Burton Lazars

 Extract from Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, Leicester & Rutland and Derbyshire, 1881

BURTON LAZARS, is a township, village and chapelry in Melton Mowbray parish, union and county court district, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Framland, Framland rural deanery third portion, Leicester archdeaconry and Peterborough diocese, 2 miles south-east-by-south from melton Mowbray, situated on the road from Melton Mowbray to Oakham. The church, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and porch, is an old building, with a short tower containing 2 bells, the dates of which are 1804 and 1823, and was restored in 1850, when a new chancel was built, at a cost to the parish of £240. E.B. Hartopp esq. added about a similar amount. The registers are in good condition, and date from the year 1778. The chapelry is annexed to the vicarage of Melton Mowbray. In 1135 an hospital, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Lazarus, was founded here by a general collection throughout England, the principal contributor being Roger de Mowbray, who gave two plough lands, a house and a mill ; it was the chief of all the lazar-houses in England, and was dependent on the great house of St. John of Jerusalem ; the income at the Dissolution was estimated at £265 10s. 2d. : it stood near a spring, the water of which was formerly in high repute for curing leprosy : a bath was built adjoining it in 1760, which was frequented by persons afflicted with scrofulous disorders ; the spring has been nearly destroyed, and is now but littles used ; the water contains hydrochlorate of soda and sulphuretted hydrogen gas. Edward Bourchier Hartopp esq. of Little Dalby, is lord of the manor. The tithe and land owners are E. B. Hartopp esq. Rev. E. B. Sparke, and Capt. Ashton, who has recently bought land in this parish. The soil is clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are pasture, wheat, roots, barley, beans and oats. The acreage is 2,732 ; rateable value, £4,429 ; in 1881 the population was 244.
Parish Clerk, Thomas Brown.

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