ABBAS and TEMPLECOMBE
The parish of Abbas and Temple Combe, comprising the two villages of those names and the hamlet of Combe Throop, is c. 5 km. south of the centre of Wincanton and borders Buckhorn Weston (Dors.) and Kington Magna (Dors.) on its eastern boundary. It is roughly rectangular in shape, measuring 1.5 km. from north to south and 4.5 km. from east to west. The eastern boundary partly follows the present and partly an earlier course of the river Cale, and parts of the northern and southern boundaries with Horsington and Henstridge are marked by streams. The eastern half of the parish lies on marshland below the 70-m. (250-ft.) contour and is crossed by the Bow brook, also known as the Moor brook, (Footnote 1) and its tributaries. The western half of the parish bordering on Charlton Horethorne and Stowell is divided by a valley or combe running east to west now occupied by a stream and the LondonExeter railway line. On either side the ground rises gradually towards the summits of Stowell hill to the north (162 m. (530 ft.)) and Bowden hill to the south (145 m. (475 ft.)). (Footnote 2) The parish covers 773 ha. (1,910 a.).
The original settlement at Abbas and Temple Combe was on a narrow strip of Cornbrash limestone running northsouth between broad bands of Oxford Clay and alluvium on the east and of Forest Marble clay on the west. The hamlet of Combe Throop, probably of the 17th century, lies on Oxford Clay 1 km. east of Abbas Combe. (Footnote 3)
The principal route running northsouth through the parish is known as Slades Hill and Church Hill in Abbas Combe and as High Street in Temple Combe. In 1824 it was turnpiked by the Blackmore Vale trust as part of the route from Castle Cary to Stalbridge (Dors.). (Footnote 4) At Temple Combe it was joined by roads from Sherborne (Dors.) and Buckhorn Weston (Dors.). Throop and Temple lanes served the common moors in the east. (Footnote 5) In the early 13th century the abbess of Shaftesbury established a right of way across Buckhorn Weston meadows from her grassland of Abbas Combe, with the right to build a bridge across the Cale. (Footnote 6) 'Abbayes' Ford, recorded in 1550, (Footnote 7) was presumably the ford at the end of Temple lane which was disused in 1886 (Footnote 8) and had been replaced by Abbas Ford, now Abbey Ford, bridge. (Footnote 9)
The Salisbury and Yeovil railway reached the parish in 1860 and a station, later known as the Upper or Top station, was opened west of the main street. In 1878 the line was taken over by the London and South Western Railway. (Footnote 10) In January 1862 the Dorset Central railway opened a line beginning near Cole, in Pitcombe, to a terminus known as the Lower station. That line was worked from Highbridge by the Somerset Central railway which merged with the Dorset Central railway in the same year to become the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway and was extended first to Blandford (Dors.) and eventually to Bournemouth. Templecombe, as the station came to be called, was an important stage on the Somerset and Dorset line and included an engine shed and goods depot. (Footnote 11) The two railways were linked by an eastern spur and from 1870 by a western spur into the Upper station. The Lower station was replaced in 1887 by a single platform further south. The goods yard closed in 1950 and the line in 1966. (Footnote 12) The Upper station, bombed in 1942, was closed in 1966, but following public pressure some trains called there in 1982 and the station was re-opened in 1983. (Footnote 13)
The earliest known settlement is a late IronAge or Roman site near the boundary with Horsington parish; near it is a cemetery probably dating from the 9th century. (Footnote 14) Abbas Combe and Temple Combe or Combe Templar (Footnote 15) were so named from the valley which divided them and from their respective medieval owners, Shaftesbury abbey and the order of Knights Templar. (Footnote 16) Abbas Combe included the church and extended northwards along the northsouth route through the parish. Temple Combe, which included the Templars' preceptory buildings, lay along the same main route. By the 1830s the two settlements were linked by buildings along the main road with some growth along side roads such as Back and Throop lanes. (Footnote 17) In the 20th century most new building took place south-west of Temple Combe. (Footnote 18)
The older houses in the parish are mainly of local stone with tile or slate roofs and date from the 17th and the 18th centuries. An earlier building is Lions Gate in Temple Combe, the former Blue Boar inn, which has a late-medieval 4-bayed open hall with crucks. (Footnote 19) Brick was introduced extensively in the later 19th century and with the later appearance of blocks of flats and industrial units on the site of one of the railway stations Abbas and Temple Combe have a more urban feel than most of their neighbours.
In 1765 there were three licensed alehouses, but for most of the 18th century there were two. (Footnote 20) One of those may have been the White Horse which had probably ceased to be an inn by 1790. (Footnote 21) From 1792 until c. 1861 the only public house was the Blue Boar (Footnote 22) which closed between 1931 and 1939. (Footnote 23) Worthy's Royal hotel, later the Royal Wessex hotel, opened in the main street near the station c. 1861. In 1872 it was described as a posting house and included refreshment rooms. (Footnote 24) It remained open in 1992. The Railway inn opened c. 1861 in the main street and remained open until 1931 or later. (Footnote 25) The Temple inn was recorded as a beerhouse in 1861 (Footnote 26) and a baker's shop had a beerhouse attached, probably at Abbas Combe, between 1871 and 1875. (Footnote 27) The Junction inn was open by 1881 and closure was considered in 1905 but it appears to have survived until 1923. (Footnote 28)
The United Kingdom Railway Temperance Union had established a mission hall in Station Road by 1901. (Footnote 29) By 1924 there was a reading room and young men's institute which appears to have closed in 1948. (Footnote 30) The Temple Combe Friendly Society was established in 1835. It met over an ironmonger's shop and had a feast on Whit Thursday but was disbanded in 1867. (Footnote 31)
There were 90 taxpayers in the parish in the later 14th century (Footnote 32) but only 52 families in 1650. (Footnote 33) In 1801 the population was 425 and it fluctuated thereafter, reaching 487 in 1861. Between 1861 and 1901 the population rose rapidly to 678 in contrast to the decline in other parishes in the area. The total rose even more rapidly in the 20th century to 1,015 in 1951. After a fall to 910 in 1961 it rose to 1,147 in 1981 and to 1,377 in 1991. (Footnote 34)
In 1942 bombs near the railway killed 13 people and injured others. The parish church, the Congregational chapel, two hotels, and about 60 houses were damaged. (Footnote 35)
MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES.
