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1. I am looking for the following items: Contact – Gregory Moore Email: [email protected] a) green frontal and green vestments, for my church, and b) a large religious statue, 3-4’ high, BVM/any saint, for personal use.
They’ll be going to very good homes!
2. Pew cushions, in good condition, in or around the Contact – Frank Reynolds West Country Email: [email protected]
3. We have changed our hymnbook use pattern and Contact – Revd Dr Chrichton Limbert, are regularly running out of Hymns Ancient and Assistant Curate. Modern New Standard (1983) words only edition. All Saints, Leighton Buzzard. We are ideally looking for a minimum of 50. We 138 Brooklands Drive, would be happy to have the Melody Edition instead. Leighton Buzzard, LU7 3PG Tel: 01525 384 453 Email: [email protected]
4. A virge/verger’s wand for processional use by Contact – Eleanor Stoneham verger – traditionally polished brass head (eg mitre or Email: [email protected] celtic cross) on oak stem, but any design considered. Could adapt churchwardens full length wand
5. We are looking either to replace 350 NIV Church Contact – St John’s Church Office Edition Bibles, or to top up our current Bibles with 71 Leigh Road around 50 further copies (in good condition) of the Wimborne 1980/1987 – Tenth impression NIV Church Edition Dorset ISBN 0 564 05253 1. BH21 1AE Tel: 01202 842 255 Pagination has changed since that edition, hence the Email: [email protected] either/or option!
6. For St Mary the Virgin, North Stoke (CCT) a pair Contact – Janet Aidin of oldish wooden candleholders – the kind that The Old Rectory might go on a high altar between services. Nothing Wigginholt fancy. Pulborough RH20 2EL Tel: 01798 872 531 Email [email protected] 7. A statue of St Andrew, at least 12” high. Any Contact – Father Martin McGonigle material considered, but preferably not plain wood The Vicarage 184 Chase Side Southgate London N14 5HN Tel: 0208 886 7523 Email: [email protected]
8. A rose-pink chasuble & cope Contact – Revd Stephen Wales Tel: 01326 378 638 Email: [email protected]
9. For St. Margaret’s Parish Church, Queens Road, Contact – David Chary Ilkley LS29 9QL, is seeking Tel: 07889 754 001 Email: a) a period vestment press suitable to be included [email protected] within our Norman Shaw church b) 40 second hand copies of The New English Hymnal, Melody Edition, Canterbury Press ISBN 1 85311 097 3, revised page layout July 1994, urgently required by our increasingly busy junior choir
10. For St John’s Church Contact – Revd Mark Osborne St John’s Church a) A large Triptych in any condition, preferably on North End Road the Eucharistic miracles of St John Fulham b) A Vergers wand SW6 1PB Tel: 0207 385 7634 Email: [email protected]
11. Our brass processional cross is proving too heavy Contact – Revd Mandy MacVean for our elderly MC. Does anyone have a wooden Effingham with Little Bookham, processional cross we may have, please? Guildford Diocese. Email: [email protected] We are also looking for two pairs of wooden candle sticks. We are hoping to leave our two churches open and do not want to leave brass candle sticks on display.
12. For St Mary Magdalene church at Madingley, Contact – Colonel Henry Day Cambridge, a vestment chest. Please note, we are 14 Conduit Head Road somewhat circumscribed for space. Cambridge CB3 0EY Tel/fax: (++44) (0) 1223 314 543 Email: [email protected] 13. For a small church in Norwich, ten benches, Contact – Dr F J S Haddadin approx. 2.5m long. Tel: 07894 161 240 Email: [email protected]
14. Outdoor statue of Mary with the Child Jesus, Contact – Canon Liam O’Driscoll approx. 3’ high, for the front of a College The Presbytery 2 Wingfield Road Trowbridge BA14 9NE Email: [email protected]
15. Our parish choir are looking for approx. six full- Contact – Peter Dixon music copies of the English Hymnal (not the New 18 Carlisle Road English Hymnal version), as we are starting to sing Hampton the plainsong version of J M Neale’s office hymns TW12 2UL Tel: 07980 225 945 Email: [email protected]
16. We are looking for Contact – Debbie Young St Michael the Archangel a) a statue of St Michael the Archangel for our Church Hill mediaeval church. Any height, style and dimensions Old Hawkinge considered. Any other unwanted statues of Our Kent Lady, Jesus or Saints would also find a grateful home CT18 7SG with us Tel: 07976 924 845 b) a very small redundant chancel or rood screen/church dividing screen to partition an open plan area within our church, about 8’ across ideally, height can be variable
17. Large or small quantities of church pews, any Contact – Louisa Rowell style or wood, in Hampshire, Dorset and Devon area North Lodge Hurn Road Matchams BH24 2BU Tel: 07759 146 909 Email: [email protected]
18. A good quality statue of St Stephen the First Contact – Father Mark Lyon Martyr, standing between 3’ and 4’ high, required for Email: [email protected] a Grade 1 Listed church
19. 50 x used Darenth chapel chairs (or similar) Contact – Stuart Taylor with single book rack to rear. Can consider and Email: [email protected] collect smaller numbers if suitable. Please feel free to send photos if interested.
