RECORDS OF THE PARISH OF ALL SAINTS BARRINGTON

Ecclesiastical parish records deposited at County Record Office Cambridge were listed according to a scheme of numbered classes, not all of which are present for every parish. Additional records have been added to each class as they have been deposited, with the result that some series are broken and it may be necessary to look through the entire class to identify a full series.

Listed by Mary Sirault, October 1975, P C Saunders, October 1978 and Anne Cooper, August 1982 and April 1986; amended, and introduction supplied, May 2003.

The records were deposited by the Vicar and Parochial Church Council in 1975, 1979, and 1986. The Parish inclosure award, ref P8/26/2, was apparently inherited or claimed by the Parish Council sometime after 1894, and was deposited, with other records of the Council (see CP8/) by the Clerk to the Council in 1956.

Barrington is an ancient parish, in the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Ely.

The living is a vicarage. The church was appropriated in 1330 to Michaelhouse, and so passed to Trinity College Cambridge. For details of the vicars appointed by the College, see the Victoria County History, vol 5 (1973), pp156-7. J E W Conybeare, the Cambridgeshire antiquary, and vicar from 1871 (see P8/24/1), whose diaries are separately deposited (ref R84/075), resigned in 1898, apparently following disputes with the newly-elected Parish Council over the control of parish charities (see Victoria County History, vol 5 (1973), p156 and parish council minutes 1894-6: CP8/AM1. The living was in 1999 held with Shepreth.

In 1836, the parish was incorporated (for poor law and related purposes) into the Royston Poor Law Union. The civil (non-ecclesiastical) affairs of the parish have been separately governed, by a Parish Council, since 1894.