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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, and<strong>Cadbury</strong> 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
1902 the parish paid an organist and an organ blower and c.1905 the organ wasrebuilt. 69 In 1906 a surpliced choir was introduced to which women were admitted in1947. 70 The churchyard was extended c.1900, a lychgate was added c.1910, and on aboundary wall, formed by an outbuilding of <strong>Cadbury</strong> Court, was placed a group ofbronze resin figures representing the Redemption by John Robinson of Galhampton. 71A clock purchased in 1672 was replaced in 1901 by a dial clock from Smith of Derbyand the bells, two recast in 1929, were rehung in 1981. After 1903 work was carriedout under C. E. Ponting to the roof and clerestory windows, underfloor heating wasinstalled, north and south doors were replaced, and the tower partly rebuilt includingthe pinnacles and battlements, cramped in 1689. Canon Newbolt of St Paul’s preachedto celebrate completion of the work in 1906. 72 The roof was again rebuilt in 1933—4when corbels by Uria Lintern dated 1862 were found. Problems with beetle and dampaffecting the roof, floors, and the porches with their upper rooms where the churchrecords were then kept, led to further restoration in 1971. A Friends of St Michael’scharity was established in 1994 to maintain the fabric and bronzes of the evangelistsby Lyn Constable-Maxwell were placed in the reredos. 73St Michael the Archangel 's churchThe church appears to have been completely rebuilt; the tower by the rector JohnFerour (d. 1408) 74 and the rest by Elizabeth, Lady Botreaux (d. 1433) before 1417. 7569SHC, D/P/cad. n 4/1/4.70Miller, Parson’s Quarter to Purgatory, 150.71Ibid. 147; SHC, D/P/cad. n 4/1/4, 5/3/1; DD/X/MKN 9.72SHC, D/P/cad. n 4/1/1—2, 4; D/D/Cf 1905/132; DD/SAS CH 16; Miller, Parson’s Quarter toPurgatory, 148.73SHC, D/P/cad. n 8/3/1; D/D/Rrd 3, 6; DD/WBF 20/336/1; Char. Com. Reg.74SHC, D/P/cad. n 2/1/1; Holmes, Register of Bishop Bubwith, p. 36.75Cal. Pat. 1416—22, 69. A 1417 datestone was said to have been found in the 1860s with a chiselon top of wallplate in the chancel.9
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