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St John the Baptist Avon Dassett 12 July 2009 Parish Life in Pre-Modern England Beat Kümin University of Warwick. St John the Baptist, Avon Dassett (c. 1820). Photos: Parish Council Website. Definition Territorial unit for cure of souls. St Mary, Cricklade (Tithe Map 1844).
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St John the Baptist Avon Dassett 12 July 2009 Parish Life in Pre-Modern England Beat Kümin University of Warwick
St John the Baptist, Avon Dassett (c. 1820) Photos: Parish Council Website
DefinitionTerritorial unit for cure of souls St Mary, Cricklade (Tithe Map 1844)
Clergy and benefice Priests in a late medieval book illustration Glebe Terrier from West Meon (Hants, 1758)
Worship Diebold Schilling, Lucerne Chronicle (1513)
Late Medieval Spirituality ‘The Great Rebuilding’: St Mary, Yatton (Som.) ‘Mass Foundations’: Squint at St Nicholas, Bishops Sutton (Hants)
Richard Carter, churchwarden of Bramley (Hants, 1529) People Late medieval politics Churchwardens’ accounts of Bletchingly (Surrey, 1550) Parish chest of Bishops Cleeve (Glocs, 15thC)
Late medieval sociability Church house (reconstruction) ‘Church ale’ house (Colwall, c. 1530)
Late medieval heresyLollardy John Wycliffe (d. 1384)English Bible
Reformation changes Rood screen at Binham (Norfolk)
Reformation change Singing of psalms (Sternhold and Hopkins, 1607 edn) Great English Bible (Frontispiece, 1539)
State Building Late medieval doom Royal arms at Brailes at Wenhaston (Suffolk) (Warwickshire, 1722)
Poor relief Thomas Newcombe's late 17thC almshouses at Dunchurch (Warwickshire)
The Kineton Hundred Poor Law Returns, 1639 (transcribed by Steve Hindle) Poor relief
The social body Seating plan for Whitton Church (Lincs., 1799)
Challenges to the parish: Puritanism & Recusancy Th. Cartwright (d. 1603) Coughton Court (Warks.)
Growth of Arminianism William Laud, Charles I’s Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
Arminianism contested (Essex Quarter Sessions, 1641) ‘John Starkys … says that … [two parishioners] Jeremy Reeve and William Skynner, … did repair to the communion table in the chancel of the church and pull down the rails from about the table with their hands. And hedid see the saidpersons … bringing the rails out of the chancel into the churchyard and throw them over the wall into the highway. And he did see the said [people] set them on fire. …William Skynner … says that the reason for his so pulling down the rails was because they gave offence to his conscience, and that the placing of them was against God's laws and the king's’
Charles Landseer , ‘The eve of the battle of Edgehill, 1642’ (1845) [Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool]
Religious revolution Puritan iconoclasm by William Dowsing (1640s) ‘Jan. 5, 1643: At Linton, we took up 8 inscriptions, we beate downe 3 crucifixes, and 80 superstitious pictures, and brake the rayles, and gave order to deface 2 grave-stones, with Pray for our souls.’ (www.williamdowsing.org)
Growth of Nonconformity George Fox (d. 1691), founder of the Quaker movement
St Joseph (R. C.), Avon Dassett Pic: ‘Churches of Britain and Ireland’
Well worthlooking after!Pics: ‘Churches of Britain and Ireland’ / ‘Pictures of England’
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