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DocRefNoDR0230/77
LevelItem
TitleChurchwardens' scrap book
Date1915-1921
DescriptionIncluding correspondence, cuttings and papers etc. (as in DR0230/76) relating to Vestry meetings, ruri-decanal conferences and elections, services, sermons and proclamations, meetings of the Diocesan House of Laymen, Bishop's Company etc., Organ recitals, Parish Funds, etc., (of the sort in DR0230/76); newspaper cuttings and papers etc. re the subject of pew-rents and the appropriation of church sittings etc., appropriated/reserved seats at Rugby and the question of free sittings (q.v. vestry and ruri-decanal conferences' meetings also); cuttings re alterations and additions to the church organ including a historical sketch and printed specification of the same (1915); printed leaflets relating to the Warwickshire Evangelistic Council National Mission (1916); papers and cuttings etc. re the death of Mr. G. H. Hidden, organist and choirmaster (1918); the funeral of Mrs. C. M. Blagden (incl. related MS minutes of a meeting of sidesmen), 1918; the signing of the Armistice and the local celebrations (cutting), 1918; income of the clergy and the War Memorial Committee and the proposed church crucifix, 1919-1920; MS minutes of a meeting of seatholders of St. Andrew's and Holy Trinity Churches (1919); and a newspaper cutting re a paper given to the Rugby Historical Society by G. E. Over on the history of Rugby's Churches (25 Mar 1921, in The Advertiser) with extracts and other related cuttings re the history of the Church and its rectors (and re the Over family and its tradition of serving offices of the church from 1827), 1921.
Enclosed: MS Statement of Accounts relating to the completion of St. Andrew's parish church, 1897(DR0230/77/1); printed Order of Service at the dedication of the Lych Gate War Memorial, 23 June 1921(DR0230/77/2); printed booklet entitled Holy Trinity Church Rugby, reprinted from the Rainbow Bazaar Souvenir Programme (13-14 Oct 1921), comprising a concise history of the ecclesiastical parish of Rugby and its Churches dealing, in special detail (pp. 9-19), with Holy Trinity Church (with photographs) and with a short piece (pp. 20-23) on the Rev. John Moultrie, 1921. 24 pp.( DR0230/77/3).
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CodeSet
NA730/Holy Trinity/Rugby/Warwickshire
NA729/St Andrew/Rugby/Warwickshire
NA749/Rugby/Warwickshire
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