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Major accessions to repositories in 2005 relating to Religion

Local

Aberdeen City Archives

  • David Cruden, minister of Nigg: account book (DD5)
  • St Margaret's Convent, Aberdeen: chapel diary, guest books, accounts, papers and photographs (DD1034)

Barnsley Archive and Local Studies Department

  • Thomas William Happs, Methodist Preacher: preaching records and biography (A/3097/F)

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

  • Biggleswade Deanery: synod minutes (AB/RD/BG)

Birmingham City Archives

  • Laurence Ambrose Brown, Bishop of Birmingham: papers relating to him (MS 2568)
  • Birmingham Diocese: additional records of Birmingham Diocesan Registry (Acc2005/078-79)
  • Selly Oak Council of Churches: records (Acc2005/165)

Bristol Record Office

  • Grace family of Bristol: commonplace book of John and Josiah Grace (Quakers) (42993)
  • Bristol City Missionary Society: records (42864)
  • Bristol Christian Men's Conference: records (EP/BCMC)
  • Stapleton Deanery: minutes (EP)

Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Cambridge

  • Cambridgeshire Baptist Association: minutes, attendance books, corresp and papers (R105/050)

Canterbury Cathedral Archives

  • Derek Ingram Hill, canon of Canterbury Cathedral: notebooks and writings (U471)
  • Bilsington priory: charters, incl some post-Reformation (U472)
  • Videos of visits by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury (U80/37-39)
  • Bifolium from a gospel lectionary produced in German (AddMs-128/72)

Carmarthenshire Archive Service

  • Bevan Jones, Minister of the Welsh Congregational Chapel: diaries (Acc 7797)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • Buckingham Archdeaconry: additional records incl visitation forms and quinquennial deanery reports

Centre for Kentish Studies

  • James Cairns, rector of Chevening: accounts and bills (U3729)
  • Clifford Jesse Offer, honourary canon of Rochester: personal and official papers incl diaries and civil defence corresp (Acc7093)

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

  • Churches Together in the City Centre of Chester: minutes, reports, corresp (D 7023)

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters

  • Keswick ministries' annual bible convention: minutes and corresp (DSO 250)
  • scrapbook of Miss A A Marrs, evangelical speaker, rel to Christian evangelical work in Carlisle (DX 416)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Bakewell and Eyam Rural Deanery: additional minutes (D2520)
  • Chesterfield Methodist Youth Council: minutes (D6506)
  • Chesterfield Free Church Federal Council: minutes (D6509)
  • Chesterfield Christian Endeavour Union: youth section minutes (D6507)
  • Derby diocese: Bishop's administrative files (D6460)
  • Derby diocese: Archdeacon of Derby's administrative files (D6459)
  • East Midlands Baptist Association: additional records (D2660)
  • Repton Rural Deanery: additional minutes and papers (D2578)

Devon Record Office

  • Bernard Susser, Rabbi, London: papers rel to Exeter and Plymouth Hebrew congregations and associated records (6723-0)
  • Exeter Diocese: registry volumes, files and papers (6610-0)
  • Torre Abbey: cartulary (microfilm) (6690-0)
  • United Brethren of Devon and Cornwall: Exeter assembly: minutes, accounts and papers (3542-1)

Dorset History Centre

  • Owen Frederick Morshead, soldier and librarian: corresp rel to Dorset Historic Churches Trust (D.1771)
  • Thomas Rackett, Rector of Spetisbury and Antiquary: corresp (D/RAC)
  • Churches Together in Weymouth: minutes and papers (D1976)

Durham County Record Office

  • Durham Church Relations Group: minutes (D/X 1506)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives Service

  • James Stillingfleet, clergyman: papers incl diaries and corresp (DDX1041)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Sussex Baptist Association: minutes and annual reports (ACC 9194)

Essex Record Office

  • Charles Miller, vicar of Harlow: bonds and receipts (D/DU 2242)
  • Billericay Christian Council (Churches Together in Billericay): school ministry accounts (D/Z 393 addl)
  • Chafford Rural Deanery: minutes 1879-95, 1905-48 (D/E 17)
  • Chelmsford Diocese: faculty papers 1970-2004 and papers of Canon SJ Burling (D/C)
  • Havering Deanery: minutes of house of clergy meetings (D/E 18)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Anthony Fewster, miller: journal with accounts of Nailsworth Bible Society (D1548)
  • Sarum Partnership, architects, Winchester and Salisbury: records of quinquennial inspections of churches in the diocese of Gloucester (D10168)

Guildhall Library

  • Graham Leonard, Bishop of London: papers (Acc 2005/47)
  • Robert Wright Stopford, Bishop of London: papers (Acc 2005/41)
  • London Diocese: papers rel to redundant churches (Acc 2005/019)
  • St Paul's Cathedral Dean and Chapter: misc accounts (Acc 2005/010)

Hampshire Record Office

  • Alfred Edward Daldy, archdeacon of Winchester, master of St Cross Hospital: papers, incl texts of addresses and sermons (40A05)
  • Unpublished research material of JS Drew, incl translation of custumal of St Swithun's Priory, Winchester and unfinished study of medieval Latin agricultural terms (116A05)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Hertfordshire Union of Baptist and Congregationalist Churches: minute book (Acc 4161)
  • St Albans Diocese: further records (DAcc 1110)

Highland Council Archives

  • Free Church of Scotland: Act of Separation and Deed of Demission executed at the General Assembly (D1044)

Isle of Wight Record Office

  • National Christian Education Council (formerly Sunday School Union): Isle of Wight: records incl minutes, annual reports, exam results (ac2005/65)

Lancashire Record Office

  • National Christian Education Council (formerly Sunday School Union): Accrington and District: minutes (DDX 1862 acc 9469)
  • St Michael Licensed Mission, Belthorn: minutes of church meetings (PR 3068 acc 9788)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Norman S Angus of Melton Mowbray, Leicester Diocesan Reader: sermons (DE6880)
  • David James Vaughan, vicar of St Martin's, Leicester: sermons (DE6847)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Peter Briggens, quaker: additional diary (ACC/1017/0002A)
  • Albert Hoschander Friedlander, Rabbi: additional corresp, articles, sermons and conference papers (LMA/4071)
  • Harold Frederic Reinhart, Rabbi founder of the Westminster Synagogue: records incl corresp (LMA/4071/02/01)
  • Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth: additional administration subject files (ACC/2805)
  • Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth: additional Chief Rabbinate Council minutes, corresp rel to Chief Rabbinate Fund, notes, agendas (ACC/2805/01)
  • Southwark Diocese: additional papers incl corresp, and records of Consistory Court hearings, petitions, elections, ordinations, marriage licences and visitations (DS)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Stanley Booth-Clibborn, Bishop of Manchester: papers (M289/addnl)
  • Manchester Diocesan Committee for Deaconesses: minutes (M39/addnl/775)

Merseyside Record Office

  • London Missionary Society: Women's Auxiliary of Liverpool, Birkenhead and Wirral: minute books (M287 LMS)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Elizabeth Blomfield of Wymondham: diary as member of the congregational church (ACC 2004/298)
  • Methodist Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association, Diss Circuit Branch: minutes 1905-98, with minutes of the council of Botesdale Methodist Church 1989-99 (ACC 2005/230)
  • Norfolk Archdeaconry: survey and valuation (ACC 2005/257)
  • Norfolk and Suffolk Church Choral Association: minute book (SO 244)
  • Norwich Diocese: files rel to deceased clergy (ACC 2004/251)
  • Norwich Cathedral Dean and Chapter: further records, incl diaries and papers of Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818-97), Dean of Norwich (ACC 2005/271)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Nottingham Catenian Circle: minutes and misc papers (Acc 6923-6924)

Oldham Local Studies & Archives

  • Oldham Clergy Society: minutes, syllabus cards, receipts and payments (2005-133)
  • Oldham and District Sunday School Union: minutes (2005-276)

Oxfordshire Record Office

  • Thomas Shaw-Hellier, clergyman, Oxford: records (Acc. 5392)
  • Oxford archdeaconry: additional records incl articles of enquiry (Acc. 5417)

Pembrokeshire Record Office

  • Pembrokeshire Baptist Association: minutes of the Narberth to Pembroke Dock Division (DFC/B/17)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • Oliver Henwood, Methodist preacher: diary (Acc 3072)
  • William Whitehead, Methodist preacher, Devonport: personal papers (Acc 3123)

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

  • Joseph Whitehouse, Independent Minister: notebook incl records of burials and baptisms and transcripts of letters (DR 1148)

Sheffield Archives

  • Philip Stephen Burnett, clergyman: papers incl material rel to youth work and adult education (2005/102)
  • Rev Edward Charles, clergyman, Sheffield: scrapbooks rel to ministry and work in Sheffield and South Yorks (2005/15)
  • Edward W Elcock, of Sheffield: talks and articles, mainly on music, for Wesley Guild meetings, Heeley Wesleyan Methodist Church, with notes on subsequent history by Mrs ST Ellins (2005/22)
  • George Robert Vine, schoolteacher: corresp and papers rel to his work and role as deacon and church secretary of Zion Congregational Church and Cemetery Road Baptist Church, Sheffield (2005/145)
  • Sheffield Jewish Ladies Benevolent Society: notice of AGM with first annual report and list of names and addresses of subscribers (2005/42)
  • Sheffield Congregational Association: records incl minutes and a Jubilee history (2005/59)
  • Sheffield Diocesan Lay Readers Association: additional papers incl minutes, files and reader records (2005/94)
  • South Yorkshire District United Reformed Church Council: minutes (2005/59)

