Peter Sydney Godfrey Bridges,

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(30 January 1925 – 24 January 2015) was an

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who served in three senior posts during the last third of the twentieth century. Bridges was educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School and initially trained as an

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. He was

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in 1958 and began his career as a

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. After this he was Resident Fellow at

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’s Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture from 1964 to 1967 and a

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there from then until 1972 when he became the

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. In 1977 he became

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; and in 1983 Archdeacon of Warwick, a post he held until his retirement. He died in January 2015, only a few days before his 90th birthday.''The Venerable Peter Bridges, priest-architect - obituary.''
In: The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2015, accessed 23 February 2015.

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1925 births 2015 deaths People educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School Academics of the University of Birmingham 20th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Southend Archdeacons of Coventry Archdeacons of Warwick Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub