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Anglo Saxon |
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RCHME |
1060 |
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The small W doorway of church tower has triangular head |
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Norman |
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Domesday book p49 |
1086 |
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21 villagers with a priest |
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RCHME |
1100 |
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In S wall of tower, single light window formerly with a round head |
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Early English |
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Baker |
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Font of Norman style, fabricated early 13th century |
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Baker |
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Piscina with trefoil head, stone shelf and ledge with nail head moulding |
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RCHME |
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S aisle added |
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RCHME |
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Small piscina, deeply chamfered head enclosing trefoil cusping |
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Newspaper NM 3.2.1883 |
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Fine memorial slab with floriate cross |
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Early 14th century |
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Hartshorne |
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Under monumental arch, full sized female figure (Scholastica de Gayton) |
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Baker |
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Stone figure of a child Mabila de Gayton |
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Mid 14th century |
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RCHME |
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N nave wall moved half metre to south and N aisle added |
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RCHME |
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N chapel (chantry chapel) added |
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Baker |
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Oak effigy (Philip de Gayton) |
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Mid 15th century |
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Will (Trussell) |
1441 |
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Widow of Lord of manor buried in the Blessed Virgin's cemetery |
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Late 15th century |
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RCHME |
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Clerestory added |
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Baker |
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Late 15th century medieval carved screen (Rood, 1510, Sergeantson and Longden) |
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Sergeantson & Longden |
1499 |
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Our Lady light at St Nicholas Altar |
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Sir Stephen Glynne |
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S chancel perpendicular sepulchred arch with marble slab monument (Robert Tanfield) |
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Tudor |
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Commissioners' Returns |
1552 |
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3 bells in steeple of treble ring and one small saint bell |
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Church Plate, Markham |
1570 |
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Church Plate: Silver Cup and paten cover |
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Bridges |
1583 |
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Francis and Bridget Tanfield's alabaster monument with incised slab in chapel |
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Bridges |
1585 |
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Bell: Give thanks to God always |
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Bridges |
1594 |
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Bell: Feare God and Obey the Lord (in Saxon capitals) |
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Bridges |
1600 |
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Brass: William Houghton 17 December 1600 (in the middle aisle) |
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Reference |
Date |
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17th century |
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Church Survey Book |
1611 |
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Churchyard mounds now walled, pulpit, seats on north side, font cover and leading |
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Church Survey Book |
1611 |
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Printed matter: homilies, paraphase of Erasmus and Statute for the 5th Nov |
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Church Survey Book |
1611 |
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References to chancel buttress and 'rain runs off churchyard under chancel door' |
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Church Survey Book |
1611 |
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References to N chapel unpaved in part, rain comes in on tombs, and seats unboarded |
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Hawley 1/C/17 |
1616 |
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Porch mentioned in legal document. (porch with no door and unpaved, Survey 1637) |
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Church Survey Book |
1631 |
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Pulpit and reading seat not decent |
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Church Survey Book |
1637 |
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No box or chest with three locks for the poor. Only one surplice |
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Visitation of N'ton 1681 |
1656 |
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Acquired miserichords from dissolved St James Abbey. |
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WI 1853-1953 |
1658 |
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Church Plate: Silver lidded flagon |
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Bridges |
1662 |
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Bell: God Save King Charles. |
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Faculty Plan |
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Pulpit: Jacobean triple decker |
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RCHME |
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Nave roof has moulded tie beams and purlins |
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Early 18th century |
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Church Plate Markham |
1708 |
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Church Plate: Silver salver or patten 18ozs |
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Bridges |
1720 |
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Chancel leaded and a porch on S tiled |
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Bridges |
1720 |
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N chapel has at least two other monuments with no inscription |
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Bridges |
1720 |
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N chapel is Samwell's burying place, parted off from chancel and as big as chancel |
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Faculty Vol I p241 |
1725 |
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Faculty granted to raise height of steeple and hang six bells |
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Bells |
1726 |
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Bell: William Ball Churchwarden 1726 |
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Bells |
1726 |
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Bell: Prosperity to the Church of England 1726 |
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Bells |
1726 |
