CHURCHES AND BENEFICE

Registers - The Parish Church of All Saints', South Lynn

The Parish Church of All Saints' had a daughter Church of St. Michael and All Angels from 1901. The hamlet of Setchey (or Seeche) had its' own Chapel (at the School) from 1863, this also served the hamlet of Saddlebow in the parish of Wiggenhall St. Mary.

56. Preacher's Book, All Saints, 1858-1862); with a list of collector's towards the Chancel Furniture 1956; a report (pasted-in newspaper cutting) of the re-opening of the Church after a partial restoration in 1860.

57. Preacher's Book, All Saints', 1862-1865

58. Preacher's Book, All Saints' 1865-1867, with (loose) circular letter to the parishioners regarding the visit of the Bishop of Norwich to South Lynn 1866. FRAGILE

59. Preacher's Book, All Saints' 1867-1869

60. Preacher's Book, All Saints' 1869-1871, with (loose) account of receipts and expenditure on reredos, gas standards and improvement of the organ 1871. FRAGILE

61. Preacher's Book, All Saints', 1871-1876 FRAGILE

62. Preacher's Book, All Saints', 1871-1882 FRAGILE

63. Preacher's Book, All Saints', 1882-1886 FRAGILE

64. Preacher's Book, All Saints', 1886-1894 FRAGILE

65. Preacher's Book, Seeche 1863-1870, with reports (pasted-in newspaper cuttings of the building and opening of the church and school at Seeche in 1863.

66. Preacher's Book, Seeche, 1870-1876

67. Service Register, St. Michael and All Angels, Saddlebow Road, 1901-1913

68. Service Register, St. Michael and All Angels, Saddlebow Road, 1926- 1937

69. Service Register, St. Michael and All Angels, Saddlebow Road, 1937- 1946

70. Service Register, St. Michael and All Angels, Saddlebow Road, 1960

71. Service Register, All Saints, 1947-1952

72. Service Register, All Saints, 1952-1962

73. Service Register, All Saints', 1962-1968

74. Service Register, All Saints',1968-1972

75. Curate's Licenses 1892-1926, 1956 (21 PAPERS)

76. License to perform a Divine Service in the newly erected Schoolroom at Seeche in 1863, with related letter, 1863.

77. License for the Solemnisation of Marriages in the Chapel of Ease of St. Michael and All Angels, 1904; map of proposed district of St. Michael and All Angels (no date)

78. Terriers 1827 (two, one with parts of heading and foot torn away), 1834, 1879, 1894, 1941, 1947; with a copy of an 1827 Terrier and 2oth century copy of the 1685 Inventory from Volume II of the 'Churchwarden's' Register (PD 607/102)

79. Faculties (relating to All Saints' Church except where otherwise stated): to re-seat the Church, erect a gallery and replace the pulpit and desk, 1841; to sell the lead and re-roof the Nave with slate, 1859; for stained glass memorial window in the South Aisle,1917; for two stained glass windows and to install the new heating system, 1920; to remove the West Gallery and other works, 1922; to install heating apparatus in the church of St. Michael and All Angels, 1927; for a stained glass in the south east window of the chancel, 1930; for a stained glass window in the north west corner of the nave, 1934; for electric light in St. Michael's church, 1937; to extend electric light in All Saints' church, 1940; with a citation for a faculty to erect an oak war memorial tablet in St. Michael's Church 1921.

80. Copy of a sequestration order, 1945, with the Bishop's notice of proposal to collate the Reverend Walter George Bridge to the benefice in 1951.

81. Papers relating to the restoration and reseating of All Saints' Church 1887-1889; specification and bills of quantities 1887; bills of quantities for the new west west porch, staircase etc. 1889

82. Draft report of the repairs and alterations to All Saints' Church and its' re- opening (in 1887), (no date); written on the dorse of a printed circular letter from West Norfolk Farmers Manure Company to the Manager of the Gas Works 18 ( )

83. Two letters from the Sandringham Estate Office regarding the Queen's gift of a wool mat for All Saints Church and a page from the Visitors' Book signed by Queen Mary, 1925

84. All Saints' Church Visitors' Book 1971-1985

85. Papers relating to the erection of a war memorial tablet at St. Michael and All Angels Church and an application for a faculty 1919- 1921, including committee minutes, subscription list, correspondence and vouchers.

