Scope and Content
(Original pagination)
p4 - notes on Marston in Lyson's Magna Brittanica
p8 - account of church from Ely Diocesan Remembrancer 1902
p10 - list of churches with detached towers
p11 - population statistics from 1801, and cost of corn with suggestions for reasons for decreased deaths
p14 - copy of 1854 terrier
p30 - dedication of church (with subsequent notes by the Rev. P. Richards)
p32 - account of church including builder, Snagge Chapel, mural texts, screen, rood loft, vestry and priest's chamber, ornaments, plate, including pewter baptismal bowl, bible and prayer books, reredos, frescoes, easter sepulchre, organ, font, benches (two mentions of Mr. Butterfield and several of Sir Gilbert Scott)
p53 - account of the churchyard and two extensions (25p on NE in 1873, and 2r 30p in 1899); parish bier; funeral car.
p56 - roof of the nave and decorations
p60 - parish registers
p75 - account of the Snagge family, lord of the manor, and their ancestors the Morteynes and Decons, with coats of arms
p116 - patronage of the living, and list of rectors with some account of their lives up to 1916 (the Rev. J. Sharpe)
p144 - pasted in newspaper cuttings of article in Beds Time by A. Ransom on Marston, with marginal notes
p162 other press cuttings from 1901 relating to Marston: memorial window designed by Burne Jones and made by Morris & Co. 1901; health and sanitation 1907
p167 - continuation of list of names of rectors from 1918-1975
p200 - endowments of living and tithe, with tithe payers
p215 - account of work of the Rev. Thos Tylecote instituted 1 March 1837. Benefit Club (now Church End Club - Caulcote Club a later offshoot A Women's founded in 1844)
p218 - Church End School built for Marston & Lidlington in 1847 (list of grants and donations) before which time only Dames Schools and Sunday School (held in Church) which had been founded in 1831. Architect James T. Wing. First masters. Foundations of Clothing Club, Savings Bank and Night School. Village Library founded in 1855, with help of grants. (No list of books)
p219 - harmonium (1852) and organ (1895), and list of donations, and Seraphine for school.
p241 - Dr. J.S. Wood 1883-1893. Heating and lighting of church. Alterations to rectory house.
p250 - the Rev. A.F. Torry from 1893.
p251 - Institution of Parish Council. Subscriptions to the organ fund.
p252 - The organ, 1895, from Mr. Trustram, Bedford. Purchase of funeral car and chancel lamps. Altar tomb had to be removed from proposed site of organ.
p255 - Confirmation and Mission 1895
p257 - 1896 Easter Vestry. Improved death rate.
pp259-60 -Jubilee celebrations 1897
p261 - photograph of gathering at Jubilee before W end of church [see PU 310/76; publ. in 'Victorian & Edwardian Bedfordshire from Old Photographs', ed. Richard Wildman]
p263 - choral festival 1897 for Marston, Ridgmont, and Lidlington choirs
p264 - programme for Ely Archdeaconry Choral Festival, Kings College Chapel
p266 - rector and family in south of France 1897-8
p267 - churchyard extension 1899. Horses and carts lent gratuitously for carting earth to fill up old moats and for other levelling. Approach to church from village made more imposing.
p275 - list of those in Boer War, and patriotic concert
p277 - death of Queen Victoria
p282 - confirmation
p285 - dedication of memorial window 1901
p287 - celebrations at Marston on day King was meant to have been crowned. 1902
p288 - Women's Missionary Assoc. garden party
p289 - diptheria, and water supply for rectory
p291 - Missionary garden party
p292 - death of the Rev. H.J. Sharpe, rector 1906-1917, Apr 1917
p293 - Easter sepulchre; consecration crosses found in church; gift of copper alms dish
p295 - "Cunningars" field 296 1921-2 restoration
p316 - electric light and other improvements from 1931
p318 - institution of the Rev. A.R. Ingram, 1936 Work on church and churchyard. Purchase of Ariel Chase stove. Mr. Albert F. Cooper appointed as clerk and sexton, and later licensed as Lay Reader. Account of Sunday services. Restoration of tower in 1938. Young people's club started 1937, and Scout Troop in 1937.
pp321-2 - account of parish. Nonconformity is rife, and increase of church congregation can hardly be expected. "We and the Chapel folk are all fairly good friends, but with this magnificent Church here, it seems a great pity that 3 places of Worship should be required when one could accommodate all the religiously inclined in Marston." Appreciation of Mr. Charles Nicholls, churchyard gardener, and Mrs. French, church cleaner. Chiming apparatus given to church in 1939. 4 bells chimed again for first time for some years Jan 22 1939. Fifth bell will cost £50 to recast. Whole cost of restoration of tower, £1139, raised by Oct 1939.
p331 - church and churchyard accounts 1939. 1940. Death of Mr. Stratford. Evacuees from Rye, Sussex.
p333 - 1940-1943 accounts and parish events 1943 Mr. Cooper left to become a student at Lichfield Theological College. Resignation of A.R. Ingram 1943. [Interleaved funeral service for Arthur Ralph Ingram, d. 28 Dec 1943 aged 68] Interleaved service at dedication of window 1952 in memory of the Rev. Sydney Nowell Rostron
p342 - induction 7 Sep 1948 of the Rev. John Martyn Preston, and work that needed to be done.
p346 - printed Churchyard appeal Photograph of church and tower, and photograph of altar Oct 1948 347 fete 1949 and photographs p349 - press cutting of induction of the Rev. R.H. Goode 1951
p353 - restoration of roof of South Aisle 1953
p356 - fete
p358 - dedication of hangings 1957
p359 - brief account by the Rev. Peter Richards of his years at Marston Mich 1975
At end interleaved Cert. of Subscription of Rev. R.G. Rickells 1960 note of institution of Geo Parker 1559 and notes on censuses and subsidy.