Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Post of 7 December 1882 listed a series of clerical appointments. Amongst the list was the name of the Rev E S Carter now to be perpetual curate (in essence vicar) of St Michael-le-Belfry, York. Only in 1968 under the Pastoral Measures Act did the term perpetual curate formally disappear from clerical terminology. Edmund Carter was vicar of this church from 1882 to 1908. The patronage of the church was in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of the Minster, and by 1882, Carter had been back in York for seven years and making a good name for himself in a variety of ways. The Dean, since the death of Augustus Duncombe in 1880, was the Very Reverend Arthur Purey-Cust of aristocratic lineage, and Purey-Cust remained Dean during the whole of Carter’s remaining time in York. St Michael-le-Belfrey was in the 19th century, and is in the 21st century a very important church in York, and its position right by the Minster demonstrates that importance. The church, also grade one listed, was built in one continuous building programme, in the pre-reformation period between 1525 to 1536, replacing earlier churches on the site. Guy Fawkes was baptised within its walls in 1570. The current York 47 St Michael-le-Belfrey Church, Carter’s prime parish