"Extracts re St. Leonards"

Page Frontispiece Print of St. Leonard's church (from the cover the parish magazine)

1-12 Extract, from Charles Worthy, History of the Suburbs of Exeter, ch. III "The Parish of St. Leonards"

13-19 Extract from Beatrix F. Cresswell, Exeter Churches

20 List of Rectors 1348 - 1904

21-86 Karl Cherry's notes on the parish

21-22 Copy of letter from Karl Cherry to Mr. Roach commenting on the latter's intention of publishing a history of St. Leonards, saying that he also intended to do the same and offering the use of his notes for 25/-, 1911

23-27 K. Cherry's calendar of his notes, extracts, transcripts etc. re St. Leonard's parish

28 Letter from K. Cherry to Mr. Roach re notes on the history of the church, 1911

Pen and ink copy by K. Cherry of a drawing of St. Leonard's Chapel (pre-1831)

29-30 Note on the original church, its successor and the present edifice communicated by Mr. Stone to Mr. Roach and copied by K. Cherry

31 Extracts from St. Leonard's vestry minutes illustrating the struggle for parochial independence from the City of Exeter, (1847 - 76)

31 List of medieval documents re St. Leonard's in Cathedral Library

32-33 Extract from the parish register of Holy Trinity re the extra-parochial land called No Man's Lane, (1667)

34-35 Biographical note on Dr. Thomas Shapter, of St. Leonard's, physician (b. 1809)

36 Population figures (1801 - 31)

36-37 Note on St. Leonard's Charities abridged from the Charity Commissioners' Report of 1907

38 Copy of two memoranda in the first parish register (18th C.)

39 Copy of a description of Dr. Musgrave's tomb built into the vestry walls (d. 1721)

41-54 MS. article by Karl Cherry, "Some Forgotten Memories of Bygone Exeter", including a pen and ink drawing of the church which was consecrated in 1833

55-59 Extracts from the vestry minute book (1839 - 1903)

Miscellaneous notes, supplementary to Dymond's history, collected by K. Cherry

61-62 Bibliography of St. Leonard's parish

63-65 References in old newspapers and in the Exeter City Archives, to events in the parish

65 Notes on rectors instituted in 1636 and 1826 - 31

66 Pedigree of the wills and Lavington families 1607 - 1723

66-67 Transcript of abstract of title of Sir Thomas Baring to the Manor of Heavitree (1685 - 1770) and pedigree of Kelly family of Kelly (1685 - 18th C.)

68-74 Summary of abstract of title of William Brewer Gaines to 18-20 Lower Terrace Mount Radford and Richmond Villa, formerly 3 Richmond Place, (1706 - 1834)

75 Description of the old Larkbear House in 1889 by Edward Ashworthy

76-77 Summary of the articles of Robert, 1st Baron Gifford, as pupil to John Jones of Exeter, attorney, 1795

78-80 Translated transcript of a deed in the chapter archives, re the payment of tithes on land now occupied by the Topsham Road barracks (1426)

81-83 Transcript of obituary to Robert, First Lord Gifford (1826)

82 Note on the finding of a Roman coin in a sewer in 1839

84 Additional references in calendar of inquisitions Post Mortem

85-86 Notes on St. James' Priory, Exeter

86 Extract from the printed book Survey of the Diocese of Exeter, 1782

Notes by Various People

87-91 Extract from Jenkins' History of Exeter

92 Pen and ink copy of a drawing of Madame Baring's fishing house

92-96 A short history of the Baring family compiled by Lord Northbrook from documents in his possession

97-98 Copy of a petition from the parishioners of St. Leonard's to the Ordnance Office that the barracks should have its own chapel and burial ground due to the smallness of St. Leonard's church and churchyard (1807)

99 An abridged pedigree of the Baring family showing the descent from Franz Baring of The Earl of Northbrook, Lord Ashburton, Lord Revelstoke and the Earl of Cromer, 1911

100-103 A memoir by E. Newton Heale of John Denning, Lord Ashburton

104-105 Copy of 2 letters from George N. Hooper to A.E. Roach re the Baring family and re his (Hooper's) deputy chairmanship of the commercial Education Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce, 1911

106-7 Notes on the Bowring family, (1872 - 1907)

108 Reprint of report in Express and Echo of unveiling of the Baring Memorial in the church, 1911

199 Photograph taken in the Guildhall on Mayor-Choosing Day in 1914. The persons present include the Rev. J.F. Sheldon, who was sheriff's chaplain

200 Photograph of St. Leonard's parish Association Football Club 1912 - 13 with the Rev. J.F. Sheldon