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2008 Book-1-Short-History St Nicholas’ Church Child Okeford Dorset A Short History C G Giles If you have any information to help improve these booklets, please advise the Churchwardens. #1 St Nicholas Church; A Short History #2 St Nicholas Church; Visitors’ Guide #3 St Nicholas Church; Memorials #4 St Nicholas Church; The Stained Glass Windows #5 St Nicholas Church; The Bishops’ Bible #6 St Nicholas Church; Church Music and the Church Organ #7 St Nicholas Church; The Church Bells St Nicholas Church, Child Okeford A Short History This booklet is one of a series of seven written in 1998 by Chris Giles. After a career in teaching, Chris took early retirement and began to devote himself to the local Church. He became a Churchwarden, the first Benefice Secretary and a member of General Synod. Chris was always interested in history, and especially local history. It was never a nostalgic pursuit for him, but just one of the ways in which he sought to unite the past and the future, those who had lived in the village for a long time and those who had arrived more recently. In 1999, after these booklets were written, he played a key role in the establishment of the Okeford Benefice. This Pastoral Measure brought the Parishes of Child Okeford. Okeford Fitzpaine, Manston and Hammoon into one Benefice with the Parish of Shillingstone. As Benefice Secretary, Chris worked tirelessly to ensure that what we could best do together was done together, not only within the Benefice, but beyond, with the other Parishes of the Southern Blackmore Vale. He delighted in being able to assist in the training of our first Stipendiary Curate, Rev'd Michael Brierley, and in helping to foster other vocations to Ordained and Reader Ministry. Whenever he could, he also delighted in combining his devotion to the Church with his devotion to his family - his wife Jean, son Tim, with his computing skills, and twin daughters Kate and Melanie, gifted in history and archaeology. Chris never took Holy Orders but was, in the true sense of the word, a Deacon, utterly unstinting in his service and an exceptional guide and companion to the first Rector of the Okeford Benefice. He was tragically killed in a road traffic accident on 19th September 2002, at the age of sixty five years. It was Chris' hope and prayer that these booklets would help you, the reader, better to understand the past of this place, that you may serve the Lord better in the future and know His presence and peace with you today. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Rev'd Philip Rahilly Rector of the Okeford Benefice Lent 2003 (1995 – 2006) Page 2 2nd Edition 2008 (Updated April 2012) St Nicholas Church, Child Okeford A Short History Contents Page The Church building 4 The founding of St Nicholas Church 4 Building 4 South Porch 4 The Tower 5 The Church Clock 6 The 13th Century Font 6 Changes to the Building 7 The Victorian Church 7 The Church Bells 10 The Stained Glass 18 The Chancel 18 East Window, Ascension Window 18 Sanctuary, South Window 18 Choir Window 19 The South Aisle 19 Lady Chapel, East Window 19 Lady Chapel, Magnificat Window 20 Annunciation Window 20 St Nicholas Window 21 West Window; Candlemas Window 21 The Tower 22 West Window 22 North Aisle 23 North window 23 Fittings and Furnishings 24 The Lady Chapel 24 Other fittings and furnishings 24 Wooden Chest 24 The Pulpit 24 The Bishops’ Bible 25 William Kethe 27 Icon of St Nicholas 29 Music 30 Church Choir 30 The Organ 31 The Church Plate 32 Church Silver 32 Church Brass 33 The Churchyard 34 Patronage 35 Rectories 38 War Memorial List 41 List of Rectors 42 Child Okeford - the Name 43 Page 3 2nd Edition 2008 (Updated April 2012) St Nicholas Church, Child Okeford A Short History The Church Building It is possible that there was a church on this site in Saxon times, and we know that a church was built here about 1250-70. The record of Rectors of Child Okeford Superior and of Child Okeford Inferior, which begins in 1297, is to be found on the wall of the South Aisle, just to the right of the Church door. The founding of St Nicholas Church In 1297 Galfrid de Stocks was presented to the Parish as priest, by his relative Roger de Stocks, who held the land under the King. The List of Rectors shows the names of those who have held the living ever since then (see Page 41). Most of our Parish Registers of Baptisms, Banns and Marriages, and Burials are kept at the County Records Office in Dorchester, Dorset. These go back to 1652/3 for this parish. (Our Church plans of 1887 & 1888, and some other