‘Living Stones’ and ‘Completing the Good Work’
St Gregory’s Church, Cheltenham ‘Living Stones’ (2013) and ‘Completing the Good Work’ (2018) by Joanna Vials The development of the 19th century Catholic mission The building … Continue reading
The Indomitable Mr Cotham
The Indomitable Mr Cotham – Missioner, Convict Chaplain and Monk Joanna Vials ISBN 978 085244 928 8 Gracewing Ltd £25.00 620 page paperback See: http://www.gracewing.co.uk/page281.html James Ambrose Cotham … Continue reading
Building a Church for Bussage by Patricia Main
Building a Church for Bussage: The History of St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Bussage by Patricia Main In the early 19th century Bussage and the whole of the … Continue reading
John Middleton – Victorian Provincial Architect
ISBN 978-953-99762-5-3 (2008) Publisher: Accent d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia A few new copies of this book are still available at £15.00 each (plus postage and package). For more details please email … Continue reading
‘Convert, Scholar, Bishop’ by Giles Mercer
I can only commend this excellent and beautifully published biography of William Brownlow produced by Dr. Giles Mercer back in 2016. Before he was received into full communion with the … Continue reading
Organ Family History of Berkeley & North Nibley
Back in 2010 Andrew Plaster of Bristol produced a fascinating study, ‘Organ family history of Berkeley and North Nibley’. Richard Organ was Andrew’s 13th Great Grandfather and he was … Continue reading
Our Lady and St Alphege, Bath
OUR LADY AND ST ALPHEGE, BATH Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s “Little Gem of a Church” A HISTORY BY CAROLINE SHAW With a foreward by the Late Gavin Stamp Former Professor, … Continue reading
Holyoake’s Journey of 1842
George Jacob Holyoake’s Journey of 1842 by Catherine Howe (2012) Here is an easy to read and interesting book which follows the connection between early nineteenth century socialism and the … Continue reading
‘Woodchester A Gothic Vision’
Woodchester A Gothic Vision: The Story of William Leigh, Benjamin Bucknall and the Building of Woodchester Mansion by Liz Davenport Kindle Edition Liz Davenport, Archivist of Woodchester Mansion Trust has … Continue reading
The Story of Father Ignatius’s Community at New Llanthony Abbey by Hugh Allen
The Story of Father Ignatius’s Community at New Llanthony Abbey by Hugh Allen To the diarist Francis Kilvert, his near neighbour Father Ignatius (born Joseph Leycester Lyne in 1837) seemed … Continue reading
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