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RefNoKP150/3/13
AltRefNoP150/3/13
TitleSwaffham Prior Church, St. Mary's Restoration Book
DescriptionVolume compiled by the Vicar, the Reverend Lawrence Fisher and containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, letters, lists of donations, restoration fund accounts and detailed day to day entries recording the progress of rebuilding and other items of interest.
There is an index of persons and subjects.
Entries include:
Details of faculty granted 12 September 1805 for rebuilding St. Cyriac's (copy mentioned is not amongst this collection of records);
Report of meeting to consider restoration of St. Mary's 3 December 1900;
Photographs of the interior of the restored church 1911;
Proposals for the erection of the Allix Chapel and a Rood screen;
Various newspaper cuttings concerning the legality and liturgical significance of crucifixes placed in Anglican Churches (special reference to the case of St. Anselm's Church, Pinner, Middlesex, heard in the Court of Arches February - March 1901);
Estimates of cost of building submitted by Messrs. Cornish & Gaymer of North Walsham;
23 September 1901 - 17 October 1902 day by day record of the progress of rebuilding;
22 October 1902 St. Mary's Church dedicated by the Bishop of Ely;
22 March 1903 Rood Screen completed (a sketch of this was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition 1905);
26 November 1903 St. Mary's constituted as the Parish Church (faculty see P150/6/4);
1 June 1906 quotation from Cambridge Chronicle 100 years ago records laying of the first stone of the new St. Cyriac's Church 28 May 1806, by John Peter Allix Esq.;
13 August 1906 Tower of St. Cyriac's struck by lightning.
19 February 1907 further damage to the church in a gale. The G.E.R. Passenger Steamer 'Berlin' was wrecked off the Hook of Holland with the loss of 128 lives the same night;
1908 Clock in St. Cyriac's Tower extensively repaired;
24-30 September 1910 Jubilee Church Congress Cambridge Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition held in New Square, Cambridge. Details of items sent from Swaffham Prior - Elizabethan chalice and cover, pewter flagon, Dr. Martin Hill's tithe book (see P150/3/2) and photographs of the two Swaffham Prior Churches;
1913 Prayers for the new government in China established after the Revolution;
15 June 1914 'On account of the fear of outrage to the Churches from the "suffragettes" (or wild women who want votes) the Churches were closed after daily service on week days until further notice';
Black and white aircraft warning boards placed on both Church Towers (Hague Convention 1907 - see P150/5/3);
Zeppelins over Swaffham Prior after raids on London 14 October 1915;
Zeppelins bombed Midlands, killing 54 people;
Houses in Swaffham Prior shaken by explosions at Isleham 31 January 1916;
Rural Deaneries rearranged, Swaffham Prior and Swaffham Bulbeck transferred from Deanery of Quy to that of Fordham November 1916;
Newspaper cuttings concerning controversial war memorial windows (made by W. and G. Hughes) 1920;
Organ rebuilt and improved 1926.
Date1900 - 1932
CreatorNameSwaffham Prior Parish Church
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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