new vicarage

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 17 August 1878

STALISFIELD. New Vicarage House.—ln this remote hill ' village on Friday evening last the first stone or new vicarage house was laid by the Eight Rev. Bishop Tufnell. who used the service provided by the Bishop of over.- year ago the Vicar, the Rev. S. found this parish in deplorable condition ; no resident gentry; few attending public worship; the church in a hopeless state of decay and on a very hilly road, a mile and a half from the nearest part of ; the village the vicarage house inconveniently situ| ated, badly built, out of repair, and charged with j £300 dilapidations, of which but a smaU sum has been recovered from an insolvent estate; and the use the Board School for parochial purposes was also ' refused. Now, however, improvement has begun : j the former house has been sold, the debt reduced by subscription, a building grant obtained from the Ecclesiastical Coramis>ioners, an exceUent site in the village purchased, a place for religious instruction provided by large parish room the new house, I which also, folding doors into the study, will afford room for church services until new church can be built on site offered by Lord Sondes close by, for which £530 already subscribed. The present high price of buildings, together with the great expense of bringing all mate:i;ds up hill from long distances, adds greatly to the cost that loan has ' had to be obtained from Queen Anne's bounty to complete the house. The archice. t Joseph Clarke, Esq, and the contractors are Messrs. Law son and Cornelius, of Whitstable. The Vicar has still to pro-1 vide for the new church and £190 balance i dilapidations, which will otherwise be a charge on this poor benefice.

Catalogue of the Stalisfield vicarage in 1877.

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