The Old Vicarage (Grade 2 Listed)
Title
The Old Vicarage (Grade 2 Listed)
Subject
Photographs L - R, T - B :-
- The Old Vicarage, 2014
- The Vicarage, 1908
- The Vicarage
Description
Extract from Grade 2 Listing description :
Former vicarage, now detached house. c1838. Ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey, double pile plan.
Information on previous owners gained from documents :
1838 Rev C Barker licensed as curate with a stipend of £40 and a glebe house.
The church provided the house for incumbents of Oakridge church from 1838 – 1976
1978 The diocese of Gloucester sold the property to Mr H W and Mrs R M Wiggin
Information on occupants from documents and reminiscences of local people:
1835 Thomas Keble purchased from Thomas Restall/Baker parcels of land including
- 2 roods and 28 perches formerly part of enclosure called Upper Cox. A portion of this was afterwards conveyed by Thomas Keble for the new church at Oakridge and the burial ground.
- grove of wood called Upper Cox Grove containing 3 roods and 8 perches
- site of 2 messuages or cottages now partly pulled down called Hicks or Enneyes with gardens belonging and the weaving looms therein containing one eighth of an acre.
This was purchased from Henard and Elizabeth Gardiner in 1837 and the cottages were converted into stable and stableyard with coach house.
1851 Benefaction Deed grants and conveys to the curate of the curacy of Oakridge and his successors “all the messuage or dwellinghouse with the stable, coach house and other office buildings and the yards, gardens, lawn, plantation and pleasure grounds....containing in the whole 1 acre, 1 rood and 36 perches...deliniated in the map (attached) Later addition of matching design soon after the initial building (see photo)
1889 Additional land given to Ecclesiastical commissioners for England - 1 acre and 16 perches bounded on south west by vicarage garden, on the north by the high road leading from the church gate into Oakridge Lynch village, on the other part of the north by the garden of the schoolmaster's house and the garden of James Halliday's house and garden, owned by Charles Driver and on the east and south east by the road to Gurners Farm and a field of Twissels Farm (map attached)
Lloyd George Survey records Old Vicarage and stable 433 as “Stone and tile house: 1st floor 5 bedrooms, dressing room, 2 box rooms, laundry and passage, ground floor hall, drawing room,dining room, study, kitchen, pantry and scullery, cellar in basement, boarded and galvanised servants hall, 2....”
1978 Conservatory at back garden erected and extensive internal alterations
1988 Front porch erected Links to Census details 1841 Census Rev Charles Barker, curate, with Mary Wray and Harriott King, general servants
Census :
1851 Census No 22 Hugh Farmer, perpetual curate, Melissa, mother, Melissa, Anna and Jane, sisters, Sarah French, Rachel Hoskins and Charles Watkins, house servants
1861 Census No 78 Oliver Heywood, incumbent, Ann Jane, sister, Eliza Wathen and Elizabeth Smith, house servants
1871 Census No 75 Oliver Heywood, vicar, Albert and Hannah Hap(p)el(b)y, gardener
1881 Census No 55 Arthur Doherty, vicar,lucy, wife, Emma and Georgina, daughters, Anthony Darcy, visitor and rector of Nymphsfield, Robert Walker,visitor and clergyman,Mary Clutterbuck, visitor and lady without occupation, Mary Clifford,visitor, Louisa donnell, cook, Lucy Ann Donnell, housemaid
1891 Census No 36 Arthur Doherty, clerk in holy orders, Lucy, wife, Emma, Georgina, Geraldine daughters, Annie Reilly, visitor, Clara Smith, visitor, Alice Pegler, cook & domestic servant, Lilian Hunt, housemaid
1901 Census No 84 Robert Simkin, clergyman Church of England
1911 Census De Freville Frederic Head Married 30 yrs M 54 1857 Clergyman established church Gillingham, Kent Hilda Wife Married 30 yrs F 53 1858 Kingsbridge, Devon Cecily Daughter Single F 26 1885 Chatham, Kent Audrey Daughter Single F 23 1888 Baulking, Berks JAMES Margaret Servant Single F 26 1885 Lady's maid Bishopstone, Glam MILES Phyllis Servant Single F 22 1889 Cook domestic Ruardean, Glos HILL Ellen Servant Single F 15 1896 Housemaid
Incumbents :
1837 - 1844 Rev C. R. Barker
1844 - 1850 Rev R. Gregory
1850 - 1852 Rev H. B. Farmer
1852 - 1860 Rev W. Buckle
1860 - 1874 Rev O. Heywood
1874 - 1878 Rev T. K. Eaton
1878 - 1879 Rev G. T. B. Ormerod
1879 - 1895 Rev A. P. Doherty
1895 - 1906 Rev R. Simkin
1906 - 1939 Rev D. P. De Freville
1939 - 1958 Rev G. T. Haigh
Interegnum ...
1960 - 1972 Rev W. E. Harley
1972 - 1976 Rev E. S. Pyecroft
Former vicarage, now detached house. c1838. Ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey, double pile plan.
