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All Saints Hoby Library Key: 1 Description 2 Material 3 Date 4 Measurements 5 Artist 6 Maker 7 History 8 Donor 9 Memorial Inscription 10 References
600 REGISTERS AND RECORDS deposited at the LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER and RUTLAND RECORD OFFICE at Wigston
DE 2007. Deposited by Mr R. G. Dawes. 4th July 1979
| REGISTERS | |
| 2007 1 Baptisms, marriages, burials | 1562-1686 |
| 2 Baptisms, marriages, burials | 1686-1718 |
| 3 Baptisms, marriages (to 1753), burials | 1719-1787 |
| 4 Marriages | 1754-1780 |
| 5 Marriages | 1781-1804 |
| 6 Marriages, (banns (1805-1837) | 1805-1812 |
| 7 Baptisms and burials | 1787-1812 |
| 8 Baptisms | 1813-1896 |
| 9 Marriages | 1813-1837 |
| 10/1-27 Loose papers, mostly relating to baptisms, marriages and burials abstracted from 1-9 (many undated) | c 1734-1835 |
| 11 Curates’ licences and covering letter | 1845-1886 |
| 12 Table of fees issued by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 18th Dec. 1913 13 Certificate of assent to the Articles of Religion | 2nd Oct. 1682 |
| 13 Curates’ licences and covering letter | 1845-1886 |
| POOR LAW DOCUMENTS | |
| 14 1-4 Settlement certificates | 1753-1799 |
| 15 Removal of William Pollard of Burton-on-the Wolds to Hoby | 9th Aug. 1728 |
| 16 Settlement examination of William Higgins, tailor | 6th Oct. 1753 |
| 17 Confirmation of the removal of Sarah Durrance from Hoby to Thorpe Satchville by the Justices of the Peace | 6th Oct.1812 |
| 18 Bond by John Shelton, tailor, of Thrussington indemnifying the parish officers of Hoby from the maintenance of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Besson | 30th March 1757 |
| 19 Pauper apprenticeship directives | 1728-1803 |
DE 3914 PARISH RECORDS (additional)
Deposited and listed September 1991
- Register of Banns of Marriage 1841-1963
- Register of Services 1968-1978
601 REGISTERS in church keeping VESTRY
Register of Services 21 July 1978-to date
Register of Baptisms 9 May 1896-to date
Register of Marriages 27 Nov 1837-to date
(2 copies)
Register of Burials 5 April 1813-23 July 2010
Register of Burials 6 Dec 2011-to date
602 FACULTIES in church keeping VESTRY
Faculty to repair lead work on north and south aisle and repair clerestory 27 August 1964
Faculty for the removal from the internal walls of the existing gas fires and associated pipe work and the installation of the three quartz ray heaters in the south aisle
2 May 1989
Faculty for stonework repairs to the tower in accordance with the approved specification prepared by Pick Everard
19 January 2004
Faculty for the restoration of the movement of the turret clock and the repair and re- gilding of the dial and hands according to the specification of English Clockmakers dated 23 November 2002
19 January 2004
Faculty for the restoration of brass monument
30 July 2004
Faculty for the installation of plaque to commemorate the recent contribution made by the Friends of Hoby Church to the restoration of church fabric
18 January 2005
Faculty for the conservation of south clerestory glazing (4 windows) and associated saddle bars and reopening of 7 ventilators in the church, all rusted, seized and inoperative, to improve ventilation and airflow in the church
2 August 2005
Faculty for the introduction of a new memorial bookcase and book
1 Sept 2006
Faculty for conservation/restoration of north aisle glazing
25 June 2008
Faculty for the conservation and restoration of the war memorial
24 February 2009
Faculty for the restoration of south aisle windows
October 2010
603 TERRIERS AND INVENTORIES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS in church keeping
VESTRY
A Official Parochial Register
- Statistical Summary of Parochial Work, Organisation and Finances 1899-1909
- Parochial Clergy and Others Giving Temporary Assistance
- Churchwardens
- Insurance of Church Property
- Churchwardens Expenditure and Receipts
- Church Building Restoration
- Inventory of Church Furniture
- Parochial Records of Exceptional Interest
- Valor Ecclesiasticus
| B | Churchwardens’ Accounts | 1902-1977 |
| Churchwardens meetings and United Benefice | 1985-1990 | |
| C | PCC Minutes | 1978-1991 |
| D | District Church Council | |
| Minutes | 1992-2011 | |
| Minutes | 2012- to date | |
| E | Terrier and Inventory | 17 January 1981 11 February 2002 |
| F | Sundry documents | VESTRY |
| i) | Churchyard extension details | 1985 |
| ii) | Loose leaf folder containing entries for Book of Remembrance | |
