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Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to Religion

Local

Bath Record Office

  • Wiltshire and East Somerset Congregational Union Lay Preachers Association: minutes, corresp and membership lists 1930-1972 (1038)

Berkshire Record Office

  • Reading Abbey: formulary c1350 (D/EZ176)

Bristol Record Office

  • Barry Rogerson, Bishop of Bristol: personal papers 1985-2003 (EP)
  • Unidentified clergyman's commonplace book, Winterbourne 18th cent (P.Wi/ChW/9/2)

Cambridgeshire Archives

  • Ely Diocesan Mothers Union: branch records 1919-2009 (R113/041)

Canterbury Cathedral Archives

  • Canterbury French Church: various letters 1579, 1664 (U47)

Carmarthenshire Archive Service

  • St Barbara's Mission, Carmarthen: preacher's book 1913-1948 (Acc 8361)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • Benjamin John Corder, rector of Radnage, scientific researcher: scrapbooks and notes rel to his scientific and parish work 20th cent (AR 18/2013)
  • David Whitton, pastor of Aylesbury Baptist Church: papers incl personal diary and photographs 1893-1933 (D-X 1977)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Giles Chippindall, Anglican curate: diary incl letter with info about the Chippindall family 1812-1823 (D 8503)
  • St Peter parish, Prestbury: registers, accounts and other records c1500-1899 (P 338)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

  • St Clement Danes parish, Westminster: bell maintenance log book with photographs, some rel to bomb damage 1905-2004 (Acc 2752)

Cornwall Record Office

  • Church and community records rel to Brea village, Camborne and Illogan 1699-2013 (AD2280)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow

  • Society of Friends, Swarthmoor: minutes, corresp and accounts 1929-2006 (BDFC/F)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Carill Worsley family of Platt Hall: corresp bet Carill-Worsley and Norman families, religious corresp and rel to Barver money, diaries of Henry Norman, Lady Elizabeth Norman and Elizabeth Carill-Worsley (nee Norman), "memoranda of ancestors" by Henrietta Tindal (1854), pedigrees of Norman family 1744-1907 (D7661)
  • John Hoult Brooksbank, Baptist minister: manuscript histories, articles, notes, transcripts of records and misc historical material collected by Rev JH Brooksbank 18th - 20th cent (D7673)
  • Bernard Newton Miles, Anglican minister: sermon diary 1906-1921 (D7648)
  • Hope parish: vestry minute book, plans of Hope, other papers c1697-1842 (D7605)

Devon Heritage Centre

  • Arthur R Day, churchwarden of Paignton and Royal Artillery gunner: papers rel to work with Paignton Parish Church incl diaries and notebooks c1863-1969 (8562)

Durham County Record Office

  • William Hedley, vicar: papers c1870-1889 (8376)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Henry Michell, vicar: commonplace book 1740s-1770s (ACC 11705)
  • Portland Road Methodist Youth Club, Hove: records 1946-2012 (ACC 11440)

Essex Record Office

  • Ernest Geldart, vicar and architect: photographs, transcripts of his diaries and research notes 1886-1987 (Acc. A13775)
  • St Nicholas parish, Tolleshunt D'Arcy: parish register 1560-1770 (D/P 105/1/27)
  • Bell ringing records incl peal book of Joseph Jennings of Great Barfield 1927-2011 (Acc. A13633)

Flintshire Record Office

  • Albert Griffiths, soldier, policeman and Baptist minister: personal papers, scanned copies of photographs and other papers 1919-1972 (AN4738 & AN4739)

Glamorgan Archives (formerly Glamorgan Record Office)

  • William Benyon, Welsh priest: diary of baptisms officiated by Rev Benyon 1818-1846 (D1040)
  • Beti Rhys, author: personal literary papers, lectures and recollections, travel photographs, diaries and historical notes; miscellaneous literary and historical papers of her father, Rev James Ednyfed Rhys c1850-1983 (D980)

