Resting place of James Roberts, who sailed on the Endeavour alongside Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks.
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St Lawrence church is grade II listed. The present church was built in the Decorated style in 1891 on the site of a previous Georgian church built in 1733 by Revesby Abbey estate owner Joseph Banks, the great grandfather of naturalist Sir Joseph Banks. The 1733 church was built on the site of an even earlier church.
There has been a building on the site since 1230, when Simon de Tynton was presented by William de Lisures to be the first Rector.
Close to the River Bain, a church has been on this site for about 900 years. Kirkby was mentioned in the Doomsday book in 1085, and it is quite certain that a church stood here in Saxon days. The present church of St Mary was built around 1802.
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