Typical dimensions: H: 83cm; D: 46cm: W:37cm; seat height: 44cm
20. We are looking for Contact – Revd Paul S Williamson The Rectory a) Sanctuary lamp & bracket 7 Blakewood Close b) Sanctuary stalls & benches for servers etc, in Hanworth med-dark oak Feltham c) med-dark oak modern chairs for Chapel Middlesex d) canopied shrine & bracket for statue i) 3’ TW13 7NL & ii) 18” Tel: 0208 844 0457 e) Dark oak screen, 12”, for Chapel f) Bishops Chair in dark oak
21. We are looking for a Sanctuary Lamp (wall Contact – Revd Patrick Taylor, mounted). We are restoring a side chapel and putting Holy Trinity Church Parish office, back into use an aumbry with a beautiful 1920’s Old Town, “Arts and Crafts” brass door. A sanctuary lamp (in Stratford upon Avon, brass to match preferably), is needed to hang over the Warwickshire, aumbry so that a 7 day candle can be kept lit in it. CV37 6BG Tel: 01789 266 316. Email: [email protected]
22. St Michael & All Angels, Brooksby, LE14 2NH Contact – Malcolm Britton are seeking 2 Churchwardens' staves. Tel: 01664 434490 Email: [email protected]
23. At present the former Garrison Church of St Contact – Canon Julie Ramsbottom Eligius, Arborfield is transferring into the parochial Tel: 0118 973 2102 system and needs a number of items that have moved Email: [email protected] with the army to Reme's new base at Lyneham. They include: a) a ciborium b) a set of chasubles - all liturgical colours c) a wooden processional cross (suitable for a young teenager to process with) d) (and potentially) an organ
24. We are a cold church and are wondering if a Contact – Jacqueline Dow church is getting rid of their pews then we may be All Saints Church able to have their pew cushions … thick ones please. c/o All Saints Centre New Road We have 3 sizes of pews: Hackbridge Mitcham 34 pews are 4 feet 6 inches by 1 foot CR4 4JN 8 pews are 6 feet by 1 foot 2 inches 2 pews are 1 foot 6 inches by 10 inches 25. For St Faiths Chapel, St Pauls Cathedral, a Contact – Lord Lingfield painting of St. Martin of Tours, to whom the chapel President of the Imperial Society of is now dedicated. We are looking for a painting Knights Bachelor slightly smaller than 4ft .square. Email: [email protected]
26. St Peter’s, West Lynn, would very much like to Contact – Revd. Andrew J Davey have a set of small Stations of the Cross, wood or The Rectory resin, plain or painted, but not too modern, and at Clenchwarton little or no cost. King's Lynn Norfolk PE34 4DT. Tel: 01553 772 089
27. We are renovating a former coaching inn in Contact – Mark Rothery Bramham near Wetherby, and are looking for the Rothstone following items. White Horse House 4 Tenter Hill 1) Oak hymn board Bramham 2) Any 19th C or earlier oak furniture West Yorkshire 3) Ornate oak pew LS23 6QZ 4) Brass eagle lectern Tel: 07979 530 459 Email: [email protected]
28. Until just after the Second World War a church, Contact – Timothy Jones St Mary, of c.1880 stood on Grosvenor Hill W1. It Associate Director, London Estate was then demolished and no trace remains. Grosvenor Britain & Ireland The Estate would like to commemorate the church Tel: 0207 312 6381 and also provide an interesting incident in the Mobile: 07471 953 815 townscape. To this end I am looking for a bell, which Email: [email protected] needs a home and could live out in the open. We would inscribe the bell with a short text on the history of the church. It would be desirable but not essential if the bell could be contemporary with the church.