Discover Old Rectory

An earlier 19th Century rector of Lassington had been so upset by the dilapidated state of his rectory that he petitioned the Bishop to have it taken down, as he said it was no better than a “pauper’s cottage”.

In 1868, a new rectory was built more centrally in the parish on the right of the present Lassington Lane. This rectory became a private house when the ecclesiastical parishes of Highnam and Lassington were combined in 1928, after the death of the last rector, Rev. Winnington Ingram.