P127/28/24

Envelope containing photographs of the church, with details marked on the back of each picture and on the envelope

1954-1955

From: 1954 To: 1955

a) Bishop Michael Gresford-Jones at the consecration of the new altar, with (l. to r.) Mrs. Cooper, Father Mc.William, Harry Page, the Bishop, Margaret Dando, Miss Florrie Wykes, Cynthia Tompkins, and Mrs. Phyllis Wildman. 26 April 1955 b) The new side altar with frontal, candlesticks etc., consecrated by the Bishop of St.Albans on Tuesday 26 April 1955. c) The Nativity play given in the church by the day-school children, under the direction of Miss.M.E.Congreve, headmistress, at Christmas 1954. This picture also shows the interim arrangement of the altar. Christmas 1954 d) Photograph by the Country Life photographer of the monument to Diana and Richard Orlebar (d.1733) on the north wall of the Chancel, and of the adjacent tablet in memory of Caroline Augusta Arnold [nee Orlebar] (d.1861). Note : taken to illustrate an article on Hinwick House which appeared in Country Life on 22 and 29 Sept., and 6 Oct. 1960

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Gresford-Jones, Michael,
Cooper,
McWilliam,
Page, Harry,
Dando, Margaret,
Wykes, Florrie,
Tompkins, Cynthia,
Wildman, Phyllis,
Congreve, M.E.,
Orlebar, Diana,
Orlebar, Richard,
Arnold, Caroline Augusta

PODINGTON, parish, CHURCH, photographs, memorials, nativity plays, monuments, Bishop of St Albans