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Bulletin 186
April 22, 2017
…the presence of 23 founder members and 78 guests. The club captain, Worshipful Brother Angliss, became first Master, and Worshipful Brother Drew was the first treasurer. Their names, together with…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…new churches in the Regency period, for this was to be a house of Christian worship, and a Nonconformist one at that. Not for him were the massive colonnaded porticos…
Bulletin 161
April 22, 2017
…name, such as Mars Camulos recorded in an inscription at Southwark. There is little evidence of Christian worship outside of the towns. Burial rites also changed over the centuries. There…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 2 by Eric Montague On the map of the new London Borough of Merton, produced after the reorganisation of London Government in 1965, North Mitcham Ward was shown…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…be a Moral Man …2 It was customary for Puritans to wear their hats at worship and Sadler’s sharp reaction to Sir William Green’s apparent assertion of dissent is not…
07 The Upper or Fair Green, Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…cardboard. A more complete history of Zion Chapel, which became a well- patronised and much loved place of worship during the mid-19th century, with a reputation far beyond the parish…
The Life of James Lackington, Bookseller, 1746-1815
April 14, 2017
…can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.” should some way or other do me a mischief. But I But in this, as in many other places of worship,…
Bulletin 214
June 26, 2020
…of worshipping Huguenots initiated the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). There were numerous peace treaties during the period, but in 1572 the bridegroom of a prominent Huguenot-Catholic wedding was shot,…
Bulletin 152
April 22, 2017
…round. The same striped carpet is on the floor, so that worshippers can range themselves tidily. The mihrab, a simply decorated niche, indicates the direction of Mecca. Off the vestibules…
Bulletin 220
December 30, 2021
…antiquarian. 3 Original watercolour held by Merton Local Studies Centre. 4 See https://photoarchive.merton.gov.uk/collections/buildings/34443-abbey-house-merton?; and /34828-liberty-print-works-rear-view-of-a-house-on-themerton- site?; /34825-liberty-print-works-demolition-of-a-house-on-near-the-site?; /34830-liberty-print-works-colliers-wood-a-norman-arch-found-near-thesite?; /34824-liberty-print-works-demolition-of-a-house-near-the-site?; /30710-norman-arch-merton-abbey?; https://photoarchive.merton.gov.uk/collections/ places-of-worship/30180-norman-archway-found-when-demolishing-libertys-print-works?; Chapel see Miller & Saxby 5 Johnston, p.137…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
edited by Judith Goodman This publication is concerned with two families who, for several decades in the 18th and 19th centuries, were important in the industrial north-east of the historic…
Bulletin 127
April 22, 2017
…worship and the sacred mystery of the Church, made a great impression on many undergraduates of the time. Richard Simpson was much influenced whilst at Oxford by the High Church…
Bulletin 139
April 22, 2017
…Wandsworth in 1573, required enlargement in 1603. Whereas freedom of worship was assured, burials initially had to take place in the parish churchyard. When this was closed to further interments…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
by W J Rudd William John (‘Bill’) Rudd was born in Brixton, south London, in 1925. But in 1930, when he was five, the family moved to Morden (now in…
Bulletin 222
October 3, 2022
…historians and business leaders. The Trust offers support, advice and funding to Christian places of worship of all denominations. Funding is mostly a matter of providing grants for repairs, maintenance…
Bulletin 154
April 22, 2017
…have been required for a community of about 30 canons. Processions were a form of worship with singing of joyful hymns and psalms to show respect to the Almighty. They…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…Green.1 The annual crowning of the May Queen, shorn of its primitive undertones of nature worship and fertility symbolism – it is, in reality, an aspect of the old pagan…
Bulletin 184
April 22, 2017
…that worshipful guild. A second donation of his in 1850, enabled them to build a new range of these comfortablelodgings, in which altogether thirteen aged men and women enjoy a…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…in the countryside. There were changes in religious practice as reformers introduced new forms of worship and new understandings of doctrine. But there was continuity as well. The demands of…