Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Micklegate, York. When the Rector, the Reverend T.Richardson, retired in June 1877, Carter was granted the living of that church at the age of 32. This church was on the southern side of the River Ouse whereas the Minster was to the north. The church was just outside the city walls and actual gate of Micklegate. St Martin’s Lane, a narrow cobbled street remains today and ran along a side boundary of the churchyard. He was to remain Rector at St Martin-cum-Gregory until 1882. The total gross income from the living may have been about £250 per annum (about £30,000 today). Such income would have included monies or fees from the Glebe, will reading, Easter offerings, Queen Anne’s Bounty, and a payment from the Ecclesiastical Commission. Of course there was also the important matter of a house or rectory provided for the incumbent. That house at 40 Bishopshill remains in use today but not as a rectory. The population of the parish was around 1300 persons – but today the population would be minimal, the church building being surrounded by tourist shops rather than homes. In 1881 the national census showed his Rectory as being in actually in another adjacent parish, 40 Bishophill being in the York 45 St Martin-cum -Gregory Church, York, Carter’s first parish