North Cadbury Religious History - Victoria County History

A major restoration in the 1860s, possibly by John Norton, included rebuilding theroof for which the parish borrowed £300 and work on the chancel paid for by therector including a new altar, reredos with Painswick stone figures, stalls, a tiled floor,roof, and sedilia and probably the removal of the tombs to the tower. 76 In the 20thcentury much of the roof was rebuilt and pinnacles replaced by battlements.The outstanding church fittings are the bench ends of the 1530s, which includesaints, several sets of faces and initials, presumably of parishioners including theHastings Knot and RS possibly for Richard Sacheverell, second husband of LadyHastings in 1530, heraldic symbols including the FitzJames dolphin and the so-calledarms of Joseph of Arimathea, a flute player, a packhorse, a windmill, a church, aheron, snails, and a cat with mousetrap.CHURCH OF ST. GABRIEL, GALHAMPTONGalhampton church, later dedicated to St Gabriel, was built in 1887 77 as a missionroom at the east end of the village and given to the rector in 1912 for the religiouswelfare of Galhampton’s inhabitants. By 1906 there was a choir and in 1912—13more services and communion were requested but the rector was reluctant and wouldnot appoint a curate saying it should never become a consecrated church or have asanctuary. 78 However, by 1948 communion was celebrated at Galhampton, which hadcommunion plate and altar rails given by Castle Cary church. A bell was provided in1935. Services were last held in 1970 and it was decided to use the former76SHC, D/P/cad. n 4/1/3—4; Excursion to Cadbury Camp, PSAS. 16 (1871), 17—18; McGarvie, SirStephen Glynne’s Church Notes, 65.77Datestone; SHC, D/D/Rd 6.78SHC, D/P/cad. n 4/1/4, 8/1/1, 9/1/1.10