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Caversham (August 2019) • © VCH Oxfordshire • Relig VCH Oxfordshire • Texts in Progress • Caversham (August 2019) • © VCH Oxfordshire • Relig. Hist. • p. 1 VCH Oxfordshire Texts in Progress Caversham Religious History Caversham had its own church by the mid 12th century when the benefice was acquired by the Augustinian abbey of Notley (Bucks.), which served the cure probably through stipendiary priests. A medieval chapel at Caversham manor house became a Marian shrine, and another chapel was established on Caversham bridge; both were dismantled at the Reformation, and thereafter the benefice became a poorly endowed curacy, its large parish served by poorly paid incumbents or their substitutes. Even so Nonconformity found only limited support during the 17th and 18th centuries. From the mid 19th century religious provision was expanded considerably, both through the creation at Kidmore End of a new ecclesiastical parish with its own church, and the foundation in Caversham and Lower Caversham of several daughter churches and non-Anglican places of worship. Church Origins and Parochial Organization St Peter’s Parish Church In 1162--4 Walter Giffard gave Caversham church to his foundation of Notley abbey,1 by which time it probably had baptismal and burial rights: the font appears to be 12th-century,2 and its burial ground (cimiterium) was mentioned in the 1190s, along with the later dedication to St Peter.3 A vicarage was ordained in the early 13th century,4 though the absence of recorded presentations suggests that in reality the cure was served by the abbey’s canons or by paid chaplains, a practice approved by papal grant in 1258.5 The abbey was suppressed in 1538, and in 1542 the Crown granted Caversham rectory and the advowson of the vicarage to Christ Church, Oxford.6 Only stipendiary curates were appointed, however, and in 1757/8 an augmentation by Queen Anne’s Bounty created a perpetual curacy.7 The living became a vicarage in 1868,8 and was converted to a rectory 1 Dugdale, Mon. VI (1), p. 278; D.M. Smith (ed.), English Episcopal Acta IV: Lincoln 1186--1206 (1986), 196. 2 Below (relig. bldgs). 3 Crouch, Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family, pp. 153--4. 4 Gibbons (ed.), Liber Antiquus, 9; Rot. Welles, I, 182. 5 Cal. Papal Regs. V, 508--9. 6 VCH Bucks. I, 378; L&P Hen. VIII, XVII, p. 491. 7 Hodgson, QAB, pp. clx, cccxxiii; cf. ibid. pp. 37--8. The 1826 edn (p. 406) gives 1758. 8 District Church Tithes Act Amendment, 31 & 32 Vic. c. 117. VCH Oxfordshire • Texts in Progress • Caversham (August 2019) • © VCH Oxfordshire • Relig. Hist. • p. 2 in 1916,9 by which time Kidmore End formed a separate ecclesiastical parish.10 From 1968 the rector acted as curate-in-charge at Mapledurham, presaging the creation of a new combined rectory and parish in 1981.11 By then, however, much of Caversham’s built-up area was served from 19th- and 20th-century district churches which, from 1989, formed the basis of new parishes, the reduced Caversham and Mapledurham parish being renamed Caversham St Peter with Mapledurham St Margaret as part of the same reorganization.12 The parish belonged to Henley rural deanery from the Middle Ages until 1915, when all but Kidmore End was transferred to Reading deanery.13 Advowson and Clergy Stipends Notley abbey retained the advowson throughout the Middle Ages, despite the absence of formal presentations. In 1535 the abbey’s lessee was obliged to find and pay the priest,14 an arrangement probably long established; the obligation continued in 1554 after Christ Church obtained the rectory,15 but thereafter Christ Church itself chose the curate, of whom a handful (including John Walker in 1578) were formally instituted.16 Curates from the 17th to the later 19th century were normally fellows (or ‘students’) of Christ Church.17 After the 1981 union with Mapledurham patronage was shared between Christ Church and Eton College, Mapledurham’s former patron.18 The medieval rectory was amongst the better-off in the deanery,19 although its appropriation by Notley abbey and later by Christ Church meant that those serving the church relied on modest stipends. The vicarage established in the early 13th century was valued at 7 marks (£4 13s. 4d.) a year,20 and in 1526 the curate received a stipend of £6 13s. 4d.21 By 1637 the tenant of the rectory estate was obliged to pay the curate £20 a year,22 increased to £33 6s. 8d. in 1649,23 and to £40 in 1666; that last sum was guaranteed by Christ Church in 1758,24 following the benefice’s first augmentation by Queen Anne’s 9 Berks RO, D/P162/3/2/1--6. 10 Below (district churches). 11 OHC, MS Oxf. Dioc. c 1009/4; Berks RO, D/P162/3/10/1--70; Who Was Who (online edn), s.v. Grimwade, Rev. Canon John Girling. 