Shropshire Archives

  • Lilleshall Abbey: additional deeds and papers rel to former properties (7325)

Somerset Archive and Record Service

  • Michael Torrens, architect, Taunton: plans and drawings rel to Somerset churches (A\CLM)
  • Bath and Wells Diocese: additional faculty records (D\D/cf)
  • Society of Friends, Middle Divison, Somerset: additional records, minutes and registers (DD\SFR.m)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Lichfield Record Office

  • Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance: minutes (B/A/26)

Surrey History Centre

  • Mohammed Raja, Labour councillor, Woking: copy corresp, newscuttings and posters rel to political career and roles as trustee of Shah Jehan Mosque and representative of the Kashmiri community (Z/454)
  • Arthur Robert Winnett, Vicar, Canon Emeritus of Guildford Cathedral: corresp and papers incl unpublished autobiography (7789)
  • Community of St Peter, Woking: records incl journals of day to day work, chapter minutes, patient registers and photographs (7805)
  • Guildford Diocese: additional board of education minutes of school governing bodies (7815)
  • Shah Jehan Mosque, Woking: publications (7831)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

  • The Red House, Stepney (Incorporated), temperance, missionary and charitable organisation: additional records (I/RHS/1/3-4)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • Colonel Nathaniel Robert Radcliffe: scrapbook and diary, diaries of his father General George Travis Radcliffe 1899-1902 and father-in law, Rev FAW Hamilton-Gell 1879 (CR4000)

West Sussex Record Office

  • St Julian's Community, Coolham: records (Acc.13892)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

  • Robert Collyer, Anglican clergyman: sermons and letters (WYB263)
  • Wyke Gospel Temperance Mission: records (WYB260)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Robert Meeke, Anglican Clergyman: diaries (WYK1247)

Worcestershire Record Office, County Hall Branch

  • Churches together in Worcester: minutes, correspondence and financial records (BA14200)
  • Worcester Theological Society: minutes and papers (BA14215)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • St Albans Abbey: psalter and notes (Add 81084, 81085)

National Archives of Scotland

  • Charles Baillie-Hamilton, Archdeacon of Cleveland: diary (GD1/1390)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • James Gilliland Simpson, merchant, London: letter books and diaries of Simpson and his wife, Jane Horsburgh, rel to business and domestic affairs and their relationship with the Rev Edward Irving (Acc.12489)
  • Waldensian Missions Aid Society Scotland: minute books, press cuttings, corresp and financial papers (Acc.12519)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

  • Eric Gallagher, Methodist minister, peace campaigner, writer: corresp, newspaper cuttings, teaching material, sermons and papers rel to his books and articles and interest in the Ecumenical Movement (including the Irish School of Ecumenics), peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the work of the Methodist Church (D/4360)
  • Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ireland: papers incl financial records, corresp, minute books and reports incl those rel to the James MacDonald Charity, the General Widows and Orphans Fund, the Rea Fund, the Chancellor Memorial Church Sabbath Morning Fellowship and the Reformed Presbyterian Mission in Antioch (CR/5/5A)

Special

Lambeth Palace Library

  • Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury: corresp and papers
  • Alison Laughton, Chaplain to St Margaret's Convent, East Grinstead: travel diaries
  • Francis Gregory Lemann, Vicar of Langford: ecclesiological sketchbooks
  • John Mason Neale, Warden of Sackville College Author: transcript of diaries
  • Archbishops' China Appeal Fund: papers
  • Church of England Council on Foreign Relations: additional records
  • Servants of Christ the King: papers

Manx National Heritage Library

  • Dean and Chapter of Man: cathedral accounts incl analysis book for general accounts and Cubbon bequest (11104)
  • 'Memoirs of John Crook, Wesleyan Missionary in the Isle of Man in 1775' by James MacDonald (11179)

Representative Church Body Library

  • John Grainger, Rector of Skerry and Rathcavan: papers rel to his academic and clerical careers, and corresp rel to the history of the Grainger, Chaytor and Parke families (MS 757)
  • Charles Maurice Stack, Bishop of Clogher: autobiographical memoir and annals of his life compiled from his diaries by his son, Rev C.M. Stack (1914) (MS 748)
  • Church of Ireland Jubilee Fund: minute book (MS 751)
  • Mothers' Union: Ireland: minutes, agendas and papers (MS 749)
  • Protestant Religious and Benevolent Society House, Kilkenny: account book (MS 754)

