The
History of St Nicholas' Church, Cholderton
by
Brigadier
Michael Clarke MBE
Forward
This
short history of St Nicholas, Cholderton makes use of a number of articles
about the present church. It updates the fascinating Parish notes published by the
then rector, the Rev'd Edwin Barrow, in 1889.
It enlarges in to at part of the booklet about Cholderton which was
produced for the Parochial Church Councils of the upper
It
seems to me that the more people know about their church the more they are
likely to take a pride in it and support it.
I
have listed my sources of information in an annex. Most of the documents are lodged in the
church for safekeeping and further reference.
I am greatly indebted to their authors for the research which went into
their production and which saved me much time and effort. My thanks also go to Christopher and Gill
Love for their assistance in putting this history together. Without their help it would not have been
completed.
October
1995 Michael Clarke
History
of the
In
1971 the Council for the Care of Churches produced a report about the four
churches of the
"To visit
Cholderton is to recapture something of the pristine spirit of the Oxford
Movement. The incumbent of the church at
the time of its rebuilding was the Rev'd Thomas Mozley, friend of Newman, Keble
and Pusey;
The interior is magnificent, splendid
in proportions, and everywhere enhanced by the quality of its fittings - the
tiled floors, of exceptional richness, with the patterns changing from
ante-chapel to nave and from nave to sanctuary; the stone screen separating the
ante-chapel carved with a frieze of angels holding shields bearing the arms of
Mozely, Oriel College, Roundell Palmer, Littlemore church etc.; the richly and
inventively carved bench-ends of the pews; stone pulpit and font, with
font-cover of wood; and most amazing of all , the roof itself of ten bays which
Mozely is said to have found upon the quay at Ipswich, the relic of a monastic
foundation, and had the church designed around it. The west door itself is
extremely fine, with fine traceried divisions and carved crockets. In the ante-chapel is the bowl of the font
from the earlier church, an Elizabethan Communion table, and a handsome monument
with and informative inscription recording the career of Anthony Cratcherode,
d. 1752
...Cholderton is an
unjustly unsung masterpiece of the mid-19th century, of historical importance
also in its link with the fountain head of the Oxford Movement..."
The
oldest and smallest of the four churches is St Andrew's, Boscombe which dates
from the 14th century. The other three,
all with very old origins, were rebuilt in the 1840's. St Andrew's, Newton Tony in 1844, At John the
Baptist at Allington between 1848 - 1850 and St Nicholas', Cholderton between
1841 and 1850 using the same architect, TH Wyatt, as at Newton Tony. But why did Cholderton take so long and why
is it so different? The answer to the
first part is a simple one - lack of funds - and to the second the dedicated
enthusiasm of Thomas Mozley and his successor as rector - James Frazer, who
later became Bishop of Manchester. It is a story worth telling.
First
Impressions
Thomas
Mozley was a fellow of
"I am only just beginning to be a little settled, for
tho' we seemed at home for the first hour and in no confusion, it is only the
last day or two that I have got a proper cook.
And as yet I do not find household cares very galling, but it is
doubtful if I shall have things regular as I wish. I shall be of some little time getting into
the system of the place, never having lived so entirely in the country and no
means of getting around at present, beyond our feet. We have everything from
The Rectory
The two storey rectory
which Mrs Mozley found so agreeable was built over the years 1830-33 some 50 yards
behind the site of the old parsonage. A
field separated it from the old church which it would have dominated had it
been closer. The broken ground of the
field called Clump Meadow, had lead to the thought that it might be the site of
the old British village. There had been
a parsonage on the north side of it for many years. The register of incumbents of Cholderton begins
with the year 1297 but they did not necessarily reside there.
The Parish Register Book records, for example that in 1651
“Mr Samuel Heskins was by the Lady Kingsmill presented to the Rectorie of
Choldrington the 4th day of December in the year 1651 - and finding
the parsonage House, the Barne, stable and all outhouses out of Repaire and
almost fallen to the Ground thro’ neglect of the former Incumbent, who in the
Civil War was some three years Absent from Choldrington and was never after
Resident there, but dwelt at Sarum, because the parsonage-house at Choldrington
was not Habitable, he, the said Mr Heskins at his own Cost and Charge began to
Repaire and build up the dwelling-House, Barne, Stable and outhouses.”
