Relhan Collection : 327 Wendy church and vicarage (now Glebe House) from SE

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>As noted in (<b>326)</b> Wendy was always a small village, with just one centre built around the church near the Cam. Early in C19 Relhan drew this pleasant bucolic view, with 2 countrymen chatting by a gate, a pub with its fire alight, a solid C18 rectory with bow windows on 2 floors, a tiny and charming C18 church with a clock and generous windows that must have made it wonderfully light inside, and plenty of trees, hedges and wide green verges all around. The Windsor Arms, named after a local farming family, was kept by the Cox family at least from 1809 until 1851. The churchyard has table tombs and a few gravestones, so there were people of some wealth here. Cole 1747 noted 2 small pieces of marble inscribed for Richard Feazer, the minister here, and his wife Elizabeth d. 1710 against the wall under the Venetian window. The vicarage, previously in Dovehouse Close on the lane to Vine Farm, was replaced by 1637 by the bow-fronted house near the church seen by Relhan, now known as Glebe House. In 1674 this was a significant building with 7 hearths, but was in a poor state by the 1780s and was rebuilt (retaining the bow windows) by local farmer and patron of the pub Thomas Windsor, probably soon after 1828. The new house, since 1949 a private house and called Glebe House, was extended in C19 and C21 and is in fine condition. </p><p>Palmer 1932; VCH 1982</p></p>