Royal Institute of British Architects

  • Edwin Landseer Lutyens, Knight Architect: letters to George Plank rel to Marvells, Sussex and caricatures of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Birmingham
  • Percy Stone, architect: MSS 'Gothic Architecture in England', drawings of ecclesiastical buildings and photographs

Royal Institution of Cornwall

  • Edward Winn, Methodist preacher, Falmouth: appointment book, circuit papers and ephemera

Scottish Catholic Archives

  • Mark Dilworth, priest and archivist: additional papers (KC)
  • Margaret Anne Sinclair, Poor Clare nun: personal and family papers and papers relating to her beatification (MP/)
  • Aberdeen Roman Catholic Diocese: records (DAb/)
  • Galloway Roman Catholic Diocese: additional records (DG/)
  • Pontifical Commission for the Laity: records (NL/)
  • Scottish Catholic Justice and Peace Commission: records (NJ/)
  • Secretariat for the Laity: records (NL/)
  • St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Portobello: St Vincent de Paul Society minutes (MP/)
  • Una Voce Scotland (traditional latin mass society): records (GD/)

York Minster Archives

  • York Dean and Chapter: Finance Office records (2005/33)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

  • William Macleod Macartney, Church of Scotland minister: papers and sermons (MS 3757)

Birmingham University Information Services, Orchard Learning Resources Centre

  • Student Christian Movement: further records (DA1)

Birmingham University Information Services, Special Collections Department

  • James Mathers, lecturer in theology: papers (US82)
  • BibleLands: minutes and papers (MS203)
  • Catholic Apostolic Church (addnl): MS and typescript sermons by Alfred Haigh and Frederick Haigh. (MS197)
  • Church Pastoral Aid Society (addnl): minute book 1908-38, notebook 1866-99 and photograph album (CPAS)
  • Church Missionary Society (addnl): papers, with copies of books for children published by the Society (CMS)

Borthwick Institute for Archives

  • John Stapylton Habgood, Baron Habgood of Calverton, Archbishop of York: papers (44/2005)

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

  • Freda Collins, author and playwright: corresp and papers rel to religious drama (MS Add. 9712)
  • Statutes of the guild or confraternity of St Anthony of Bordeaux (MS Add. 9714)

Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre

  • William Hugh Clifford Frend, ecclesiastical historian: papers rel to his work during the Second World War (copies) (MISC 78)

Exeter University Library (Special Collections)

  • mss notebook (anon) on Bibles, in particular concerning Bible translations (MS 295)

London Metropolitan University: The Women's Library

  • Daisy Dobson, Secretary to Agnes Maude Royden: records incl corresp rel to the Guildhouse Fellowship (7DDO)
  • Society for the Ministry of Women in the Church: additional records incl minute books (5SMW)

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

  • Longsight Baptist Chapel, Manchester: papers, incl records of the Manchester Lay Preachers' Association and papers rel to Baptist chapels in Manchester (Acc 2005/037)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

  • John S Hoyland, Quaker and missionary: additional records incl literary papers and corresp (MS 733)

Oxford University: Regent's Park College, Angus Library

  • Joseph Angus, Baptist Biblical Scholar: appeal to Accrington Baptist Church for funds for Regent's Park College (ACCRINGTON 6/2)
  • Kenneth Davies: indexed collection of slides of British Baptist churches (Angus Acc. 201)
  • Edwin James Fasham, Baptist, Birmingham: notes and slides on hymnological research (Angus Acc. 209)
  • Philip Hayden: notes rel to work for uncompleted thesis ‘Nonconformist meeting-houses in the Cotswolds, c1740-1820: an architectural examination’ (Angus Acc. 208)
  • Marjorie Page, Baptist Missionary Society missionary in the Congo: typescript memoirs of her time in the Congo (1938-65) (BMS Acc. 204)
  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Preacher: letters of encouragement to Edwin Alfred Carter (D/SPU 20)
  • Winifred Waller, Baptist Deaconess: commemorative material (Angus Acc. 190)
  • Baptist Historical Society: additional accounts and corresp, mainly financial (Angus Acc. 199)
  • London Baptist Preachers Association: pamphlets, minutes and surveys of London preaching (D/LBPA)

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

  • Donald Blackburn, missionary: collected material on Middle East incl accounts of shooting of Archdeacon Campbell in Jerusalem and of the civil war in Jordan (1970) (0378)

Southampton University Library

  • David Kossoff, actor: papers rel to his screen and stage acting, performance of one-man shows and publications on the reinterpretation of Biblical stories (MS 348)
  • Lawrence Littlestone, rabbi, executive director of the Council for Soviet Jewry: research and pressure group papers (MS 343)

Trinity College Dublin

  • Thomas Elrington, Bishop of Ferns: account of his life by his daughter Emilia (TCD MS 11244)