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GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-01-1 · Item · 1978-1-17
Part of Walsingham Shrine

Memo with main headings: 1968 Bishop Grant's long-term plans; The situation today; A Forecast; Proposals for - Authority, Land, Buildings Maintenance, Inadequacies of Buildings, Development of Slipper Chapel Area (Parish Church, Confessions, Sacristy, Blessed Sacrament Chapel); Shelter; Development in the Village; Finance; Staffing (Lay, Priests, Volunteers).

Connelly, Roland William Rev SM MA (1921-2004)
Accounts
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-02-01 · File · 1969-11-24 - 1997-12-31
Part of Walsingham Shrine

1968 Balance sheet (covering letter by Claude Fisher); Oct 1969 Statement of Funds; 1969 Income/Expenditure; 1970 10 Year Cash flow spreadsheet (including Diocese and Bishops' individual donations listed); 1971 Income and expenditure analysis; 1972 Administrator's report and accounts; 1973 Administrator's report and Accounts; 1974 Administrator's report and Accounts (plus usage statistics); 1975 Balance sheet plus notes; 1976 1st Quarter summary sheet; 1976 2nd Quarter summary sheet; 1976 3rd Quarter summary sheet; 1975-1976 Insurance specification (Walsingham properties); 1975/6 Accounts; 1977 accounts; 1977 budget comparison; 1978 accounts; 1979 accounts (draft); 1980 accounts (audited); 1979/1980 manuscript spreadsheet outgoings; 1981 accounts; 1981 Estimated Cash flow - Slipper Chapel; 1982 Accounts; [c October 1982 - auction] Analysis of Expected revenue and expenditure; 1984 Walsingham Trust Accounts; 1984 Accounts; 1985 Accounts; 1986 Accounts; 1987 Accounts; 1988 Accounts; 1989 Walsingham Trust Accounts; 1989 Accounts; 1990 Accounts; 1990/91 Income & Expenditure estimates; 1991 Accounts; 1992 Accounts; 1993 Accounts; 1994 Accounts; 1995 Trust Annual report and Accounts; 1995 Accounts; 1996 Accounts; 1997 Trust Annual report and Accounts

Fisher, Claude MBE KSG (-1985)
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-01-42-1 · Part · 1987-11-4
Part of Walsingham Shrine

Programme and agenda for meeting on 3 November 1987:
Agenda: Director's report; Repository shop (Messrs. Goodliffe Neal - due for review); Devotion at the Shrine

Phillips, Murial Mrs
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-01-5-2 · Part · June 1979
Part of Walsingham Shrine
  1. Present Building; 2. Existing Layout of the Site; 3. The Open Sided Church; 4. Requirements for Further Accommodation; 5. Suggested Plan; Approximate Costs; Further Action.
    Provided funds secured and once planning permission obtained, 8 weeks to prepare bills of quantities and obtain tenders, possible to start early Summer 1980.
Purcell Miller Tritton & Partners
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-01-11-2 · Part · 1980-11-17
Part of Walsingham Shrine

Page 1: Summary of progress; Drawings & Bill of Materials prepared, Cost balanced by savings, Tender accepted (cost £409,800), late revisions (partitions, confessionals, storage, WCs), Programme (completion mid August 1981)
Page2-3: Extract from Bill of Materials for purposes of designated Gifts - "Certain works to be included in the overall project cannot be specifically designed or detailed at the tendering stage and the following estimated costs are including for such items, and are listed below:"
[From] "Pews, benches, sundry internal fittings and fixtures £10,350", etc.
[through] "Work of a specialist nature will be executed by specialist subcontractors and comprise the following:
Supplying to site precast concrete cappings to walls and precast concrete surrounds to doors and windows £12,850", etc
[including headings for:] Substructure and floor slab, Walls, Roof, Doors, Plumbing work, Finishings, Paining and decorating, External works, Items not included in the main tender sum (Organ £5,000, Thurible £250, etc.)

Purcell & Johnson
GB ARCHON 2913 PA28-01-01-204-1 · Part · 3 June 1930
Part of Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, King's Lynn

Sermon text in two pages provided to Fr Stokes:

Just 30 years ago, on the 2nd of June, 1897, there took place here, in King's Lynn, a function which, for several reasons, has marked out King's Lynn in a very special manner.

It was the opening of this present Church of St Mary's by the the Right Revd. Arthur Riddell, Bishop of Northampton. There was something more in it than that, something that has forged a link that binds King's Lynn in a most intimate way with the ancient, long ruined Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, not many miles away.