| iii) | Loose leaf folder containing entries for Book of Remembrance Loose leaf folder containing photocopy of Hoby Church, Archdeacon’s survey 1832.Also contains photocopies of the last will and testament of Mr George Heaton 1711; William Heaton 1718: William Heaton 1733. |
| iv) | Quinquennial Inspection report | 2007 |
| v) | Quinquennial Inspection report | 2010 |
| vi) | Quinquennial log | 2012 |
| vii) | Quinquennial Log | 2014 |
| viii) | Church Log Book | 19 February 2003 |
| ix) | Church Log Book | 14 May 2009 |
| x) | Report on the bells of All Saints’ Church | 1998 |
| xi) | Details of refurbishment of hand bells | 30 October 2008 |
| xii) | Health and Safety Policy | |
| xiii) | Safeguarding Policy | |
| xiv) | Fire risk assessment | 14 February 2009 |
| xv) | Hoby graveyard survey | June 1981 |
| xvi) | Heritage Lottery Fund-Details | 2002 |
| xvii) | Specification for repairs to stonework | July 2003 |
| xviii) | Defuntos Plovo. “Passing Bell” | 2005 |
| ixx) | D.A.C. Faculty Information | 2010 |
| xxi) | The Good Maintenance Guide. Pub Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings | 2008 |
| xxii) Beresford Magazine No 119 | October 2010 |
| xxiii) Six presentation books, each containing one hundred photographs of the reconstruction of the exterior of the church | |
| xxiv) Church Health and Safety Policy | |
| xxv) Options for installation of W.C. and kitchenette | October 2014 |
| xxvi) Installation of lighting. Copy for insurers | September 2010 |
604 BIBLES AND PRAYER BOOKS PRE-1851
King James Version with Apocrypha VESTRY
The Bible is covered in adhesive thin red leatherette. The cover is damp and dirty with some worm holes. Beneath small tears it is possible to see that the original cover is brown leather on board. No external lettering is visible. Beneath the leatherette one can discern that there are seven raised bands on the spine. The pastedowns are of marbled blue paper. The Bible has a general air of neglect. It is very dirty, damp and foxed with red stains from the leatherette. It is not paginated. Date is on title page.
Published by Oxford. Printed by Samuel Collingwood and Co. 1827
h. 45 x w. 28 x d. 9cm
605 BIBLES
A King James Version with Old and New Testaments NAVE, lectern
i) Full bound in black leather on board. The spine has five raised bands with HOLY BIBLE in tooled gilt and roman lettering between bands one and two. There is a tooled design on the front and rear covers and between each band. The cover itself is very worn and the spine is breaking away. The bible has pale brown pastedowns. The front fly is missing. All the pages are gilt edged. The date appears on the title page. The New Testament is not dated.
Published by OUP for British and Foreign Bible Society 1857
h. 33 x w. 25 x d. 10cm
ii) N AISLE, altar
1 Full bound in brown leather on board. The spine has five raised bands with HOLY BIBLE in tooled gilt and roman lettering between bands one and two. There is a tooled design on front and rear covers and between each band. The spine is showing signs of wear. The pages are gilt-edged. There are brown pastedowns at the front and rear. The date appears on the title page. The front fly is also brown. Behind this is the white fly where the following is hand written in ink: From / the Vicar of Tilton
/ to / David and Sarah Worrall / on their marriage / Halstead October 22, 1861 / Hand written on the brown front fly and also on the rear white fly is the following: David Worrall Born March 16 1832 / Sarah Worrall Born Sept 2nd 1840 / Henry Clarke Worrall Born August 13 1862 / Annie Worrall Born Febry (sic) 25th 1864 / Elizabeth Worrall Born March 23 1866 / Emma Worrall Born Nov 28th 1868 / Louisa Worrall Born May 31 1873 / Clara Worrall Born May 28th 1875 / Charles Worrall Born Sept 12th 1877 / Sarah Mabel Worrall Born Dec 8th 1879 / Evelin Mary Worrall Born Feb 18th 1882 /
2 Leather, board, paper
3 1860
4 h. 27 x w. 18. x d. 7cm
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6 Published by Cambridge for British and Foreign Bible Society
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iii) S AISLE, Lady Chapel altar
1 Fully bound in black leather on board. There are five bands on the spine with HOLY BIBLE in tooled gilt and roman lettering between bands one and two. There are tooled designs on the front and rear covers as well as on the spine. The bible is very worn and the front and rear covers are beginning to break away from the spine. The pastedowns are off white. On the front fly, hand written in ink is: Thomas & Elizabeth Simpson / Hoby / Leicestershire 1855. This is repeated on the inside rear pastedown. The date appears on the title page
