Sunday, 8th December 1984, The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Mass was offered at 3pm in St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich, prior to the inauguration of a Cathedral Branch of the Walsingham Association. Afterwards at a meeting in the Parish Hall the election of the first officers produced:
Chaplain: Mgr Harry Wace
Chairman: Mr B Perowne
Secretary: Mis S M Wiffen
Treasurer: Mrs S Cushing.
The first meeting of the new Branch was to be called in the New Year 1985.
An Extraordinary Branch Meeting on 26 January 2019 was the final meeting and then branch closed.
The Taking Stock initiative, which began in 2005, aims to assess the historical and architectural importance of every Catholic church and chapel in England and Wales, categorised by diocese. The project is a partnership between the Patrimony Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, individual dioceses, and Historic England. It is part-funded by Historic England.
83 RCDEA churches have been visited and documented in the Taking Stock project.
Correspondence on a wide range of subjects between the Bishops of East Anglia and other bodies / organisations
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Sacred Heart Parish at Southwold
St Leger Mason, Henry Patrick Rev (-1940)No Holdings
Smith, Peter David Gordon Rev LLB JCD (1943-2020)ECAP 1 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests I ACC
Birmingham
ECAP 2 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests II ACC
Arundel & Brighton
Brentwood
East Anglia (+ letters & papers wrt Anglican Priests of East Anglia 1993-2001 ACC / PDS)
Clifton
Cardiff
ECAP 3 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests III ACC
Hexham
Leeds
Lancaster
Middlesborough
Northampton
Nottingham
ECAP 4 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests IV ACC
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Salford
Shrewsbury
Southwark
ECAP 5 Episcopal Commission Anglican Priests V ACC
Westminster
Wrexham
Final report
Letters
Lists
- Established in 1977
- Guild Officers
- 1978: Alice Salisbury, Chairman; Jean Johnson, Secretary
- 1981: Mr T Cooke, Chairman; Jean Johnson, Secretary
- 1984: Mr T Cooke, Chairman; Stella Sanderson, Secretary
- 1986: Mr T Cooke, Chairman; Mrs J Willis, Secretary
- 1988: Miss Myra Newell, Secretary
1992: Chairman - Dr Heley; Secretary - Miss Myra Newell; Treasurer - Canon R Christian; Publicity Officer - Miss Judy Fell
In post-war Britain, many parts of the Northampton Diocese, having no Catholic Church or School, were considered "missionary territory" so a Travelling Mission based in Burnham was launched by Bishop Parker in 1949. This scheme had first been used by the Catholic Mission Society in 1911 and then adopted by various Dioceses in England.
Fr Anthony Hulme (later Canon Hulme), Northampton's first Travelling Missioner, used an Austin Countryman to tow a trailer which was a mobile chapel. The trailer, named St Christopher, accommodated some twenty worshippers. The van itself, without the trailer, could be used for open-air Mass by simply lowering the bottom half of the rear door which then became a platform for a small altar.
Fr McCormick joined Fr Hulme in 1959 and in 1960 he was in sole charge when Fr Hulme was sent to Bedford. Fr McCormick used a Land Rover as the van was not up to the job of 30,000 miles per annum. Neither was the trailer and it was retired when it became too decrepit. However, Fr McCormick designed and refitted a Leyland single deck bus as a mobile chapel.
The material in this collection was presented by Fr McCormick to the Diocesan Archives in both Northampton and East Anglia. His covering note [undated] stated: "With feelings of mortality I have gathered together what records remain of my seventeen years of Travelling Mission work. Unfortunately, I didn't keep everything but thought it might be a good idea to put together what survives for the Diocesan Archives of Northampton and East Anglia. I also thought that those who remember the olden days would like a copy. No doubt it could be said that I am blowing my own trumpet!"
Additional material dating from 2010 was held in box CH1 and has been incorporated into this collection.
McCormick, Robert L. Rev (-2015)This is a reference list for researchers wishing to access material not held in RCDEA Archives
RCDEA Archives