The
result appears to have been satisfactory and the house continued in use until
1721 when it was rebuilt. However the
new one was so poorly constructed that in 1750 it was reported by a surveyor to
be incapable of repair. It was not until
1829 that sufficient funds were forthcoming to repair it and at times the
rector lived elsewhere. George Parry,
for example, who was rector from 1747-68, does not have his name in the parish
register for which that period records only those of a succession of curates
who were obliged to live in the parsonage house. A new house was largely completed in 1830,
with minor additions later, and it is that house which exists today. It is known as the Old Rectory, but is no
longer a church house.
The
Harriet Mozely’s disparaging description of the
church was well founded. It was small,
and very old. It was given to the prior
and monks of St. Neot’s, a Benedictine monastery in Huntingdonshire, about 1175
by Roger Barnard and the grant was confirmed by Pope Alexander. Patronage of the living remained with the
Priory until 1449 when it passed into secular hands. In 1692 it was sold, with the rectory, by Sir
William Kingsmill to Thomas Coldwell who lived at Kimpton in Hampshire. He died in the next year and left them both
to Oriel College Oxford, from where he had taken his MA degree in 1663. (He does not appear to have been a Fellow.)
The
church measured 40 feet 2 inches by 16 feet 3 inches. The slab of the communion table was a foot
below the level of the ground outside.
The east wall was green with damp. The lighting was so bad that a
skylight had been cut in the roof. What
troubled the rector the most though were the square pews that almost filled the
nave. It was the custom to allocate them
to the more well-to-do families. In his
reminiscences Mozley wrote:
“On Sundays they were almost empty while the old and infirm,
the deaf and the half blind and helpless are sitting here and there under the
gallery, in the darkness. The stouter
labourers and all the lads, of an age to think themselves men, frequent the
gallery. The children are in the passage
- or they are in the chancel, sitting maybe on what should be a kneeling board
for communicants.”
Before
he ever went to Cholderton Mozley, in his articles in the British Critic, had
adversely criticised the layout in the Protestant and Reformed churches which
he considered placed too much emphasis in the most convenient method of seating
the greatest number. He disliked
galleries and urged his readers to prevent their erection. He urged the importance of space and
simplicity of layout. “The east end”, he
wrote, “Is apt to lose dignity from the number and smallness of its parts.”
He
condemned flat plaster ceilings which were a feature of Gothic churches still
being built in the 1830s. “The trouble
was”, he said, “That architects grudged the extra money that an oak roof would
cost, while wasting equal or greater sums on fussy ornaments.” He was reminded of his views by his
The
New Church
Mozley
brought his ideas to TH Wyatt, who was the consulting architect to the Salisbury
Diocesan Church Building Association. He
had already acquired a roof for his new church and the design had therefore to
fit in with it. He had heard about the roof when visiting friends in
“There is an immense barn shed roof and workmen which just
spoils our view of the goings on from the house.”
Mozley
took the design of the west door from the
“He managed all my earthworks, haulage, gathering of flints
from the hills and sand from the roadside, lodging the work people and
countless other matters.”
The
foundation stone was laid by Harriet Mozley on
“We have the additional attraction of the church building,
which is now about six feet above ground.
I shall require the breathing space afforded me by making a two year job
of it as by 20th August, when I stop operations, I shall be on the
verge of bankruptcy.”
However
the work continued in the following year.
He was earning extra money by editing the British Critic and Harriet was
writing children’s stories which were selling well. By the early summer of 1843 the roof had been
assembled and the walls were up to half the height of the windows. But work did not stop then because of lack of
funds.
Although
there had been great interest in the new church it did not translate into
financial support. In his Parish Notes
of Cholderton which were published in 1889 the Rev’d Edwin Barrow lists all the
donors. The only local ones were rectors
in the area, at Netheravon, Amesbury, Tidworth and Idmiston and Thomas Meacher
who managed ten shillings. Mozley later
wrote that no help came from Lady Nelson, who was Lady of the Manor and the
largest land owner, or from any of the farmers, or from Assheton Smith of
Tidworth who hunted the district and dominated its society.