In 1066 there were two estates at Combe. Shaftesbury abbey held the smaller, (Footnote 36) usually known as ABBAS COMBE manor, until the Dissolution. In the late 12th or early 13th century the manor or demesnes were let to Thomas of Combe, the abbey's porter, (Footnote 37) probably giving rise to the name Combe Porter in use in 1293. (Footnote 38) The demesnes were farmed by the Hobbes family in the early 16th century. In 1542 the manor was granted by the Crown to (Sir) William Sharington (d. 1553). (Footnote 39) By 1563 it had been acquired by Richard Duke (d. 1572) who held it of the queen for 1/20 knight's fee. (Footnote 40) After 1568 it descended with Temple Combe manor. (Footnote 41)
The capital messuage was mentioned in the early 16th century. (Footnote 42)
In 1066 the larger Combe estate was held by Earl Leofwin (d. 1066) and in 1086 by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, (Footnote 43) whose lands were confiscated in 1088. (Footnote 44) Odo's tenant Samson became bishop of Worcester in 1096 and died in 1112. (Footnote 45) Combe was variously said to have been granted to the Templars by the king, (Footnote 46) by William Martel, the king's butler, before 1136, (Footnote 47) and by Serlo FitzOdo c. 1185, (Footnote 48) and the estate became known as TEMPLE COMBE. (Footnote 49) The Order was suppressed in 1312 and the estate passed to the Crown. (Footnote 50) It appears to have been held by Richard Lovel in 1316 and 1327 (Footnote 51) and in 1332 by Geoffrey Stowell. The manor was given in 1332 (Footnote 52) to the Hospitallers, who retained it until their dissolution in 1540.
In 1543 the Crown sold Temple Combe manor to Edward Clinton, Baron Clinton, and to Richard Tyrwhitt. (Footnote 53) In 1558 the manor was given to the refounded hospital of St. John of Clerkenwell, (Footnote 54) but before 1568 was recovered by Richard Duke (d. 1572) who had bought or leased the demesnes in 1542. Abbas Combe and Temple Combe manors and the preceptory demesne were each held for 1/20 knight's fee. Richard was succeeded by his daughter Christian (d. 1608), wife successively of George Brooke and of George Sprint, (Footnote 55) and her only surviving son, Charles Brooke. Their trustees held courts in 15923 and 1609. Charles died childless in 1610 leaving his estates to Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury. (Footnote 56) In 1611 Cecil conveyed the two manors to his agent
(Sir) John Daccombe, also an executor of Charles Brooke and feodary of Somerset. (Footnote 57)
Daccombe died in 1618 leaving a son John under age. (Footnote 58) In 1632 the younger John with his mother Melior and his only surviving sister Alice and her husband Henry Smith sold Abbas and Temple Combe to Sir John Bingley who in 1636 sold them to Sir John Jacob (d. 1666). (Footnote 59) Sir John, whose brother Robert leased the demesnes from 1641 until 1668 or later, (Footnote 60) was succeeded by his son, also John (d. 1674), (Footnote 61) but the estates and advowson appear to have been held by his third wife Elizabeth (d. 1697) and her husband Sir William Wogan (d. c. 1708). Wogan is said to have lived at Temple Combe and appears to have acquired the estate in 1676. (Footnote 62)
By the early 18th century the estate comprised only Temple Combe demesne farm and several houses and may have been held by John Symons of Llanstinan (Pembs.) as devisee of Sir William Wogan. (Footnote 63) The lordship of both manors passed to James Medlycott (d. 1731), whose son Thomas sold them to Nathaniel Farewell of Horsington in 1732, possibly in trust. (Footnote 64) Lordship was later acquired by Peter Walter (d. 1746) who left his estates to his grandson, also Peter Walter (d. 1753). The latter settled his estates on his brother Edward (d. 1780 s.p.m.) and his male heirs with remainder to Edward (d. by 1780 s.p.) and Henry Bayly. Henry (cr. earl of Uxbridge 1784, d. 1812) took the additional names Paget in 1769 and Peter Walter in 1780 and was succeeded by his son Henry William Paget, marquess of Anglesey. (Footnote 65) In 1850 Lord Anglesey sold the manors and remaining lands to John Bailward of Horsington. (Footnote 66) In the previous year Bailward had purchased from the Wickham family the Long House, near Stowell, and nearly 400 a., a large part of which may have formed part of the preceptory demesne. (Footnote 67) Bailward made further small purchases and his estate descended with Horsington manor until 1911. (Footnote 68) Lordship remained with the Bailward family and was last recorded in 1931. (Footnote 69)
The capital messuage of Temple Combe manor was recorded in 1260. (Footnote 70) In 1338 the site included a garden and two dovecots. (Footnote 71) In 1501 the house was let on condition that hospitality was kept. (Footnote 72) In 1514 it comprised a hall, great and little parlours, pantry, brewhouse and bolting house, kitchen, larder, dairy, five chambers, one described as new, a milk house, and a study which contained only furniture and tools. (Footnote 73) Richard Duke and his successors held it with the demesnes and seem to have lived in it until the 1630s. (Footnote 74) Thereafter it appears to have been used as a farmhouse usually known as Temple Combe Manor Farm or Manor House. The building is L-shaped, of stone rubble under a tile and slate roof, with a 2-storeyed main range and a lower long east wing, mainly non-domestic. The house is two rooms wide with a cross passage and rear stair turret. It was said to have been 'much amended' by Charles Brooke (d. 1610). (Footnote 75) Most of the features are of the 17th century. (Footnote 76)
In 1338 the chapel at the preceptory was served by a chaplain who received 20s. a year. (Footnote 77) It was dedicated to St. Edmund by 1392. (Footnote 78) In 1514 the furniture included a painted cloth and pillow for the sepulchre. (Footnote 79) In 1650 it was said to be for the ease of the lord of the manor, who paid £4 to a curate to preach monthly. (Footnote 80) It was recorded as a private chapel in 1705 (Footnote 81) but by the late 18th century it was in ruins. The walls collapsed and the remainder was demolished in the later 20th century. It appeared to have dated from the 13th century. (Footnote 82)
John, son of Joseph Walter, of Abbas Combe, by will dated 1726 granted an estate to Sexey's hospital, Bruton. The grant, originally to take effect after the deaths of his nieces Charlotte and Honor, was made under a decree of 1743. (Footnote 83) In 1780 the estate consisted of a house adjoining the parish church and nearly 50 a. of scattered fields. In 1804 the house was described as a poor cottage divided in two. Part of the land was sold for railway construction in 1858 and land adjoining the church to John Bailward in 1865. (Footnote 84) In 1839 Salisbury infirmary had 12 a. in the parish. (Footnote 85)
ECONOMIC HISTORY.
