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RefNoKP150/5/3
AltRefNoP150/5/3
TitleChurchwardens: accounts. Bound volume
DescriptionContaining:
Accounts 1907 - 1922
Minutes of vestry meetings 1908 - 1921

Including:
1910 Reach Church licensed for marriages and the curacy endowed at £120. (A new school was built in 1909, so that the Church was no longer needed for a double purpose)
1912 Resolution to be sent to the Prime Minister, deploring the scheme for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, and protesting against the provisions of the schools Bill introduced by Sir George Marks.
1914 Two stained glass windows presented by C.P. Allix Esq., Churchwarden.
1914 Details of the rearrangement of the boundaries of the diocese of Ely. In 1837 the counties of Bedford, Huntingdon and West Suffolk had been added. Now the County of Bedford was to be transferred to the diocese of St. Albans, West Suffolk to the new diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich and 51 parishes in West Norfolk previously in the diocese of Norwich were to be added to Ely.
1915 In accordance with the Hague Convention 1907, providing that places of public worship and historic monuments were to be spared as far as possible in time of war, large black and white warning boards were to be placed on the towers of the two churches.
Date1837 - 1922
CreatorNameSwaffham Prior Parish Church
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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