Glasgow City Archives

  • Geoffrey Grogan, theologian: corresp and papers c1970-2011 (TD1895)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Wilbert Vere Awdry, clergyman and author: sermons 1940-1997 (D13090)
  • JA Chatwin & Son, architects, Birmingham: papers concerning church fabric, Deerhurst 1956-1977 (P112)
  • Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation: additional financial records and papers 1838-2003 (D3883)
  • Friends of Deerhurst Church: minutes, corresp and papers 1982-1999 (D13064)
  • Papers of the late Mary Bliss of Beech Pike, Elkstone, local historian rel to church bells 1889-2000 (D13047)

Gwent Archives

  • Unnamed, clergyman: memorandum and account book c1800 (D5908)
  • Grant of Llantarnam Abbey 1556 (D5943)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • John Buckler, topographical artist, architect and antiquary: architectural and perspective drawings of Romsey Abbey, with material by the Rev Richard Cattermole and some later material on the same subject 1803-2013 (10M58)
  • Martin Allen, Coppen, clergyman: notebooks on sermons preached in his training and later ministry 1984-2013 (3A13)
  • SS Hall, catering provider: papers rel to running of the Mitre Catering Establishment and the Methodist Church Canteen, Gosport, incl notebooks recording numbers served, corresp with Ministry of Food, suppliers and others 1941-1943 (81A13)
  • Richard Ernest Payne, clergyman: papers incl corresp while vicar of Hedge End, Southampton St Barnabas and Laverstoke 1828-1989 (115A13)
  • Stanley Sales, of Romsey: photographic collection rel to Romsey Abbey, activities at the site, with records of local societies (Romsey Abbey Drama Group 1955-1964; Sunday School attendance register 1959-1963) c1930-2000 (10M58)
  • Diocesan Maternity Home, Winchester: account of a stay in the home for unmarried mothers (1959) 2013 (151A13)
  • Percy Illingworth Christian Fellowship, Aldershot: records incl minutes and membership records 1936-1953 (113A13)
  • Plastow Green Primitive Methodist Chapel: accounts and trustee minutes 1867-1901 (27A13)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • St Albans and Welwyn Methodist Circuit: corresp rel to Anglican-Methodist Unity 1959-1990 (Acc 5400)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

  • Andrew Marvell, clergyman and father of poet Andrew Marvell: book of sermons c1624-1640 (C DIAM)
  • German Lutheran Church, Hull: minutes, corresp, photographs and other records c1890-2005 (C DCGL)

Huntingdonshire Archives

  • Ely Diocesan Mothers Union: branch records for Gransden, Great Staughton, Fenstanton, Hartford and Great Stukeley 1948-2003 (5633)

Lambeth Archives Department

  • Rev. John Gedge, vicar of Holy Trinity, Lambeth: papers 1939-1957 (IV/209)

Lancashire Archives

  • Broughton Catholic Charitable Society: minutes, accounts, corresp and other papers 1986-2008 (DDX 519)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • John Branston, carpenter and lay preacher: diary recording work as a carpenter in docks and railway wagon works, as well as preaching and temperance tours incl list of places visited 1865 (DE8548)
  • Robert Symons, Rev Canon, Anglican Liturgist: papers incl letters, essays, address book, will c1980-1999 (DE8669)
  • Association of Churches of Christ, Leicester District: records incl District Fellowship of Youth 1860-1990 (DE8619)

Liverpool Record Office

  • Grace Sheppard, wife of David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool: records 1985-2010 (ACC 6601)
  • Nugent Care Archive: records of the Catholic Emigration Society which gives details of Home Children, Father Berries Homes, St George's Industrial School, Bishop Brown Memorial School, Liverpool Boys Refuge, St Anne's Industrial School, The Clarence Reformatory Ship, Birkdale Farm Reformatory School, St Vincent Certified Orphanage/Industrial School, Our Lady's Home for Homeless Babies and Leyfield School c1800-1999 (364 NUG)
  • St Francis of Assisi School, Liverpool: minutes, punishment book, admission and withdrawal registers 1883-2008 (352 EDU/1/179)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Saint John The Baptist, Eltham: registers, minutes, financial records, estate papers, tithe map and apportionments, poor rate and overseers books, accounts, deeds, and log books 1509-2011 (B13/186)