One
reason for the lack of financial support by those who were able to contribute
seems to have been the proposed open plan seating. Archibald Paxton, the recently arrived tenant
of Cholderton House, and some local farmers had strong objection to it. In an article about pews Mozley wrote by way
of illustration:
“A gentleman rents a mansion of the date of Queen Anne… He
may be considered a squire. Well, a
church or chapel-of-ease is to be built, and he demands a distinguished square
pew in accordance with his own rank and station and with the property that he
occupies. The four hunting farmers with
pianos in their drawing rooms do the same.”
Paxton
persisted with his objections and threatened legal action. Eventually some years later, he was pacified
by the offer of an L - shaped pew at the front of the nave in which he could
sit with his back to the wall, and thus avoid having people breath down his
neck which apparently was his main concern.
The pew was in due course installed, and is still in position today.
When
the work on the church stopped in 1843 Mozley was thoroughly depressed. He recalled:
“There I stood penniless - my wife was in ill health and
visiting friends; my only servant was the gardener. I was in debt on the church account mainly to
the village blacksmith, living on bread, butter, cheese and garden stuff.”
When
Harriet returned home she was still unwell so he borrowed £50 on the autumn
tithe account and took her to
His
successor James Fraser, appointed by
“I have been busy this week at the church directing Grace’s
figure and face which Mr Howitt has been executing for an angel… It is now
enough for one of the workmen removing the scaffolding to have remarked “That
face is so like Mrs Mozley’s that I should have thought it was done for
her.” Anyhow it is a pretty little
thing, and with its companion, also from Grace’s attitude and expression, the
gem of the carved work as yet.”
With
the walls completed and the roof on there was much for Fraser to attend to
inside the church. The stone screen
separating the ante-chapel from the nave was decorated with shields in heraldic
colours displaying the armorial bearings of many people who were connected with
the parish, the Mozley family and the Oxford movement at the time (see annex). In December 1847 two wagon loads of flooring
tiles arrived from the Minton works.
They had been specially made, and the design was shown at the Great
Exhibition in
Mozley
had supported the cause of the Free Trade in articles in The Times and when it
was introduced he commemorated the occasion by having the pew ends carved to
portray the Free Gifts of God to Man.
The idea of the L-shaped pew to appease Mr Paxton came from a similar
shaped pew at the new church in Newton Toney.
Fraser also had a new, larger font of
It
took Fraser ten years to complete the installation of the windows, long after
the consecration of the new church by Edward Denison, Bishop of Salisbury,
which took place on
It
was not until the following March that the old church was pulled down. The walls of the nave were in good condition
and provided much excellent material for the village school that Fraser was
building just outside the lych-gate on land presented by Countess Nelson. For nearly a year the two churches stood side
by side. The new one twice as high and
twice as long as the old one.
The
Windows
Fraser
began in 1850 by installing the windows in the chancel, and the west window in
the ante-chapel. Those on the north and
south sides of the nave were inserted in 1858 and 1859, and the side windows in
the ante-chapel in 1860. The great
windows at the east and west ends of the church were made by the
The
east window of three lights represents the Agony, the Crucifixion and the
Resurrection. Below in the centre light,
is a medallion of St. Nicholas, depicting the legend of the Raising of the
Children from the Salting-tub. (Having heard that a wicked butcher had murdered
two children and thrown their bodies into a vat of pickling brine, the Saint
prayed over them, whereupon they were restored to life.) In the lower compartments of the side lights
are representations of the Faithful Centurion and of the Lawyer not far from
the Kingdom of God, themes that were
chosen in remembrance of two brothers Fraser, one a soldier the other a law
student, who died in 1840 and 1847 both at the age of twenty. The side windows of the chancel represent on
the north side the Fall of Manna and Moses striking the Rock, and on the south
side the miracles of the Feeding of the Five Thousand and of the Water made
Wine.