2 Leather, board, paper
3 1854
4 h. 26.5 x w. 17.5 x d. 6cm
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6 Published OUP
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B Revised Standard version Phs SANCTUARY, High Altar
i)
1 In excellent condition. Full bound in black leather with a design stamped on the front and rear covers. There are four bands on the spine with. HOLY / BIBLE in tooled gilt and roman lettering between bands one and two. There are black pastedowns at the front and rear with a tooled gilt design round the edge. All the pages are gilt-edged. There are two red ribbon page markers. The inscription on the white fly is hand written in black gothic script with all capital letters in red and embellished with decorative flourishes. This reads: Given to All Saints’ Church, / Hoby, / by the Cowman Family; / in loving memory of / Thomas Leslie Cowman, /
October 12th 1910-May 16th 1981. / The rear white fly contains a Register of Ministers who served from 1220-2011, hand written in black gothic script with all capital letters in red. Also recorded is the parish reorganisation in 1993 when the parish was renamed The Parish of Upper Wreake and taken into The Framland Deanery. A note recorded on a piece of spare paper notes that the parish was reorganised again in 2016.There is no date on the title page. The back of the title page notes that the Old Testament copyright is 1952 and the New Testament, second edition is 1971
2 Leather, board, paper, ribbon
3 1971
4 h. 34 x w. 26 x d. 9cm
5 –
6 Published by Collins
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C New International version BODY OF CHURCH
Brown board. Eight copies.
Published by International Bible Society 1984
h. 23 x w. 15 x d. 5cm
D New English Bible N AISLE
New Testament
i) Green board. The cover is watermarked.
Published by OUP CUP 1961 h. 23 x w. 15 x d. 3.5cm
ii) Popular edition. Green board. The cover is watermarked.
Published by OUP CUP 1961 h. 19 x 3. 13 x d. 3cm
E Brown’s Self Interpreting Bible Ph VESTRY
- Full bound brown leather on board. The front and rear covers have a stamped design with tooled gilt decoration. The front and rear covers are edged in stamped gilded tin. There are two matching gilded tin clasps which are no longer able to close the book. The outer part of the bible is in extremely poor condition and demonstrates general neglect. It is covered in white mildew so that the stamped design is hard to discern. The leather binding on the spine has totally broken away. On this binding are five raised bands with HOLY BIBLE/ in tooled gilt between bands one and two. There is a tooled gilt design between each band. The gilt edges of the pages are now extremely worn. Coloured plates are interleaved throughout the 1122 pages. The title page reads as follows: BROWN’S / SELF INTERPRETING Family BIBLE / CONTAINING THE / OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS; / TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED / MARGINAL REFERENCES. The bible is not dated. The publisher is named at the foot of the page. A family registry is printed between the Old and the New Testaments. The Family Portrait Gallery has space for photos. These pages are left blank. There follows the Family Register of four pages. The first of these is headed Parent’s (sic) Names. Hand written in ink are: William Timson Jeffs Born Dec 20th 1849 / Esther Jeffs Born February 7th 1852 / There follows a page headed Children’s names where the following are recorded: Lucey (sic) Ellen Jeffs Born Feb 10th 1876 / William Edward Jeffs Born August 8th 1877/ Eliza Jeffs Born May 22nd 1879 / Edith Jeffs Born April 30th 1881 / Harry Jeffs Born August 14th 1882 / Mary Ann Jeffs Born January 1st1887 / John Brown Jeffs Born April 28 1894 / Tom James Jeffs Born April 28 1894 / Amelia Esther Jeffs Born Sept 8th 1897 / The page headed Marriages records the following: William Timson Jeffs / Esther Garner / Married December 7th 1874 / at Hoby in the county of Leicester/ Lucey Ellen Jeffs. Married Dec 26th 1902/ Eliza Jeffs. Married August 3 1903 / William Edward Jeffs. Married Aug ? 1904 / Edith Jeffs. Married June 14 1910 / Mary Ann Jeffs. Married June 18th 1913 / Amelia Esther Jeffs. Married Jan 24th 1923 / John Brown Jeffs. Married Dec 22nd 1923 / The following are recorded on the page headed Deaths: Harry Jeffs. Died Sept 24th 1916 / of wounds in France / Esther Jeffs. Died February 17th 1928 / Depth of Grave 7ft to be opened for her husband /
