Alcester Church House
St Nicholas Church serving the community of Alcester
Announcing plans for a much-needed refurbishment of this important heritage property to provide modern facilities for St Nicholas Church, and a central meeting place for the community of historic Alcester.
£300,000 is needed to complete this project. Donation details click here
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Dates mostly from a preliminary research by Dr Nat Alcock of Warwick University, with added notes from other sources.
17 Butter Street (Church House) and 15 Butter Street (Vergers Lodge)
Details apply to Church House except where stated or in italics
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1444 |
Plaque recently fitted to No.3 Butter Street, after dendrochronology? |
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1562 |
Earliest known reference to Buttermarket Street - Saville’s History of Alcester |
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1562 |
Tenant - Thomas Hide |
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Pre-1600-1801 |
Owners - Greville family, (later Lords Brooke and then Earls of Warwick) |
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1617 |
Rectory had separate kitchen & larder next to stable (in garden - not the Church House one) 1617 Parish Terrier (Dugdale) |
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Pre-1625 |
Tenant - Thomas Hawthorne al. Phillipps |
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1625 |
Tenant - William Bookey |
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1639 |
Tenant - George Teonge |
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1670 |
Tenant - Temperance Tongue |
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1684-1716 |
Tenant - Hester Tongue |
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1726 |
Tenant - Mrs Emes - (Subtenant 1728-53 - Thomas Dutton) |
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1753-88 |
Tenant - William Whissell |
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1754 |
Estate map shows passage way from Butter Street to the Moors as a road |
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c. 1801, by 1862 |
Sold Richard Ladbury & George Thomas Simpson [possibly executors] |
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1862 |
Sold to William Wadams, butcher |
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Pre-1865 |
Tenant - Henry Hill; Christian Thompson; Joseph Raybould; Joseph Pole |
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1865 |
Tenant - Thomas Heath |
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Pre-1869 |
Tenant of Cottage No15 - Lydia Hopkins; John Holmes; Henry Hill |
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1869 |
William Wadams sold as a bakehouse to Rev. Alfred Henry Williams |
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1873 |
Tau Cross discovered when Rectory was extended (Saville) |
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1870s? or 1909? |
Back of No. 15 converted to Rectory stable with hayloft - access from Moorfield. |
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1884 |
Early OS Map (copy in Town Hall) shows the path to The Moors; outline remains on subsequent OS maps. |
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1909 |
Rear part sold to Church Commissioners as a garden for the Rectory |
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1910, 27thJuly |
Front part & cottage sold by Williams' executors to PCC, already as Mission Room - now Church House |
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1910 |
Tenant of Cottage No.15 - Edward Hopkins |
| 1912, 12thDec. | Formal opening of Church House by Mr I Smith and the Rural Dean. "Ample seating for 140!" |
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1949 |
No 13 sold by Marquess of Hertford to Swinglehurst |
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1940s |
Tenant of No.15 - Len Chambers for a short period, now current Verger. |
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1972 |
No 13 sold to current owners (Lea) - rear section of path absorbed into garden |
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1980’s - 1997 |
Tenant of No.15 - Jean James, cleaner to the Rectory, now retired. |
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1994 |
Rectory sold into private ownership by Diocese of Coventry - back of Church House given to PCC |
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1997 - - |
No. 15 remains as a tenancy let by PCC |
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2008 |
Freehold of passage way resolved and confirmed by Land Registry - front part into ownership of Church House (St Nicholas PCC), rear part to Moorfield Road into ownership of No. 13, as garden. |
| 2010, 9thJune | Opening of Church Toilets (phase 1 refurb.) by Mayor of Alcester, Councillor Chris Gough |
Scrap of 1884 OS Map in Alcester Town Hall
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