‘A Special Council Meeting was held in the Vestry on September 3rd to discuss the safe keeping of the Church pictures hanging in the Vestry.
Present The Rector, Rev. W.A. Davies (Chairman), Mr. C. Hoare, Col. Kinsman, Mrs. Kinsman and L. P. Millbank.
The Chairman stated that Mr Hoare had kindly offered to arrange for the storage at Messrs. Barclays Bank, Ongar of two of the vestry pictures (the Martyrdom of St Edmund and the portrait of Benjamin Pratt) during the present flying bomb emergency and that having consulted the Diocesan Registrar on the matter he (the rector) had been informed that in the special circumstances no Faculty would be required, but that the Archdeacon’s permission should be obtained. So a letter sent to the Archdeacon on August 24 asking for permission no reply had yet been received.
Mr. C. Hoare proposed and Mrs Kinsman seconded that as soon as permission received the pictures should be deposited at the Bank. Carried unanimously. Mr Hoares offer to take these there was accepted.’
Source: Greensted Vestry Minutes. ERO D/P 400/8