2 Leather, board, paper, tin
3 –
4 h. 34 x w. 26 x d.10cm
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6 T. S Edmondson, 12 Sheep Street, Skipton
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606 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER SANCTUARY, High Altar
A Full version
i)
1 Full bound in brown reverse leather on board. There are four bands on the spine with COMMON/ PRAYER in tooled gilt and roman lettering between bands one and two and OXFORD above the tail. The book is in very poor condition. The cover is very worn; the front cover and spine have broken away. There are the remains of a tooled gilt design round the front and back covers. There are black pastedowns. Hand written in ink on the white fly verso: Presented to All Saints Church / Hoby / By Harry Percy Williams / 3rd December 1888 /
2 Leather, board, paper
3 –
4 h. 32 x w.25 x d. 5cm
5 –
6 OUP
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ii) CROSSING, vicar’s desk
1 Full bound in black speckled leather on board. There are five bands on the spine. COMMON/PRAYER in tooled gilt and roman lettering is between bands one and two. OXFORD in tooled gilt is above the tail. The front cover has fillet surrounds. In the centre of the front cover in tooled gilt are the words ALL SAINTS CHURCH / HOBY 1960 /. The book is in good condition. There are black pastedowns. The pages are gilt-edged There is one black ribbon page marker. Hand written in ink on the white fly: PRESENTED BY / MR & MRS H. ELLISON / WHIT-SUNDAY 1960 /
2 Leather, board, paper, ribbon
3 –
4 h. 26 x w. 18 x d. 6cm
5 –
6 OUP
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iii) N AISLE, altar
Full bound in red cloth on board and in its original dust jacket. Hand written in ink on the white fly; Presented to all Saints/ Church Hoby, by: / Vic Allsop / 12th September 2003 /
Everyman’s Library edition 1999
h. 21 x w. 13 x d. 4cm
iv) N AISLE, bookcase
Thirty-four copies with red board covers. (For bookcase, see Woodwork 334)
Published by SPCK
h. 14 x w. 9 x d. 2cm
607 HOLY COMMUNION
- S AISLE, Lady Chapel altar
1 Full bound in black speckled leather on board. There are five bands on the spine with THE/ HOLY / COMMUNION / in tooled gilt and roman lettering between bands one and two. OXFORD is in tooled gilt above the tail. The binding is identical to the binding of the Book of Common Prayer (606 A ii). The front cover has fillet surrounds. In the centre are the words ALL SAINTS CHURCH / HOBY 1960 / in tooled gilt and Roman lettering. There are black pastedowns. Hand written in ink on the white fly: PRESENTED BY / MR & MRS T. L. COWMAN / WHIT-SUNDAY 1960. / The book which contains two black ribbon page markers is in good condition. The prayers for the royal family acknowledge Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother and Prince Charles.
2 Leather, board, paper, ribbon
3 1953-2002
4 h. 26 x w. 18 x d. 2.5cm
5 –
6 OUP
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ii) N AISLE, altar
1 Full bound in brown leather on board. There are five bands on the spine with COMMUNION / AND / OTHER / SERVICES / in tooled gilt between bands one and two. Roman lettering. There are tooled gilt fillets between all the bands, also around the front and rear covers. The words ALL SAINTS / HOBY / with a Latin cross inserted between are in tooled gilt in the centre of the front cover. There are marbled pastedowns. A brown leather label is pasted onto the inside front cover with the following in tooled gilt: PRESENTED / BY / EDWARD ADEN BERESFORD, / (RECTOR) / EDWARD BREWER BROOKS, / EDWARD BRETT BAILEY, / CHURCHWARDENS / 1902. / All the pages are gilt-edged. There are two red ribbon page markers. The book is in poor condition. The front cover is breaking away from the spine. Some pages have been repaired with what is now brittle sellotape. Other pages have been taped together. Prayers for the royal family acknowledge King Edward, Queen Alexandra, George Prince of Wales and the Princess of Wales.
2 Leather, board, paper, ribbon
3 1901-1910
4 h. 27 x w.18 x d.3cm
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6 SPCK
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608 HYMN BOOKS
A Hymns Old and New S AISLE
Forty copies of New Anglican Edition.
Published by Kevin Mayhew Ltd 1996
h. 23 x w. 16 x d. 2cm
B The English Hymnal N AISLE
Forty-nine copies with green board covers.
