HINTON CHARTERHOUSE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS 2017 Hinton Charterhouse – Memorial Inscriptions Author: P J Bendall Date: 20-Apr-2017 Status: Issue 1 Issue 1 ii Hinton Charterhouse – Memorial Inscriptions Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Old Section ...................................................................................................... 5 New Section ................................................................................................... 42 Row A .................................................................................................. 45 Row C .................................................................................................. 47 Row D .................................................................................................. 51 Row E................................................................................................... 57 Row F................................................................................................... 60 Row G .................................................................................................. 68 Row H .................................................................................................. 76 Row I ................................................................................................... 88 Row J ................................................................................................... 99 Row K ................................................................................................. 114 Row L .................................................................................................. 132 Row M ................................................................................................. 152 Row N ................................................................................................. 167 Row O ................................................................................................. 177 Row P ................................................................................................. 178 Row Q ................................................................................................. 186 Cremation Plaques ........................................................................................... 188 Benches ....................................................................................................... 197 Internal Memorials ........................................................................................... 200 Plaques ................................................................................................ 201 War Memorials ....................................................................................... 215 Windows .............................................................................................. 218 Ledger Stones ........................................................................................ 223 Index ........................................................................................................... 225 Issue 1 iii Hinton Charterhouse – Memorial Inscriptions Issue 1 iv Hinton Charterhouse – Memorial Inscriptions Introduction A wall memorial in the church for George Clarke Symonds (1775-1830) has “by his zealous endeavours in obtaining an endowment from Queen Anne’s bounty this church was separated from that of North St Philips, and became an independent benefice, under the title of a perpetual curacy”. In Rambles About Bath by R E M Peach pp177-178 it is related how in 1527 the monks of Hinton Priory had the responsibility for Hinton Charterhouse passed to Norton St Philip and that the joint parish was separated in 1826 to form two, Hinton Charterhouse becoming a perpetual curacy under the patronage of the vicar of Norton St Philip. In the intervening period it was referred to as the ‘Charterhouse Hinton Chapelry’. From the Bath Chronicle of Thu 23 Dec 1824 p3 “Thursday the Rev. Henry Blayds, clerk, M.A. was licensed to the perpetual curacy of Charterhouse Hinton, lately augmented by the governors of Queen Anne’s bounty.” (Queen Anne’s Bounty instigated in 1704 was intended to augment the income of poor clergy.) From the Bristol Mirror of Sat 1 Apr 1826 p3: On Thursday, Thomas Spencer M.A., Fellow of St. John’s college, ---- --, was licensed by his Lordship to the perpetual and augmented curacy of Charterhouse Hinton, at the nomination of the Rev. James Commeline, Figure 1 vicar of Nort St. Philips, from which Charterhouse Hinton has been lately disunited, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Henry Blayds. The church of St John the Baptist is part of a joint benefice with St Peter’s, Freshford, and St Mary’s, Limpley Stoke within the archdeaconry of Bath. The In 1840 while the Church of England was struggling with different factions, Rev village’s website gives a history of the building Thomas Spencer, Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse published a pamphlet (http://www.hintoncharterhouse.com/st%20johns%20church.htm). entitled Clerical Conformity and Church Property. In this, in a question & answer The building is Grade II* listed by Historic England. The graveyard is south of the form, he inveighed against “the Puseyite clergy, who hold Roman Catholic church with a new section in the eastern part of this area. The main part of the doctrines with Protestant incomes. Secondly.- The fox-hunting, ball-going, and graveyard is only sparsely populated with memorials with some headstones having race-frequenting clergy, who hold no doctrines at all, but who receive the incomes been placed in a row along the northern wall. of the Church”. A review of another of his publications which appeared in The Christian Remembrancer, Volume V (Jan-Jun 1843) condemned some of his views From Rambles About Bath by R E M Peach (1876): “The church is chiefly in the as ‘outrageous’ and questioned why he still had his post as a clergyman. In 1844 early English style, presenting nothing worthy of notice, except its square tower, he wrote another pamphlet which objected to his parishioners contributing money which differs from those of the neighbouring churches. This tower, though for building churches. He died in London in 1853 and was buried at Hinton peculiar, is not as regards its upper story much more than a hundred years old. Charterhouse. The church has been repaired under the superintendence of the late Mr. Elkington Gill. At the chancel end is the neat freestone sarcophagus of Mr. Symonds, of In 1849-50, Sir George Gilbert Scott, in addition to his numerous restorations in Hinton Abbey, who died in 1830. Within, are some memorials of the Hungerford the Bath area and elsewhere in Somerset, carried out general repairs and a family.” reseating to the church at Hinton Charterhouse. Issue 1 1 Hinton Charterhouse – Memorial Inscriptions Christian Hope and Faith. The Bishop gave his blessing, and as the hymn “O God our help in ages past,” was sung, the procession returned to the church. The singing outside was led by a cornet, very ably played by Mr. John Horler, of Wellow. On the return to the church the Bishop visited the choir vestry, and spoke kindly to the choir, thanking them for the very reverent service in which he said it had been a pleasure to him to take part. Mr. Foxcroft entertained the Bishop and the Clergy and some others to luncheon after the ceremony was over. A plaque on the wall has: FIVE PERCHES OF LAND WERE ADDED TO THE CHURCHYARD IN 1901 BY F. M. R. IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND JOHN ROBERTS Figure 2 The extent of the graveyard in 1885 (form the Ordnance Survey map) FOR MANY YEARS CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH 2 From the Bath Chronicle of Thu 19 Dec 1895 p2: (5 perches is about 126 m .) CONSECRATION OF NEW CHURCHYARD, On Wednesday morning, December the 11th, the Lord Bishop of Bath and Occupants Wells consecrated the ground which has been added to the Churchyard at Hinton Charterhouse. The new Piece, which is a little more than a quarter of an acre in extent, is the joint gift of the Vicar and Mr. E. T. D. Foxcroft, and was formerly an allotment garden. New allotments of an acre and a quarter have been provided by Mr. Foxcroft, close by, so that the parish is even better furnished with allotments than before. The act of consecration was preceded by Morning Prayer in the church at 11.30, when the Bishop occupied a canopied throne which had been erected in the sanctuary, and when the Bishop preached to numerous congregation. After the service, the choir, and the clergy, the Lord Bishop, and the congregation, left the church in procession (headed by the processional cross), singing “Jesus lives,” and repaired to the ground which was to be consecrated. The ground was perambulated, whilst Psalms 49 and 115 were sung, and then the Bishop and the Clergy ascended a platform which had been erected in the middle of the ground for the concluding part of Figure 3 Occupation types the service. Here the sentence of consecration was read and signed, and again the Bishop gave a short address. He urged that every reverent care The occupation has been determined for about 9% of the male occupants. The should be taken of the churchyard, and specially asked that every types of occupation reflect the agricultural nature of the local economy. monument which should be erected there should speak brightly of the Issue 1 2 Hinton Charterhouse – Memorial Inscriptions The age is present in the burial register from 1813, rarely in entries