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Vestry minute book Regular business includes election of parish officers (including Burial Board); rates and rating (including lists of persons exempted from payment of poor rate); passing parish and charity accounts etc.

1870-1973

From: 1870 To: 1973

Occasional business 1875-6 Charity property in St.Cuthbert's parish 1885 Burial Board purchase of land (18a. Or. 16p.) from Trustees of St. John's Hospital Estate for addition to burial ground 1887 Repair of parish property in Mill Street Proposed table of fees for burial board 1890 Enlargement of vestries and other works - plans of Messrs. Carpenter & Ingelow, architects, adopted 1896-7 Restoration of the bells - press cuttings appended from Beds. Standard 2 Oct. 1896 re dedication and 12 Feb. 1897 re five new bells 1898 Death of Mr.J.M.Cuthbert, Churchwarden 1901 Transfer to town council of power to appoint Overseers 1902 New table of fees 1904 Sale of No.11 St.Cuthbert's Street and school house 1905 New Chancel Screen 1907 New Vicarage (with press cutting 6 Dec. 1907) 1909 Case: Woodard v. Gale, from Beds. Times 2 July 1909 1910 Press cuttings re unveiling of stained glass window (by Burlison & Grylls) to fallen soldiers, 3 Nov. 1910, and dedication of All Saints Church, 1 Nov. 1910 From 1921 - minutes of Annual Vestry and Parochial Church Meetings only Volume also includes: (loose at front) order of service for unveiling of the Harpur Memorial window, 12 July [1879?] and description of the East window by Hardman & Co. of Birmingham in memory of Sir William and Lady Harpur. (At front) note of induction of the Rev.R.A.Bennett as Vicar, 1 July 1870; of Rev.R.E.R. Watts, 24 March 1877; press cutting re arms in church; press cutting re Bull memorial window in the church (by C.E.Kempe) from Bedfordshire Standard 5 November 1892; Report of dedication of North aisle from Beds. Standard 6 Dec. 1884. (at back) leaflet on "the action of lightning strikes on buildings" describing a strike on St. Paul's on 14 March 1903; press cutting on memorial window erected in Trinity Chapel to Miss Lettice Mary Shaw (by Paul Woodroffe of Campden, Gloucs., under superintendence of Mr. C.E. Mallows) 30 May 1908; Dedication of new screen and rood, 24 January 1906; Memorandum of induction of the Rev. Lambert Woodard, 12 November 1886; press cuttings (3) re cleaning of church clock, 1894.

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Carpenter & Ingelow,
Cuthbert, J.M.,
Gale,
Woodward,
Burlison & Grylls,
Harpur, William,
Harpur, Alice,
Hardman & Co,
Bennett, R A,
Watts, R.E.R,
Bull,
Kempe, C.E.,
Shaw, Lettice Mary,
Woodroffe, Paul,
Mallows. C.E.,
Woodard, Lambert

Bedford St.Paul, parish vestry, , rates, general Poor Laws, Burial Boards, Poor Rate, Bedford St.Cuthbert, parochial charities, Bedford Mill Street, church buildings & land, architect, church bells, Bedfordshire Standard, churchwardens, Overseers, Bedford St Cuthbert's Street, vicarages, Bedfordshire Times, church windows, memorials, church services, newspapers, lightning, church furniture, church clocks