12 Below (district churches), incl. further reorganizn in 2002--10. 13 Youngs, Admin. Units, I, 394. The civil parish was transferred to Reading borough in 1911: below, local govt. 14 Bodl. MS Ch. Bucks. a. 2, no. 41; Pearman, ‘Historical Notices of Caversham’, 43--4. 15 ChCh, Caversham A.1. 16 Pearman, ‘Historical Notices of Caversham’, 46; Oldfield, ‘Clerus’. 17 ‘The Clergy Database’, available online. 18 Berks RO, D/P162/3/10/70 (Christ Church took three turns out of four). 19 Feudal Aids, VI, 372; above, landownership (rectory estate). 20 Rot. Welles, I, 182. 21 Subsidy 1526, 249. 22 ChCh, Caversham A.2. 23 Ibid. A.4. 24 Ibid. A.9 and A.37. VCH Oxfordshire • Texts in Progress • Caversham (August 2019) • © VCH Oxfordshire • Relig. Hist. • p. 3 Bounty.25 By 1778 total income was c.£64 including £18--£20 in offerings and fees and £4 from the Bounty,26 and in the late 1790s the lay rector Dr John Loveday gave a ‘handsome annual present’.27 Even so the living remained poor, and despite further augmentations28 was worth only £126 a year in 1841.29 A tithe rent charge of £277 was purchased by the Bounty for the benefice in 1869, replacing the £40 stipend,30 and in 1871 the living was worth £376 before rates and repayment of Queen Anne’s Bounty for a loan towards construction of a new vicarage house.31 By 1888 that had fallen to £265 (less outgoings of £62) because of a fall in the tithe rent charge,32 and in 1918 the net value was still only £340, rising to £592 by 1950.33 A ‘church house’ given to the benefice in 1943 was used as a parish office and meeting rooms, and continued to generate income in 2018.34 Clergy House Though a house for the rectory estate existed by the 14th century35 nothing is known of early clergy accommodation, and in 1738 the incumbent lived in lodgings.36 A £200 grant from Queen Anne’s Bounty, matching a grant from Christ Church, enabled the purchase in 1760 of an old house on Buckside, which was renovated and extended in 1802.37 Occupying low ground near the river the house periodically flooded, however, and by the 1830s was increasingly dilapidated,38 prompting the building in 1844 of a new 5- bedroomed brick vicarage house (renamed The Rectory in 1916) south of the church, next to Caversham Court.39 The £1,200 cost (along with £300-worth of additions made before 1875) were met by the incumbent Joshua Bennett (£720), a loan from Queen Anne’s Bounty (£400), a contribution from Christ Church (£250), and dilapidations paid by the previous incumbent (£130).40 The house was further enlarged in 1884,41 and was refurbished and reorganised in 2017 to incorporate new parish rooms.42 25 Hodgson, QAB, pp. clx, cccxxiii. 26 ChCh, MS Estates 65, f. 34. 27 Ibid. f. 42. 28 Hodgson, QAB, p. cccxxiii; ChCh, MS Estates 65, ff. 262--263v. 29 ChCh, MS Estates 66, f. 1. See also: MS Oxf. Dioc. c 2200, no. 3. 30 ChCh, MS Estates 66, ff. 126--34; Berks RO, D/P162/3/1/1--7; above, landownership (rectory estate). 31 ChCh, MS Estates 66, f. 136; below, this section. 32 Ibid. f. 160. 33 Crockford’s Clerical Dir. (1918--19 and 1949--50 edns). 34 http://www.ctmparish.org.uk/church-house/. 35 Above, landownership (rectory estate). 36 Secker’s Visit. 35. 37 ChCh, MS Estates 65, ff. 65--73, 281, 286; OHC, QSB/25. 38 e.g. OHC, MS Oxf. Dioc. b 39, f. 73v.; below (Reformn to 1843). 39 ChCh, MS Estates 66, ff. 28--37, 40--1, 120; NHLE, no. 1321971 (incl. mistaken claim that Caversham Court supplied clergy accommodation before the 1840s). 40 Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 42, f. 14. 41 ChCh, MS Estates 66, f. 161v.; OS Map 1:2500, Oxon. LVI.15 (1881 and 1899 edns). 42 Info. (2018) from Francis Construction Ltd website. VCH Oxfordshire • Texts in Progress • Caversham (August 2019) • © VCH Oxfordshire • Relig. Hist. • p. 4 The Rectory District Churches and Parishes Kidmore End The consolidated chapelry of Kidmore End was formed in 1853 from the northern part of Caversham parish and outlying parts of Shiplake and Sonning,43 the whole served from Kidmore’s recently completed church.44 The incumbent was a perpetual curate until a vicarage and ecclesiastical parish were constituted in 1868.45 The Shiplake Bottom area (between Widmore Pond and Kingwood Common) was transferred to Rotherfield Peppard in 1918,46 and in 1967 a church centre was built as a daughter church in Sonning Common. An area on the northern fringe of Emmer Green was transferred back to Caversham in 1970.47 In 2000 the benefice was renamed Kidmore End and Sonning Common,48 and in 2003 it was united with Rotherfield Peppard to create the new rectory of Rotherfield Peppard and Kidmore End and Sonning Common, patronage remaining (as earlier) with the bishop of Oxford.
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