War Grave and Roll of Honour for Holwell, Hertfordshire

Holwell is a small village and a civil parish two miles north of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England, near the Bedfordshire border. The church is unusual and, although largely rebuilt, retains some perpendicular features and an interesting brass to Rector Robert Wodehouse. The school, almshouses, and rectory are all in a similar Tudor style erected in the 1830s, but are no longer in use and have been converted into housing. Fragments of early wall paintings and wooden mullioned windows have been discovered in the mediaeval timber-framed Church Farmhouse. [1]

 

St Peter's Holwell, Hertfordshire

There is a single Commonwealth War Grave in the church cemetery to Lance Corporal Silas Dennis.

106322 Lance Cpl.

S. Dennis

Labour Corps

and Oxford & Bucks. Light Inf.

13th February 1919

Further information is available from the Commonwealth War Graves website:

Dennis, S

Rank: Private

Service No: 3434

Date of Death: 13/02/1919

Regiment/Service: Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry transf. to (Lce. Cpl. 106322) Labour Corps Grave Reference: South-West of Church. 

Cemetery: Holwell (St. Peter) Churchyard [2]

Remember

these Men of the

Parish of Holwell

who gave their lives in the

Two World Wars

1914 - 1918

Herbert Baines

Hedley Burr

Stanley Burr

Ernest Harvey

William Kilbey

Charles Reynolds

John Titmus

Hubert Wauton

1939 - 1945

Arthur Hope

Grant them, O Lord Eternal Rest

L. Denton Sayers, scripsit [3], 1949

Plaque to Augustus Richard Davies

To the memory of

Augustus Richard Davies

Captain in HMS 22nd Regt.

and of the Mardy, Merthyr Tydfil,

Born November 11 AD 1846,

Died All Saints Day AD 1878,

Aged 32.

This window is dedicated by his widow.

Window dedicated to Augustus Richard Davies

The church has had 59 rectors [4] since 1224.

Rectors of St Peter's Holwell

Rectors of St Peter's Holwell

1224 ◊ Geoffrey de Berkinges - Patron: Lady Alice de Holewell	?1636 ◊ Charles Lawrence - Pastor [5]	1903 ◊ A S Wauton
1274 ◊ Richard de Bray	?16-- ◊ Goddard Scoufeild	1916 ◊ J F Llewellyn
1289 ◊ Robert le Band	1687 ◊ John Pechay	1929 ◊ Charles Edward Wager
1294 ◊ Adam de Everdon	1690 ◊ Thomas Hassell	1935 ◊ Francis H Jeayes
1330 ◊ Adam de Braunfeld	1695 ◊ Roger Wyker	1939 ◊ Thomas Parry
1333 ◊ Thomas de Baunfeld	1700 ◊ Thomas Heton	1947 ◊ Eric Paton Hindley
1340 ◊ John de Teppyngham	1719 ◊ Edward Cupper	1952 ◊ Thomas Francis William Wright
1340 ◊ Nicholas Spencer	1720 ◊ Samual Sirle	1958 ◊ Alfred Ronald Thompson - Curate in charge
1355 ◊ William Miclar de Cetleworth	1721 ◊ Edward Edwards	1960 ◊ Garnet George Stapylton Kenyon
1361 ◊ William Marschall	1725 ◊ Bernard Nould	1962 ◊ Cecil Toll
1401 ◊ John Halelyp	1735 ◊ Mark Hillerly - Bishop of Soder& Man	1963 ◊ Harry Hildyard Bloomfield - formerly Archdeacon
1401 ◊ Edmund Walker	1767 ◊ Gerues Jones	1968 ◊ Edward J Bennett
1454 ◊ Edmund Norton	1784 ◊ Thomas Dove	1970 ◊ James Alexander Holden
1477 ◊ Edwardus Peyton	1808 ◊ Joseph Parsons	1980 ◊ Robin Ian Oakley - united benefice with Ickleford
1478 ◊ Thomas Hundens	1813 ◊ T Gregory	2003 ◊ John Andrew Somerset Payne Cook - now also with Pirton
1503 ◊ Robert Wodehouse - see brasses in the church	1816 ◊ R Lucas - Curate [6]	2011 ◊ James Macaulay Robertson
1515 ◊ Peter Stele	1829 ◊ Thelwalk Salisbury
1521 ◊ John Wyret	1830 ◊ Charles Delme-Radcliffe
1524 ◊ John Nage	1866 ◊ F Boyd
1543 ◊ Richard Parre	1875 ◊ Arthur Delme-Radcliffe - rebuilt the church 1879
1560 ◊ Richard Fage	1884 ◊ F Bathurst - Archdeacon [7]
1585 ◊ John Henley

[1] Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holwell,_Hertfordshire)
[2] Commonwealth War Graves Commission (http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/364770/DENNIS,%20S)
[3] Scripsit - (he or she) wrote (it): placed after the author's name as on a manuscript. (http://www.yourdictionary.com/scripsit#DUfkRY1PM5E1EJTc.99)
[4]  Rector - In the Church of England, the incumbent of a parish where all tithes formerly passed to the incumbent. (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/rector)
[5] Pastor - A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation, especially in some non-episcopal churches. (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pastor)
[6] A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure (cura) of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term curate is commonly used to describe clergy who are assistants to the parish priest. The duties or office of a curate are called a curacy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate)
[7] An archdeacon is a senior clergyman, appointed by the bishop, whose duty it is to supervise his fellow clergy and to administer part of a diocese, hence his/her territorial designation. As well as pastoral duties, archdeacons are in charge of the fabric of parish churches and their contents. (http://www.debretts.com/forms-address/professions/religion/church-england/archdeacon#sthash.5qF4FVOZ.dpuf)