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

  • Edward Vesey Bligh, diplomat, vicar of Birling: scrapbook c1866-1892 (DE1243)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Congham parish: registers, churchwardens' accounts, tithe rent charge accounts, and tithe map and apportionment 1581-2011 (PD 725)
  • Grimston parish: registers, enclosure award with maps, overseers of the poor disbursement accounts and other records 1552-2011 (PD 687)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

  • Grimsby Catenians: minutes (25/07/13--19)

North Lanarkshire Archives

  • Coatbridge Sabbath School Union: minute book, cash book 1908-1964 (ACC/0100N)

Northamptonshire Record Office

  • Nellie Cave, member of Moravian Church, Woodford Halse: papers incl presentation book from members of church (church members listed inside), certificate, photographs c1930-1979 (2013/75)
  • Hope Methodist Church, Rushden: minutes, accounts, collection ledgers, administrative papers, registers, Sunday School registers c1900-2012 (2013/114)
  • Preston Rural Deanery: minute book of Ruridecanal conference 1916-1969 (2013/44)
  • Steeple Claydon Methodist Chapel: minutes, accounts, collection journal, notices books, Sunday School registers, Youth Club meetings, drawings and receipts for renovations, corresp 1886-2012 (2013/104)

Northumberland Archives

  • Rev George Gordon, Cleric of Mitford, Northumberland: corresp to his son, Robert Gordon (1716-1812) 1740-1752 (NRO 10039)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Wilfred L Archer, vicar: journals 1963-1972 (8458)
  • Convent of St Laurence, Southwell: records 1870-2006 (8456)
  • Southwell and Nottingham Diocese: records incl minutes and Trust files c1812-2007 (8377)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Bix Parish: additional records incl churchwardens' and overseers' accounts, school managers' minutes, ledgers and copy of tithe award 1795-1966 (Acc 6194)
  • Blackbourton parish: records incl minutes and registers 1542-1996 (PAR34)
  • Ewelme parish: notebooks rel to church property, charities and antiquarian notes, with minutes of the Joint Association in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel c1785-1923 (Acc 6188)
  • Nuffield parish: registers with accounts 1570-2011 (PAR186)

Pembrokeshire Archives

  • Community of St David: minutes, corresp and other papers 1959-2001 (HDX/1882)

Powys County Archives Office

  • Welshpool Free Church Council: minutes 1898-1944 (M/NC/G/1)

Somerset Heritage Centre

  • Thomas Poole, Friend of ST Coleridge: book of common prayer 1788 (A\BPP)
  • Bath and Wells Diocesan Choral Association: festival service books 1911-1975 (A\DQT)
  • Church Patronage Trust: deeds rel to Somerset 1800-1899 (A\DUI)
  • Yatton vicarage survey and valuation 1798-1799 (A\DHN)

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

  • Churches Together in Clare and Cavendish: minutes 1972-2000 (GC737)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • Richard Abbay, Rector of Earl Soham, Canon, naturalist: scrapbook early 20th cent (HD3053)

Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft Branch

  • Francis Rochfort Bonsey, Canon of Wrentham: personal papers, incl diaries and corresp 1919-1952 (2225)

Surrey History Centre

  • Fleetwood Parkhurst, vicar of Epsom: corresp incl material rel to Epsom tithes and sale of Epsom Court 1822-1938 (9176)
  • Dennis Turner, local historian of Reigate: additional papers incl material rel to Southwark Diocesan Advisory Committee, Reigate Priory, Reigate Society, Merton Priory Trust, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, Reigate Health Management, Surrey Historic Buildings Trust, Horley Master Plan, the Surrey Society, Surrey Gardens Trust, Merton Borough Conservation Areas Advisory Committee, Beddington, Carshalton and Wallington Archaeological Society and Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty c1980-2010 (8984)
  • Churches Together in Oxted and District: additional minutes and papers 1985-2011 (9261)
  • Guildford Diocese: Diocesan Registry records incl faculties, clergy files, corresp, marriage affidavits, sequestration and visitation papers 1823-1996 (9274)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • St Benedict Roman Catholic parish, Atherstone: accounts and corresp rel to St Scholastica's Convent 1858-1979 (CR4615)

