page 1: transparent sheet; printed with "The Meryemana Centre Appeal"; Meryemana Logo; St Nicholas church sketch
page 2: blank card
Page 3: Introduction; The project
Page 4: How can you Help?; Tax-efficient Giving
Page 5: Gift Opportunities; Project enquiries; Financial enquiries
page 6: Appendix A St Nicholas' Church, Ipswich [categories of spend]
page 7: Appendix B Patrons / Trustees / Committee / Architect / Solicitor / Accountant / Fund-raising Consultant
page 8: blank card
Appeal
163 Archive Record results for Appeal
6 present; 1 apology
residue of appeal funds
No response to request for comments - hence Guild and Newsletter to be called "Meryemana"; motto "Unity through Grace" unchanged
AGM: 6 September; Speaker - Derek Hutchins "An Ecumenical Miscellany"
[AGM Ipswich Life Group - Agenda included in minutes]
Membership Leaflet
Meryemana Speakers Service
Sale of Bowhill Elliot and White: the wall with the plaque is part of this premises. Need to contact Robert Mellamphy is acute to ascertain whereabouts of the statue of Our Lady of Ipswich; confirmed the sale is subject to leaving the plaque in place; issue over insurance for the plaque (last 2 premiums not paid)
Prayers at the Elms
Future events
AOB: Sponsored Cycle Ride arrangement; Canon Christian discussed sites for a small chapel
2 apologies
Correspondence
Appeal Committee
Open Day report
Events Committee
Renewal of lease
Newsletter
6 present; 4 apologies
Donors informed of the project being abandoned (responses from Bishop John, John Gummer MP, Dr Blatchley; James Hall, Sir Godfrey Style, Lady Miriam Hubbard, Nicholas Ridley, Mr Hatcher, Mr Elwood, Hon Jill Gazoni, Paul Butters, Roy Tricker); some disappointment expressed by correspondents; some comment on support (not) given
Finance: changes in bank accounts; Redundancy for Marlene (and go freelance)
Future: Canon Christian remarked on the general air of despondency ecumenically in Ipswich - plenty of talking, little praying!; effort to be made to plan interesting events in the coming year
5 present; 5 apologies
Emmanuel Church, temporarily occupying St Nicholas has taken responsibility for the Sponsored Cycle Ride; £200 from Coffee Evening and village fete
St Nicholas Project: Project considered no longer viable for several reasons - agreed to abandon the project
Finance: handling sponsors' money; procedures for closing the Appeal; handling residual funds;
Meryemana future: aim remain as is; nomadic organisation; wait for 3 months before having any more meetings; running down of the project; chair to produce discussion document
Guild of Our Lady of Ipswich: more attention to be paid to this
Membership building
side 1: Meryemana logo; "One Lord... One Faith... One Family... ... One Church ONE DAY...?"
side 2: Meryemana Foundation / Members / Centre (cost £250,000)
side 3: In the Meryemana Centre...
side 4: Members and friends of Meryemana...
side 5: Enrolment form
side 6: Meryemana Centre: Activities/Facilities
Minutes of last meeting examined by Shrine Council
(6) Sale of Properties
(a) Youth Hostel Cottage - sale fallen through - discussion on return of deposit; Other properties - all practically concluded except for Station Road plots; Deeds - historic interest only to be kept in Walsingham Archives
(b) Slipper Chapel Roof - £30,000 estimate for repairs; discussion on funding sources
(c) Lighting
(d) Administration and Staffing - redundancy payments
(8) Finance Statement - deficit of £7,000 after VAT & Tax; Walsingham Association's £9,000 to be counted in
(9) Shrine Council Composition - attendance of staff representative and Manager
(10) Jubilee 1984
Venue of Council meetings
Appeal Committee report - designated gifts, Benefactor's book, final account, Administration of Accounts, Appeal Committee, new covenants
Change in Administration
Spiritual and liturgical Considerations - Papal Thanksgiving Pilgrimage, Courses, Commemoration of English Martyrs, Pilgrimage Organisation
Charlotte Boyd (first benefactor of Slipper Chapel) - remains to stay at Kensal Rise cemetery; memorial stone in wall of Slipper Chapel
Matters arising
(6) (a) Youth Hostel Cottage - soon to be sold, Plots in station road sold, Deeds - currently held in Poringland but those of interest will be sent to Walsingham
(b) Lighting - faulty bulbs to be replaced by halogen bulbs
(c) Season will start with first Pilgrimage
Correspondence - Sister Eileen will be the minute secretary; bishop, in his Ad Clerum has designated Walsingham as a place for a Jubilee Indulgence
Director's report - verbal and further developed in agenda items
Manager's report - Mt Warwick delivered this
Report of Architect - repair at Slipper Chapel complex: no estimates yet, work to go to tender, chapel to remain open during work, start in April, decoration, double glazing
Appeal Committee report - development fund committee, No 2 account, papal bicycle, Appeals and Jubilee years, Jubilee Committee (McBride, Stark, Birch and Dan Morgan to be joined by Mr Warwick and John Hawkes and meet next on 22 February in Ipswich.)
