The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-04-28 00:00:00

THE NEW VESTRY FOR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH.

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There can he no two opinions as to the neatesity for
, a larger and more con; enient vestry for Holy Trinity
Church. It may be known, the custom has been for
the adult member* of the choir to rube in the present
, tiny apartment which goes by the name of the vestry,
while the Rector and boys robe in the schoolroom,
which necessitates a walk aeries the churchyard, the
consequence being the rev. gentleman and bop; are
exposed to all kinds of weather, and a dangerous
change of atmosphere. For some time the matter has
15,111,efore the parish, and we are glad t.; see that now
(ie;twithstanding a little difference on various Water*
I,f detail) the work is to be proceeded with at once, the
probable coot being between 900 and h:400. Already
a goodly sum has been promised.
The adjourned meeting was held on Thursday even.
ing, when there were present the Hector (Rev. H.
Everett) in the chair, Mr. Edwin Burnett, and Mr.
A. H. Lock (churchwardens), Mr. F. B. Fisher, Mr. J.
Pearl Jillard, Mr. J. Guy, Mr. W. Tilley, Mr. F. J.
Holland, Mr. R. It. Stay-tier, Mr. C. Lacey, Mr.
Dyson, kc.
Before the question of the new vestry was discussed
the churchwardens' accounts for the year wen; pre-
sented :

I',. —l'.. Ca.h received from weekly offertory from
.11.ril 13th, 1884, to Starch 2.lth, 1.43, 4.:2721 t. hi.;
to (=oh received front John Collin. one year's rent
uf kite.. in North-4quart., to Lady bay, DM, £l2:
nerived f Mr. William Tilley, one year's rent
.if .hop in Niwth-wcputee, to Lady Day,
one year,. int...mot on the gum of
1.:,00 int eiited in Conaifidated 42 per cent. Annuities to
:di. January, 1144.5, £l7 ; ditto of R. William.,
one year'. reiweved rent. to Lady Day, Imori,
C 3 fie. WI., to lem Income TAX, Ad., a 50. ; ditto
.1 Lord .klingt.,n, ditto, inb ii.. 24., le.. Inconw Tat,
64. dim, .4 Hon. 11n.. .t.hley, ..ne
ro.orved rvntot to Lady Day, DK% ki 16.
hn lane,. in hand heinight from la.t account, £ll lis. ;
total, £7113 4.. 001. _
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hr.— Ci 1.41 14141 %V. .1. I iollidi "Ile year'. aalary to
Lady Day, 1:045, £lO, ditto dig account, fl is.,
ell ; ditto paid l. Churchill, .exton, year.., glary
to lady Day, ItutN, £lll, hje atronitt. 1:t.„
12s. ; ditto paid Mr. T. NI. Morgan, orgabiat, ona
year'n adary to 4th Ikcenther, 114144, £100: ditto laid
adult membern, of choir to Chrietnute, 11044, £1310,,, b 4.
ditto :aid choir lay. to Lady Ihty, MI; ditto paid
~,,,aa-tg„, to ditto, £4 : ditto paid for music,
hook.. itc., £4 100. 7k1.: ditto laid for washing
Aurplien, and frill., pi 15.. lid. ditto paid visitation
fere In 4.; ditto paid Kin hill. for one year to
leery Day, (.1.113... 1011.: ditto paid year'.
fire insurances on church .184 iirgirtsv t.. lady Day,
111. s. : ditto paid year's ratan and taxa., 1.1 litt, 14
ditto paid
Haul,
allowance for .ick SIVI new, WO
14I(1 Mr". Hand, balance due ..n railing account, CM;
aulipaiption to Diocesan Church Fund, &2 Sk. ;
expenses paid to choir on attending the te,,tivai at
Saliehury, £1414... 4.1.; ;Aid for rept:ink to church and
£l3 tid, ; ditto paid to oindry trade..
men'. lulls, £l2 li.. ; laid to nii..iotartry
h.alkital, and adind., collection. aoa), fit theta,
rai 4s. 9.1. ; balance in land and carried to next
account, 1:3 Dia 01. total, £315 4..
PM170.1.1.51m 05 IieKCJIIL 011111111511(kv:;.—Am omit
collect-I for Dome Mimione, 4.11 lii Ff. ; cellketed
for I ior,e,t County flompital, IV Mc ; willectcd
fir II wchkewor :4efikeds, 1.11 10. k, collected for Society
for Propagation of the floated, Ma 1k 'id. t total,
Mr. !Ark 1,010100.4 there 155. r.. ,evrrid itrins
,in which he lad 1.1. n
lon as Mr. Durnett had not arrived, it was decided to
leeti..iie any reinarkm ..n the, till he
1.04 x • .1,j,c14.1 to the iteni of three guinea* charged
fr korpii3O 15comntn. H. always thought the
"Mee. (.10tralwani..0 V', 58 11,Morary eine, and
which thy acre 001 y t...prokid to field, without 'oak.
lug any charge for knping 11,,m.5...uritn.
I h•nni. (Mr. Ifurnete, clerk) paid it waa, a mitiall sum
.i110w,.1 for year* for *tamp., etationery, ke,
Itirrox min:irked he did not know it wa. charg•ll.
It was euggiated all difficulty could be avuidW by

