North Cadbury Religious History - Victoria County History

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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
Congregational chapel, where a weekly Sunday service was held in 2002. St Gabriel’swas sold in 1973 to become a private house. 79NONCONFORMITYBy the 1660s there were many dissenters, possibly followers of Samuel Craddock. 80 AQuaker was imprisoned in 1659 for not paying tithes 81 and in 1670 six people fromNorth Cadbury and Woolston attended a Quaker meeting at South Cadbury includinga woman buried as a Quaker in 1699. 82 By that date Presbyterians and Independentswere meeting in the parish and houses were licensed for unspecified congregations atNorth Cadbury in 1717, 1824 and 1833, at Galhampton in 1689 and 1837, atBrookhampton in 1843, and at Three Ashes in 1846. 83PresbyteriansIn 1669 two Dorset ministers preached in the parish, one for 20 years. JeromeLittlejohn (d. 1680), an ejected minister, licensed his house for Presbyterian use in1672. 84 In 1718 his son Joseph Littlejohn was said to have 250 at his meeting. 85 Hishouse was licensed in 1720. In 1742 a house at Galhampton was licensed forPresbyterian worship. 86Independents79Ibid. 5/2/1; D/D/Rd 6; D/P/holt 23/5.80Ibid. D/D/WLS, box 2.81J. Besse, Sufferings of the Quakers (1753), I, 585.82S. C. Morland (ed.), The Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1668—1699(Som. Rec. Soc. 75, 1978), 6, 73, 78, 97, 124; SHC, Q/SI 126/1; ibid. D/P/cad 2/1/1.83SHC, Q/RRw 1; ibid. D/D/Rm 6, 8—10.84A. G. Matthews, Calamy Revised, 32; SANHS. Lib. Taunton, T. G. Crippen, The Story ofNonconformity in Somerset, (1913—1914), 28; G. L. Turner (ed.), Original Records of EarlyNonconformity under Persecution and Indulgence (1911), II, 1089; Cal. SP Dom. 1672, 400.85Crippen, Nonconf. in Som. 39.86SHC, Q/RRw 1.11
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