The Old Vicarage Chapel Lane
This is one of a number of houses in Coddington connected with the clergy or whose name implies that it was once a vicarage. These include:
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The Old Vicarage (Chapel Lane)
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The Gables (Chapel Lane)
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The Vicarage (Newark Road)
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The Old Parsonage (Newark Road)
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Old Vicarage (Main St, Plough crossroads).
"The Old Vicarage" is a two storey brick house with two gable chimneystacks and Yorkshire sliding sash windows. It stands on Chapel Lane, facing the NW exit from the churchyard (where the Thorpe family graves are).
Before 1860 Coddington had been part of the benefice of East Stoke, and the vicar might not have used the property in Coddington at all. The fabric of many churches and vicarages had become run down by this time, and census records reveal that curates serving the village sometime lodged with the Booths at Homestead on Balderon Lane. A new parsonage house on Newark Road was built for Rev Dolphin, which was completed in 1874 for £1600 (£1000 raised by subscription and a grant from Queen Anne’s Bounty).
{insert photo of house A848 – postcard looking towards Coddington House walls}
Joseph Chauntry Hunt, head teacher from 1883 to 1925, lived here. He was a disciplinarian, but had great energy and many new ideas for the school. See a drawing of him, information about his family and about the NationalSchoolhere. We are extremely fortunate to have the school logbook, written by Joseph and by his predecessor John Roberts, giving a day to day account of life in the school between 1872 and 1912. It makes fascinating reading and gives a unique insight into the two men and their professional concerns. The logbook was used by local historian Rolf Vernon in his 1987 book about the school.