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Rectory, Papworth St Agnes 1847 (RCHM)Rectory, Papworth St Agnes
History of Rectory
According to Dora Tack in ‘Whispering Elms’:
Built of brick with slate roof, ten rooms of which seven were bedrooms plus four servants’ rooms.
1942
Rev Yorke Darrell Stewart – rector
It was built in 1848 at the cost of £497. Used as prison for German prisoners of war until 1922. This explained bars on the windows. Paraffin lamps were still in used in WWII. Electricity came in the 1950s.
In WWI the prisoners of war played football against the village teams.
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