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•I ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY Numbcr9 January 1996 Incorporating the NEWSLETTER of the ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOCIETY Successor ofthe Cambridge Camden Sociery of 1839 Registered Charity no. 210501 PRESIDENT; D.R. Buttress, MA, Dip.Arch., FSA, ARIBA Surveyor of Wesuninster Abbey IN THIS ISSUE Annual General Meeting and Annual Service Planning Day Records of the Ecclesiological Society Conference 1996 Articles: St. Mark's, Silvertown; The Revd. Dr. John Mason Neale 1818-1866; Dr. Campbell's Visit to London; Peace Which the World Cannot Give For the Bookshelf Details of Summer Visits ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY Number9 January 1996 Incorporating the NEWSLETTER of the ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOCIETY Successor ofthe Cambridge Camden Socie1y of 1839 Reg islered Charity no. 210501 PRESIDENT: D.R. Buttress, MA, Dip.Arch., FSA, ARIBA S11rveyor of Westminster Abbey THE SOCIETY'S OFFICERS SUBSCRIPTIONS CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL: Paul Velluet, B.A., Annual subscriptions were due on lst January. Those _,.. BArch, MLitt, RIBA, 9 Bridge Road, St. Margaret's, still outstanding should be sent as soon as possible to the Twickenham, Middlesex TWl IRE. Hon. Treasurer, Mr. R.L. Cline, 34 Kingstown Street, HON. SECRETARY & EDITOR of "ECCLESIOLOGY London NWl 8JP. The rates are once again unchanged: TODAY": Professor Kenneth H. Muna, BArch, DipArch, £6 for members within 30 miles of central London FRIBA, "Underedge'', Back Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire (reduced to £4 for under-25 and retired members), £4 for S30 lAR. country members (reduced to £3 for under-25 and retired HON. TREASURER: Roger Cline, MA, LLB, 34 members) and £5 for corporate members; overseas rates Kingstown Street, London NWl 8JP. are likewise unchanged. Banker's order and covenant HON. DIRECTOR OF VISITS: Jonathan Fryer, 10 forms may be obtained from tlle Hon. Treasurer on Coronation Road, Sheerness, Kent ME12 2QN. demand. MEMBERS WHO PAY THEIR HON. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: John Henman, 6 SUBSCRIPTION EACH YEAR BY CHEQUE OR Nadir Court, Blake Hall Road, Wanstead, London El 1 POST AL ORDER ARE REQUESTED TO COMPLETE 2QE. AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED FORM WHEN HON. CURATOR: Cecil Chapman, 33 PoUards Hill MAKING PAYMENT. North, Norbury, London SW16 4NJ. HON. ASSISTANT SECRETARY (Correspondence): Kenneth V. Richardson, 3 S yearn ore Close, Court Road, MEMBERSHIP CARDS Mottingham, London SE9 4RD. HON. DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY: Trevor Cooper, A membership card is issued each year to all subscribing BA, MA, MBA, 38 Rosebery Avenue, New Malden, members of the Society. One will be enclosed with t11is Surrey KT3 4JS. Newsleuer if your subscription for 1996 bad been credited CO-OPTED MEMBER: Christopher Webster, School of before posting. Please sign your card on receipt. Arts, Staffordshire University, Flaxman Building, College Road, Stoke on Trent ST4 2XW. THE NEWS IS GOOD FROM THE HON. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE At present 189 members joined the Society in 1995 By kind permission of the Rector and Churchwardens, the making the membership total 614. Society is able to use the Church of St. Andrew-by-the Wardrobe in the City of London as its registered address. However, will members please note tha t ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND correspondence for the attention of the ANNUAL SERVICE Society's officers should NQI. be sent to that address, but should be directed to the officer Arrangements for tllese two important events in Ille concerned with the subject matter. This will Society's calendar will be outlined in Ille programme for normally be as follows. 1996. Full details will be published in April. Meanwhile, members are reminded tl1at, under tl1e Society's Laws, any Membership: John Henman motions for consideration at t11e Annual General Meeting "Ecclesiology Today": Professor Kenneth Murta must be submitted to the Honorary Secretary on or before Other publications: Trevor Cooper 31 st March, for inclusion in the agenda to be printed in All other matters: Kenneth Richardson Ille Newsletter published in April. Matters may be discussed under "any 0U1er business" at an Annual General Their addresses are shown above. Meeting at the discretion of the Chairman. Eligibility for the office of President is limited to members of a stock control, and liaison with the Honorary Treasurer minimum of ten years' standing. Eligibility for office as over payments. Time required - one or two hours per Vice-President is limited to members of a minimum of month. Contact Trevor Cooper. five years' standing. A nomination for the office of Events: Can you arrange an event which might be President or that of Vice-President, accompanied by the included in the Society's future programme? How nominee's consent in writing, must be received by the about a visit to some interesting churches in YOUR Honorary Secretary by 31 st March, and any such area? Contact our Chainnan, Paul