In
the Nave one of the windows of two lights on the north side represents the
Healing of the Lunatic Child and the Healing of Blind Bartimeus. The other depicts the healing of the Paralytic
and Peter walking on the Sea. This
window is in memory of Captain Edward Fraser of the Bengal Engineers “who in
the revolt of the Bengal Native Army fell by the hand of his own mutinous
troops whom he was endeavouring to recall to their duty at
The
End of and Era
The
great task was completed. The stained
glass that Fraser had put into the windows was thought by Mozley to produce an
almost magical effect. For his part
Fraser felt that the great height of the new church, the wide central aisle,
the oak seating and the complete absence if fuss and clutter combined to give
great dignity and peace. He wrote to Mozley “with me there is always a heavy
pressure on my spirits, quite crushing all attempts to be devotional, when I an in a dilapidated, dark-green square-pewed
church; while all seems in harmony, and one’s soul can soar a little, when one
worships in such a church as I have here.”
He also was able to announce that “No seat in this church is held either
by Faculty or Prescription but simply by allotment of the churchwarden.
James
Fraser continued as Rector until December 1860.
He became Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral in 1858 and Prebendary of
Bishopstrow in 1861. He was later Rector
of Ufton Nervet in
Harriet
Mozley never in robust health, died in
All
that remains of the old church is the ante-chapel and the belfry. The bell which bears the inscription “Sancta
Anna” is one of three which hung in the old church at the time of Edward
VI. No one knows what happened to the
other two, although the school bell may have been one of them but bears no
inscription. A brass tablet in memory of
Cuthbert Rives, who died in 1504, is on the wall of the ante-chapel besides the
old font. This, probably if Norman origin, stood in the old churchyard marking
the position of the west door of the old church until moved inside in
1924. At the foot of the font is an odd
shaped stone which was found in the Rectory garden by the Rector in 1952. It
was identified as the piscena from the old church, that is the basin which was
secured to the wall and used for washing of the Holy Communion vessels. The table standing in the ante-chapel is
thought to have been the Communion Table in the old church. It is Jacobean and made of oak.
The
lych-gate was designed by the architect, TH Wyatt, and was given to Mozley in
1853. It was extensively restored in
1989 using timber given by the Cholderton Estate.
The
mark cut into the stone outside the west door dates from the Ordinance Survey
in 1866, which recorded a height of 308.96 feet above sea level.
Later
Developments
Incumbents
of Cholderton from 1297 - 1889 are listed in the ante-chapel. Since then there have been:
|
1883
AE Brisco Owen |
1971
GE Hope |
|
1918
William King |
1972
Francis Chesterman |
|
1924
Frank McGowan |
1978
John Harvey |
|
1955
Brian Bishop |
1982
Geoffrey Davies |
|
1970
Pelham |
1990
Peter Burtwell |
|
|
|
In 1889 Henry C Stephens MP of Cholderton
Lodge, Hants, acquired by purchase the manor and estate in Cholderton until
then in the possession of Rear-Admiral The Honourable Maurice Horatio
Nelson. He bequeathed the village hall
and recreation ground in trust to the village when he died in 1923. He was buried in the vault below the chancel
and his body was later transferred to the family mausoleum in the churchyard
when it was built in 1926.
The
organ was built by the Positive Organ Company of
Pendant
lamps suspended from the roof were the main source of lighting until they were
removed after electricity was installed in 1932. A new arrangement of light bulbs in 1995 has
greatly improved visibility of the carvings on the roof timbers. The guild sign of the clothing workers of
In
1926 a large boiler was installed in the vault below the chancel it supplied
hot water to pipes which extended the length of the aisle. This system of heating was replaced by
electric wall heaters in 1960, and was augmented by under pew heating in the
front five pews on each side in 1986.
Recent
Years
1950
was the centenary year of the present church.
The church was re-decorated, and was treated for death watch beetle,
traces of which had been found in the roof and the flooring. The Bishop of Salisbury, the
In
1955 there were 47 names on the church electoral roll. By 1960 the numbers had increased to 84. This was due to two events. One was the Representation of the Laity
measure of 1956 which lowered the age limit for inclusion on the roll from 18
to 17 to encourage young people to take an active part in the life of the
church. It also permitted a person to
have his name entered on two rolls in the same diocese, with the consent of the
Parochial Church Councils concerned.