86. Insurance policies and related papers for churches of All Saints',

St. Michael and St. Helen 1937-1948

87. Correspondence regarding the sale of St. Helen's Church, 1952

88. Draft agreement between Mayor Alderman and the Burgesses of King's Lynn, the Rector and Churchwardens, mutually renouncing claims for compensation in respect of All Saints' Churchyard, following the adoption of a planning scheme, 1939; letter from the Town Clerk clarifying the implications of the scheme, 1940.

89. Copy of a tithe rent charge redemption certificate, 1848.

90. Counterpart mortgage of benefice income to Queen Anne's Bounty, 1852, with related postal cover 1853

91. London Gazette , May 1867, January 1869 and August 1912, with Ecclesiastical Commissioner's letters concerning grants to benefice. employment of a curate etc., 1867-1869 FRAGILE

92. Copy of a grant by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of a stipend to the Incumbent of South Lynn, 1869, copied from the London Gazette.

93. Miscellaneous papers regarding benefice income 1931-1945.

94. Vicar's account book for benefice income 1709-1758, including tithe accounts 1709,1718 and 1719; accounts of fees, dues and offerings 1719, 1722-1730 and 1749; lists of tenants and rents paid for orchard. 1709-1756; lists of owners, tenants and acreages 1709 and 1719; annual values of Easter Offerings and fees 1719-1752; annual values of impropriate tithes 1720-1731 and notes of leases of great tithes by the Bishop of Ely 1747 and 1758; list of corporation lands in South Lynn (no date); notes regarding customs and income of benefice (no date); memorandum regarding John Loneyson's gift of £600 for the poor, (no date); memorandum as to the ownership of the wainscoting in the Vicarage house 1719; copy of Terrier 1715. FRAGILE

95. Vicar's fees and accounts book 1770-1779, including lists of receipts from Headstones and Memorials 17677-1780, from Mortuaries (including Burials from St. Margaret's) 1754-1780, from Wedding fees 1760-1786 and from Churchings 1750-1779; monthly accounts of profits and expenses 1770-1779. FRAGILE

96. Vicar's Memorandum book c. 1760's, including descriptions of tithe and other customs in the parish and surveys of owners and occupiers 1720 and 1760, copied from books of Thomas Helmore, who collected Tithes for Lady Taylor, rental value of owners/occupiers for tax and poor rate 1650-1760; surveys of lands of individual owners of various dates 1719- 1760; assessments for church rate (including a list of house-keepers not in capacity to pay) 1687, and for rate to meet Quarter Sessions fine for failure to repair Highways in 1687. FRAGILE - ON MICROFILM

97. Vicar's memorandum book c. 1770-1782, including extracts of earlier date from Churchwarden's and Overseer's books. Includes memoranda of vestry and parishioner's agreements 1719 (position of fire-engine, and water supply to the Vicarage House), 1747 (regarding the ditch and fence around the churchyard), 1749 (hire of messuage for use as a poor house), 1750 (for removal of a lime kiln and of a shed on the Common), 1753 (as to the use of an ancient passage), 1762 and 1776 (regarding the workhouse), 1765 (contested appointment of a churchwarden); church seating plan (not dated); alphabetical lists of names and dates from memorial inscriptions in the churchyard, church and chancel 1607- 1774; church repairs account 1764-1766 and note of the weights of the bells 1764; memoranda i.e. Valenger's almshouses; memoranda of lettings of 5 acres of poor land at Wiggenhall St. German 1642-1774 and of Gool or Church Bank, 3 acres in South Lynn 1606-1775; lists of gifts to the poor of South Lynn 1615-1708; two subscription lists to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1779; coal distribution list 1779; lists of Churchwardens and Overseers 1676-1778; memoranda of poor rates and extracts from poor rate assessments for Stonegate Ward relating to the Vicarage House 1708-1713; lists of contributions to the Easter Offerings 1754-1782; lists of residents of the Workhouse c. 1738-1781, of poor chargeable to the parish (no date) and of payments to the poor 1776-1778.

98. Extracts from the Vicar's account book 1709-1758 (PD 607/94) with additional note about a 'haunted chamber' in the old Vicarage House in which the Reverend J.W. Greaves discovered a female skeleton around 1825.

99. Letter asking the Incumbent to allow a sermon and collection on behalf of the Church Pastoral Aid Society (not dated), watermarked 1836 (Found loose in PD 607/6 )

100. Letter to the Reverend Arthur Hayes from Beloe & Beloe, Solicitors, regarding fees charged for certificates, 1902; Rector's note of dates of the earliest register and a quaint Burial entry made in 1634; 20th century postcard showing All Saints' Church from the South East, dated c. 1900 on dorse.