Yelluet. nomination must have been endorsed by the Council Secretary ("Clerk to the Council") Can you attend before being put to the Annual General Meeting. Council meetings in central London in the early evening for a couple of hours every two months or so, to take minutes of discussions and record the decisions PLANNING DAY ta.ken? Contact Kenneth Richardson or any other London-based officer. As mentioned in the last issue of "Ecclesiology Today", in November 1995 the Council held a Planning Day to consider the future of the Society. Membership has more THE RECORDS OF THE than quadrupled in the past fifteen years, and the Council ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOCIETY felt that the time was ripe for a more thorough consideration of the future than their agenda nonnally It seems rather ironic that a society, whose members' allow. interests are to a significant extent historical, should have been so unsystematic in preserving its own records. The Council were fortunate in having, at the discussion, Indeed, as a society with an unusually lengthy pedigree the benefit of advice and suggestions from Mrs. Jenny its records are of importance as historical documents in Freeman, a distinguished member of the Society who is their own right, in charting developing attitudes to widely known and respected for her work with English ancient and contemporary ecclesiology. Il is easy to Heritage, the Council for the Care of Churches and · overlook the fact that,· as the discussions of the Society in various other bodies. the 1840s are now frequently quoted in serious historical research, there is no reason for thinking that the Nine issues were identified. Postal discussion prior to the Council's delibera tions in the 1940s will not be ·view.ed Planning Day meant tlrnt the most important and urgent wit11 equal interest in 2095. Yet it is the unfortunate fact of these were identified in advance and looked at in some that for the period before .cl980, the whereabouts of the detail on the day itself. As we expected, no matters were maj ority of the Society's records is unknown to its fully resolved during the day, but there was a useful Council, except for the Council Minute Books for 1884- sharing of views, considerable clarification of the issues, 94 and 1911-35. That is not to say nothing else exists; and a better understanding of the options. Among the indeed, it is almost certain that much else has survived subjects _identified for furt11er detailed discussiO!l. were - either with individual members or in public collections. Library: the future of t11 e Society'.s collections of books, So that the present - and future - Council can be aware of pamphlets, prints, photographs and postcards. Ille scope and extent of its records, I am attempting to Finances: a review to ensure the maintenance of adequate compile a register of documents in public collections, funds to cover future services to members. and, on behalf of the present Council, a collection of any Expertise: how best to utilise the broad range of expertise material tllat members would like to donate, for instance: which the Society possesses through its membership. minutes and agendas of Council meetings; programmes 01 "Ecclesiology Today": how best to develop its lectures and coach trips, etc. production, format and content to reflect members' interests and increasing numbers. In tlle first instance, I will be grateful if members will Services to members: an assessment of members' wishes write to me at tlle address below, listing material tlley are and the extent to which resources to meet them can be prepared to donate or offering information as to tlle provided. whereabouts of more important material Urnt tlley may know of. Each of the matters discussed has now been timetabled into the routine agenda of the Council for consideration Christopher Webster, School of Arts, Staffordshire one at a time over the next year or so. It would therefore University, College Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 2XW be premature to report any particular decisions. But watch this space! ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE, 1996 MORE HELP NEEDED! THE CITY OF LONDON CHURCHES With our continued growt11 more volunteers are urgently Plans for tlle Society's Conference in October 1996 are required to help with t11 e administration of the Society, now well advanced. A provisional programme bas been particularly in the following fields. agreed and, following tlle request for administrative assistance published in tlle autumn Newsletter, the Publications: Can you undertake the distribution of the organisers are pleased to announce tllat our member John Society's publications against orders received? Elliott bas been appointed Conference Administrator. For Working from borne, the job would include simple members who missed tlle last Newsletter, tlle Conference 2 will be held on the weekend of 5th and 6th October, Ulese buff-coloured slabs, and the way Ule fire bas perhaps beginning on the evening of Friday 4th. It will sometimes coloured Ulese and the brickwork has even focus on a range of issues associated with this major enhanced Ule general effect.