Rev Hawker built the rectory in 1837, its chimneys modelled on church towers of places he’d previously lived at. He is the parish’s most famous incumbent and buried more than forty people shipwrecked on the dangerous coast. On 2 September 1843 the Caledonia of Arbroath came to grief here and her captain and crew were buried at the top of the yard under the ship’s figurehead, currently away for conservation.