The lawyer Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) purchased the manor of Belton, near Humby, with other estates, and Humby passed to his younger son Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet (1595–1666), created a baronet "of Humby" in 1641, whose grandson Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet (1659–1697) appears to have deserted it on having inherited Belton form his great uncle, where he built the surviving grand mansion of Belton House which survives today.

Earthworks of the manor's deserted medieval village and hall, with moats and fish ponds, are evident today.

[2][3] The 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded that Great Humby was a chapelry, the chapel consisting of a nave only.

[4] English Heritage gives the date of St Anne's chapel restoration, to an ashlar building with bellcote, as 1876, following a rebuild in 1682 during the life of Sir William Brownlow.

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