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CATHOLICS IN CAMBRIDGE

 

Edited by Nicholas Rogers, FSA

 

Foreword by Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville

 

Catholics in Cambridge offers a unique portrayal of the active religious life of the townspeople and members of the University in medieval times, their numerous parish churches, religious houses, guilds, chantries, benefactions and processions.  All these disappeared at the Reformation, when the Catholic faith and its observances were effectively extinguished in Cambridgeshire.  After briefly considering a failed attempt at restoration in a Cambridge college in 1687-88 (previously unrecorded), the story moves on to the later penal times, tracing the gradual relaxation of the prohibitions and penalties in town and county from the mid-18th century onwards.  The cautious reappearance of Catholicism in Cambridge and district was evidenced by the registration of the Catholic chapel in Sawston Hall for public worship in 1791, the building of St Andrew’s Chapel in Union Road, Cambridge in 1842, and the incorporation of the Catholics of Cambridge in the new Diocese of Northampton in 1850. An outstanding windfall benefaction allowed the present Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs to be built on a monumental scale and consecrated in 1890, and relaxation by the University authorities and by the hierarchy once again permitted Catholic attendance at the University. An examination of the century that followed these landmark events reveals to the reader the steady growth of the Catholic community in Cambridge, influenced inevitably by social changes resulting from two World Wars and the devotional changes introduced by the Second Vatican Council.

 

 

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OUR LADY AND THE ENGLISH MARTYRS,

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The three-manual Abbott & Smith organ was designed by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, then Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge and a significant figure in English church music. The year 2002 sees the 150th anniversary of his birth.  The organ, an historical rarity, is in urgent need of repair and renovation, and an appeal for the sum of £100,000 to carry out the necessary programme of renovation was launched in Cambridge in January 2002.

 

The profits from each copy of Catholics in Cambridge sold in advance of publication will be donated to the Organ Appeal Fund.

 

‘Catholics in Cambridge’

An illustrated hardback volume of approximately 400 pages containing historical essays on a scale never previously attempted.  The sixteen contributors are all present or former members of the Catholic community in Cambridge.

To be published by Gracewing Ltd

 

24th May 2003                            R.R.P.£20.00                 ISBN 085244 568 7

 

 

 

 

 

Catholics in Cambridge - List of Essays in Chronological Sequence

 

The Religious Life of the Townsmen of Medieval Cambridge by Roger and Marie Lovatt

Religion and the University to 1535  by Malcolm Underwood

A Catholic Interlude:  Sidney Sussex College, 1687-88 by Nicholas Rogers

Catholic Life in Cambridgeshire 1750-1850 by Christopher Jackson,

The Rectorship of Canon Quinlivan 1843-1883  by Timothy Glasswell

Canon Christopher Scott 1838-1922 by Christine Branch

Founding a Cambridge ‘Cathedral’ - Mrs Lyne-Stephens  by Philip Wilkins

1914-1918 A World in Turmoil by Christopher Jackson

The Catholic Bible Congress 1921 by Christopher Jackson

Baron Anatole von Hügel (1854-1928) by Michael de Wolff.  .

A Doyen of the Parish  - Edward Conybeare and his Diaries by Philip Wilkins

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) by C.Jackson

The Ministry of Canon Marshall  by C.Jackson assisted by Miss M.Marshall.

There’s A War On: Catholic Cambridge 1939-1945  by C.Jackson..

The Clock Winder’s Tale  a wartime memory, by Tony Brotchie

The Night Chimes of the Catholic Church - newspaper letter by Canon Marshall, August 1940

Catholic Cambridge 1960-1990 by Monsignor Anthony Rogers

Canon Stokes, Parish Priest 1946-61,and Canon Diamond, Parish Priest 1963-68 by C.Jackson

St Laurence’s Parish by Margaret Plumb with epilogue on the Carmelite Convent  by one of the Founder Sisters

and an appendix on St Joseph’s Chapel, Waterbeach.

Memories of a Parishioner by Margaret Plumb

St Philip Howard Parish 1978-1990, by Sean Lang

The Polish Community in Cambridge by C.Jackson, T.Kubiakowski and Anna-Maria Norman

Italians Come to Cambridge  by John Rowgotzow and Enikö Regös.

          

 

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Catholics in Cambridge - List of Essays on Special Topics

 

Pugin’s Church in Cambridge (St Andrew’s Church, Union Road) and Dunn & Hansom’s Church in Cambridge (Our Lady and the English Martyrs) both by Dr Rory O’Donnell

The Abbott & Smith Organ  by Andrew Johnson

Gown and Town 1856-1965  by Michael de Wolff

St Edmunds College Cambridge by C.Jackson

Blackfriars St Michael’s by Fr Aidan Nichols OP

Religious Communities in 19th and 20th century

Cambridge:  A Directory, by Dr Enikö Regös

The Union Road R.C. School (St Alban’s) 1843-1990  by P.Wilkins.and Stella Fox.  

St Laurence’s School 1968-1986 by Ron Ellison

St Bede’s School Cambridge 1961-1988  from the memories of George Kent and Colin Ball

St Mary’s School Cambridge 1898-1990 by C.Jackson, assisted by Sister Gregory Kirkus IBVM

with appendix on St Catherine’s School

 

Epilogue: The Homily preached on 12th October 1990 by the late Cardinal Basil Hume OSB at the Centenary Mass in the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge.

 

Appendices

Parish Organisations by Margaret Plumb

List of Parish Clergy in the three Cambridge Parishes and Sawston, from 1842.

List of Heads of Schools, Colleges and Religious Houses from 1842.

 

 

 

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