Floor covering
Constitution - draft agreed
Plans for development of properties in the village - agreed: general plan to be created, engage a surveyor, consult and architect
Railway Track
Project for the handicapped
Land drainage
Appeal
State of the Building, Architect's report - Mr Wingate presented his report (Pew design, Kneeler, Credence table, St Joseph Statue, Topping up ceremony, Stoups/chalice / ciboria / piscina, Stations of the Cross, Tabernacle, Lecterns, President's Chair, floor covering, Statue of Our Lady
Architect's report - Financial, Savings, Designated Gifts, Time of Contract, National Pilgrimage, Meadow Boundary, Sanctuary, Sacristies, Stations of the Cross and Consecration Cross, Drainage problems
Access for sick and handicapped
Plan for properties in the village - Friday Market Church, Essential maintenance, Aelred House
Finances of the Appeal
National Pilgrimage
Behind the Statue
Anglian Shrine
Public signs
Mr Robin Sayer
Appeal
Organ
Designated Gifts
Floor covering
Under-floor heating
Bond
Lighting
Railway track
AOB - agreed to buy a lightning conductor
Commenting that the Quantity Surveyors' fees are too high - £10,000 for already paid for the abortive work. Has contacted the QS.
Encouraging Bishop Clark to lead the way and stir up his Diocese and Deaneries. The expectation that the Pope is to visit Walsingham is not being discouraged.
General letter sent to "My Lord" - enclosing details [booklet] of the Appeal to be made in your Diocese. Work is underway and it will be completed in October 1981
Ward, Michael R W (1930-1995)Very worried about the state of affairs at Walsingham. With no official status, except as Chair of the Appeal Committee, he cannot interfere. However have asked Michael Wingate for his observations - last paragraph in his letter (attached) points to the management problem.
Ward, Michael R W (1930-1995)Coming to the end of the Appeal. Asking about the money in the account. Michael Wingate provided a forecast of final money under contract? Bill for organ is £10,000 we have paid £5,000. The receiver/liquidator may see problems. Complicated please come and see us with Michael Wingate.
Ward, Michael R W (1930-1995)Commenting that the Quantity Surveyors' fees are too high and need to be renegotiated - £10,000 for original work is "naughty".
Appeal to start in Northampton and East Anglia must lead the way. Asked Bishop Clark to stir up his Diocese.
Initialled report "MRN" [possibly Myra Newell] - following a discusison with a computer graduate "who has compiled a programme which will do all the administration of the appeal". His also offering to sell the appeal the programme, a computer and printer. "... written for computer illiterates over 60". List of functions plus examples of operational capability. Offer is for £2,500 to £3,000.
Heley, Margaret Mary (Maire) Dr (1930-2020)White glossy card cover - Title & images
page 1: Patrons / Appeal Committee / Trustees
page 2: Cardinal Hume: Why development - the cardinal explains
page 3: image of model showing new chapel of Our Lady of Reconciliation
page 4: The story of the Shrine
page 5: What is happening
page 6-7: drawing of interior of new chapel
page 8: plan of new chapel
page 9: Plan of shrine grounds
page 10-11: how you can help
page 12: drawing of exterior of chapel
pg1: index
pg2-3: letter to Ransomers, signed Laurance Goulson, Master of the Guild
pg4: The Wilderness - image of rubble and scrub
pg5: Mass in the Cafe - image of priest elevating the host with a number of worshippers, crockery in the foreground (annotation: "Robert L McCormick")
pg6: The Travelling Chapel - image of Fr McCormick's converted bus (annotation: "Robert's mobile chapel")
pg7: Inside the Bus: Image of Fr McComick saying Mass (annotation: "Robert saying Mass in mobile chapel")
pg8: The Temporary Church: image of front of church with priest, ladies and children. (annotation: "St Matthew's / Barton Le Clay (Beds) 1961 / This was my record - from my first visit when there was no church to getting this was six months and then they got a permanent church"
pg9: A Church at Last - image of a church. (annotation "This is the new church at Newmarket opened in 1966")
pg10: What the priests say (6 comments from diocesan priests).
Pastoral letter for Lent. [manuscript annotation "NB This pastoral was written by F C Husenbeth".
Dispensations for Lent 1847.
Pius IX Jubilee extended to 30 April.
Pg3: List of Eastern District Contributions for the Distressed Irish [total £399-16s-1d]
addressed to "The Very Rvd. / F C Husenbeth / Cossey / Norwich"