In 1086 there were thirteen ploughlands and 10 teams in Combe. Five teams were in demesne, two on the 2½-hide estate of Shaftesbury abbey and three on Bishop Odo's 5-hide demesne, the latter worked by 7 servi. The 14 villani and 13 bordars worked 4½ hides. There were 40 a. of meadow and 40 a. of pasture on the bishop's estate; the abbey had meadow 4 furlongs by 2 but no recorded pasture. The abbey had one riding horse, 7 beasts, and 40 sheep and the bishop's tenant had 2 riding horses, 6 beasts, 20 pigs, 25 goats, and 100 sheep. The estates were worth together £16. (Footnote 86)
In 1086 there was woodland 3 furlongs by 1, and 60 a. of underwood. (Footnote 87) The woodland was said to have been wasted after the suppression of the Templars. (Footnote 88) In the 16th century there were probably three woods, East, West, and North Side. East Wood, possibly also known as Cockerhead or Cockroad Wood, had been cleared by 1839 when the 124 a. of woodland was mostly divided between West and North Side woods (Footnote 89) and comprised mainly oak, ash, and elm. (Footnote 90) West and North Side woods were steadily reduced in size during the 19th and 20th centuries (Footnote 91) and only 87 a. was recorded in 1905. (Footnote 92)
In 1293 the abbess of Shaftesbury received a grant of free warren at Combe (Footnote 93) and in 1517 there was a small park at Temple Combe east of the preceptory buildings. (Footnote 94) By 1647 the park, which may have covered 6070 a., had been divided into fields and two other fields (30 a.) bore the name Coniger, (Footnote 95) a name which survived in the east of the parish near Temple Lane in 1839 and perhaps recalled the warren. (Footnote 96)
Agreements were made between the two manors over common pasture in the parish, probably in the 13th century, (Footnote 97) and an early 13th-century grant allowed the abbess of Shaftesbury to build a bridge across the Cale to carry 60 carts of hay. (Footnote 98) In 13078 the Templars had a herd of over 30 cattle and their grange was stocked with wheat, maslin, peas, vetches, oats, and malt. (Footnote 99) In 1327 and 1331 Nicholas of Weathergrave complained that he had had stock taken from Temple Combe including horses, mares, colts, a bull, oxen, pigs, a boar, and sheep worth £40, and cattle worth £50. (Footnote 1) In 1338 the Temple Combe demesne comprised 368 a. of arable, 60 a. of poor land, 60½ a. of meadow, and pasture for 33 oxen, 12 cows, and 200 sheep. Nevertheless, the small household of three brothers and possibly ten servants needed to buy wheat, barley malt, and oats for baking and brewing. (Footnote 2) One of the Hospitaller tenants in 1392 owed ploughing and carrying works on the demesne and on his death a relief of a horse with collar, bridle, and halter, a sword, a tabard, and 10s. (Footnote 3) The Temple Combe demesne had been farmed out by the early 16th century but the Hospitallers had husbandry tools, including a plough, and kept pigs, geese, ducks, and peafowl. (Footnote 4)
In 1540 the income comprised copyhold rents, sales of customary works, court profits, and the farm of the demesne totalling £20 9s. 6½d. The demesne then consisted of 167 a. in closes, 30 a. of meadow in the common moor, and 92 a. of arable in open fields. (Footnote 5) In 1539 the Shaftesbury abbey demesne land was let to farm and the manorial income consisted entirely of rents and court profits. (Footnote 6)
Open arable fields, probably in the west of the parish, and common meadow in the marsh in the east of the parish were recorded in the 16th century. (Footnote 7) Dairying appears to have been important in the agrarian economy. Cows were hired out in 1553 (Footnote 8) and in the late 16th and the early 17th century the 200 a. of common meadow at Abbas Combe moor was grazed by the cattle of customary tenants after the hay had been cut. (Footnote 9) In 1632 a badger of butter and cheese from Temple Combe was allowed to sell at Exeter and other Devon markets. (Footnote 10) In 1654 the parish was said to be poor and seems to have remained so into the 19th century. (Footnote 11) By the later 17th century the common meadows on the marsh by the river Cale were inclosed (Footnote 12) and conversion of arable to grass (Footnote 13) continued during the 18th century after former demesne land had been sold and large fields were subdivided into smaller enclosures. (Footnote 14) In 1801 only 68 a. of crops was returned, mainly wheat, barley, and oats, but also potatoes, peas, and beans. (Footnote 15) In 1839 there were 185 a. of arable, 1,450 a. of grass, and 106 a. of orchard. Sheep were folded on the corn land on higher ground where white and green crops were alternated. The entire length of Temple Lane was described as over 13 a. of common comprising 26 horse leazes. (Footnote 16)
In 1839 there were three holdings of over 100 a., of which the largest was the Revd. William Wickham's farm with 310 a. Eight farms had between 50 a. and 100 a., sixteen between 10 a. and 50 a. (Footnote 17) Following John Bailward's purchase of the largest farms in 1849 and 1850 (Footnote 18) they were reorganized, new farms were created, and Wickham's house near Stowell church was abandoned and later turned into cottages. In 1851 fifteen farms employed 61 labourers. The largest was the 600-a. farm of Samuel Worthy who had been tenant to the Wickham family. That was divided after 1861. By 1881 there were only ten farms and 47 labourers. (Footnote 19)
Large numbers of paupers were recorded in 1851 and a farmer out of business in 1861. Dairy men and women were recorded throughout the century and by 1883 there was a milk factor in the parish. (Footnote 20) The coming of the railway encouraged the marketing of milk. By 1897 there was a branch of Salisbury, Semley, and Gillingham Dairies in the parish. The milk factory appears to have closed shortly before the Second World War. (Footnote 21) A new farmhouse at Combe Throop had two cheese rooms in 1899 and another had a cheesemaking plant in 1928. (Footnote 22) In 1905 only 70½ a. of arable was recorded and 1,624 a. of grass. (Footnote 23) In 1938 a single dairy farm of 85 a. supported up to 40 cows and was equipped with modern cowstalls. (Footnote 24) In 1964 Temple Combe Manor farm produced some corn but mainly supported a herd of 60 cows. (Footnote 25) Of 15 holdings returned in 1988, three were dairy farms and one concentrated on cattle rearing. There was a total of 497 ha. (1,228 a.) of grass out of 548.9 ha. (1,356 a.) returned. Wheat appears to have been the principal arable crop followed by maize, winter barley, and fodder crops. There were only six holdings over 50 ha. (124 a.) of which two were over 100 ha. (247 a.) and 37 workers were employed. (Footnote 26) A farm raised game birds in 1992.
