Parish of wadhurst

For related papers, see PAR 498/5/4/2

in memory of Captain Percival Beckwith Wace, Lieutenant Herbert Gordon Wace, Ellen Wace and Muriel de Winton Wace

For related papers, see PAR 498/10/3/4

removal of pew to provide space for altering the position of the lectern, removal of the old door at the south porch and installation of a new heating system

For related papers, see PAR 498/4/3/4

For related papers, see PAR498/4/3/6

with covering letter

For the lease of a curate's house, 1 Mar 1927 see PAR 498/16/4/1

Copy report of Lacy W Ridge, diocesan surveyor, to the bishop of Chichester; certificate of deferment of repairs to the tithe barn (under s52 of the Dilapidations Act 1871), accounts of C Washby, builder, Lacy W Ridge, architect, G Luck, plumber, and R G Raper, solicitor; accounts

Correspondence and specifications concerning alterations: Ernest Mannering, vicar; H Milburn Pett, diocesan surveyor; Lancelot Mason, bishop's secretary; Pelham Rawsthorne Papillon, Crowhurst (chairman, parsonages committee); H Manktelow, C Corke, C Watts, F Knight and A Stevens, builders

H Milburn Pett, diocesan architect, Hove

H Milburn Pett, diocesan architect, Hove

H Milburn Pett, Hove

H Milburn Pett, diocesan architect, Hove

H Milburn Pett, diocesan architect, Hove

embodying suggestions in Martin Skinner's letter of 5 Jun 1935; H Milburn Pett, diocesan architect, Hove

H Milburn Pett, 7 Brunswick Place, Hove

shows two plots opposite Moseham to the South-East of the church

the Revd Ernest Mannering of Wadhurst to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty

Endorsed: note of discharge, 1 Oct 1955

Ink and wash on paper, mounted on card, 12 ins x 23 ins; by James Cameron, 3 Cedar Villas, Mill Lane, Hampstead, London

It was decided to build a new vestry after a fire had damaged the old vestry room at the foot of the tower on 20 Oct 1911. The new building was designed by Granville Edward Stewart Streatfeild of 9 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn, FRIBA (1869-1947).

For the faculty, see PAR 498/4/1/1

describing his proposal and enclosing sketch plans [not present]

addressed to the Rev L Stevenson, by whom it is annotated; proposes a free-standing vestry on the North side of the chancel

W B B Freeland, Chichester, to the Rev L C Stevenson; encloses a copy of a letter from Alfred B Kempe, chancellor, concerning the faculty procedure, the removal of graves and the necessity to contact members of the Burt family

Granville E S Streatfeild, of 9 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn; No 7

Granville E S Streatfeild, of 9 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn; No 8

G[ranville] E S Streatfeild, architect; shows church from the South-East

with Messrs Bowman and Sons, Stamford, Lincolnshire

with a narrative of the scheme and a drawing of the proposed building

addressed to [J C Lane] Andrews, the Rev L C Stevenson and H C Corke

by Geoffrey Webb, Sackville House, East Grinstead; with covering letter from L J Causton, Hatch Cottage, Hartfield [vicar 1925-1935] to [the Rev David] Rice, giving the circumstances of its production, 12 Jul 1947

Correspondence of the Rev David E Rice with Martin Travers, 51 Colet Gardens, London (died 1948) and John E Crawford, Ashford, Middlesex, artists and craftsmen, and W J Piper and Son, Wadhurst, builders

includes lists of Wadhurst men killed in the Second World War for the book of remembrance, one including rank, regiment or ship and date of death

For the faculty, see PAR 498/4/1/20

by Kenneth Miller; to be given by Mrs Miller in memory of T B Miller; with attached note suggesting that the plan be considered 'in relation to the whole scheme of renovation' [?PAR 498/4/3/6]

correspondence of the Rev David Rice with WJ Piper, builders, Wadhurst; the Diocesan Advisory Committee; and O H Leeney, Southwick, with a report on the proposal

For the faculty, see PAR 498/4/1/22

Church Commissioners to the Rev D A Plumley; the provisions of the acts do not apply so long as the building is in use as a church

correspondence of the Rev L C Stevenson with H Wace, dean of Canterbury, and George Loyd Courthope, Whiligh, concerning the proposed parish hall; with accounts of the Parish Bazaar for the benefit of the hall

HW wishes a tablet saying that the use of the site had been granted in memory of his father [the Revd R W Wace]; GLC hoping to change the hall's name, as his father [G J Courthope] 'would have greatly disliked this form of cheap advertisement... if you must have a parish hall, why not call it 'The Parish Hall'?

from a committee of the vestry; includes drawing of proposed scheme

with Bernard Thorpe and Partners, Oxted, Surrey; J W Walker, Ruislip, Middlesex; George Osmond and Company, Taunton, Somerset

K F Ascott and C Andrews; includes a plea not to install an electronic organ (with statements of opinion and the results of an inspection) and suggestions for a response to Miss [Daphne] Courthope's offer

Gillett and Johnston, Croydon, Surrey, to the Rev H S Brooke

For other documents relating to the bells, 1714-1892 see PAR 498/10/1, 16/3/6

John William George Godeck; Wadhurst and Tidebrook

John Anthony Phelps Standen McDougal; Wadhurst and Tidebrook

Michael David Johnstone Barrow; Wadhurst and Tidebrook

From PAR 498/6/1/1/4 the books include compositions for old and young hops, and deductions for woodland and tithe-free land.