It will be well, since very few of the generation who witnessed the event, to recall the facts that led up to it. We are told to keep in memory the deeds of our forerunners, when these are for edification, it is good, therefore, to recapture, for the sake of the present generation, the facts of the case, not only to revive our gratitude to those who bore the cold and heats of a former day, the result of which we now enjoy, but to brush away certain misconceptions which have, so to speak, clogged the wheels of History where King's Lynn and its Shrine of Our Lady are so vitally condemned.

What, then, led up to the opening of this Church ?

It is not my purpose to speak about the past glories of this ancient town. I can only give you a few extracts of what took place here, from time to time, in those sad days of the penal laws, and subsequent periods, as they help us to realise the Catholic growth of this Mission. What it once was is witnessed by the number of Churches, Monastic and other, which, whether in present use or merely as ruins, are to be seen up and down, in almost every street. That speaks of a period long past. What we want to see is such evidence of post-Reformation Catholic life as we can discover.

The first reference I can find is as follows: Lynn, Norfolk, was occasionally visited in the missionary circuits of the Fathers, (Jesuits from Bury-St-Edmund's), and was for a short time a Residence (i.e. had \ father or two permanently in the town). In 1749 Father Daniel Platt, alias Needham (does not that word "alias"recall the days when a Catholic Priest went about in fear of his liberty, and even of his life?)-- was there. The College ledger contains the Entry “Feb. 9 1749, Given to Mr. Platt upon his coming to Lynn, and in want of everything, £10 10 0"

In 1802, The Rt. Revd. Gregory Stapleton, Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, appointed Rev. William de Goff to King's Lynn.

That was the beginning of the Mission of King's Lynn as we know it. With many a struggle, a piece of land was bought, and in 1845 a church designed by the elder Pugin was erected and opened. There were several Priests appointed to Lynn in succession, including Canon Dalton, but in 1887 Fr.George Wrigglesworth was sent to succeed Fr. Stodart MacDonald. He found himself faced by a serious problem. The old Church, after doing good service for 40 years he found to be in a parlous condition. The foundations, ill adapted to the marshy soil on which they built, were sinking and in the walls there were appearing ominous cracks. It was breaking up, and Fr. Wrigglesworth saw very clearly that it was in a dangerous condition, and could not be used much longer. With his characteristic energy he set about collecting funds for the erection of a new Church. But while he was thus engaged, he had constantly in mind the ruined Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham ever in his mind. The thought of that once-glorious Shrine, once the glory of Our Lady not only in England, but throughout the Christian world, and now lying ruined and desolate, haunted his whole being. His Mission was at that time the nearest to Walsingham of any Catholic centre in the whole wide world. Could not something be done, he thought, to revive in some measure, however humble, the tender devotion to Our Lady which had poured itself out so unstintedly, so generously, in those days of Faith at the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Here he was on one of the main avenues of approach to Walsingham. Lynn, in the old days one of the principal ports of England, received the crowds of Pilgrims who thronged from the Continent to pay their dutiful respects to the Mother of God who held her Court in this out-of-the-way corner of East Anglia. Nay, they came by way of the sea from distant parts of England too, for even the sea, with the peril of storm and possible shipwreck, was safer in those days than the long, tedious roads, beset, as they were with robbers and footpads. Here, too, close to him, was the Red Mount, the little shrine that served to remind the weary traveller that, as a true Pilgrim, he must tune his mind by prayer and meditation to the enterprise he was entering upon. Along that hard and dusty road he would tramp along, oblivious, in his desire to come to the famous shrine, of the toil and trouble involved in getting there.

In his mind's eye Fr. Wrigglesworth followed these pilgrims along the "Milky Way" as the road to Walsingham was sometimes devoutly called. He would visualise the Shrine itself, dark but for the multitude of wax candles, votive offerings of Mary's clients. He would reconstruct the copy of the Holy House of Loretto that the records assure us was the casket in which the miraculous Statue of the Mother of God was housed. All this he must, somehow, reproduce if the picture is to be even approximately true.

Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA28-01-01-222 · Item · 13 January 1931
Part of Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, King's Lynn

The policy on this was formulated by Bp Riddell. The seat of the old Walsingham shrine was utterly destroyed - nothing remains except for some ruins in Protestant hands. King's Lynn was where Leo XIII placed the shrine. What the Anglicans do is their affair. Some Catholics think differently and advertise their pilgrimages in the Tablet - until he contacted the Tablet. Continue to remind enquirers that the shrine is at King's Lynn, an old port through which the bulk of pilgrims from the Continent made their way to the famous old Shrine.
Apologies for the shortness of the letter as still in bed with pneumonia.

Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA28-01-01-203 · Item · 21 May 1930
Part of Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, King's Lynn

Responding to an article written by Fr Devas on Pg 15 of Farm Street Calendar. Believes Fr Devas to have preached at a Whit-Sunday procession in Prices Risborough.
Provides a long history of the shrine in King's Lynn and includes the Indult from Rome in the original Italian. The bishop says he was at the procession of the statue from the station to the church and its emplacement.
"I welcome the new honour that is being paid to Our Lady of W. at Sudbury in Middlesex, but I cannot for a moment allow that that place has discovered a forgotten and dead devotion, nor that it can compete for a moment with the shrine at King's Lynn which was opened with the special blessing of Pope Leo XIII, and holds its place officially as the successor and representative of the ancient and glorious shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham which our deluded ancestors destroyed."

Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)
GB ARCHON 2913 PA28-01-01-204 · Item · 3 June 1930
Part of Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, King's Lynn

Here is the Papal Rescript about the Shrine and Statue at K. Lynn [returned to Fr Stokes - not present]. Also text written in full, and a translation:
Main text:
"Si pregia ricordare a Sua Eminenza, 11 Cardinale Vicario, la Benedizione dell' annessa Imagine da Sua Santita il giorno sei, scelta da S.E.per la rinovazione doll' antico Santuario della Madonna di Walsingham, King's Lynn, Norfolk, nella Diocese di Northampton, Inghilterra, la Quale e stato ardentemente ed umilmente richiesta a S.E. dai Revmi. Padre Filippo Fletcher della Diocese di Southwark e Maestro della Confraternita della Madonna di Mercede per la conversione di Inghilterra ed il Padre Giorgio Wrigglesworth, parroco di Santa Maria, King's Lynn, Norfolk, Diocese di Northampton

Ex Aud. SS. Die 6. Feb. 1897, SS.D.N. LEO XIII piis precibus annuens delectam S. Deiparae Iconen ad effectum de Quo agitur adprobere laudibusque efferre clementissime dignatus est
L.M Card. Vicarius (Parocchi)
L.C. Cardinalis Vicarius Urbis

22 Feb. 1897.Hoc Rescriptur ut authenticum recogniscimus
Arthurus Epus. Northantoniensis”

Translation [by Bishop Cary-Elwes]

“Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at King's Lynn.

We beg to remind Your Eminence the Cardinal Vicar, of the Blessing of the annexed image chosen by Your Eminence on the 6th, for the reconstitution of the ancient Sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Northampton, England, which was fervently and humbly petitioned from Your Eminence by the Rev. Fr. Philip Fletcher of the Diocese of Southwark, Master of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom for the Conversion of England, and the Rev. Fr. George Wrigglesworth, Parish Priest of St. Mary's, King's Lynn, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Northampton.

At an Audience of His Holiness, the 6th. February, 1897, Our Holy Father Leo XIII, consenting to these pious petitions, graciously deigned to approve and extol the said Image of Our Lady for the purpose indicated.

L.M. (Parocchi) Card. Vic.

L.S.
Cardinalis Vicarius Urbis.

We hereby certify this Rescript as authentic.
Arthur, Bishop of Northampton.
22nd. Feb. 1897.

Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)
GB ARCHON 2913 EABC-00-01-80 · Item · 27 November 1981
Part of East Anglia Bishops' Correspondence

List of roles:
Chairman of ECEW
Member of Theological Commission
Chairman of CTS (suspended - but David [Norris?] is pressing me not to make this final)
Walsingham commitments
ARCIC - still rolling on

Enclose accounts for trip to Denmark - fares, conference fees, lodging and food

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-06-100 · Item · 1982-5-14
Part of Walsingham Shrine

Understands the problem. Asks Bishop Cleary to read the minutes of the Shrine Council. Bishop Clark is worried as the man hoped to take the post of Administrative Officer (Manager) has jibbed. Main concern is the bewildering indebtedness of the day-today running of the shrine. "Clive seems impervious to my directive ... he'll have to go. But I want your wise counsel."

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-06-1 · Item · 1970-10-6
Part of Walsingham Shrine

Letter from Gambling - Wells getting cold feet - not use them after Christmas. Walsingham Trust will be in place to ensure the Appeal is pursued. Laurie Tanner's (General Secretary of the Catenians) devastating constructive criticism has been very helpful. Can't be with you because at Lowestoft to bless the new cemetery.

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
GB ARCHON 2913 WSHR-01-06-76 · Item · 1981-9-7
Part of Walsingham Shrine

Mgr Tony Hulme approached the Bishop about being an honorary member of Shrine Council. Need to consult Fr Birch, the Council, the two other Bishops. Already spoken to Canon McBride. Feels there is an obligation to acceded to this.

Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)