A dyer was recorded in 1327 (Footnote 27) and a weaver in 1636. (Footnote 28) As in neighbouring parishes there was a linen industry from the late 17th to the early 19th century and six linen weavers or linmen were recorded in the 18th century. (Footnote 29) Paupers spun linen yarn and in 1820 336 lb. were sold. In 1823 the overseers rented a flax dressing room and sold tow and yarn. (Footnote 30) There were five yarn bartons, two in Throop Lane, in 1839 (Footnote 31) but only one weaver was recorded thereafter. (Footnote 32) Stone was quarried west of Temple Combe and lime was quarried and burnt in the later 19th century west of Abbas Combe and south of the Upper railway station. (Footnote 33) Tradesmen included a tallow chandler in 1819, (Footnote 34) a shopkeeper in 1841, and a bookbinder, a draper and grocer, and a biscuit baker in 1851. Between 1841 and 1881 several glovers were recorded, mainly women. (Footnote 35)
In 1861 eight people were employed on the newly-arrived railway and by 1891 80 men and women worked for the two companies. The railways also brought indirect employment with the opening of several inns, lodging houses, shops, a milk factory, a gas works, and coal yards. By the 1870s the community supported a herbalist, an architect, a stationer, and a solicitor. (Footnote 36) During the late 1870s c. 10,000 tons of freight was exchanged between the two railway routes every month including milk, butter, cheese, fruit, rabbits, coal, and beer. By 1900 some 200 trains a day used the spur linking the two lines. (Footnote 37)
In the early 20th century there were a local Co-operative and Industrial Society, a general stores, a newsagent, and an agricultural engineer. (Footnote 38) In 1949 an association was formed to grow tobacco plants for sale to members and to cure the leaf. (Footnote 39) In the late 20th century the major employer was Marconi Underwater Systems, formerly Plessey Naval Systems, with several hundred employees, helping to reverse the decline in population brought about by the contraction of rail business. In 1992 the village remained a small local centre with several shops and small businesses. (Footnote 40)
There appears to have been a watermill on the Bow brook in the south-east of the parish. It seems to have gone out of use by 1668 but the name Moor Mill survived for a house and small holding. The house appears to have been abandoned after 1841. (Footnote 41) The name Windmill Shard occurred west of Temple Combe Manor Farm in 1839. (Footnote 42)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Abbas and Temple Combe appear to have formed one tithing until in the 19th century two separate tithings were recorded by the census enumerators. (Footnote 43)
Separate courts were held for each manor during the Middle Ages, (Footnote 44) but a single court met each year when the manors were held by the same owner. Records of the single court survive for 1568, 15923, 1609, 1612, 1614, 1629, and 1654 (Footnote 45) and sessions continued to be held until 1850 or later. (Footnote 46) Court dinners were held in the 1790s. (Footnote 47) Each manor had its own hayward and pound in the early 19th century. (Footnote 48)
In the late 17th century the overseers relieved paupers mainly in kind but some regular cash relief was paid. They also distributed charity income and a fine levied on a waggoner. In 1770 there was a poorhouse, possibly in Throop Lane. It was still in use in the early 19th century. (Footnote 49) In 1821 a house on the village street in Abbas Combe was leased to the parish. (Footnote 50)
In 1835 Abbas and Temple Combe became part of Wincanton poor-law union and in 1894 formed part of Wincanton rural district which was absorbed into Yeovil, later South Somerset, district in 1974. (Footnote 51)
The Temple Combe and Henstridge joint water committee had a small reservoir and pumping station in the 1940s. (Footnote 52) The Merthyr Guest cottage hospital in Temple Combe, built by Lady Theodora Guest, opened in 1906. It was maintained from subscriptions, donations, and fees but treated children free. In 1947 there were 203 inpatients, mainly maternity cases, and 110 outpatients. (Footnote 53) From 1948 it was a maternity hospital serving south-east Somerset and part of Dorset. It was closed in 1976 (Footnote 54) and in 1992 it was used as offices.
CHURCH.
Part of the church appears to date from the late 12th century. (Footnote 55) The living of Abbas and Temple Combe, mentioned in 1291, remained a sole rectory until 1976, when it was united with Horsington. (Footnote 56) The advowson belonged to Shaftesbury abbey until the Dissolution. (Footnote 57) It was granted to (Sir) William Sharington in 1542 and descended with Abbas Combe manor until 1673 or later. (Footnote 58) Thereafter it passed through several hands: Thomas Stormey presented in 1693, Sir William Wogan in 1705, Richard Noyes in 1717, John Symons in 1726, Robert Vincent in 1733, (Footnote 59) John Tucker in 1762, (Footnote 60) John Slade in 1785 and 1793, (Footnote 61) and the Revd. J. Raymond in 1819. (Footnote 62) By 1835 the advowson was held by the Fox family, rectors and patrons until c. 1931 when patronage was transferred to the bishop of Bath and Wells. From 1976 the bishop presented at every other turn. (Footnote 63)
The church was valued at £9 6s. 8d. in 1291, (Footnote 64) £9 9s. 4d. net in 1535, (Footnote 65) £70 in 1650, (Footnote 66) and approximately £90 c. 1670. (Footnote 67) In 1535 the tithes were worth £9 15s. (Footnote 68) In 1839 they were commuted for £380. (Footnote 69) The glebe was valued at 6s. 8d. in 1535 (Footnote 70) and measured c. 46 a. in 1606 (Footnote 71) and 1786. (Footnote 72) There was 38 a. in 1839 (Footnote 73) but some fields were exchanged in 1909. (Footnote 74)
The glebe house recorded in 1606 was probably medieval. It had a detached kitchen open to the roof and a bakehouse, barn, and stall. The buildings lay on three sides of a courtyard. The house comprised hall, parlour, chamber with boarded floor, and buttery, and three upper chambers. The glass in the hall and parlour windows and a long table were given by the Revd. Edward Burnell (d. 1569). (Footnote 75) Alterations appear to have been made to the house in 1616 and 1697 (Footnote 76) but it was considered unfit by the early 19th century and was used neither by the incumbent nor his curate. (Footnote 77) It appears to have had a 6- or 7-bayed south front with an extension on the north-west and a rear staircase turret. In 1833 a new stone block with slate roof was added and the old part of the house was altered to match and converted to a servants' hall, kitchen, and brewhouse. The principal rooms were in the new block which was of two storeys with cellars and was separated from the original building by a passage. (Footnote 78) In 1860 the rector built a 2-storeyed extension on the south and a kitchen on the north. (Footnote 79) The house and glebe were sold in 1960 and the rector moved to a new house at Church Hill. (Footnote 80) The former rectory house, 0.5 km. north-east of the church, was known as Empire Game Farm in 1992.
