MEMORIAL TO RESTORER

OF SLIPPER CHAPEL
By H. M. Gillett
TT was discovered recently that the grave of Miss Charlotte Pearson Boyd, who bought and restored the ancient Walsingham Slipper Chapel, had never been provided with a memorial. This curious omission has now been rectified.
The Abbot of Downside has given a memorial cross of the same pattern as those used in the monastic burial ground, which might well have been provided in 1906 had Miss Boyd been buried there. In this choice, and in its simple design, there is something singularly apt.
The entire cost of the erection has been defrayed by Cardinal Godfrey, with the addition of a plinth which carries the added inscription: "She Restored the
Slipper Chapel to Catholic Ownership".
'The memorial w ill be blessed tin Tuesday. April 3. the anniversary of Miss Boyd's death, 1906, at 3.30 P.m.; at &. Mary's Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Green, N.W.10, by Mgr. Canon Charles Flood, representing Cardinal Godfrey who will be in Rome.
The Abbot of Downside will give an address in the Cemetery Chapel. Bishop Parker of Northampton will be represented by Fr. Gerard Hulme, priest at Walsingbarn in charge of the Slipper Chapel.
Intimately connected with many leaders of the Anglican High Church Movement, Miss Boyd bought Mailing Abbey for the Sisterhood is bids has since hecome the Benedictine Community Talttere Abbey. She was also foundress of, and maintained, an orphanage in Kilburn.
in I1193 she founded, with a generous endowment, a perpetual Daily Mass for the Conversion of England, at Maredsous Abbey in Belgium and was herself received into the Church the next year. She was a generous benefactress of many Catholic institutions, and became an Oblate of St. Benedict, of Downside Abbey, to which Community she gave the Slipper Chapel as soon as the restoration, at her expense, was complete.