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and was demolished in 1813. A large new house was completed in 1815 by ThomasEllis of Sherborne at a cost of nearly £2,800. Some doorcases and chimneypieceswere re-used and the new house was provided with decorative plasterwork by RobertTaylor, a Doric portico, marble and Pibsbury stone fireplaces, Keinton stone pavingand some fitted furniture. 26 In 1861 a large carriage house with stables was added. In1975 the barn and coach house were sold for conversion to dwellings, a new clergyhouse was provided, and the Old Rectory became a private house. 27Pastoral Care and Parish Life to 1600Richard of Brankescombe had licence to study in 1331—2 provided he resided fortwo weeks in Lent and at the bishop’s visitation but he exchanged his living in 1333.He was only a deacon when presented again in 1348 and held Cornish churches and aprebend in Salisbury diocese. 28 Richard Graneby, instituted 1349, was licensed in1361 to hold a canonry of Exeter 29 and in 1377 there were three assistant clergy. 30John Ferour (d. c.1407) at his own expense rebuilt the church tower where his tomblay until 1567 when it was destroyed by the fall of the great bell. 31 In 1408 HenryNansumer had licence to be absent in Lady Botreaux’s service 32 and presumably thedemolition and rebuilding of the church was about to begin.Richard Wyche, instituted in 1420, 33 became the first college rector,renouncing his rights in the parish church, but retaining sole care of souls. It isunlikely that the college ever had the intended seven priests and four clerks but two26Ibid. D/D/Bbm 35; D/D/Rb 1815.27Ibid. D/P/cad. n 3/4/1—2; D/D/ord 115/5; Dioc. Dir.28T. S. Holmes (ed.), Register of Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury, 1327—63 (Som. Rec. Soc. 9—10),pp. 91, 99, 140, 585; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxon.29Holmes, Register of Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury, p. 614; Cal. Papal Pets. I, 363.30Castle Cary Visitor, May 1907.31Cal. Papal Regs. V, 128, 145; T. S. Holmes (ed.), Registers of Bishop Gifford 1265—1266 andBishop Bowett, 1401—1407 (Som. Rec. Soc. 13, 1899), 72; SHC, D/P/cad. n 2/1/1.32Holmes, Register of Bishop Bubwith, p. 36.33Ibid. p. 30.4
chaplains were received into the college in 1427. It is not clear what effect if any thefounding of the college had on the parish. Its clergy were to pray for the good of theking, Elizabeth, Lady Botreaux, her husband, and her grandson William but in 1435William was allowed to move the bodies of two of his children to Bridgwater friary. 34The early 15th-century monument to Lord and Lady Botreaux 35 under the tower wasremoved from beside the altar after 1846. 36The two chaplains recorded in 1450 were an anniversary chaplain and therector’s namesake ordained acolyte in 1448 but a subdeacon ordained in 1451possibly belonged to the college. Wyche retired in 1452 but his successor was notrecognised and a new rector was instituted in 1456. 37 The church was described in1490 as a rectory or college with two chaplains in 1494. 38 Fourteen chancel stalls withcanopies and misericords, probably for the college priests, were removed in the 19thcentury. 39 The medieval glass fragments in the west window were removed there fromCadbury House in 1891 in the belief that they had been taken from the church at thereformation. Fragments of the contemporary stone pulpit were said to survive in therectory garden in 1890. 40 A medieval altar slab, removed before 1633, 41 hangs on thesouth chancel wall.34Holmes, Register of Bishop Stafford, pp. 31, 170.35Bates (ed.), Gerard’s Survey, 190. Presumably the church builder Elizabeth Daubeney (d. 1433)although this has been doubted because of the effigy’s youthful appearance whereas Elizabeth diedaged over 80.36Wheatley sketch 1846: M. McGarvie (ed.), Sir Stephen Glynne’s Church Notes for Somerset(Som. Rec. Soc. 82, 1994), 65.37Maxwell-Lyte, Register of Bishop Bekynton, pp. 136, 191, 266—7, 485, 491.38SHC, T/PH/htn 1; Weaver, Somerset Wills, 319—20.39SHC, A/AQP 9; Excursion to N Cadbury church, PSAS. 59 (1914), 43. Some misericords latergiven to the Royal Albert Museum, Exeter.40Kelly’s Dir. Som. (1910); excursion to N Cadbury church, PSAS. 36 (1891), 57.41Bates, Gerard’s Survey, 190.5
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