In 1311 the rector was licensed to study for a year, (Footnote 81) in 1377 a parochial chaplain was recorded, (Footnote 82) and in 1411 the rector was granted a year's non-residence to serve the king. (Footnote 83) John Wygrym, rector 145963, was a canon of Wells, Lincoln, and Windsor, and held Devizes (Wilts.) rectory. (Footnote 84) There was an endowed light in 1548. (Footnote 85) John Williams, rector 166993, lived at South Cheriton. (Footnote 86) Many of his successors were also non-resident and curates served the parish. (Footnote 87)
In 1720 the vestry agreed to pay for ten parishioners to be taught to sing, as the best singers had gone to the Presbyterian meeting house. In 1751 there was a similar scheme to attract more young people to church. (Footnote 88) There were between 25 and 30 communicants c. 1788. (Footnote 89) Five generations of the Fox family served the parish as rectors between 1785 and 1921 and at least one served as curate. Many were pluralists but after the rectory house was enlarged in 1833 they were usually resident. (Footnote 90) There were two Sunday services in 1815 and in 1840. (Footnote 91) An organ was installed in 1846. In 1848 the churchwardens put four men in the stocks for playing pitch halfpenny on a Sunday. (Footnote 92) Holy communion was celebrated eight times a year in 1870 and two sermons were preached each Sunday in summer and one in winter. (Footnote 93)
The church of ST. MARY, so dedicated by 1871, (Footnote 94) is of rubble with ashlar dressings and has a chancel with a north chapel and vestries, and a nave with north aisle, a south chapel, and a south tower over a porch. The tower, which was originally unbuttressed, is of the 13th century and was built against an earlier nave which may have been contemporary with the late 12th-century font. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century when the buttresses were added. The south chapel, which is said to have belonged to the Brine family, is of the 15th or the early 16th century although its reset windows were of the 14th century. (Footnote 95) The nave, probably late 12th-century, rebuilt or refenestrated in the 14th century, was reroofed in the 16th or the early 17th century.
A west gallery was built in 17212 and altered in 18467. (Footnote 96) In 1834 the north aisle was added (Footnote 97) and in 1864 at a general restoration the gallery was removed, the chancel was rebuilt, the vestries were added, and new windows were put into the nave and south chapel. (Footnote 98)
The late 12th-century Purbeck marble font had wooden corner pillars which were replaced with marble in 1864. (Footnote 99) A painting of Christ's head, probably dating from the 13th century, may be associated with the Templars or Hospitallers. (Footnote 1) Some pews perhaps date from the early 17th century.
The church plate includes a cup and cover of 1628 by 'R.M.', two square salvers of 1725 by Anthony Nelson, and a flagon given in 1845. (Footnote 2) The oldest bell is c. 1420 from the Salisbury foundry. Two others are by Thomas Purdue dated 1656 and two by Thomas Bilbie of 1736. A sixth was added in 1891. (Footnote 3) The registers date from 1563 and are complete. A registrar was elected in 1653. (Footnote 4)
NONCONFORMITY.
A minister and an elder from the Abbas Combe meeting attended the Wells and Bruton Presbyterian classis in the mid 17th century. (Footnote 5) In 1672 five houses were licensed, including two at Abbas Combe and one at Temple Combe for Presbyterian worship, and Moor Mill house which had a Congregational teacher. (Footnote 6) Licences were issued for unspecified denominations in 1691, 1693, and 1699; (Footnote 7) at least one group may have been Presbyterian as the Revd. John Sprint, minister of Milborne Port, is said to have served Temple Combe and preached there in 1693. (Footnote 8) In 1716 a Presbyterian meeting house was built and was licensed in the following year. (Footnote 9) Further licences were issued for Presbyterians in 1759 and 1761 (Footnote 10) and a Presbyterian minister was recorded in 1772 and c. 1788. (Footnote 11)
Licences for Independents were issued in 1748, (Footnote 12) 1795, 1799, possibly for the house licensed for Presbyterian worship in 1761, and 1805. (Footnote 13) The former Presbyterian meeting house was an Independent chapel by 1816 and was served with South Cheriton. (Footnote 14) It was rebuilt in 1834 and on Census Sunday 1851 50 people attended in the morning and 150 in the evening. (Footnote 15) The chapel, a United Reformed church in 1992, has rendered walls and a hipped slate roof and is set back from the main street south of the railway.
About 1788 there were said to be a 'few' Anabaptists in the parish but with no place of worship. (Footnote 16)
Wesleyan Methodists preached in the parish in 18267 and in 1872. (Footnote 17)
EDUCATION.
There was a schoolhouse beside the rectory kitchen in 1606. (Footnote 18) In 1632 George Phillips was licensed to teach and in 1662 John Dey was licensed to keep a grammar school. (Footnote 19) In 1663 George Croyden the elder gave land in Abbas Combe to teach poor boys. About six children were being taught reading and in 1824 a mistress was paid to teach nine poor boys. (Footnote 20) By 1825 the charity school appears to have been accepting pupils not on the foundation and in 1833 there were 30 children, of whom nine boys were supported by the charity and the rest by their parents. (Footnote 21) By 1817 a Sunday school had been established and in the following year was attended by 48 children. (Footnote 22) A second day school had 18 girls and 2 boys in 1833. (Footnote 23)
The charity school continued, linked with the National Society from 1835, and by 1846 52 children attended on Sundays and weekdays and 6 boys attended on weekday evenings. (Footnote 24) The school, east of the church, appears to have received the charity endowment with an additional gift of over £100 in consols from the Revd. Thomas Fox in 1863 when there were 58 children on the register. (Footnote 25) An infant classroom was added in 1873, there were 103 pupils in 1879, and a new schoolroom for older children was built in 1899. In 1903 there were 142 children on the books and 4 teachers. (Footnote 26) In 1948 the school adopted voluntary controlled status, and from 1958 took only pupils under 11. There were 104 children on the register in 1988 when the school was extended. (Footnote 27)
Between the 1840s and 1870s at least two private schools took day pupils and boarders. (Footnote 28)
CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.