keeping a paridi account at the bank. It would
.implify matter., awl drool Inc. tnatilde to Mr.
Burnett. —Mr. Hot-lasi) moved, and Mr. J. Oct
',scowled, that the &OD Milt. he loosed, and that an
account be opened at the bank.—Carried. —.l.nother
matter di.cue.ed wit. the 'opulent to Churchill, the
sexton. At the prvient time he i. laid CIO a year
salary, ffai for cleaning. and 30a. for lighting lire..
This b. in three ...Terme aco.unm, awl it wee agreed,
on the motion of Mr. A. 11. 149,K. ‘lll,l Mel" olidell by
Mr. C. Latin', that Churchill ohould be paid • salary
if ClB a year to include everything.
On Mr. licasrres au-rival he replied to S•r. Lock'.
objections. Everything had leen aeked Mr. Lock
on which there we. any nemmity to cumuli him.
There had been no mama' to carnet& (sim. He (Mr.
Lock) had had the entire management of the imam,
and with regard to the aoopunt. there had been nothing
done out .4 the ordinary conme event... With
regard to the thee.. ginnenot, they could knock
that off at once if they objected. —Mr. Lova remarked
the accounta were now mooed, but he ghould object
to it in future. -With regard to opening an acoomt
at the hank, Mr. licaNgrt reminded them that they
were ...onetime. overdrawn. Beide., who was going
to keel. ledger account for CS Is.. every week..
Suppoeing they had a large cheque to pay, and
there we...nothing in mhi.hmnktol.av it. --The It ca.ron
But ii it not hanl n you am at na't BUNNKTr
said he did net mind it.- lA+ Mr. Burnett ...premed
willingneao to the ;twitted being opened, the
matter Jowled).
It wax remarked the amount. collected for tai.
Alonary nocietiert during die year were decidedly better
than lao year. - -The Homan remarked thev bad hada.'
eypen... of Cll in PaYing the debt on ill, railing.,
which would not occur another year. Ti.. year wee
con 1111 l mced with a lialancv of CII, the debt of effi
had heels paid off, and a balance remained .4 E. 3. --
Mr. Toicv remarked it was netweaary the railing.
should he painted. They were getting in a very had
ntate, and a oitch in time wised l Mr. Oct'
alo. 'spoke AA to the neceawity of thi. Wing 'I tie.

THE VESTKV.

