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ST. ANDREW'S HOUSE VICARAGE

St Andrews House

St Andrew's House, High Street, Soham, Cambridgeshire, CB7 5HG


 C.1720 AD Reginald Hawkins, Vicar of Soham, built St Andrews House


 1834 AD Vicarage Enlarged

The Reverend Henry Tasker enlarged and improved St Andrews House at a cost of £3,000, a move which the patrons, Pembroke College, viewed as a liability to future incumbents.


 Summer Fetes at The Vicarage

The Reverend Boughey lived here from 1927 to 1953, while he was vicar at St. Andrew's Church. He had succeeded the Reverend John Cyprian Rust who was the vicar of Soham for 53 years. The large vicarage gardens were a popular place for fetes and social occasions.


 1954 AD Vicarage moves to Cross Green

In 1954 the vicarage moved to Cross Green and to the house (pictured left) that had been the home of the Slack family

In 1954 the vicarage moved to Cross Green and to the house that had been the home of the Slack family, pictured above left. The original vicarage which was by this time such a large and impractical building was then converted into flats. St. Andrew's House is currently due to be renovated with another 4 news houses to be built in the surrounding gardens of the nearby house know as The Beeches.

St Andrews House 2000

 


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