Gifts totalling £33 made in 1609 by Margaret Brooke (d. 1642), Charles Brooke (d. 1610), George Rockliffe, and Sir John Jacob were used in 1647 to buy land. It was sold in 1657 and Parsonage Close bought, the rent from which was distributed on St. Thomas's day. (Footnote 29) James Oliver, by will dated 1709, devised a field to his son, also James, with reversion if he had no issue for the benefit of the poor. The younger James confirmed the gift in his will dated 1725 and in 1755, following litigation, the land was conveyed to the rector for the use of the poor. The income was also paid on St. Thomas's day. (Footnote 30) John Brine by will dated 1763 gave a rent charge for a similar purpose. (Footnote 31) About 1862 Samuel Worthy gave £35 for six poor single women and the Revd. Thomas Dodington (d. 1876) and John Read provided a stock of over £134 before 1891 to supply the poor with coal. In 1910 all the land had been sold and converted to investments. In the same year Oliver's charity was used to provide coal and clothing. All the charities were united under a scheme of 1914 for the relief of those in need, and in 1991 there was an income of £329. (Footnote 32)
Footnotes
1 S.R.O., tithe award. This article was completed in 1992.
2 O.S. Map 1/50,000, sheet 183 (1989 edn.).
3 Geol. Surv. Map 1/50,000, drift, sheet 313 (1977 edn.). Middle Throop and Throop Farms date from the 17th century.
4 R. Good, Old Roads of Dorset (1966), 136.
5 S.R.O., tithe award; O.S. Map 6", Som. LXXVI. SW. (1886 edn.).
6 B.L. Harl. MS. 61, f. 120.
7 S.R.S. xxi. 117.
8 O.S. Map 6", Som. LXXVI. SW. (1886 edn.).
9 S.R.O., Q/AB 18; O.S. Map 1/50,000, sheet 183 (1989 edn.).
10 R. Atthill, Som. and Dors. Rly. 41; V.C.H. Som. ii. 356.
11 Atthill, Som. and Dors. Rly. 34, 36, 41, 43, 177, 182; Templecombe Sta. Working Grp. Templecombe, 18601985, 4.
12 Atthill, Som. and Dors. Rly. 182; below, econ. hist.
13 Atthill, Som. and Dors. Rly. 182; Templecombe, 1860 1985, 4, 711.
14 Som. C.C. Sites and Mons. Rec.; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. cxxxvi. 6172.
15 S.R.S. liv, p. 320.
16 Below, manors.
17 S.R.O., tithe award.
18 Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/66; O.S. Map 6", Som. LXXV. SE. (1886 edn.); ibid. 1/25,000, sheet ST 72 (1957 edn.); Wincanton Local Plan (S. Som. D.C., 1987) 22, 123.
19 S.R.O., DD/V/WNr 1.1.
20 Ibid. Q/RLa 23.
21 Ibid. DD/DNL 137.
22 Ibid. Q/RLa 23, 2930; ibid. tithe award; P.R.O., HO 107/1931; ibid. RG 9/1648.
23 Kelly's Dir. Som. (1931, 1939); above (this section).
24 P.R.O., RG 9/1648; Morris & Co. Dir. Som. (1872).
25 P.R.O., RG 9/1648; Kelly's Dir. Som. (1931).
26 P.R.O., RG 9/1648.
27 Ibid. RG 10/2424; Morris & Co. Dir. Som. (1872); P.O. Dir. Som. (1875).
28 P.R.O., RG 11/2396; S.R.O., QS/LIC 9; Kelly's Dir. Som. (1923).
29 O.S. Map 1/2,500, Som. LXXV.16 (1903 edn., surv. 1901). It has since been demolished.
30 S.R.O., D/P/temp 9/4/10.
31 Ibid. Q/RSf 1; M. Fuller, W. Country Friendly Socs. 137.
32 P.R.O., E 179/238/150.
33 S.D.N.Q. iv. 126.
34 Census.
35 M. Hawkins, Som. at War, 193945, 746.
36 V.C.H. Som. i. 470.
37 S.R.S. viii, pp. 601, 243.
38 Cal. Chart. R. 12571300, 433.
39 P.R.O., E 318/19/993; D.N.B.
40 P.R.O., C 142/163, no. 13.
41 Below, this section.
42 P.R.O., C 2/Eliz. I/H11/20.
43 V.C.H. Som. i. 445.
44 Sanders, Eng. Baronies, 144.
45 D.N.B.
46 Feud. Aids, iv. 289.
47 P.R.O., E 142/111; Reg. Regum Anglo-Norm. iii, p. xviii; S.D.N.Q. xxi. 86, citing 14th-century Winchester Coll. MS. 12843.
48 M. D. Knowles and R. N. Hadcock, Med. Religious Hos. 295; Dugdale, Mon. vi. 801. That gift refers to the whole vill of Combe and may be West Combland in Buckland St. Mary.
49 S.D.N.Q. xxi. 86.
50 V.C.H. Som. ii. 147; Cal. Mem. R. 13267, p. 347.
51 Feud. Aids, iv. 322; Cal. Mem. R. 13267, p. 347.
52 Cal. Close, 13303, 514.
53 V.C.H. Som. ii. 147; L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvi, p. 726; xvii, pp. 2623; xviii, p. 360.
54 Cal. Pat. 15578, 317.
55 P.R.O., C 142/163, no. 13; ibid. CP 25/2/260/17 Eliz. I East.; S.R.O., D/P/temp 2/1/1.
56 Dors. R.O., D/WLC T/292; Som. Wills, ed. Brown, i. 4.
57 P.R.O., CP 25/2/386/9 Jas. I Hil.; Som. Wills, ed. Brown, i. 4; S.R.S. lxvii, p. xix.
58 Som. Wills, ed. Brown, vi. 75; P.R.O., C 3/342/5; C 3/400/5.
59 Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar Coll., English colln., box 1; P.R.O., CP 25/2/479/8 Chas. I Mich.; CP 25/2/480/12 Chas. I East.; G.E.C. Baronetage, iv. 3.
