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Church Builders In Clapham
WHENEVER I see St Mary's Church Clapham, pictured here, I think of the people who built it in 1850, when Catholics were few in number, except for the Irish. The first priests in......
Hanged, Drawn And Quartered
AN EXCELLENT bargain the Benedictine Year Book for 1984, price 70p, is now available. Dom Gordon Beattie of Ampleforth Abbey is the editor. Douai Abbey is the cover photo this......
Medieval Gift For Scotland
A MEDIEVAL pricket candlestick with a base of Limoges enamel, with historical links with Scotland, which was presented to the Pope during his visit in 1982, has been given, at......
Crypt For Crisis
MRS Rosalind Runde, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, launched this year's Crisis at Christmas at St Botolph's church, Aldgate, London, which has turned over its crypt for......
Impressive Vocations Contribution
A JESUIT who left St Ignatius College in Stanford Hill in 1919, refers me to the Catholic Herald of 13 February, 1920, for the number of vocations contributed by that school. He......
Non-stop Calendar At Hatch End
BISHOP Agnellus Andrew OFM, the founding father of the Catholic Radio and Television Centre, has just given me a preview of their Calendar of Events for 1984. The directors and......
Designs For Building
Georgian Dublin by Kevin Corrigan Kearns (David and Charles, £12.95). Splendidly illustrated, this is a fresh and provocative look at the rise and decline of Georgian Dublin. It......
Books
The First Christian. St Paul's Impact on Christianity , by Karen Armstrong (Pan Books, Channel Four Book, £2.50). WRITING scripts for television screening seems to have......
Pleasure
f he Hastings Hours Thames and Hudson 1983 £25. THIS magnificent Book ol Hours was made about 1480 for William, Lord Hastings, a close friend of Edward IV. Hastings was beheaded......
Woolf's Jolly Jape
The 'Dreadnought' Hoax by Adrian Stephen (Chatto and Windus, £2.95, paperback). HERE is the story of how a group of Cambridge types perpetrated a jolly jape by dressing up as......
Landscapes Haunted By Betjeman
Betjeman Country by Frank Delaney (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.95). WHAT a remarkable man Betjeman is. He writes amused light verse about the terror he suffered as a boy being......
Monty, Byng And Bloody Battles
MONTY — Master of the Battlefield 1942-1944 by Nigel Mamilton (Hamish Hamilton, £12.95). The second volume in the volume Life of Montgomery. Another massive tome covering the......