| Description | A bound volume compiled etc. by the churchwardens (with numbered pages, 1-171) comprising correspondence (MS and printed), newspaper cuttings, handbills, printed forms, notices and invitation cards etc. (all pasted in) relating to the resignation of (and later presentation to) Canon Albert Baillie and the Institution of the Rev. C. M. Blagden, 1912-1913 (including a copy of the printed form of service for the Institution and Induction of the latter, 2 Oct 1912); ruri-decanal conferences and elections of lay representatives to the same, 1912-1914; the church choir (suppers and visits), 1913-1914; Vestry meetings (re, inter alia, church accounts, the issue of free sittings and reserved seats etc. in church, Easter Vestry collections, offertories); the departure of the Rev. H. C. Wanstall, curate, 1913; the Society of Change Ringers, 1913; meetings of the Worcester Diocesan House of Laymen, 1913 and 1915; the churchyard (state of turf after levelling, and churchyard footpaths), 1913; various services, including many printed forms of service in connection with Christmas, various Intersessions etc., 1912-1915; Social Gathering of the Parochial Workers' (1914); the death of Richard Over (churchwarden, 1876-1881 and 1876-1897), 1914; presentation to the Rev. C C. Chambers (formerly in charge of St. Andrew's Mission), 1914; Orchestral, Vocal and Organ Recitals, 1914-1915; Archdeacon's visitation, 1914; Parochial Funds, 1914; the Trinity Ordination Service at Rugby (conducted by the Bishop of Worcester), 1914; laying of the foundation stone and dedication of St. Philip's, 1914; soldiers' church parades and prayers in time of war, 1915; and, reversed at end, an inventory of church plate and linen, 1915.
Enclosed: MS "index" (table of contents) to the book (DR0230/76/1-3). |