LONG LOCAL TRADITION BROKEN
VICAR’S DAUGHTER MARRIED AT CHURCH For the first time in its long history, stretching back to 1200, the httle P ish church of Box, Wiltshire, dedicated to St. Thomas a Beckett, was recently the scehe of the wedding of the daughter of one of its vicars. On April 24 the Rev. George Foster, vicar of Box, gave his elder daughter,
Elizabeth Mary, in marriage to Mr William Haydon; of Gouldhurst, Kent. The church, nestling in a beautiful valley, is scarcely to be seed from any main road. The village, six miles from Bath, is the largest. in Wiltshire, and all its : inhabitants think it the most beautiful. t . The Bishop of Malmesbury performed the ceremony, assisted by Canon Pym, D. 5.0., one- of the King’s chaplains, and Canon Stephens, Rural Dean of Chippenham. Two hundred and fifty of the villagers were entertained in the village hall. ■ Trousseau and simple wedding gown were made at the vicarage,, as well as the wedding cake. The catering was done in Box. Guests with antiquarian tastes were interested in the fourteenth century font and tower of the church, which is said to have been built on the site of a Roman temple—a theory strengthened by the extensive remains of a Roman villa in the gardens of an adjoining house. .
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 15 (Supplement)
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