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St Margaret’s Church

  • The Mural: On the North wall of the Baptistery was painted about 1961 by Mr. Fyffe Christie of Seven Kings, an art teacher who was trained in mural painting at the Glasgow School of Art.
  • The Arms of the Duchy of Lancaster: In the middle of the front of the Gallery indicates the Patron. Since 1557 the advowson has belonged to the Duchy of Lancaster.
  • The Pews: Those at the west end of the Nave are carved oak of fifteenth century date.
  • The Pulpit: Was erected in 1812, but the six oak panels are sixteenth century.
  • The Altar Rails: Belong to the seventeenth century and were no doubt put in after the Archdeacon's Visitation of 1683, when it was ordered that "the Communion Table be railed in."
  • The Memorials: Apart from the two windows already mentioned, there are a number of other interesting memorials, most of which are in the Chancel.

Incumbents

Date Name
1452 John Barre
1454 John Newport
1472 John Smyth
1476 William Fitzherbert
1482 Thomas Fitzherbert
1532 John Crayford
1533 William Levitt
1560 Robert Foster
1564 Thomas Cole
1571 William Atkinson
1577 Christopher Atkinson
1591 John Nobbs
1595 Richard Mulcaster
1595 Richard Vaughan
1611 John Browne
1613 Richard Montague
1628 Roger Mainwaring
1641 John Meredith
Matthew Ellistone (Puritan)
1661 Charles Gibbs
1681 Stephen Upman
1698 John Lavender
1708 Sir John Ayloffe
1730 William Daye
1737 Nathaniel Lancaster
1775 Richard Beadon
1802 Edward Dowdeswell
1849 Henry Tattam
1868 Robert Rolleston
1902 John Ishmael Thomas
1934 Richard Cobden Earle
1941 Percy Sowerby
1946 John Muir Elliott
1949 Joseph Harry Ward
1959 Harold Cashel Thomas
1964 Joseph Sykes
1973 George Martin
1974 David Theodore Callum
1984 David Broomfield
1986 Philip Spence
1988 Thomas Gardener
2001 Roger Wilkinson

Jessie Matilda Berkeley of Mere, Wiltshire, by will proved 1930, left £500 in trust for the upkeep of the graveyard of the parish church and for the benefit of the poor provided that her family vault was maintained in good repair. The income in 1950 was £20 8s. 4d., all of which was spent on the graveyard.

St Margaret's, Stanford Rivers

1914–1918

  • ALDRIDGE, George
  • GARDINER, Frank J.
  • NEWMAN, Arthur
  • OAKLEY, Cecil A.
  • DOE, Ernest S.
  • MILLBANK, William E.
  • ALDRIDGE, William
  • STAINES, Frank
  • KNIGHT, Arthur
  • GREEN, George
  • BROWN, James
  • ALDRIDGE, George
  • CABLE, John
  • CABLE, Mark
  • KING, William, M.M.
  • CROW, Richard J.

1939–1945

  • ASPINALL, Frank B.
  • METCALFE, Theodora A.
  • BIRD, William H. J.
  • DELANEY, Robert D.
  • WHITBREAD, William C.
  • AYLMER, Archibald
  • PHILLIBROWN, Joyce D.
  • PLEDGE, Victor G.
  • STAINES, Victor

Cyprus

  • GREENING, Raymond Thomas

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