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Following written on page 52 and 53 of the parish register 1755-1812 |
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A.D. 1878 The Rectory house partly re-roofed and otherwise put into repair. New lead pipe laid from the reservoir to the house to bring the water. The old sewer under the cellar disconnected and fresh drains laid. New entrance hall built and door made at eastern end of house, the old front door at western end being left as a garden entrance.
A new entrance from Yeo Vale road made to the carriage drive by cutting through a disused quarry, the old entrance not being within the bounds of the Glebe.
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A.D. 1880 The carriage drive to the village made below the pond the old drive close to the windows being dug up and a lawn with paths and flower beds laid out round the house.
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| | A.D. 1883
The old "Poor House" now known as Rectory Cottage with garden and plantation adjoining incorporated with the Glebe by an award of exchange made by the Land Commissioners for England.
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| | A.D. 1887
Various lands adjoining the Glebe incorporated herewith in exchange for a detached portion. The carriage drive below the pond extended and carried up through some of the newly acquired land a new plantation being made on either side of this drive and on the land lower down.
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| | A.D. 1888
A new well made in the field above the church to supply the Rectory house the water being brought down to the reservoir in a galvanized iron pipe working on the principle of a syphon.
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| | A.D. 1892
The stables and out houses entirely rebuilt, the new buildings being planned and designed by the Rector.
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| | A.D. 1893
The church re-opened after a thorough restoration, the walls underpinned, the rood entirely new, heating apparatus put in, and oak screen built across nave & aisle and coloured glass fixed in east window of the chancel. A full account of the work was written by the rector from week to week, as it was carried on, in a book subsequently placed in the iron box with this and other parish books.
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| | A.D. 1894
A large Alter-tomb was erected in the side aisle adjoining the western side of the oak screen to the memory of Lt. Gen. H.H. Crealock whose family also put up a window of coloured glass at the side of the tomb and another at the western end of the south wall. The four light window in the south wall between the two last named was put in by Alfred Herbert Morse of Copdock House in the Co. of Suffolk and Diana Ann his wife, the said Alfred Herbert Morse being a brother of the rector and patron of the living.
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| | A.D. 1896
The Chancel screen painted and gilded on the western side; on the eastern side it and all the carved oak eastward of it stained dark and waxed. The eastern wall of the chancel above the tapestry hangings, the lower part of the wall at the back of the north stalls, and the two easternmost bays of the chancel roof were painted, as was also the western side of the partition wall between the chancel and nave above the roof-loft and one bay of the nave roof over the rood.
In the night of the 24th September 1896 several large boughs, forming quite half of the old Yew tree in the churchyard were broken off by a storm of wind.
On the 31st December 1896 the statuette of S.Swithin was set up in the niche over the porch.
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| | A.D. 1898
On Sunday 18th December 1898 Horace gray, Bachelor of Arts, of Jesus college, Cambridge, was ordained a deacon at Exeter Cathedral by Edward, Bp of Exeter and then licensed as assistant curate of Littleham on the nomination of Rev. H.G. Morse rector of Littleham.
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| | A.D. 1899
On the 21st December 1899, being the feast of S. Thomas, Horace Gray the assistant curate was ordained priest at Exeter Cathedral by Edw. Bp. of Exeter.
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| | A.D. 1900
On the 1st July 1900 The Rev. H.G. Morse applied to the Bishop for permission to resign the Rectory which was granted.
Between the 17th and 29th September 1900 the Rev. H.G. Morse, Rector, made on his turning lathe a pair of candle sticks for use at the American organ in the church. The candlesticks were made out of the wood of a bough blown down from the old Yew-tree in the eastern part of the Churchyard.
An oaken case was made for the old silver Communion Cup and cover.
H.G.M.
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