West Sussex Record Office

  • William Perry Crawley, vicar of Walberton, Firle and Chichester: diaries, incl transcripts, index and notes 1879-1907 (Acc 17312)
  • Clifford Pinhey, organist, Boxgrove Priory: papers 20th cent (Acc 17200)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Wintour family of Barnsley: letters from Reverend Fitzgerald Thomas Wintour to his daughters Tots and Isabel, photographs and other records 1871-1969 (WYK1703)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

  • Brighouse and Elland Deanery: minutes and records 1970-2005 (WD259)
  • Wakefield Diocese Drama Committee: minutes, corresp and other records c1960-1999 (WYW1806)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Mothers' Union, Redlynch and Morgan's Vale: minutes, accounts, registers and papers 1952-2011 (2196)
  • Mothers' Union, Keevil: minutes, accounts and papers 1902-2012 (2662)

Wirral Archives Service

  • Wallasey Boys and Girls Religious Service Association: minutes 1915-1932 (2061)

National

English Heritage Archive

  • Christopher Dalton, photographer: photographs, primarily of English churches c1960-2008 (CJD01)

Island Archives, Guernsey

  • Castel Methodist Church (Deslisles): minutes, accounts, registers and papers 1800-1999 (AQ 1353-57)

Jersey Archive

  • Extract from the Ecclesiastical Court rel to schools and scholarships in Jersey 1497 (JA/2264)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Joseph Moffett, minister of Crown Court Church of Scotland, Covent Garden: papers 1867-1980 (Acc.13467)
  • James Sutherland, missionary in Nyasaland: journal 1880-1885 (Acc.13411)

Special

Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives

  • St Peter Roman Catholic parish, Leamington Spa: papers incl registers and records of St Peter's School 1840-1995 (P194)
  • St Augustine of England Roman Catholic parish, Solihull: registers, church notice books and misc papers. Also incl Solihull Roman Catholic School records 1657-1987 (P249)
  • St Philip Neri Roman Catholic parish, Smethwick: papers, incl registers and parish account books 1863-1995 (P248)

Bishopsgate Institute

  • Campaigners: papers, programmes and ephemera 1942-1947 (LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/330)

Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

  • William Alfred Leake, missionary: corresp, mission diaries and reports rel to work among the Mataco and Toba tribes of northern Argentina 1927-1967 (Acc 2013/59)

Chetham's Library

  • John Clowes, Swedenborgian: corresp, manuscript sermons, notes and reports 1769-1829 (Clowes)

Douai Abbey

  • Order of Preachers, English Dominican Province: records 17th-20th cent

Lambeth Palace Library

  • Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC): numbered papers 1967-1981 (ARCIC)
  • Guild of St Barnabas, Association of Anglican Nurses: records 1887-2012 (GSB)

Representative Church Body Library

  • Arthur Joseph Hill Trevor Benson, Rector of Stradbally, Co. Limerick (Church of Ireland): corresp and papers mainly rel to pamphlet, 'The Pope's Bull on Anglican Orders' 1886-1903 (MS 968)
  • Cashel Cathedral (Church of Ireland): chapter books 1759-1995 (C8 Addl)
  • Church of Ireland Clergy Refresher Course: minutes, accounts, programmes, corresp and photographs 1935-1967 (MS 964)
  • Coleraine Clerical Society: minute books and roll of members 1894-1942 (MS 960)
  • Dublin Parochial Association: account books and papers 1921-1989 (MS 129 Addl)

University

Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York

  • Thomas Hugh, priest: papers c1952-2006 (Mirfield)
  • Andrew Norton, priest: papers c1952-2006 (Mirfield)
  • Timothy Stanton, priest: papers c1952-2006 (Mirfield)
  • Crayke Parish: records c1794-1986 (PR CRA)
  • York Diocesan Mothers' Union: papers 1909-2008 (YDMU)

Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

  • George Arthur Clarkson, vicar, diarist: diary 1840-1897 (MS Add. 10037)
  • William Otter, Bishop of Chichester: corresp on diocesan and Church matters 1836-1840 (MS Add. 10039)
  • John Robert Towers, clergyman and Egyptologist: corresp and papers c1936-1961 (MS Towers)

Cambridge University: Selwyn College Archives

  • Moore Richard Neligan, Bishop of Auckland and Rector of Ford: lantern slides rel to time in Auckland c1903-1910 (SEPH/8/8)

Cambridge University: Trinity College Library

  • Henry Venn Elliott, clergyman, traveller and author: transcripts of letters sent during tour of Europe, transcripts of letters from India, and notes from sermons c1817-1859 (2013/6)

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

  • Scottish Episcopal, Brechin Diocese: additional records incl bundle of letters of Bishop Forbes 19th cent c1860-2010 (2013/609)

Durham University Library, Special Collections

  • Peter Brophy, professor, editor in chief of "Singing the Faith" Methodist hymn book: personal papers rel to the creation and preparation of the Methodist hymn and song book "Singing the Faith", published by Hymns Ancient & Modern in September 2011 2008-2013 (PRA MS 21)

Glasgow University Archive Services

  • Murdo Ewen Macdonald, Church of Scotland minister and theologian: papers 20th cent (ACCN 3794)

Leeds University Library, Special Collections

  • Bradford Society of Friends: minutes, files, ledgers and other records 1976-2003 (SPCOLL/2013/88)

London University: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

  • John Graham, minister and missionary: personal papers, photographs and artefacts collated during Graham's work for the China Inland Mission 1900s (CIM)
  • Gertrude Hughes, medical missionary: papers, corresp and reports rel to missionary work in China and South India 1960s (MS 381194)
  • Lloyd Isaac Johnstone, doctor and missionary with the China Inland Mission: diaries 1926-1982 (CIM)
  • Denys John Saunders, missionary in South India: filmstrips, film scripts, travel and personal diaries c1940-2009 (MS 381193)
  • Frederick Maltus Smith, missionary with the London Missionary Society: papers rel to missionary work in South India c1920-1959 (MS 381184)
  • Merfyn Temple, missionary and writer on Africa: papers, corresp, photographs and articles 1946-2011 (PP MS 90)
  • Jessie Watson, missionary: personal papers, photographs, notebooks and slides c1940-1989 (MS 381187)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts

  • Luttrell Wynne, rector of St Erne: notebook travelling from Harlem to Antwerp incl material rel to business 1770 (Acc 7782)

Oxford University: Regent's Park College, Angus Library and Archive

  • Richard Hall, hosier, Particular Baptist: commonplace book 1794 (Acc 370)
  • Baptist Music Society: central minutes, South Wales branch records, choir records for Haven Green Chapel, Ealing 1948-2001 (Acc 362)

Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive

  • David Colin Dunlop, churchman: images of Iraq (61) during his service at the Baghdad chaplaincy, with a copy of the report 'The Assyrian Christians. Report on the events of July and August 1933' c1900-1939 (0579)

Sheffield University Library

  • Alfred Plummer, theologian: travel diaries in Germany (1869-1889) and in England (1916-1919) 1869-1919 (MS 437)

University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  • Ernest Walter Francis, clergyman and missionary: papers and corresp rel to time in Burma 1933-2008 (MS837)
  • John Preston Maxwell, medical missionary: research papers, incl papers rel to medical conditions and the history of medicine in China 1901-1967 (MS862)
  • Thomas Ragg, poet and preacher: manuscript for part of Ragg's autobiographical poem, 'The Deity: A Poem in Twelve Books' c1833 (MS861)

University of Southampton Library

  • Thomas Bartlett, rector of Swanage: volume of psalms (c80) set to music (MS 366)