documents, are held at Trowbridge, as are many of the Salisbury Diocesan Ecclesiastical Records.) Dorset was in the Diocese of Bristol from 1543 to 1836, but many records were destroyed in the Bristol Riots, and also in 1731 in the Great Fire of Blandford. Our local records were kept in the Sub-Registry Office of the Bristol Diocese in Blandford, and so many documents perished. The only record of the size of the church building from those days are the 1877 plans, drawn as preparation for the re-building of most of the church in 1878-79. [see below - "Changes to the building"] The Building The South Porch is the main entrance to the church. As you come in, you will step over a stone floor slab said to have been marked in memory of Roger Wood. It is late 17th Century. In the 1970’s the words Roger and Wood could still be seen, but alas no longer. Above the door is a carving which depicts St Nicholas; our Patron Saint. The three maidens in the carving over the South Porch doorway refer to the story of three sisters to whom St Nicholas gave marriage dowries. Their father was too poor to be able to provide for them this essential pre-requisite to marriage. A variation of the story is that because of poverty, the family was about to sell its children as slaves. The Bishop Nicholas secretly threw three purses of gold into their house. The folding mesh doors which are used in summer to keep out insects, birds and bats, were given in memory of Stanley Tuffin of Gold Hill. He was a long serving member of the Choir and also the Crucifer who led the Choir at the start of services and on other official occasions. Page 4 2nd Edition 2008 (Updated April 2012) St Nicholas Church, Child Okeford A Short History The Tower The Tower is the oldest remaining part of the church building, possibly dating from the late 15th or early 16th Century, [See Nicholaus Pevsner, 1972, Buildings of England]. Almost all the rest of the building is Victorian. The outside of the Tower is built of greensand ashlar - blocks of cut greensand rock. The inside seems to be chalk clunch. Much of the tracery is Ham Hill stone, a kind of shelly limestone from Somerset. Geologically, this was formed within the beds of Bridport and Yeovil sandstones. On the ground floor, inside the Tower, and below the large carved wood memorial to William Pope Baldwin Goodridge, is a piece of metal sheet (lead) with wood surround. This appears to be a piece of lead roofing, apparently removed from the Tower, on which is the legend: I : CROWCH T : ARNOLD CW 1729 Since both this and the current plaque on the roof use the CW, (and it is used in many other places too), one can reasonably assume that CW = Church Warden, but no documentary proof is currently available. The wood surround is made from an old oak beam, probably from the tower. The lower rectangular part of this “memorial” commemorates the final stage of the beautifying of the chancel. Its completion, under the care of Rev Canon Charles Bower, marked the Coronation of King George V. It reads: THE CHANCEL WALLS WERE LINED WITH MARBLE IN 1912. THIS COMPLETED THE RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH BEGUN IN 1879 INCLUDING A PEAL OF BELLS AT A TOTAL COST OF £6000 Page 5 2nd Edition 2008 (Updated April 2012) St Nicholas Church, Child Okeford A Short History On the Tower roof is a similar panel of lead which notes the dates of re-roofing of the tower; with the names of the Churchwardens and the Rector of 1910, and including a copy of the 1729 information: I.CROWCH T.ARNOLD CW H S Bower (Fontmell Parva) The T Arnold may well be related 1729 to Henry Arnold of was brother of the Rector, H.S.BOWER Canon C H S Bower Ilsington House, Piddletown. N.J.NEWBOVLD John Brymer (Rector 1873-1909) CW was son of John Brymer of Ilsington House. C.H.S.BOWER R 1910 There is some link between Ilsington House, Piddletown and this parish. As early as the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), Lord Cobham (the Arnold family) held the Chedder Estates, which included Ilsington House. The manor of Child Okeford Inferior was one of their many properties. John Brymer (father of Rev John G Brymer), bought the Chedder Estates from the Lord Cobham in 1840. The Brymer Estates are still at Puddletown. Rev John G Brymer is not to be confused with his relatives - Archdeacon Brymer or Rev F A Brymer of Charlton Mackrell (near Somerton). [It is said that Piddletown was renamed Puddletown to avoid embarrassment to Queen Victoria when she visited the area; but it never regained its original name.
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