The
other event was the extension of the church parish across the county boundary
into Hampshire under an order in Council dated
The
boundary changes increased the adult population of the parish from about 160,
which had prevailed since the 1830’s to over 200. However in 1987 there was another review of
boundaries, this time by the Local Government Boundary Commission for
Map in Preparation
During
the 1960s numbers of the church electoral roll remained in the Eighties but
this healthy state was not reflected in the financial side. It was a perpetual struggle to meet the costs
of heating and lighting bills, repairs to the church roof, and the upkeep of
the churchyard. The main event of the
period was the construction of a new rectory in the glebe field in place of the
old one, which was larger than necessary and a drain on limited diocesan
resources to maintain. The new one was
completed in October 1967 and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury in
In
January 1970, soon after incurring substantial costs on repairs to the church
roof, the PCC was warned that the church spire was in a dangerous condition and
should be repaired as soon as possible.
Of the two options presented, taking down the bell tower completely
would be less expensive but might damage the corner of the church, complete
restoration would cost a great deal more.
A compromise was therefore agreed, which was to demolish the tower to
the base of the belfry, and to erect above the base a structure which would
enable the bell to be rung. The work was
completed in 1973, the tower was made safe and the bell rang again.
Another
difficult matter for the parish during those early years of the 1970s was
pastoral reorganisation which the PCC had been warned in March 1972 was being
considered and which might if implemented, result in the parish loosing its
resident rector. This came about when the Bourne Valley Team Ministry was set
up by an Order in Council made on
The
timing was unfortunate for Cholderton where there had been three changes of
Rector in as many years. The Rev’d Brian
Bishop departed in February 1970 and was succeeded by the Rev’d Pelham Hopkins,
ex RAF, in December. His induction had
been arranged for the 11th of that month but he was too ill to
attend the church service and it was carried out by the Bishop of Salisbury in
the Rectory. He died in January having
been unable to take a service. The Rev’d
GE Hope was installed in August 1971, but he chose to resign in September 1972
when the Team Ministry was due to begin functioning. The Rev’d Robin Ray was appointed Deacon in
Charge of Boscombe, Allington, Newton Tony and Cholderton until his ordination
which was due in two years time, and he moved with his family into the
Cholderton Rectory. He found the cost of
living very high for his miniscule stipend, and he left the Bourne Valley Team
in 1976 after he was ordained priest.
His successor occupied Allington Vicarage and Cholderton Rectory was
sold and renamed The Brake.
The
lack of continuity among incumbents had adverse consequences. The minutes of the Annual Parochial Church
Meeting in March 1977, at which the Team Rector took the chair, recorded that
there was a lack of interest in the church services and the state of the church
in general. There were seven people
present, and the Electoral roll stood at 37.
That the church kept going at all was largely due to the schoolmaster Mr
Glyn Jones. He was a Lay Reader who
frequently took the services in church and chaired the PCC meetings, in many
discreet ways he also helped the impoverished deacon. He was supported by three dedicated ladies,
his wife Beryl, Mrs Jenkinson, PCC Secretary, and Mrs Rayment, Treasurer. The grateful appreciation of him by the
parish was publicly expressed some years later when a plaque to his memory was
placed on the refurbished lych-gate.
The
late 1970’s were also a time of increased expenditure on the fabric of the
church when it could least be afforded.
In 1977 it was decided to erect clear Perspex sheeting on the outside of
the side windows in the chancel to protect the glass in them from further
deterioration. In 1980 redecoration of
the interior of the church could be delayed no longer. A difficult decision had
to be made about the band of biblical texts on the walls of the nave below the
window cills. Expert advice was to the
effect that the process of restoration would be very costly and time consuming
and would create unpleasant chemical fumes while it was taking place. It was therefore decided to paint over them,
leaving a plain wall. It was also
decided to leave untouched the wall decorations behind the altar, and to
conceal them behind a curtain.
A
further blow was the closure of the church school, so conveniently located for
Sunday School and meetings of the PCC, and a constant reminder to parents and
pupils of the existence of the church.
It was closed in 1978 because of reduced attendance and the children of
the village had to travel to the Church of England Primary School at Newton
Tony. When the
Closure
of the school was one indication of the changing nature of the village. It could no longer be called agricultural for
there were few jobs to be had on the land, or for that matter in the village. The proximity of good rail and road
communications facilitated commuting to work and the paucity of public
transport necessitated car ownership.
The availability of low cost rented accommodation declined as the right
to buy council houses took hold.
