Reference
P61/0/23
Title
Official Parochial Register
Date free text
1235-1977
Production date
From: 1235 To: 1977
Scope and Content
Completed in rather more detail than most registers of its type, with extensive notes and memoranda. Includes: pp.2-31 Statistical summaries of parochial work, organisation and finance, 1897-1910 (Front) notes on population and area of parish in 1911; on extent and rateable value of glebe and parsonage, 1911; and on insurances 1922-3 p.32 List of Rectors and patrons 1235-1973, with note on union of benefices of Wymington and Podington by Order in Council from 18 March 1975 p.33 Parochial clergy: notes on the Rev. C.E. Drew and the Rev. C.L.Drew, 1892, 1913. 34 Subscription list for churchyard enlargement, 1906 35 Specification for the organ, enlarged and rebuilt by Bedwell & Son, Cambridge, 1910 [original typescript on headed notepaper also loose in volume] 36 List of Churchwardens 1897-1940, and [loose] 1926-1977 38 Details of Insurances on Church, Rectory and School, n.d. 39 Abstract of Churchwardens' receipts and expenditure 1897-1902 40 Notes on repairs and alterations to the church (details given), 1900-1935 41 Notes on enlargement of burial ground from the glebe by deeds dated 28 Sept. 1905, and on part of the glebe retained by the Rector and let to Miss Goosey for the use of her cottage. Note of closure of old churchyard for burials, 5 Nov. 1905 Details of rents of glebe lands, c.1905 43 Inventory of church furniture, with dates of acquisition, 1894-1933 44 Notes on the endowments and objects of Bentham's Charity and Goosey's Charity. 45-46 Account of the Monuments and Inscriptions in Wymington church, copied from "an old piece of paper in the parish chest, copied apparently from Newcome's commonplace book - Newcome was formerly Rector" [Richard Newcome sen. and jun. were rectors of Wymington 1662-1733, and the family were patrons to c.1770]. Lists funerary monuments and bells, with extra notes from John Weaver's book "Ancient Funeral Monuments" of c.1630. 47 Record of Episcopal visits, confirmations, and other parochial events, 1892-1936 48 Translations of inscriptions on the monumental brasses in the church, made by Dr. Prior of Bedford, n.d., with (loose) typescript transcripts and translations. (4 items)
Level of description
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