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St Peter Mancroft
St Peter Mancroft is a parish church in the Church of England, in the centre of Norwich, Norfolk. After the two cathedrals, it is the largest church in Norwich. It was originally established by the then Earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Gael between 1066 and 1075. It was later rebuilt, between 1430 and 1455. It stands on a slightly elevated position, next to the market place. St Peter Mancroft is a member of the Greater Churches Group. Description The present building was begun in 1430, on the site of an existing church, and consecrated in 1455. It is an ambitious building, 180 feet long and ashlar faced with a tower at the west end. It is a Grade I listed building. It has a Norman foundation dating from 1075, a 1463 font, a 1573 Flemish tapestry and medieval glass. The North transept displays a remarkable collection of church silver (one of the finest of any parish church in the country) including the Gleane and Thistle cups, as well as memorabilia associated with its most famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Peter
) (Simeon, Simon) , birth_date = , birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire , death_date = Between AD 64–68 , death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire , parents = John (or Jonah; Jona) , occupation = Fisherman, clergyman , feast_day = , venerated = All Christian denominations that venerate saints and in Islam , canonized_date = Pre- Congregation , attributes = Keys of Heaven, Red Martyr, pallium, papal vestments, rooster, man crucified upside down, vested as an Apostle, holding a book or scroll, Cross of Saint Peter , patronage = Patronage list , shrine = St. Peter's Basilica Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un al-Safa, Simon the Pure.; tr, Aziz Petrus (died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Peter the Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Change Ringing
Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a tightly controlled manner to produce precise variations in their successive striking sequences, known as "changes". This can be by method ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change, or by call changes, where the ringers are instructed how to generate each change by instructions from a conductor. This creates a form of bell music which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody, but is a series of mathematical sequences. Change ringing originated following the invention of English full-circle tower bell ringing in the early 17th century, when bell ringers found that swinging a bell through a much larger arc than that required for swing-chiming gave control over the time between successive strikes of the clapper. Ordinarily a bell will swing through a small arc only at a set speed governed by its size and shape in the nature of a simple pendulum, but by swinging through a larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christmas Beckwith
John Christmas Beckwith (25 December 1759 – 3 June 1809) was an English organist and composer. Life Beckwith was born in Norwich on 25 December 1759, son of Edward Beckwith (1734–1793). His father and uncle were lay clerks at Norwich Cathedral. He was for many years pupil and assistant successively of the organist and composer William Hayes, and his son Philip Hayes, at Magdalen College, Oxford. As an organist he took very high rank in his day. He had many pupils, including the organist Zechariah Buck, the composer Stephen Codman, canadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 18 January 2018. the singer Thomas Vaughan and the writer on music |
Norwich Cathedral
Norwich Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Norwich, Norfolk, dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity. It is the cathedral church for the Church of England Diocese of Norwich and is one of the Norwich 12 heritage sites. The cathedral was begun in 1096 and constructed out of flint and mortar and faced with a cream-coloured Caen limestone. An Anglo-Saxon settlement and two churches were demolished to make room for the buildings. The cathedral was completed in 1145 with the Norman tower still seen today topped with a wooden spire covered with lead. Episodes of damage necessitated rebuilding and the stone spire was erected in 1480. The bosses of Norwich Cathedral are one of the world's greatest mediaeval sculptural treasures that survived the iconoclasm of the Tudor and English Civil War periods.The bosses in the cloisters include hundreds that are carved and ornately painted. Norwich Cathedral has the second largest cloisters in England, only exceeded by those at S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Pipe Organ Register
The British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS) is a British organisation and registered charity which aims to promote study and appreciation of all aspects of the pipe organ. Further, it acts as a lobbying body to raise awareness of organ issues with appropriate statutory bodies. Membership is open to all. Aims The aims of BIOS are * To promote objective, scholarly research into the history of the organ and its music in all its aspects, and, in particular, into the organ and its music in Britain. * To conserve the sources and materials for the history of the organ in Britain, and to make them accessible to scholars. * To work for the preservation and, where necessary, the faithful restoration of historic organs in Britain. * To encourage an exchange of scholarship with similar bodies and individuals abroad, and to promote, in Britain, a greater appreciation of historical overseas schools of organ-building. BIOS publishes a quarterly ''Reporter'' newsletter and magazine and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Collins (organ Builder)