Agricultural cottages were bought and converted into retirement or
weekend houses. There were many
newcomers to the village; the big houses were changing hands. The village was
fast becoming an outward looking commuter community for whom time at home at
weekends was precious. In keeping with
the national trends church attendance as a matter of duty was no longer
regarded as important. Nevertheless the
PCC, reinforced and broad based, found itself taking the initiative to
encourage a village community spirit as well as attending directly to affairs
of the church. The 1980’s saw a revival of interest in the church and a strong
improvement in its financial state. The
tide had turned.
In
1980 there came financial help from an unexpected source when Mr. Young a
former resident of Cholderton and owner of the Poldark Mine Wishing Well in
The
willingness to help was not confined to the PCC and is illustrated by the
restoration of the churchyard from its overgrown state. Colonel Gibbs placed gates in the fences of
The Old Rectory and the churchyard to provide access for his tractor grass 
mower, Mr. Ronnie Clark
of Drybrook and his gardener planted hundreds of bulbs, trees and flowering
shrubs in the north-east corner, and lavender bushes round the church. He brought in machinery to scrape clear the
surface of the remaining uncleared strip of the churchyard on the south side,
and re-seeded it. That part is now
visibly a few inches lower than the rest of the churchyard. A remembrance garden for cremated remains was
created in the southwest corner and Mrs. Jean Morgan made and planted a well
stocked border of flowers and shrubs along the boundary with St. Nicholas
Cottage.
It
was also Jean Morgan who charted the graves.
She located 571 in all and identified most of them. Among them is that of a benefactor of the
school and the village poor, Anthony Cracherode, who died in 1752, and is
commemorated by a marble tablet in the wall of the ante-chapel. There is also the tomb of Archibald
Paxton. Despite his earlier quarrels
with Mozley he enjoyed his Wiltshire home and became much involved with the
life of the country. He died in 1875 at
his
Reminders
of the past of a different nature were evoked by visits from the
Another
link with the past is the Finchley Society.
Before Henry Stephens purchased the Cholderton Estate he was a prominent
and respected resident of Finchley in
The
village war memorial erected after the first World War was on trust land by the
village hall and carried no names. They
were listed in the ante-chapel of the church.
The war memorial was moved to its present position by the Cholderton
Estate in 1983 as a planning condition of the development of land behind the
village hall for residential purposes.
In 1995 the memorial was additionally inscribed to include World War
II. The memorial commemorates 19 men
from the village who gave their lives in 1914-18 and 3 during the 1939-45
war. The numbers reflect the proportion
of casualties sustained nationally during the two wars.
The
Future
In
1979 doubts about the suitability of the
The
initiative to reduce the number of priests in the Bourne Valley Team from three
to two was prompted by a decline in the number of suitable applicants for
ordination in the wider church. It later
became a financial issue as well. In
1957 the Cholderton parish quota or parish share of the contributions levied on
parishes to meet the cost of Ministry was £25.
In 1980 it was £205 and in 1990 it was £1,264. The exceptional growth in the 1980s was due
to the decline in the size of the Church Commissioners’ grants to the Diocese
caused in part by the need to give priority to less affluent urban dioceses and
to the growing cost of clergy pensions.
Salisbury Diocese necessarily moved to self sufficiency.
Whether
parishes can meet the full cost of Ministry remains to be seen. Relatively they are not high. In Cholderton, as in many small rural
communities, there is a strong feeling that the church needs to be preserved as
part of the village heritage. In
Cholderton newcomers who make the effort to attend church services are assured
of a warm welcome, coffee in the ante-chapel afterwards, and the acceptance
through getting to know them which might not easily otherwise happen. The church is the heart of the community
Annex
Heraldic
Shields
On the east face of the
screen separating the ante-chapel from the nave, observed from left to right (i.e.