60 Poughkeepsie, Vassar Coll., English colln., box 1; S.R.O., DD/X/FRC 1; DD/X/LA 5; DD/BR/hg 6.
61 P.R.O., CP 25/2/760/16 Chas. II East.; CP 25/2/762/24 & 25 Chas. II Hil.; G.E.C. Baronetage, iv. 34.
62 G.E.C. Baronetage, iv. 34; Collinson, Hist. Som. ii. 359; Poughkeepsie, Vassar Coll., English colln., box 2; below, church.
63 Aberystwyth, Nat. Libr. Wales, EEW 381718, 3783.
64 S.R.O., DD/MDL, box 4; DD/SOG 994.
65 Ibid. DD/DT 12; ibid. Q/REI 18/1; Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/1; Hist. Parl., Commons, 171554, ii. 51718; iii. 605; Burke, Peerage (1949), 57, 13612; Sherborne Castle, SHR/A/293.
66 S.R.O., DD/DNL 137; Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/79.
67 S.R.O., DD/SAS SE 25; DD/DNL 136; D/P/temp 3/2/1.
68 Ibid. DD/DNL 13842; DD/S/CM 4; DD/RUT 13; ibid. C/C 42/2; below, Horsington, manors.
69 Kelly's Dir. Som. (1931).
70 Cal. Pat. 125866, 100.
71 Knights Hospitallers in Eng. (Camden Soc. [1st Ser.], lxv), 183.
72 Cal. Close, 15009, 1011.
73 P.R.O., E 326/9056.
74 S.R.S. xv. 163; lxvii, p. xix; lxix, p. 47; Som. Wills, ed. Brown, i. 4; vi. 75.
75 S.R.S. xv. 163.
76 S.R.O., DD/V/WNr 1.2; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. cxxxiv. 237; Som. C.C. Sites and Mons. Rec.
77 Knights Hospitallers in Eng., 186.
78 P.R.O., C 143/412, no. 34.
79 Ibid. E 326/9056.
80 S.D.N.Q. iv. 126.
81 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. cxii. 74.
82 S.R.O., A/AQP 15; S.D.N.Q. v. plate facing p. 49; Som. C.C. Sites and Mons. Rec.; plate 9.
83 S.R.O., DD/SE 40.
84 Ibid. DD/BT 1/767, 7/10; DD/DNL 143.
85 Ibid. tithe award.
86 V.C.H. Som. i. 445, 470.
87 Ibid.
88 Knights Hospitallers in Eng. 183.
89 P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/7262; L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvii, p. 262; S.R.O., tithe award.
90 Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/66.
91 S.R.O., tithe award; O.S. Map 6", Som. LXXV. SE. (1886 edn.); ibid. 1/25,000, sheet ST 62 (1958 edn.).
92 Statistics supplied by the then Bd of Agric. 1905.
93 Cal. Chart. R. 12571300, 433.
94 S.R.O., DD/SF 1638; ibid. tithe award.
95 Ibid. DD/X/FRC 1.
96 Ibid. tithe award.
97 S.D.N.Q. xxi. 86.
98 B.L. Harl. MS. 61, f. 120; above, intro.
99 P.R.O., E 142/111.
1 Cal. Pat. 132730, 88; 13304, 130.
2 Knights Hospitallers in Eng. 1836.
3 P.R.O., C 143/412, no. 34.
4 S.D.N.Q. xxxi. 138; P.R.O., E 326/9056.
5 P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/7262.
6 Dugdale, Mon. ii. 482, 487.
7 P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/7262; S.R.O., DD/X/FRC 1.
8 S.R.S. xl. 96.
9 P.R.O., C 3/257/10.
10 S.R.S. xxiv. 174.
11 Ibid. xxviii. 229; Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/30, 42; P.R.O., HO 107/1931.
12 S.R.O., DD/SAS (C/114) 37; DD/BR/bc 1.
13 Ibid. D/P/temp 23/2.
14 e.g. ibid. DD/BR/bc 1; DD/S/LA 323; DD/CH 87/6.
15 List & Index Soc. 190, p. 196.
16 S.R.O., tithe award; Phelps, Hist. Som. i. 309.
17 S.R.O., tithe award.
18 Ibid. DD/DNL 1367.
19 P.R.O., HO 107/1931; ibid. RG 9/1648; RG 10/2424; RG 11/2396.
20 Ibid. HO 107/945, 1931; ibid. RG 9/1648; RG 10/2424; RG 11/2396; RG 12/1902; Kelly's Dir. Som. (1883).
21 Kelly's Dir. Som. (1897); S.R.O., DD/BT 18/15; M. Hawkins, Som. at War, 193945, 75.
22 S.R.O., DD/BT 18/15; DD/RUT 13.
23 Statistics supplied by the then Bd. of Agric. 1905.
24 S.R.O., DD/RUT 13.
25 Ibid. DD/X/MRY 4.
26 Min. of Agric., Fisheries, and Food, agric. returns 1988.
27 S.R.S. iii. 221.
28 Ibid. xxiv. 260.
29 e.g. S.R.O., DD/BR/bc 1; DD/BR/py 122; DD/CH 3/51; DD/DT 12; DD/MDL 9/3; D/P/temp 23/2; DD/SAS (C/61) 23.
30 Ibid. D/P/temp 13/2/3.
31 Ibid. tithe award.
32 P.R.O., HO 107/1931.
33 S.R.O., tithe award; O.S. Map 6", Som. LXXV. SE. (1886 edn.); Som. C.C. Sites and Mons. Rec.
34 S.R.O., DD/SAS SW 17.
35 P.R.O., HO 107/945, 1931; RG 9/1648; RG 10/2424; RG 11/2396.
36 Ibid. RG 9/1648; RG 10/2424; RG 11/2396; RG 12/1902; P.O. Dir. Som. (1875); Kelly's Dir. Som. (1883, 1894, 1897).
37 Templecombe, 18601985, 3.
38 Kelly's Dir. Som. (1906, 1923, 1931).
39 My Garden (Feb. 1949).
40 Wincanton Local Plan (S. Som. D.C. 1987), 26; above, intro.
41 S.R.O., DD/SAS (C/112) 22; P.R.O., HO 107/945, 1931; ibid. RG 9/1648; RG 10/2424; RG 11/2396.
42 S.R.O., tithe award.
43 S.R.S. xx. 187; S.R.O., Q/REI 18/1; P.R.O., HO 107/1931; ibid. RG 9/1648.
44 S.D.N.Q. v. 51; P.R.O., E 318/19/993.
45 Dors. R.O., D/WLC T/292; S.R.O., DD/BR/hg 6.
46 Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/23, 79.
