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00170 - PARISH OF ST EDITHA, POLESWORTH - 1559-1986

1 - Incumbent

1 - Registers

3 - Benefice

4 - Incumbent's working papers

1 - Rev William Palmer's printed exhortation to parishioners to attend church. - 1825

2 - Vicar's memorandum book, entitled 'Polesworth Vicarial Register, No. II. Belonging to the Vicars of Polesworth. Dated 15th February 1842' - 1842-1935

3 - Ely Cathedral: transverse section of the choir by J.W.H., for the 'Anastatic Sketches' - May 1849

4 - Note relating to exchange of livings, from Bishop Stretton's Register - late 19th century

5 - Miscellaneous typescript, manuscript, photographic, and pictorial information, collected by several incumbents, mainly Canon Trotter and Rev Corfield - late 19th century-early 20th century

6 - Notes for sermon. List of names on dorse. - c.1920s

7 - Correspondence and notice regarding listed buildings in the parish - 1952-1968

8 - Correspondence relating to the churchyard including the Albrighton Memorial, inserting a gate in the fence (1967), Pooley Lane War Memorial (1973), churchyard maintenance (1966), exchange of land from churchyard to Nethersole Schools for another piece of land (1967). many requests for permission to erect memorials (for individuals) from Tamworth Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd, Mrs Phizacklea's bequest (1961), 1910 Finance Act Valuation Forms 37, Polesworth footpath (1928), envelope containing correspondence relating to upkeep of Lees' graves (1920s - 1940s)` - 1910-1973

9 - Personal papers left in safe by Rev Corfield. Includes will of Ann Sharples of Gorse Farm Cottage, Tockholes, Lancaster (14 March 1905); death certificate of said Nancy Sharples (1 January 1907); manuscript copy of the will of Joseph Booth, Innkeeper of Victoria Hotel, Tockholes, Lancaster (27 December 1905); summary of the estate of the late Miss Susannah Catterall of Crook Row, Tockholes (1909); notes possibly relating to the estateof Ellen Gregory (n.d. [early 1900s]); Duties of Tockholes School Cleaner (12 November 1900); declaration of Margaret Walker of Blackburn to give a sum for the upkeep of her husband' memorial (Thomas Catterall) (12 July 1897); copy of will of James Turner of Meadow Heath in Tockholes in Lancaster (4 June 1897); copy of will of Ellen Waddington (widow of James Waddington) of Highers Hill, Tockholes (brother of Hughe Ramsbottom of Blackburn); manuscript letter written by Ashley Corfield to his parishioners from Tockholes Vicarage (n.d. [early 1900s]). - 1897-1907

10 - Correspondence relating to the Bazaar on 14th November 1925 from those not able to attend and/or those not able to open the Bazaar - 1925

11 - Three receipts - for oil stoves from Parsons, Sherwin & Co (1909), service tables from Bemrose & Sons Limited (1908) and paraffin from Bailey of Polesworth (1908). - 1908-1909

12 - Two letters from the Clerk of Warwickshire County Council re the deposit of parish records (1955); printed form of prayer to be used 4th August 1918; blank sheet of notepaper from Heanor Rectory, Derbyshire - 1918-1955

13 - Notices of rent increase relating to 20, 22 (back), 24 High Street, 3, 5, 7 Bridge Street (1963) and proposal for alteration of valuation list for 1 Bridge Street (1966) - 1963-1966

14 - Small bundle of correspondence addressed to the Rev Corfield re the poem "Little Jim ", following a letter in the Times - 1929

15 - Miscellaneous papers including note from the Archdeacon of Aston, Coleshill Vicarage (early 20th century); admission progamme to 80th Birthday Fete (showing illustration of St Mary's of 1869) (17 Sep 1949); letter from Marston & Linford referring to specification of George Edmund Street with interesting descriptions (eg roof being left 'drip dry' (1968); printed churchwardens accounts and Polesworth Charities account for 1879; letter from Edward Corfield to his uncle Ashley (written from the Mission School, Dera Ismail Khan, N W Frontier, India re two locks that he was sending for the parish chest (n.d. [early 1900s]); family history of Lees family, tenant farmers of Dordon Hall (1969); printed issue of The Sign (July 1924) (includes article on Saint Editha of Polesworth); Polesworth parish magazine (December 1894) - 1879-1969

16 - Proposed pages for a new guidebook to the church - 1968

17 - Parochial Statistics returns (1920-1940; 1956-1968) incomplete - 1920-1968

18 - Various correspondence and financial papers, including repairs to organ motor, insurance claim to Ecclesiastical Insurance Office (1982), decoration of vicarage (1982), insurance for building works 1982, reimbursement of clergy working expenses (1982), archdeacon's visitation (1980, 1981, 1982), St John's mission church, Birchmoor balance sheet (1981), Birmingham Diocesan Board of Finance - stipends of clergy, deaconesses and accredited lay workers (1982), receipts for various donations, - 1980-1983

19 - Agreement for tenancy of a room at the Coffee House, Polesworth - 12 March 1951

20 - Sacrament money account book - 1819-1824

21 - Original bundle containing correspondence concerning Polesworth tithes etc. - 1797-1899

22 - Receipt book stubs for payments of rent-charge in lieu of small tithes received by the vicar - 1869-1873, 1886

23 - Original bundle containing letters of the Bishop of Worcester and the diocesan registrar to the vicar regarding faculties etc. - 1867-1868

24 - Original bundle containing: subscription lists for church restoration expenses and letters from prominent people inclosing or refusing subscriptions, statements of account, and letters from the builder, from the Lugwardine Tile Works and from the Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlargement, Building and repairing of Churches and Chapels. - 1837-1870

25 - Estimates, specifications and tenders for rehanging the 5 bells and adding a 6th, and for adding chiming mechanism to the clock, with correspondence, bills etc., and rubbings of the inscriptions on the existing bells. - 1896-1899

26 - Correspondence about proposed extension of the churchyard [1869], and correspondence and newspaper cuttings about extension with drawing of an iron fence [1887-1888] - 1869, 1887-1888

27 - Correspondence about church fire insurance, with blank proposal forms - 1895

28 - Correspondence about a memorial screen in the church - 1901-1902

29 - Income Tax assessments - 1876

30 - Printed rules for the management of the churchyard - 1929

31 - Correspondence between J.H. Beckett, architect, of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, and the vicar about converting the Nunnery Gatehouse at Polesworth into a clubroom and generally restoring it, with specification of the work, upper floor plan and builder's tender - 1922-1923

32 - Correspondence, with bills and receipts, relating to the addition of a south aisle to Dordon chapel of ease. - 1870-1878

33 - Correspondence relating to the enlargement of Dordon church with printed order of service for the dedication, and to the installation of a new organ, with maker's bills and printed forms of service at the dedication of it. - 1895-1903

34 - Correspondence relating to Freasley mission room and its conveyance to the Diocesan Trustees - 1913

2 - Churchwardens

3 - Vestry

4 - Parochial Church Council and Parish Council

5 - Auxiliary organisations

7 - Overseers of the Poor

10 - Charities

11 - Schools

12 - Statutory deposits

14 - Printed

15 - Miscellaneous

16 - Mission churches

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