Information on previous owners gained from documents :
1838 Rev C Barker licensed as curate with a stipend of £40 and a glebe house.
The church provided the house for incumbents of Oakridge church from 1838 – 1976
1978 The diocese of Gloucester sold the property to Mr H W and Mrs R M Wiggin
Information on occupants from documents and reminiscences of local people:
1835 Thomas Keble purchased from Thomas Restall/Baker parcels of land including
- 2 roods and 28 perches formerly part of enclosure called Upper Cox. A portion of this was afterwards conveyed by Thomas Keble for the new church at Oakridge and the burial ground.
- grove of wood called Upper Cox Grove containing 3 roods and 8 perches
- site of 2 messuages or cottages now partly pulled down called Hicks or Enneyes with gardens belonging and the weaving looms therein containing one eighth of an acre.
This was purchased from Henard and Elizabeth Gardiner in 1837 and the cottages were converted into stable and stableyard with coach house.
1851 Benefaction Deed grants and conveys to the curate of the curacy of Oakridge and his successors “all the messuage or dwellinghouse with the stable, coach house and other office buildings and the yards, gardens, lawn, plantation and pleasure grounds....containing in the whole 1 acre, 1 rood and 36 perches...deliniated in the map (attached) Later addition of matching design soon after the initial building (see photo)
1889 Additional land given to Ecclesiastical commissioners for England - 1 acre and 16 perches bounded on south west by vicarage garden, on the north by the high road leading from the church gate into Oakridge Lynch village, on the other part of the north by the garden of the schoolmaster's house and the garden of James Halliday's house and garden, owned by Charles Driver and on the east and south east by the road to Gurners Farm and a field of Twissels Farm (map attached)
Lloyd George Survey records Old Vicarage and stable 433 as “Stone and tile house: 1st floor 5 bedrooms, dressing room, 2 box rooms, laundry and passage, ground floor hall, drawing room,dining room, study, kitchen, pantry and scullery, cellar in basement, boarded and galvanised servants hall, 2....”
1978 Conservatory at back garden erected and extensive internal alterations
1988 Front porch erected Links to Census details 1841 Census Rev Charles Barker, curate, with Mary Wray and Harriott King, general servants
Census :
1851 Census No 22 Hugh Farmer, perpetual curate, Melissa, mother, Melissa, Anna and Jane, sisters, Sarah French, Rachel Hoskins and Charles Watkins, house servants
1861 Census No 78 Oliver Heywood, incumbent, Ann Jane, sister, Eliza Wathen and Elizabeth Smith, house servants
1871 Census No 75 Oliver Heywood, vicar, Albert and Hannah Hap(p)el(b)y, gardener
1881 Census No 55 Arthur Doherty, vicar,lucy, wife, Emma and Georgina, daughters, Anthony Darcy, visitor and rector of Nymphsfield, Robert Walker,visitor and clergyman,Mary Clutterbuck, visitor and lady without occupation, Mary Clifford,visitor, Louisa donnell, cook, Lucy Ann Donnell, housemaid
1891 Census No 36 Arthur Doherty, clerk in holy orders, Lucy, wife, Emma, Georgina, Geraldine daughters, Annie Reilly, visitor, Clara Smith, visitor, Alice Pegler, cook & domestic servant, Lilian Hunt, housemaid
1901 Census No 84 Robert Simkin, clergyman Church of England
1911 Census De Freville Frederic Head Married 30 yrs M 54 1857 Clergyman established church Gillingham, Kent Hilda Wife Married 30 yrs F 53 1858 Kingsbridge, Devon Cecily Daughter Single F 26 1885 Chatham, Kent Audrey Daughter Single F 23 1888 Baulking, Berks JAMES Margaret Servant Single F 26 1885 Lady's maid Bishopstone, Glam MILES Phyllis Servant Single F 22 1889 Cook domestic Ruardean, Glos HILL Ellen Servant Single F 15 1896 Housemaid
Incumbents :
1837 - 1844 Rev C. R. Barker
1844 - 1850 Rev R. Gregory
1850 - 1852 Rev H. B. Farmer
1852 - 1860 Rev W. Buckle
1860 - 1874 Rev O. Heywood
1874 - 1878 Rev T. K. Eaton
1878 - 1879 Rev G. T. B. Ormerod
1879 - 1895 Rev A. P. Doherty
1895 - 1906 Rev R. Simkin
1906 - 1939 Rev D. P. De Freville
1939 - 1958 Rev G. T. Haigh
Interegnum ...
1960 - 1972 Rev W. E. Harley
1972 - 1976 Rev E. S. Pyecroft
Source
Oakridge History Group
Relation
The Old Vicarage is a Grade 2 Listed Building in The National Heritage List for England, you can see its full listing details here :
http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1340356
http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1340356
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Collection
Citation
“The Old Vicarage (Grade 2 Listed),” Oakridge Archives, accessed April 18, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/59.