47 Ibid. A/3, 5.
48 Phelps, Hist. Som. i. 309; S.R.O., tithe award; O.S. Map 6", Som. LXXV. SE. (1886 edn.).
49 S.R.O., D/P/temp 13/2/13.
50 Ibid. DD/DNL 137; ibid. tithe award.
51 Handlist of Guardians' Rec. (S.R.O.), 112; Youngs, Local Admin. Units, i. 6746.
52 S.R.O., D/R/winc 31/3/1.
53 Ibid. D/P/temp 2/5/3; D/H/yeo, boxes 18, 53.
54 Ibid. D/H/yeo, boxes 7, 18.
55 Below, this section.
56 Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 197; Dioc. Dir.
57 S.R.S. i. 197; lv, p. 59.
58 Above, manors; Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar Coll., English colln., box 1.
59 Som. Incumbents, ed. Weaver, 2; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. cxii. 745.
60 S.R.O., D/D/B reg. 28, f. 7v.
61 Ibid. D/P/temp 1/1/1.
62 P.R.O., E 331/Bath and Wells/35.
63 Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, pp. 1245; Crockford; Dioc. Dir.
64 Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 197.
65 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 201.
66 S.D.N.Q. iv. 126.
67 S.R.O., D/D/Vc 24.
68 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 201.
69 S.R.O., tithe award.
70 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 201.
71 S.R.O., D/D/Rg 236.
72 Ibid. D/P/temp 3/2/1.
73 Ibid. tithe award.
74 Ibid. D/D/Ri 3.
75 Ibid. D/D/Rg 236; D/P/temp 2/1/1.
76 S.D.N.Q. xvii. 2336.
77 S.R.O., D/D/Rb 1815, 1827; Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, pp. 1245.
78 S.R.O., D/D/Bbm 62.
79 S.D.N.Q. xvii. 2336.
80 Inf. from Mr. P. Nokes, Dioc. Office.
81 S.R.S. i. 41.
82 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. lxxviii. 81.
83 S.R.S. xxix. 111.
84 Ibid. xlix, pp. 312, 388; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf.
85 S.R.S. ii. 144.
86 Calamy Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 177; S.D.N.Q. xxviii. 3940.
87 S.R.O., D/P/temp 2/1/2; D/D/Bo; D/D/Bp; D/D/Rb 1815, 1827; Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, pp. 1245.
88 S.R.O., D/P/temp 4/1/2.
89 Ibid. D/D/Vc 88.
90 Alum. Oxon.; S.R.O., D/P/temp 2/1/2; D/D/Rb 1815, 1827; D/D/Va 1840, 1870; Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, pp. 1245.
91 S.R.O., D/D/Rb 1815; D/D/Va 1840.
92 Ibid. D/P/temp 4/1/3. The stocks are at Church Hill, Abbas Combe.
93 S.R.O., D/D/Va 1870.
94 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. xvi. 31.
95 S.R.O., D/D/Cf 1864; Phelps, Hist. Som. i. 311; Taunton, Som. Studies Libr., Braikenridge colln., drawing by W. W. Wheatley, 1846.
96 S.R.O., D/P/temp 2/1/2, 4/1/23.
97 Phelps, Hist. Som. i. 311.
98 S.R.O., D/D/Ca 445; D/D/Cf 1865; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. xvi. 31.
99 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. xvi. 31.
1 I. Wilson, The Turin Shroud (1979), 2079, pl. between pp. 1845.
2 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. xliii. 224.
3 S.R.O., DD/SAS CH 16/2.
4 Ibid. D/P/temp 2/1/18.
5 W. A. Shaw, Hist. Eng. Ch. 164060, ii. 417; H. E. Reynolds, Wells Cathedral, cxccxci.
6 G. L. Turner, Orig. Rec. Early Nonconf. ii. 230, 515, 568, 578; Crippen, Nonconf. in Som. 30.
7 S.R.O., Q/RRw 1.
8 Rep. Som. Cong. Union (1896); J. Sprint, Christian Loyalty Reviv'd. Sermon preached at Temple Combe 1693 (1694).
9 S.R.O., DD/S/LA 34; ibid. Q/RRw 1.
10 Crippen, Nonconf. in Som. 41; S.R.O., Q/RRw 1.
11 Crippen, Nonconf. in Som. 45; S.R.O., D/D/Vc 88.
12 S.R.O., Q/RRw 1.
13 Ibid. D/D/Rm 2.
14 P.R.O., RG 4/3610; S.R.O., DD/S/LA 34.
15 P.R.O., HO 129/320.
16 S.R.O., D/D/Vc 88.
17 Dors. R.O., NM 6/C1/MS 1/2.
18 S.R.O., D/D/Rg 236.
19 Ibid. D/D/Vc 58; D/D/Bs 39.
20 11th Rep. Com. Char. (1824), 417; S.R.O., D/D/Vc 88.
21 Ann. Rep. B. &. W. Dioc. Assoc. S.P.C.K. 18256; Educ. Enq. Abstract, p. 790.
22 Dors. R.O., D/ANG A/16; Educ of Poor Digest, p. 771.
23 Educ. Enq. Abstract, p. 790.
24 Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 18467, Som. 23.
25 S.R.O., D/P/temp 18/3/1, 18/11/1; V.C.H. office, Bath and Wells dioc. scheme for educ. foundations (n.d.).
26 S.R.O., D/P/temp 18/3/1, 18/11/1; ibid. C/E 4/380/1.
27 Ibid. D/P/temp 18/7/1; ibid. C/E 4/64; Bd. of Educ. List 21 (1938).
28 P.R.O., HO 107/945, 1931; ibid. RG 10/2424; Morris & Co. Dir. Som. (1872).
29 S.R.O., D/P/temp 2/1/1; 11th Rep. Com. Char. 417 18.
30 11th Rep. Com. Char. 418; S.R.O., D/P/temp 9/1/1, 17/1/1; DD/RR 28.
31 S.R.O., D/P/temp 17/3/1.
32 Ibid. D/D/Ri 3; Char. Com. reg.; Digest of Endowed Chars. (185971, 1891).
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