With arrears 1756-1763

with poor rate assessment Sep 1784 - Mar 1785

at front: analysis of hops planted in Wadhurst, including number of hills

at front: analysis of hops planted in Wadhurst, including number of hills

Rental of the composition in lieu of vicarial tithes

Rough copy

by Henry Noakes and John Moon the younger

For Sep 1826, 1840, 1841; the assessment for 1826 includes sums owing for poor and highway rates

George F Balcombe in account with the executors of the Rev John Foley

George F Balcombe in account with the Rev G G Maclean

George F Balcombe in account with the Rev G G Maclean

The Rev G G Maclean

The Rev G G Maclean

The Rev G G Maclean

The Rev G G Maclean

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

The Rev L C Stevenson

narrates composition for tithes, including 10s 0d an acre for hops, made at the beginning of the incumbency of [Samuel Bush] in Apr 1740 [recte 1743]; does someone who was not then a parishioner have the benefit of the agreement?; copy opinion of George Perrot, Inner Temple [Middlesex]

includes a copy 'of the note which they obliged me to sign upon their signing the agreement' by which SB agrees to take a composition for arrears, 'without having any regard to the poor tax to which I have been assessed'

proposed new agreement on the breach of the former composition by the parishioners assessing the vicar for the poor rate at Easter 1753; further query added [in the hand of Richard Dungate of Mayfield, attorney]; with opinion of George Perrot [of the Inner Temple (1710-1780), baron of the exchequer]

whether arrears can be recovered on a composition paid at less than the true value; how the value of owner-occupied land can be established; whether the Sussex custom of tithe-free woodland can be claimed for hops planted on grubbed-up wood; with opinion of Swynfen Jervis [of the Middle Temple (1700-1771)]

recites tithe composition, after litigation, made by [the Rev John Willett] in 1718; verbal agreement by the parishioners with [the Rev Samuel Bush], inducted in Jul 1743, to continue the agreement; in 1745 SB was assessed to the poor rate, appealed to quarter sessions without success; withdrawal of the rate, followed by a gift to SB for his trouble and expense, until 1753 when the rate was again imposed; the queries deal with the problems posed by owner-occupiers, woodland and the improvement of land since 1718; with the opinion [of George Perrott]

applications to rent the vicarial tithe should be made before 1 Dec; those who have not complied are to pay their tithes in kind

list of 12 names and acreages

Long and detailed manuscript account by the Rev Samuel Bush of disputes over the tithes in Wadhurst, 1713-1777. Bush's antagonists, chiefly Charles Pratt (later Lord Camden), [John] Legas and Richard Tapsell, are described in detail.

Bush states that the second part was sent to the printer in May 1775, but that in June the printer has refused to publish it except on conditions that Bush could not accept. A postscript and detailed notes were written in 1777.

Re-bound by Robert Barlow Gardiner, vicar, 1840.

From the late 16th century there was no vicarage in Wadhurst. The incumbent rented rooms or a house in the parish from his parishioners. However, with the long-running dispute over the tithes the Rev Bush found it impracticable to continue this practice.

Thomas Harris considers that publishing [the account of the tithe dispute] would be disadvantageous to SB. GW had been to Woodford [in Essex] several times in 1775 to pack up and send off all the books, numbering 4500, of Mr [Richard] Warner [c1713-1775, botanist], to the college, where they are still standing in boxes in the library. Suggests the purchase of the reversion of the house late Richard Tapson [recte Tapsell], which SB wishes to leave to the college as a vicarage, by means of a mortgage.

the Rev Robert Barlow Gardiner and the inhabitants of Wadhurst

Endorsed: engrossed and 135 seals.

includes name of owner and occupier, type of land and number of stock. acreage; pages 8-15 only

Lacks 1852

[?by the Rev John Foley]; value of tithes 1828-1842, and of the tithe rent charge, 1846-1885

Julius Charles Drewe of Wadhurst Hall esq to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; recites conveyance by Wadham College to the Rev George Gavin MacLean, 21 Nov 1892, and by GGM to JCD, 5 May 1908

executors of Robert Barlow Gardiner (John Reginald Forman of 45 Esplanade, Whitley Bay [in Northumberland] esq and Percy Gardiner Forman of 50 Perham Road, West Kensington [in Middlesex] esq) to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty and the Rev Lilford Jervoise Causton, vicar of Wadhurst

Recites: contract for the redemption of land tax by the Rev William Salmon, 5 May 1804

letters to the Rev E Mannering from the Tithe redemption Commission; WHT Collings, surveyor, Brighton; the University of Cambridge Financial Board; the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty (enclosing a Record of Ascertainments); the Chichester Diocesan Fund

correspondence of the Rev David E Rice; includes notice of transfer of £50 of income to the benefice of Tidebrook, and a charging assessment for £255, 29 Nov 1950, discharged 7 Jan 1971

correspondence of the Rev Donald Plumley with the Diocesan Board of Finance in response to a request from Watson and Sons of Wadhurst, for the executors of Dr Wilkin, for a discharge of the liability of the estate, against which he had insured since 1936