North to South):
1
Rev’d Isaac Williams - Tractarian (the shield
contains a representation of Littlemore Church Oxford)
2
Rev’d F A Tremonger - Curate at Cholderton 1846
- 47
3
John Mozley and his wife - the arms are those of
Newman
4
5
Anthony Cracherode
6
Francis Elizabeth, the Countess Nelson (the
shield contains the word Trafalgar
and shows a palm tree between a disabled ship and a ruined battery)
7
The
8
Edward Denison - Bishop of Salisbury 1836 - 54 -
the arms are those of the See of Sarum
9
Henry Thornton - Tractarian, married to Miss S
Mozley
10
Rev’d S Richards - Tractarian (the arms include
those of his father-in-law, Sir Robert Wilmot of Chaddesden,
11
Rev’d Thomas Mozley and Harriet his wife, nee
Newman
On
the west face of the screen
1
Henry and John Mozley
2
Frederic Rogers, later Lord Blackford -
Tractarian
3
Roundwell Palmer - Tractarian, later Lord
Chancellor, Earl of Selbourne
4
Rev’d James Frazer, Later Bishop of Manchester
5
6
Unknown
7
The
8
The See of Sarum
9
Rev’d F W Fowle - married to Miss F Mozley
10
Rev’d F J Blandy and Rev’d R W Church, later
Dean of St Paul’s
11
Miss A E Dyson and Mis A Mozley
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The
Churches of the upper
Council
for the care of Churches Report - on the above churches, dated 12/71
Parish
Notes of Cholderton by Edwin P Burrow MA - dated
Letters
written by Harriet Mozley - given to the Rev’d Frank McGowan in 1952/53
when he was Rector of Cholderton
Notes
on
Inventory
of Church Goods (“Terrier”) of St Nicholas Cholderton from October 1929
Cholderton
and
Archibold
Frederick Paxton (1793-1875) article by Archibold Paxton 1993
Cholderton
PCC Minute Book - Nov 1954 to Nov 1970
Cholderton
PCC Minute Book - Dec 1970 to Oct 1995
The
Probable Roots of the Noyes Family prior to 1786 and other material by
EM Noyes of
A
Note about the Laity Measure (1956) which amended Electoral
Roll regulations dated
Codicils
to the Will of Mrs A M Stephens, relating to the upkeep of the Mausoleum
Alterations
to the Parish boundary, Order in Council dated
Loan
to the Rev’d Frank McGowan by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for
the augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy dated
Plurality
Order authorising
one incumbent to hold the benefice of Cholderton and Newton Tony dated
Local
Government Boundary Commission for
Parish
Magazine for
June 1995 - visit of the Finchley Society
Chart
of the Graves in the Churchyard and list of names, completed in 1993
PCC Members since 1980 († Since died)
Jane Campbell-Johnson Left village in 2005
Terry Cull 2005- , Secretary
2005-’07, Electoral Roll officer 2006-09, Deanery synod 2007-
John Bennet 1983 -1989, left
village
Patricia (Paddy) Chitty Churchwarden 1985 - 1995, (Continuing
member 2010)
Michael Clark
MBE Treasurer 1982, Churchwarden
1989, Deanery Treasurer 1987, Diocesan Board of Finance 1987, Diocesan Synod
1993, left village in 1995
Mollie Clarke
MBE Secretary 1979 - ’95
left village 1995
John Eddison Churchwarden from 1995
Triç Eddison Secretary from 1996
Kathleen Dent† left
village 1994
Donald Fussey
Sally Gibbs 1978-’94, left
village 1994
Michael
Holliday Left village
20??
Ethel
Jenkinson† Secretary 1995-’79, left village 1983, died ‘85
Glyn Jones† Lay
Reader died 1998
Beryl Jones Continuing member
(2010)
Rex Kearley 1970-’85, Churchwarden
1982-‘85
Shirley
Kearley† 1970-’85, Electoral Roll officer 1975-‘85
Christopher
Lowe JP 1990-’96, Diocesan
Stewardship Adviser
Gillian Love Secretary 1995-’96,
left village ‘96
Bruce
McDowell Churchwarden
1982-’89, Treasurer 1995-??
Ruth McDowell
Ian Park-Weir Member (to date),
Diocesan Synod Rep 2007-‘08
Priscilla
Park-Weir Treasurer
Pearl Rayment† Churchwarden 1967-’82,
Treasurer 1976-’82, died April 1988
Crawford Stoddart Churchwarden and Secretary to
date
Timothy
Taylor 1981-’83, left
village ‘83
Ann Taylor 1982-’83 left village
‘83
Geoff Thomas 1991-’96 left village 20??
Gordon
Whittick 1983-’89 left
village