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Bell: Peace and good neighbourhood 1726 |
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Bells |
1726 |
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Bell: Glory be to God on high. A R 1726 |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1726 |
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Harleston Stone £30 |
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Bells |
1726 |
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Bell: The gift of the Reverend. Mr Gibbs Rector 1726 |
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Bells |
1727 |
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Bell: In Dei laudem et Georgii regis honorem. Ex dono Thomas Samwell Baronetti |
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Late 18th century |
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Faculty Vol II p182 |
1744 |
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Faculty granted to erect a pew upper end of N aisle |
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Baker |
1753 |
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Oval tablet on N wall of N chapel Richard Kent of London |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1757 |
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Church whitewashed |
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Baker |
1759 |
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Lockwood family memorial by Robert Blore latest date 1759 |
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Faculty Vol III p132 |
1775 |
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Faculty for pew at E end adjoining E wall and S wall in S aisle |
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Baker |
1780 |
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Oval tablet on N wall of N chapel Richard Kent junior died 8 Jan 1780 |
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Early 19th century |
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European magazine |
1801 |
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Small building extends from chancel/N chapel (Vestry on 1827 plan, demolished 1828) |
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Organs, Davidson |
1815 |
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Summary destruction of minstrel's gallery |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1816 |
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Removal of churchyard wall (to incorporate additional piece of land) |
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Faculty V53-56 |
1817 |
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Deed and consecration for an additional burial ground contiguous with old churchyard |
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Bell |
1821 |
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Bell: Recast by voluntary contribution |
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Reference |
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George Butler's Restoration (1828) |
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Faculty V282 |
1828 |
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N chapel had been for many years in a state of extreme dilapidation |
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RCHME |
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Piscina with ogee trefoil head decorated with crockets and carried on miniature shafts (in the style of the 14th century) in N chapel |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1828 |
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Rector replaced the single door to the porch with folding doors |
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Faculty V282 |
1828 |
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Reconstructed nave and chancel roof |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1828 |
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Four old pews in the S aisle on E side of the old porch to be re-fronted and floor raised |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1828 |
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Pulpit moved from north to south side of nave (No longer three decks) |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1828 |
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Uniformly re-pewed and interior stone paved (Houghton brass moved to N chapel) |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1828 |
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Font moved from near old S porch, to middle of entrance to tower |
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Faculty V282 |
1828 |
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E window of N chapel and chancel re-constructed |
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Faculty V408 |
1828 |
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New arch constructed between N chapel and chancel |
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Churchwardens Accts |
1828 |
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Door and porch moved and reconstructed (Porch is of later date than doorway Glynne) |
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Baker |
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Reredos carved dark oak (probably not in situ Pevsner) |
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Laycock Abbey 01959 |
1830 |
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Fox Talbot donated Beauvais glass c1643 and Flemish roundels c1515 set in E window |
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Baker |
1836 |
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Chancel entered through lofty open arch from nave |
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Baker |
1836 |
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N chapel now communicates with both N aisle and chancel |
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Baker |
1836 |
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E end of N chapel is converted into a vestry and separated by a carved medieval screen |
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Directory Whellan |
1849 |
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Clock donated fixed high up on tower |
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Late 19th century |
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Sir Stephen Glynne notes |
1862 |
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Lower part of tower opens to the nave by rude and small pointed arch |
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Sir Stephen Glynne notes |
1862 |
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E window of S aisle is a circle with flowing tracery (Removed when vestry built 1881) |
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Sir Stephen Glynne notes |
1862 |
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Between N chapel and N aisle of nave is a Tudor shaped arch |
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Newspaper 12 May 1866 |
1866 |
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Dec buttress over door in N wall of nave incorporates dedication stone |
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Newspaper 12 May 1866 |
1866 |
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In N wall of nave traces of circular headed door, long since walled up |
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Directory Whellans 1874 |
1871 |
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New Organ |
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John Clough Williams Ellis Restoration (1881) |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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Remove plaster ceilings (rebuilt chancel roof following line of early roof RCHME) |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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Remove gallery floors and surface levels with new steps, tiles and heating flues |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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For new heating chamber |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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To add seats, refix font and pulpit and build structural stone shelf in E wall of chancel |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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Add new upper stage to tower and stairs to tower (Belfry c1883 RCHME) |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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For vestry (rood screen preserved in vestry RCHME) and organ chamber |
