North Cadbury Religious History - Victoria County History

were held each Sunday. 59 The church acquired a second cup and cover, with almsdish,of 1742 by Thomas Mann. 60 In 1769—70 the five bells were recast into six by theBilbie family. The tenor was recast at Bridgwater by John Kingston in 1818. 61In the1780s the ‘large and stately edifice’ was in good condition the pillars, arches andwalls having recently been painted white. The chancel was wainscoted and there wasa railed communion table. There were private pews and a singers' gallery in the nave,repaired in 1727, with painted landscapes of church, manor house, rectory, andCadbury Castle, probably carried out in 1777. 62 Lead was stolen from the roof c.1806and in 1843 the windows and chancel were repaired following minor work on thetower. 63 Samuel Blackall, rector 1812—42 and prebendary of Wells, was a founder ofthe East Somerset Savings Bank and acquainted with Jane Austen. 64 In 1851 averageattendance was 70 in the morning and 160 in the afternoon. 65 William Castlehow,rector 1861—96, former fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a Hebrewlecturer, paid for much of the church restoration in the 1860s and celebrated monthlycommunion. 66 Herbert Boys, rector 1897—1927, was a fellow of the RoyalMeteorological Society and founded a society to study rainfall. 67In 1808—9 a man called the chorister was paid to teach young singers. Theparish had a late 18th or early 19th-century Cahusac hautbois presumably used at thatperiod but acquired an organ, probably in 1866 when the gallery was removed. 68 In59SHC, D/P/cad. n 2/1/2, 4/1/1; D/D/Bo; D/D/Rb 1815, 1827; D/D/Va 1/4, 2/4.60Bates, ‘Inventory of Church Plate in S-E Som’, PSAS. 43, 184; SHC, D/P/cad. n 5/2/1.61SHC, DD/SAS CH 16; D/P/cad. n 4/1/1—2.62Ibid. A/AQP 9; ibid. D/P/cad. n 4/1/2.63Ibid. D/P/cad. n 4/1/3; D/D/Va 1843.64Fasti, Bath and Wells, 1541—1857, 29; Miller, Parson’s Quarter to Purgatory 157.65TNA, HO 129/320/1/7.66Castle Cary Visitor June 1896; SHC, D/D/Va 12/4, 14/4.67Miller, Parson’s Quarter to Purgatory, 44.68SHC, D/P/cd. n 4/1/3; D/D/Rrd 6; McGarvie, Sir Stephen Glynne’s Church Notes, 65; Miller,Parson’s Quarter Companion, 125.8