The ltarrint ;zzi h. win. now in a
ID Salta to carry out his pr. se made at the
hat vestry, and preseut to them the 'H."1.101141
!dans .1 the new vestry. Before he did so, however.
perlespe it would be incumbent upon him to nay a
few word, with regard to the twcessity of the .it.".
He was not One who would winh to undertake
a work of this sort unlem there rea4
MIA MI urgent necemity for it. He behests.'
everybody w-ho knew the church, and knew their
premut practice, would admit it really was aladutely
necessary they alsoukl have a larger vestry. At the
rmt ti he might ray they hail no vestry at all.
me
really thought they must de one thing or the
other—give up their choir altogether or Ow they
nand take Kul.. to base a larger vestry, Their
custom now wan for himself and the beys to walk
screen the churchyard, because it wall i111110.1.1•1ible to
robe in the vestry ; and he need wit tell them it was
running a considerable amount of risk after doing a
service to go out from that hot church, to go men..
the churchyard in all weathers, and sometimes in the
mood pouring rain. He felt he we.. Is. 1111 l I 0, go him.
self, because it would never do for him, and he holasl
he never oh.iuld winli to ark any aneinher .4 kin choir to
do what he w.aild not du himself. (Applause.) If any
members of the choir had to the 111 tile schoolnewn
of courne lw must be one of them. He had hoped it
would hays fallen to the lot of somehmly elm to carry
this work out, for really and truly during the time he
had been in .wilers lie had had quite his share of church
restorati.m. (Laughter.) It fell to his lot befere he
came here to hove to restore a church, and when he
CIIILIC here he had to rebuild that church. It had also
fallen to his hit to put up two "wenn, one coating
1:100 and their present organ I:500. So he had hoped
he had had his share of that tort of work. (Laughter.)
Still he thought the time had now coup— he had
otaved off the evil day AA long Alt he paiibly
and they must now try and face it. 'Hear, hear.)
A. they knew, a e. ttee WAS :1pp...int...1 last year
to co at.. the natter. He had got Mr. Fletcher,
ti W.Di well known here, to give them some idea oif
the 5..11, and his plans were now ntibutitted to them.
of cone., he did not mean to say they could not be
improved .. a, and gentlenom to whom he had
.hown time,,, had made several suggestions. What be
peopmed WAS, if it met with their approval they
ehould sanction the plan., and that they nhould be
submitusl to the committee they had already ap-
'oinks!, and perhaps they could add other
gentlemen to it who understond that non of
thing, i.. that if they needed it they
could make some email alterations and nee if any
improvement coeld 1W made. What he wanted now
WII,I that the vestry should sanctien then.- plans
generally. It was proposed that the vestry shotild
lie plated about half-way down the 'present gangway;
the thee--light window will be taken out and the
mummy. t.. the entry be made there. Thenew building
would run out into the churchyard ; find of all there
would be the choir vis.try, then a partition, and
beyond that the clergy vestry. If needed, the partition
could be thrown back, and the two vestrien thrown
into mm mom, which emplij be made very useful,
Mr. .1. Gee connidered the new vearLshould Iw
WI near the chancel a.. Imailds. The reenx,
who had to retire sometime., he ca.. certain, wmild
not like to face the congregation in going back to the
vestry. —(Mr. Lock: We may not always have a
bashful rector.) (Laughter.)—And with regard to
the choir having to walk down the centre of the church,
he felt sum they would soon get sick .1 it. It might
look very nice, but he wan annured the majority of the
choir would not like it, and in a very little time
they woulil object very ntonigly.-31r. F. 11.
Elsnnt said in large nunibent of churches the choir
walked through the church.-- Mr. Gee : In fri wit .1
every 100 the vestry in eh.. to the cluoionl.---The
liell'utt Said if they had it near the present north
door, as Mr. (fey .liggested, it wwild be shutting up
..,,.-..f the entrances to the church. He did 11.4 101.0 w
if that would be an object Ittits•rr
remind...l them there would ls. the difficulty with
?drew, Cocker. Mr. (eV : If you have it where it
11.. W pr 011.411,1 I 11111 sure you will not like it. -11 r.
lewa said they wen. all perfectly agn,al the sestry
was necesiary. --(Mr. I iev : quite so.' As mon'.
walking through the elitindi Mr. I Iny seines' to
think the choir would get tired of it. bad seen
many instances in London and Os:inhere *here tle:
choir had always to go through the church. --(Mr.
Get .1.11.1 they very much object b. it.l -No, he
had not heard .4 sueli uses. No doubt they did like
precessionals, and here it would be situated very nei.
veniently for it, whereas if they adopted Mr. Guy'.
sientestion they would have the .411111 e evil .4 having to
go round ..iitside the chureli.--Mr. Gus said 41111”.
tug they had it where he on/mated. if at 1111 V (wine time
they should wish to turn it into a transept, it could
li,' &tile, whereas in the plate 'lemmas' it would be
welt... —Mr. BiliNeer : Ilave you entertained the
not !—The Itneok As far 141 I can - ween I:300
and £lOO. They had hail exiwrience, evever,
thes• thinge generally went a little further
than they thought, and he 5ti1a5.....1 they
would want nearly 1:100.- Mr. Buic(crr : Everybody
coukl nee the new vestry was needed and he proposed
that the adoptod, that tenders lie invited,
and that the work lw -.wed with as liUle delay
▪ lopsible.—Mr. F. B. FIAHEIt ....I,olllled. —Mr. Gee
'laid he did net want in any way tat 1111111.1.1,1 the mew
• fee lie was quite agreed i wan requinal, hut he
had lived long enough in the world b. we mine way
in advance, and COlllll Ate 54,111 e things before they
were erected. He was convinced the vestry, if erected
there would Is. one .4 the greatest mistaken the parish
lily Trinity hail ever 111:111e. lie knew siey
well what he hal mid with regard to the ellen we,
right, and he was sure the Rector wmild be disgusted.
He' knew it was one of the thing. Mr. Fisher longed
for Oust he Would not base t.. go tigl,t 'knew)! the
Church. (Mr. Evian-I': Then it was right at the
extreme eud.) He (Mr. Guy) only hoped the vestry
would see jt. way to alter it.—The liet-ent paid they
all knew what they had gone through already with
regard to people's right, and light.., There could be
no doubt if they could have had their
way the church would have looked very different
extemally. They bad gnat difficulties to contend
with in that matter ; he maiutaMtd limy did their
very b.'s!, and lie did not think they eould 10,„
otherwise than what they did. In the natter of the
vestry if they, went too much one way they interfered
with Mr. Williams' lights and rights, and if the other
way, they were likely. to get into hot water with
Nicene.. Crocker.—Pareing on to consider the question
"ways and means," the Rscroa raid no doubt it
was a considerable outlay, but he thought they wens
justified in incurring it. (Hear, hoar.) Ife..wgtnt,nl
they should adops the same curse A. they dia with
building the church—spread the debt ..ver a certain
number of years—and lie did not see 1611 in the
course of three or four year they nhould not rata the
money to pay for it. One g..'d lady in the parinh,
Moo. Ashley, had already given 1:10, and a gentle-
man in the parish, Mr. Young, the grocer, had been
kind enough to give a couple of sovereigns. Let them
once prove b. people a thing wan absolutely nouesnarv,
and they would be quite ready 1.4) thew. lie
hoped and trusted the vestry would do all they could
to raim the necesary funda —After other diet-maims,
it VMS agreed to have • subscription list issued at one,.
.I.niong other minis pronsiiwri at the vestry wen. the
following: —Tlas iiPotor, £10; sir. Burnett, ; Mr.
Lock. ; Mr. Fisher, 14.).