Reference
P88/2/2/16
Title
Correspondence regarding St.Leonard's church and church hall
Date free text
1985-1989
Production date
From: 1985 To: 1989
Scope and Content
including, amongst other things:
- request by Seventh Day Adventist Church to use church hall for evangelist meetings in Urdu or Punjabi [1985];
- notes of meeting to discuss the use of the church, the hall (former St.Leonard's Hospital) and open allotment site – the church and hall being used, in part, by the Diocesan Youth Training Scheme [1987];
- possible construction of a Youth Training Scheme headquarters on the St.Leonard's allotments [not carried out] [1987];
- analysis of regular worshippers at St.Leonard's church hall – 40 European (including 7 from the former parish of St.Leonard's) and 25 Asian and comments that services uniting the two were more frequent as barriers of language etc. were lowered [1987];
- comments regarding potential organ for the church hall [1987];
- interest of North Bedfordshire Health Authority in the allotment land for future development of South Wing Hospital [1988];
- possible choices regarding continuing worship at St.Leonard's in the light of the likely decision of the Diocese to demolish the church and sell the site, two thirds of the sale monies going to the Diocese and one third to the Redundant Churches Fund [1988];
- letter from John Wyatt, great nephew of the founder of St.Leonard's, expressing a hope of getting inside the church and dismay at the covering up of the foundation stone [1988];
- need to demolish the top of the church chimney stack following the fire at the church on 23 Aug 1988 [see P 88/2/2/17];
- inventories of church contents, some annotated for cost of repair/replacement [1988-1989];
- receipt of planning permission for residential development on the church and church hall site [1988];
- wish of St.John's and St.Leonard's PCC to continue worship on the church site and for the rest of the site to be used by South Wing Hospital [1988];
- wish of Dr.Clement Moss of Harrold, who had been conducting Urdu services at St.Leonard's Church Hall to cease his commitment as the Indian congregation had sharply declined with those left now happy to worship with their English brethren [1989];
- curriculum vitae of Clement Moss [1989];
- Bedford Deanery Pastoral Committee suggestion that worship continue for the St.Leonard's congregation but at a different site and on an ecumenical basis [1989];
- details of American reed, Italian electric and Gray & Davison pipe organs destroyed in the fire;
- request by John Wyatt to preserve Wyatt family memorials and the foundation stone from St.Leonard's church;
- view of St.John's & St.Leonard's PCC that the current church hall site was the best place for a worship centre [1989];
- problem with restrictive covenant on St.Leonard's church site forbidding any building other than a church, church school, clergy house or other parochial building on the site and need for the PCC to remove it [see also P 88/2/2/17][1989];
- description of Wyatt memorials in St.Leonard's church [1989];
- new redundancy scheme allowing St.Leonard's church to be demolished and the site sold [27 Apr 1989];
- correspondence regarding insurance claim [1989-1990];
- details of proposed repairs to fire damaged altar, with sketch [1989];
- drawings of St.Leonard's iron gates leading to front porch, Lady Chapel window, altar panel, front door, lobby door and back door all required by Steppingley church
Level of description
file