Also recorded s Learkirk chapel. In early 1720s noted by Gastrell that: 'Certified that norhing more belongs to it but £20 p.a., which the Rector is obliged to allow the curate. 2 miles from parish church. Upon a complaint made to Bishop that no curate was provided by rector as used to be [another copy of Gastrell's survey specifies: 'for reading prayers, preaching, admin. Sacr. and burying the dead], an order was made by Bishop in 1671 that the Rector should find a curate and allow him £20 p.a. which order was confirmed by Bp. Stratford in 1701 and a new faculty granted for performance of all Divine offices in this chapel and for burying in the burying place belonging to it and the chapel and chapel yard to be repaired and fenced by the inhabitants' , Butler, Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth Century, 132.