Peter Collins (1941 – 24 October 2015) was an English pipe organ builder based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He specialised in tracker action organs. Collins was an advocate of computer-aided design, using it to produce compact instruments and to control material costs. Collins founded his company in 1964. Prior to that, he worked in another established organ building firm. He built organs varying in size from one stop to over 50 stops. The company entered a creditors voluntary liquidation on 20 January 2017. Organs in the UK Examples are to be found in the UK including Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh; St Peter Mancroft, Norwich; Orford parish church (formerly at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton)), and Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge. His largest organ was built for St David's Hall, Cardiff (subsequently rebuilt in part by Walker). A notable commission was for the St Albans International Organ Festival (IOF), with which Collins was associated fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Pipe Organ In St Peter Mancroft, Norwich
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Bentley
Ian Robert Bentley (28 April 1955 – 31 May 2022) was an English Anglican priest. He was Archdeacon of Lynn from 2018 to 2022. Bentley was born on 28 April 1955. He was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys; the University of Sheffield; and Cranmer Hall, Durham. After an earlier career as a teacher he was ordained deacon in 1995, and priest in 1996. After a curacy in Mattishall he was Vicar of the Earsham group of parishes for 7 years and vicar of St.Mark’s Oulton Broad for a further 12. He was briefly Priest in charge at St Faith, Plumstead, Cape Town during a sabbatical. He held incumbencies at Earsham, Oulton Broad and St Peter Mancroft St Peter Mancroft is a parish church in the Church of England, in the centre of Norwich, Norfolk. After the two cathedrals, it is the largest church in Norwich. It was originally established by the then Earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Gael between .... Bentley died on 31 May 2022, shortly after being diagnosed with stage 4 liver can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Westwood
William John Westwood (28 December 1925 – 15 September 1999) was the 36th Anglican Bishop of Peterborough. Life Born at Saul, Gloucestershire, Westwood was educated at Grove Park Grammar School, Wrexham and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After ordination as a deacon in 1952, Westwood was appointed curate of Holy Trinity Church, Kingston upon Hull. He was ordained priest in 1953. After serving his title in Hull, Westwood was then Rector of St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft (1957-65), Vicar of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich (1965–75) and an honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral. He became the Bishop suffragan of Edmonton in the Diocese of London from his consecration on 24 June 1975 by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. From the creation of the London area scheme in 1979, he was the first area bishop, remained in that see until his translation to Peterborough in late 1984. He was enthroned at Peterborough Cathedral on 12 January 1985, but had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waddington (priest)
John Albert Henry Waddington, MBE, TD (10 February 1910 – 23 November 1994) was the Provost of St Edmundsbury from 1958 to 1976. He was educated at Wandsworth Grammar School and the London College of Divinity and ordained in 1934. His first ecclesiastical posts were curacies at St Andrew's, Streatham and St Paul's, Furzedown. After this he was Rector of Great Bircham from 1938 to 1945 then Vicar of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich until 1958. In 1968 Waddington was appointed Grand Chaplain of the Royal Masonic Order."News of Old Boys". The Link, Wandsworth School Wandsworth School was a local authority maintained boys' secondary school in Southfields, London. Established in 1895, it became a selective grammar school, then an all-ability comprehensive school, before merging in 1986 and finally closin ... Magazine. Page 19. December 1968. References 1910 births Members of the Order of the British Empire Holders of a Lambeth degree Provosts and Deans of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pelham-Burn
William Pelham-Burn (1859–1901) was Archdeacon of Norfolk from 1900 until his death. Nevill was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. After a Curate, curacy in Bodmin he was at St Mary AbbotsECCLESIASTICAL NEWS Yorkshire Herald (York, England), Friday, June 20, 1890; Issue 12183 until becoming the Vicar of St Peter Mancroft, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich in 1890. Notes 1859 births 1901 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Norfolk Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Pelham
Sidney Pelham (16 May 1849 – 14 July 1926) was an English first-class cricketer active in 1871 and 1872 who played for Oxford University. He became Archdeacon of Norfolk from 1901 until 1916. Pelham was born in Brighton and died in Norwich. Playing cricket at Oxford, Pelham appeared in seven first-class matches as a slow roundarm bowler who took 21 wickets with a best return of six for 51. He was a lower order right-handed batsman, scoring only 24 runs and he held six catches. In 1868, he had captained the team at Harrow. The son of John Pelham, Bishop of Norwich from 1857 to 1893, he was educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was ordained Deacon in 1873; and Priest in 1874. He served curacies at Stalbridge and Redenhall. He was Vicar of St Peter Mancroft from 1879 to 1881; then Chaplain to successive Bishops of Norwich The Bishop of Norwich is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The dioc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