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Faculty ML1119 p510 |
1881 |
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To construct arches in E wall of S aisle and in S wall of chancel |
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John Taylor & Co |
1882 |
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Rehung 3 largest bells with new fittings and frame reconstructed using old timber |
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Newspaper NM 3.2.1883 |
1883 |
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Discovery of door to rood loft in S wall of the nave and of piscina in S aisle |
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RCHME |
1883 |
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Second stage of tower has 2 light windows with blind trefoils over |
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Newspaper NM 3.2.1883 |
1883 |
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Removal of west gallery and tower arch opened out |
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Newspaper NM 3.2.1883 |
1883 |
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Flemish glass, put in windows of N chapel |
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Newspaper NM 3.2.1883 |
1883 |
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E window in chancel and lancet window in tower remain to be glazed |
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RCHME |
1885 |
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Buttresses to E wall of chancel are 19C |
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Directory Kelly's 1894 |
1889 |
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A memorial window in chancel to Rd Eykyn. W end small window erected by Thos E |
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Reference |
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20th century |
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Newspaper NDEcho |
1908 |
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Liquid cement is being forced between the stonework of tower |
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John Taylor & Co |
1908 |
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Frame reconstructed, much of the old timber being re-used |
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Oral History, NR |
1910 |
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Tower alterations and clock lowered (Tower is crowned by a battlement parapet with elaborate angle pinnacles and gargoyles RCHME) |
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Faculty |
1920 |
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Erection of first World War memorial tablet |
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WI 1853-1953 |
1921 |
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Church plate: silver spoon. Donated by Arthur Eykyn |
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Faculty |
1929 |
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To install electric light in the church |
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John Taylor & Co |
1930 |
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Bad going order of peal, defective timber bell frame and bell fittings, grub and beetle |
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NFWI p63 |
1930 |
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Bells rehung |
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Bells |
1931 |
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Bell: Recast. W F Stokes MA Rector, J M Major Lucas, W A Ratledge, Churchwrdns |
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Deanery mag Oct 1955 |
1935 |
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Had old curtains taken down from Baptistry |
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Faculty |
1936 |
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To install McClary Pipeless heating in an underground extension of the present crypt |
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Deanery magazine Oct |
1952 |
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Burial, 27 Aug 1952, in 2nd grave in new portion of graveyard |
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WI 1853-1953 |
1953 |
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Church plate: silver chalice and paten 1569 presented by Roger and Mary Eykyn |
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Deanery magazine March |
1953 |
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Children's Corner. Pictures and books |
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WI 1853-1953 |
1953 |
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Church plate: silver chalice and paten 1901-2 |
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Deanery magazine Oct |
1954 |
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Organ dedicated, procession led by cross, peal of bells, flag flying in tower |
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Deanery magazine July |
1954 |
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Organ appeal. Contract to Starmer Shaw & Son |
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Deanery magazine Aug |
1954 |
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Gift of candlesticks |
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Deanery magazine April |
1954 |
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Boiler, flu and grid overhauled |
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Deanery magazine Nov |
1955 |
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Made a second oak table to stand under the Alms box |
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Deanery magazine Sept |
1955 |
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Presented service books, altar coverings, curtains etc for N Chapel |
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Deanery magazine July |
1955 |
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Brackets for processional cross and banner on the end of chancel stalls |
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Deanery magazine Oct |
1955 |
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Dedication of baptistry curtains at Patronal Festival |
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Deanery magazine Sept |
1955 |
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Brass: Replated the brass tablet William Houghton 1600 |
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Faculty |
1967 |
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Re-new wood block flooring and timber bearers under pews |
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Faculty |
1967 |
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Place wooden altar table (gift) in N chapel |
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Faculty |
1967 |
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Install aumbrey in wall of sanctuary |
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Village circular August |
1973 |
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Church & belfry fund to electrify clock winding system & treat timbers |
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Faculty |
1984 |
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Oak screen in arch leading from nave to tower (W end) |
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RCHME |
1984 |
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Below W window of S aisle are the jambs of the former S doorway |
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RCHME |
1984 |
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Font at W end of S aisle of the nave |
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Faculty |
1994 |
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Pedestal display cabinet for book of Remembrance |
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Faculty |
1996 |
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Church clock overhaul |
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Faculty |
1996 |
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Roof repairs |
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Faculty |
2000 |
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Conservation of the Tanfield Tomb |
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