268, column 2

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   On the glebe farms the country is very populous, and but for the liberality of the few reſident gentry, the poor would have literally ſtarved this diſtreſſing ſeaſon.

   1801, Charles Coote, “Barony of Balliboy”, in General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the King’s County, with Observations on the Means of Their Improvement, Drawn Up in the Year 1801. […], Dublin: […] Graisberry & Campbell, […], →OCLC, section IV (General Subjects), page 88

   The immediate renters of the glebe farms, instead of being hostile to the incumbents of livings, would hold the same relation to them which other tenants do to landlords.

   1812, Joshua Kirby Trimmer, Further Observations on the Present State of Agriculture, and Condition of the Lower Classes of the People, in the Southern Parts of Ireland: […], London: F[rancis] C[harles] & J[ohn] Rivington, […], and J. Harding, […], →OCLC, page 71

   One of the Earls of Eglinton, in 1734, had made an excambion with the minister of Beith, and the glebe farm thus acquired by the minister was said to have been at one time worth £200 per annum, and to be still worth £150, besides the full size of an ordinary glebe.

   1835 May 20 (date decided), [David] Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, “Rev. John Stewart, Pursuer.—D. F. Hope—More. Lord Glenlyon, Defender.—Keay. [No. 243]”, in Patrick Shaw [et al.], reporters, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, from Nov. 12, 1834, to Sept. 30, 1835, volume XIII, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Thomas Clark, […]; and Saunders and Benning, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 797

   I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy.

   1873, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Old Squire and the New”, in The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, under Rode. […], volume IV, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 17

   Part of my father's income, as rector of the parish, was derived from a pretty little glebe-farm, on which was a neat old-fashioned farmhouse, surrounded with small but well-arranged buildings. All was let, years before I could remember, to a man named John Ashmeade, one of the most respectable men in the parish, […]

   1880, H[enry] C. Barkley, chapter XVI, in My Boyhood: A Story Book for Boys, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, →OCLC, page 205