The Vicarage 1995

This view of the vicarage was taken at the time when it was for sale in 1995. Its origin is not entirely able to be ascertained but it is known there was a vicarage building in Burnham when Will Taylour was the incumbent in 1623. Whether this was the same site as the present building cannot be assessed and the home of the vicar has now been for some time in Rectory Road at Burnham. In 1242 one Mathew the Chaplain at Burnham, was recorded in the Hundred of Bempston Pleas, Somerset as having his house burgled by unknown malefactors, they killed his brother Thomas and bound up Walter the Clerk. But again it cannot be ascertained if his house was at this same site. The corner of the vicarage coach house can be seen at the right side of the picture, the building now in use as a funeral parlour and before that by Culverwell's Antiques.