A History of Cawthorne/Appendix

by Charles Tiplady Pratt

Parish notes since 1866

Since the description of the Church was written ([../The Parish Church, The Churchyard, Parochial Registers|Chapter VII]]), the mural decoration has been begun and is still in progress under the special page 173 direction of Mr. G. F. Bodley, A. R. A., the work being executed as before by Mr. Parr and his assistant from Mr Leach of Cambridge. The alabaster Reredos has had its rich sculpture relieved by more gold and colour, and a delicate cresting of carved alabaster is being made to give finish to the top. The stonework of the Chancel-the windows, arches, sedilia, &c. has been decorated in a rich mulberry red, sage-green, and gold, while the upper part of the walls below the red and gold cornice have a yellow decoration of conventional foliage on a lighter ground, and, as a hanging below, a darker green diaper upon a lighter shade of the same colour. The whole decoration of the Chancel is in that subdued peaceful pleasing harmony which gratifies without at all distracting. The outer walls of the North and South Aisles have for some distance from the floor a lighter blue ground with darker pattern, the upper part of the wall having a lighter ground with much the same decoration as the upper part of the Chancel walls. The wall over the Chancel arch to the Nave is also now being decorated. A carved oak screen, stained the same dark colour as the rest of the oak work, is being made, to fill the small arch leading from the North aisle into the North Chancel Aisle or Chapel.

No description of the Church, it may be remarked, could give any adequate idea of the beauty and harmony which pervades the whole of Mr. Bodley's work to the smallest details of decorative art and architecture.

Corrections

• The correction may here be made of a statement on page 70 referring to the woodwork of the Church: the Roofs of the Chancel and two Chancel Aisles were the work of Mr. Wade, of Horsforth.

• The date of Mr. Daniel Wilson's death on page 102 ought to be given as 1825

• An oversight has caused the learned Dr. Whitaker's name on page 4 to remain wrongly spelt

• Walter Spencer Stanhope, given on page 36 as Lieut. 4th Batt. West Yorks. Regt., has since been gazetted as Lieut, 19th Huzzars.

• In the 6th line of page 85 the inscription which was on the former memorial window to Miss Louisa Stanhope is erroneously given as being on the new window to the West containing Moses and David.

Since the Act in 1812 "for the better Regulating and preserving of Parish Registers," there have been three burials of persons above 90 years of age: Sarah Roberts, 91, in 1854; Joseph Fish, 96, in 1863; Elizabeth Healey, 96, in 1875.

PAROCHIAL EVENTS

Table has been revised

Event	Page	Year
Domesday Book description of Cawthorne	3	1086
Bosvile Chantry founded	140	1445
Decree of Exchequer Court on Vicar's Pension	126	1615
Decree of Duchy of Lancaster's Court on School	148	1639
Staincross Volunteers called out	31	1805
Canal made to Bamby Basin	63	1823
Shepley Turnpike Trust Roads begun	67	1825
Former Chancel and South Aisle built	88 and 117	1828
Spade Husbandry Allotments		1844
Turnpike Road about Cawthorne completed	67	1845
Co-operative Society established		1846
Cawthorne Flower Show begun		1849
Railway to Barnby Furnace	63	1854
Tivydale School built	156	1858
Harvest Thanksgiving (on weekday)	156 and 172	1858
Water brought to Maypole Hill from Margery Wood	65	1865
Hoyland Swaine made a Parish	168	1869
Boys School built	155	1872
Vicarage enlarged	136	1873
Restoration of Church begun	96	1875
Toll-bars abolished	66	1875
Church Re-opened	96	1880
Cemetery Consecrated	98	1880
Quarry Well improved and Water to low end of Village [also census taken]		1881