Stapleford Tawney: Church Records at Hertford

Bound Diocesan records for the period 1877 to 1914 are held at the
‘Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies’ at the County Council
offices in Hertford. Whilst searching for information on Blackmore, I
came across the following information relating to the High Country
parishes.
Stapleford Tawney
Stapleford Tawney. Co Essex. Petition for consecration of addition
to churchyard. [1882] To the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas
Legh by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of St Albans – The humble
Petition of the Rector Churchwardens and certain Inhabitants of the
Parish of Stapleford Tawney in the county of Essex and your
Lordship’s Diocese –
Sheweth that the Churchyard of the Parish of Stapleford Tawney
aforesaid is so full of graves that it requests enlargement – That by a
Deed dated the twentieth of July One thousand eight hundred and
eighty two under the hand and seal of Sir William Bowyer Smyth
Baronet of Hill Hall in the parish of Theydon Mount in the said
County and under the authority of the “Consecration of Churchyards
Act 1867” a piece of ground in the parish of Stapleford Tawney
aforesaid containing one the North side or end thereof next
Stapleford Tawney School House Garden sixty feet or thereabouts on
the East side or end thereof next the High Road, running from
Passingford Bridge to Stapleford Tawney Common one hundred feet
or thereabouts on the south side or end thereof adjoining part of
Stapleford Tawney Churchyard seventy five feet or thereabouts and
on the west side or end thereof next to and adjoining the other part of
the said Churchyard ninety five feet or thereabouts and which said
piece of ground is more particularly delineated ... That the said piece
of ground so conveyed as aforesaid is suitably situate adjoining the
said Churchyard and has been properly levelled and added to and
enclosed with the said Churchyard and is now fit and proper
condition for interments and may advantageously form part of the
said Churchyard.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Lordship will be
pleased to consecrate the said piece of ground ...
Lewis W Prance Rector of Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount.
Chas Smith. A Churchwarden for the parish of Stapleford Tawney.
W Sworder Churchwarden. John Lovell Fry. Cornell Fitch. Daniel
Miller. Miller Bros. Jacob Miller