Nave Roof Restoration – Fundraising

Circular October 1881

There is a clear focus on the nave and north aisle roofs as the priority:

1881 Bazaar

The following account appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday September 10^th 1881:-

St. Andrew’s Church, Deopham.
By the kind permission of Mrs. Hurnard, a bazaar was held on Thursday in buildings attached to Gurney’s Manor, Hingham, in aid of the fund now being collected for the restoration of the splendid old church of St. Andrew, at Deopham. Fortune favoured the undertaking, for the late gloomy wet weather gave way to a lovely day, which had the effect of drawing numerous kind friends to purchase at the stalls, which were supplied with every variety of useful and ornamental articles. The stalls were six in number. Miss Hurnard presided over the first, which was entirely entirely filled with beautiful specimens of Valerie ware, Mrs. Beevor and Mrs. Shaw undertook the plain work stall; Miss Wanklyn, Miss D. Griffith and Miss Beville, the fancy stall; Miss Griffith and Miss G. Wanklyn, the book and picture department; Miss G. Evans, and Miss Maud Wanklyn, the doll stall; the Rev. Duncan Tovey, the sale of plants; and Mrs. Wanklyn and Miss M. Harnard, the tea and refreshment department. The building was very tastefully decorated with flags and evergreens, and flags leading from the road indicated the way to the bazaar. Mr. Howlett most kindly gave his services with his band on the occasion, so that the afternoon was rendered bright and cheerful. So many kind friends lent their assistance to the work by sending articles for the stalls, that they presented an extremely gay appearance. Messrs. Jarrold, Colman, of Rampant Horse-street, Chamberlin, Ganley, and Boswell, of Norwich, and Messrs Perfect, Foster, and Parker, of Wymondham and Mr. Whitear, of Hingham, were all good to send articles for the stalls. The rest of the contributors are too numerous to specify, but to each and all of them the parish of Deopham owes a debt of gratitude. The bazaar was opened 1.30, a piece of music on the hand bells, with pianoforte accompaniment, being played by the Misses Wanklyn and Griffith. The sale then commenced and proceeded most briskly to the close 7.30 p.m. In addition to the main building there were two other rooms set apart for the exhibition of the luminous light. The paint was put upon Messrs. Bryant and May’s tin matchbox cases, most kindly given by them, and also with the greatest kindness allowed to used for sale by the patentees without any payment. In this same room at intervals was exhibited very curious American toy called “the walking race”, which caused much amusement.
In the other room there was an Art Gallery, of which Miss Allen most kindly took charge. This called forth repeated bursts of merriment from all who entered.
The ladies at the stalls were mcst efficiently helped by the Messrs. Gurdon, De Chair, Durnford, Rev. A. C. Davies, Mr. W. Crawshay, who took charge of the weighing machine, and the Messrs. Beevor. Among the company we noticed Lady Wodehouse, Lady Mary Carrie, Lady Beevor, Revs M. W. Carrie, R. M. Gawn, P. Bond, Mrs. Turner, Rev. P. and Mrs. Gwyn, Rev. F. P. Gilbert, C. Crawshay, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Crawshay, Rev. W. and Mrs. Partridge, Rev. A. C. and Mrs. Davis, the Misses Robbins, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Beville, Rev. F. B. De Chair and Mrs. De Chair, and Miss Cooper, Rev. H. W. Turner. Rev. R. B. Slipper and the Misses Slipper, and a long list of others, who. one and all, used their best endeavours to render the attempt a success.
The net amount realised by the undertaking will be about £104.

Building News – May 1882

The following advertisement appeared on May 19^th 1882.
The cost shown is now £2,500 – an increase of £500 on the earlier appeals.

Circular – May 1882

The following circular was also published verbatim in the Norfolk Chronicle of May 13^th 1882.

Image courtesy of Lambeth Palace Library

Sums paid for part 1

Notes

The Rev. F.B. De Chair donated £5: he was curate of Morley.

Circular – April 1884

This announces stage 2 of the Nave roof restoration, having completed the two easternmost bays during the previous year.
A summary of this document was published in the Norfolk Chronicle of May 3^rd 1884.

Notes

The £25 from the Incorporated Church Building Society is recorded in their annual report as being authorised in 1864¹ under the sub-heading of “Enlarging or otherwise increasing the accommodation in the Churches”; it is advertised by the plaque on the north wall of the church (where they are referred to as “The Incorporated Society for Building & Churches”).

Footnotes

The Church builder vol 11, pg 143 published by the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels ↩︎

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Date	Change
6/4/24	1881 Bazaar
15/2/24	Published