Church seating (1901)

Post date: Feb 19, 2012 11:23:4 AM

Notice published in Parish Magazine October 1901.

NOTICE

THAT WHEREAS at the last Easter Vestry a resolution was unanimously passed requesting the Churchwardens to declare the seats of the Church to be free and open for all services except the 11 o'clock Sunday morning service,

AND WHEREAS by notice published by the Vicar on the following Sunday during service, and posted on the Church door, and printed in the April number of the Parish Magazine, we caused it to be known that we desired any and every seat-holder who might object to such a declaration to communicate such objection to us in writing,

AND WHEREAS the only communication received by us had reference to two seats supposed to belong by prescription to Wateringbury Lodge,

THEREFORE WE HEREBY, without prejudice to the rights which the Churchwardens by custom or law enjoy, do declare all the seats in the Parish Church to be free and open for the entrance and occupation of parishioners at and after 10 minutes before the commencement of every service other than the 11 o'clock Sunday morning service until the service is over, excepting only the seats in the chancel and in the organ-loft and the two seats in the nave to which are attached brass tablets inscribed WATERINGBURY LODGE.

Dated this 9th day of October, 1901, and signed by us,

AUGUSTUS LENEY,

RICHARD FRENCH,

Churchwardens.