Reference
P66/0/1
Title
Register of Services and Official Parochial Register, containing:
Date free text
1899-1910
Production date
From: 1899 To: 1910
Scope and Content
Register of Church Services Official Parochial register [mostly blank] Includes: notes on Rev. A. A. Hancock including his academic degrees, ordination by the Bishop of Ely 1890/91, curacy at Christ Church, Luton, and his institution at Little Staughton 13 July 1899; names of Churchwardens 1884-1909; statistical summaries 1899-1906; "Parochial records of exceptional interest" (p. 35) recording institution of Rev. A. A. Hancock 1899, introduction of brass altar cross from St. Saviour's Luton 1899, Choral evensong by choir of St. Andrew's Mission Church, Luton, 1899; new lamps and candlesticks 1899, destruction of spire by lightning 12 June 1900, church reopened and recast bell dedicated 15 Nov. 1901, Peace thanksgiving - the choir put into cassocks and surplices 8 June 1902, "tenor bell quarter turned by the Rector & Clerk just 250 years after its casting" 12-14 March 1904, the great hailstorm (162 quarries broken in west windows of belfry and south aisle) 2 August 1906, first peal rung on the bells 9 Nov. 1906, Rector accepted the Vicarage of Emneth, 2 June 1909. (For further volume recording details of Parochial life 1899-1909, see P66/5/2)
Level of description
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