Commonplace Book containing notes of the Parish its rectors etc. by the Rev. A.F....

(Original pagination)

4 notes on Marston in Lyson's Magna Brittanica

8 account of church from Ely Diocesan Remembrancer 1902

10 list of churches with detached towers

11 population statistics from 1801, and cost of corn with suggestions for reasons for decreased deaths

14 copy of 1854 terrier

30 dedication of church (with subsequent notes by the Rev. P. Richards)

32 account of church including builder, Snagge Chapel, mural texts, screen, rood loft, vestry and priest's chamber, ornaments, plate, including pewter baptismal bowl, bible and prayer books, reredos, frescoes, easter sepulchre, organ, font, benches (two mentions of Mr. Butterfield and several of Sir Gilbert Scott)

53 account of the churchyard and two extensions (25p on NE in 1873, and 2r 30p in 1899); parish bier; funeral car.

56 roof of the nave and decorations

60 parish registers

75 account of the Snagge family, lord of the manor, and their ancestors the Morteynes and Decons, with coats of arms

116 patronage of the living, and list of rectors with some account of their lives up to 1916 (the Rev. J. Sharpe)

144 pasted in newspaper cuttings of article in Beds Time by A. Ransom on Marston, with marginal notes

162 other press cuttings from 1901 relating to Marston: memorial window designed by Burne Jones and made by Morris & Co. 1901; health and sanitation 1907

167 continuation of list of names of rectors from 1918-1975

200 endowments of living and tithe, with tithe payers

215 account of work of the Rev. Thos Tylecote instituted 1 March 1837. Benefit Club (now Church End Club - Caulcote Club a later offshoot A Women's founded in 1844)

218 Church End School built for Marston & Lidlington in 1847 (list of grants and donations) before which time only Dames Schools and Sunday School (held in Church) which had been founded in 1831. Architect James T. Wing.

First masters.

Foundations of Clothing Club, Savings Bank and Night School. Village Library founded in 1855, with help of grants.

(No list of books)

219 harmonium (1852) and organ (1895), and list of donations, and Seraphine for school.

241 Dr. J.S. Wood 1883-1893. Heating and lighting of church.

Alterations to rectory house.

250 the Rev. A.F. Torry from 1893.

251 Institution of Parish Council. Subscriptions to the organ fund.

252 The organ, 1895, from Mr. Trustram, Bedford. Purchase of funeral car and chancel lamps. Altar tomb had to be removed from proposed site of organ.

255 Confirmation and Mission 1895

237 1896 Easter Vestry. Improved death rate.

259-60 Jubilee celebrations 1897

261 photograph of gathering at Jubilee before W end of PU 310/76 church

263 choral festival 1897 for Marston, Ridgmont, and Lidlington choirs

264 programme for Ely Archdeaconry Choral Festival, Kings College Chapel

266 rector and family in south of France 1897-8

267 churchyard extension 1899. Horses and carts lent gratuitously for carting earth to fill up old moats and for other levelling. Approach to church from village made more imposing.

275 list of those in Boer War, and patriotic concert

277 death of Queen Victoria

282 confirmation

285 dedication of memorial window 1901

287 celebrations at Marston on day King was meant to have been crowned. 1902

288 Women's Missionary Assoc. garden party

289 diptheria, and water supply for rectory

291 Missionary garden party

292 death of the Rev. H.J. Sharpe, rector 1906-1917, Apr 1917

293 Easter sepulchre; consecration crosses found in church; gift of copper alms dish

295 "Cunningars" field

296 1921-2 restoration

316 electric light and other improvements from 1931

318 institution of the Rev. A.R. Ingram, 1936

Work on church and churchyard. Purchase of Ariel Chase stove. Mr. Albert F. Cooper appointed as clerk and sexton, and later licensed as Lay Reader. Account of Sunday services. Restoration of tower in 1938. Young people's club started 1937, and Scout Troop in 1937.

321-2 account of parish. Nonconformity is rife, and increase of church congregation can hardly be expected.

"We and the Chapel folk are all fairly good friends, but with this magnificent Church here, it seems a great pity that 3 places of Worship should be required when one could accommodate all the religiously inclined in Marston." Appreciation of Mr. Charles Nicholls, churchyard gardener, and Mrs. French, church cleaner. Chiming apparatus given to church in 1939. 4 bells chimed again for first time for some years Jan 22 1939. Fifth bell will cost £50 to recast. Whole cost of restoration of tower, £1139, raised by Oct 1939.

331 church and churchyard accounts 1939. 1940. Death of Mr. Stratford. Evacuees from Rye, Sussex.

333 1940-1943 accounts and parish events

1943 Mr. Cooper left to become a student at Lichfield Theological College. Resignation of A.R. Ingram 1943.

[Interleaved funeral service for Arthur Ralph Ingram, d. 28 Dec 1943 aged 68]

Interleaved service at dedication of window 1952 in memory of the Rev. Sydney Nowell Rostron

342 induction 7 Sep 1948 of the Rev. John Martyn Preston, and work that needed to be done.

346 printed Churchyard appeal

Photograph of church and tower, and photograph of altar Oct 1948

347 fete 1949 and photographs

349 press cutting of induction of the Rev. R.H. Goode 1951

353 restoration of roof of South Aisle 1953

356 fete

358 dedication of hangings 1957

359 brief account by the Rev. Peter Richards of his years at Marston Mich 1975

At end interleaved Cert. of Subscription of Rev. R.G. Rickells 1960 note of institution of Geo Parker 1559 and notes on censuses and subsidy.