St Bartholomew’s Church, Chosen Hill, Churchdown
St Bartholomew’s Church, Chosen Hill, Churchdown By W.D. Pereira 2005c Chosen Hill at 580 feet is known geographically as an outlier from the Cotswold Escarpment. It owes its continued … Continue reading
Sharpness Union Church (1880-1930)
Frank G. Marling: ‘The First Fifty Years of Union Church, Sharpness 1880-1930, published by T & W Goulding, Printers and Publishers, Nelson Street, Bristol, 1930. ‘Foreward – I have … Continue reading
Photographs of St Stephen’s Tivoli
Photographs from the Collection of the Late Father Brian Torode ‘This Church was designed by John Middleton and built in stages: chancel 1873-4, transept 1876, tall nave with lean-to aisles … Continue reading
Photographs of St George’s Nailsworth
A few photographs from my collection…
Gloucestershire Bishops
Notes on Gloucestershire’s Bishops and Ecclesiastical Boundaries by Richard Barton and Brian Torode (2008) THE FIRST (BRITISH) HIERARCHY (Pre 597) Gloucester Mc Whirr in his book on Roman Gloucestershire has … Continue reading
St Arild Sermon by Brian Torode
St Arild’s Sermon at Oldbury on Severn 17th July 2009. It is a great privilege for me to be here this evening, sharing in the celebration weekend of one of … Continue reading
St Alphege Sermon by Brian Torode
PILGRIMAGE TO DEERHURST IN HONOUR OF ST ALPHEGE, 19th APRIL 2012 In spite of the weather it is exciting to be here today, doing what that great favourite hymn reminds … Continue reading
St John Kemble
JOHN KEMBLE PILGRIMAGE, 18th August 2013, at Welsh Newton Church Sermon preached by Richard Barton During the last few weeks my bedtime reading has been a biography of the … Continue reading
Tewkesbury Abbots and Gloucester Priors
The Abbots of Tewkesbury, the Cathedral Priors of Gloucester and the Westminster Succession By Richard Barton (1991) (Some revision 2016) Many of you will have read with interest two brief … Continue reading
St Alphege Podcast
Sermon preached by Richard Barton in 2012 to mark the millennium of Alphege’s martyrdom.
