ACHS Annual Trip

The visit this year will be to the Berkshire/Buckinghamshire area and as already announced will be on Saturday 19th July. We are leaving King’s Cross at 9.30 a.m. Pick up is to be in York Way, to the eastern side of Kings Cross Station.
Note that this is a different place from earlier years and is designed for easier access and for easier egress from London. It is essential that we leave on time.

We shall be visiting two interesting churches, All Saints, Ascot Heath, and also the well known All Saints, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead. Arrangements have now also been made via an enthusiastic and knowledgeable resident to gain entry to Nashdom, the stunning Lutyens house which formerly housed the Anglican Benedictine community in order to see both part of the interior (which is now in flats) and to visit the cemetery, where major figures such as Gregory Dix are buried. Finally, we are privileged to be able to visit the Sisters of the Society of the Precious Blood at Burnham Abbey. Neither Nashdom nor Burnham Abbey are normally available for private individual visits so this is a great opportunity.

The cost of the trip is £25.00 and bookings should be sent to George Skelly at 24, Cloudesley Square, London N1 0HN with cheques made out to the Society, using the form below which can be printed out


To: George Skelly, Treasurer, ACHS, 24 Cloudesley Square, London, N1 0HN
Telephone 020 7833 1555, mobile 07891 032653

From…………………………………………………………………………
Address……………………………………………………………………..
Telephone…………………………………………………………………..
Please reserve me seats on the coach for 19th July 2008.
Society
Enclosed cheque P/O for for £ made payable to the Anglo-Catholic History

All Saints, Carshalton, Surrey

I rang in a peal here last Saturday and managed to get some photos of the vestments on display. I have never seen so many black copes in a church, with four in evidence. There was also a new blue fiddleback High Mass set on display, a pink chasuble and a monkey in a biretta! All of these were set amongst the gorgeous Comper furnishings. The parish has undergone something of a revival recently after eighty or so pretty miserable years and a great deal of credit is due to the incumbent and churchwardens for turning things around. In the first half of the twentieth century it was one of the most Papalist parishes in the country, although this was later moderated into a much more restrained Prayer Book Catholic style, a tradition that still continues.

You can click on the title of this post to reach the church's website.

Scenes from the AGM

The AGM has been and gone

The AGM of the Anglo-Catholic History Society took place last Monday as advertised. Like all good business meetings it was short and to the point, which allowed members plenty of time to enjoy the lecture by Dr Peter Webster on Anglo-Catholicism and the Arts. This dealt with the three related fields of music, drama and visual art, and I hope we will be able to read the paper before too long.