Published by OUP 1963
h. 14.5 x w. 9.5 x d. 3cm
C Hymns Ancient and Modern N AISLE
Eighty-three copies with navy-blue board covers.
Published by William Clowes & Sons 1916
h. 14 x w. 9.5 x d. 3cm
609 VISITORS BOOK S AISLE, table
Black leather cover which is breaking away from the spine and repaired with silver foil.
April 2003-to date
h. 20 x w. 26 x d. 2cm
610 MEMORIAL BOOK N AISLE, east end
1 Full bound in plain black fabric on board. All pages are of plain white paper. The title page, hand written in gothic and italic script is inscribed as follows: All Saints’ Hoby Memorial Book/ 2006/ This Memorial Book is dedicated to/ the memory of/ Dora Kathleen Beatrice Tarrant/ The Garden of Remembrance in the Churchyard/ Extension for the burial of ashes was dedicated/ in her memory in 1981 by Revd. Richard H. Chatham,/ Rector./ The Memorial Book and Bookcase are the/ gift of Sheila Warner and Lisa Wright and/ are given in memory of Andrew Warner and/ Patricia Blackwell./ Maureen Coleman & Victor Allsop – church wardens./ Recorded deaths are from 2006 to date. The names of the deceased and their dates of death are recorded verso and recto are tributes of no more than twenty words. The book is displayed in a wooden case with a glazed viewing panel. Beneath the book are forms where details of the deceased can be recorded prior to entry in the book. The whole is displayed in an oak box standing on square legs with chamfered edges.
2 Book: paper, board, fabric Case: oak, glass
3 2006
4 Book: h. 30 x w. 21 x. d. 2cm Box: h. 48 x w. 58 x. d. 9cm Glazed panel: l. 41 x w. 49. 5cm
5 Calligrapher: Tony Geary
6-7 –
8 Sheila Warner and Lisa Wright
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10 Orally Victor Allsop, church warden
611 WORLD WAR 1 REMEMBERED Phs N AISLE
i) An exhibition by the Hoby District Local History Society which honours the lives and war records of the twelve men whose names are recorded on the War Memorial in the churchyard. Twelve laminated pages include photographs, war service and memorabilia of their lives all within a common format. Also included is the history of the memorial itself taken from
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland 1916.These pages are held in a black fabric zipped carrying case.
l. 60 x w. 43cm
ii) An exhibition entitled Forget Me Not which honours the role that ancestors of current Hoby residents and members of Hoby District Local History Society played in the First World War, a companion production to 611 i). Each record contains details of the informant, their relationship to the relative involved in the war together with photographs, memorabilia and copies of letters. Only one of the dead recorded in this section, Harry Jeffs, was both a relative of a current resident and also named on the war memorial. Thirty eight pages are all laminated and held in a black fabric zipped carrying case.
l. 60 x w. 43cm
612 SERVICE BOOKLETS N AISLE
i) The Licencing of Rev’d Martin Dale as Priest in Charge. 13th November 2007.
Pale blue booklet 46 copies.
h. 21 x w.15 x d. 0.25cm
ii) The Dedication of the Church Bells, the Organ, a Statue and Altar Kneelers in The Villiers Chapel of Our Lady. 16 May 2007.
Pale yellow booklet. 45 copies
h. 21 x w. 15 x d. 0.25cm
iii) Dedication of the North Aisle, the Hoby Handbells, the War Memorial, the Altar Kneelers in the Memorial Chapel of All Souls. 30 September 2009.
Pale blue booklet. 13 copies.
h. 21 x w. 15 x d. 0.25cm
613 SUNDRY DOCUMENTS CHURCH WARDEN’S KEEPING
1 A collection of documents, previously belonging to the Beresford family, held in a large iron chest. Stencilled on top of the chest is CAPTN HANS BUSK. The chest and its contents came into the possession of the church upon the death of the last Beresford patron of the living, (Miss Pamela Beresford). The documents include:
twenty-four indentures dating 1680-1882, the majority written on parchment and relating to the advowsons, tithes and glebe lands of the parishes of Hoby, Rotherby, Ragdale and Brooksby.
one indenture on parchment written in Latin.
papers relating to the history of the Browne and Beresford families.
2 Documents: parchment Chest: iron
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4 h. 31 x w. 51 x d. 38cm
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7 Captain Hans Busk (1815-1882) was the father of Annie Mary Beresford (wife of Edward Aden Beresford) (ref a)
8 The chest and its contents were left to the church by Pamela Beresford, the last Beresford to be patron of the living of Hoby cum Rotherby (ref a)
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10 a) Orally Victor Allsop, church warden
