Benedictine Bath – Monday 6th – Friday 10th July

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Downside Monastery Archives and Library along with the Monastic Community would like to invite you all to our week long series of events: ‘Benedictine Bath’

When people think of Bath’s history, they immediately think Roman or Georgian, but the Benedictines have had a presence in Bath for over a thousand years.

As part of our celebration of Bath’s Benedictine history and heritage, there will be:

• An exhibition in Bath Abbey including pre Reformation books and manuscripts from the Monastery Library
• Vespers and Benediction in St John the Evangelist Church on Wednesday 8^th July at 7 pm including monastic chant by the monastic community. This will be a return to St Johns, built by Downside in 1863, for the monastic community, since the monks left in 1932.
• Walking tours of the Benedictine sites of Bath leaving Bath Abbey every day at 11 am and 2.30 pm.
• A conference at the Guildhall featuring papers by Abbot Aidan Bellenger and Canon Anthony Harding.

Please see the attached poster for more details.

Pugin Exhibition, Downside Abbey, Monday 29th June 2015

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Details of an event announced by the English Catholic History Association

Downside Abbey Monastery Library and Archive invites you to an exhibition and evening lecture focusing on the conservation of the Downside drawings of A.W.N. Pugin on Monday 29^th June in the St Bede Centre.

The Library intern, Anthi Souliti, has spent part of her internship conserving the plans held in the archives and the exhibition is the culmination of her work here.

For more information please click here

Map Images from the National Library of Scotland

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A very useful resource from the National Library of Scotland which lets you look at a variety of old maps overlaid onto modern maps and satellite images. So you see what your area of interest looked like at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century overlaid onto a modern street plan.

The link here is centered on Worthing, but you can of course navigate to other places.

Also worth going to this page to see what other mapping resources are available.

Midland Catholic History Society – Upcoming Event

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Thursday 2nd July at 11:00

A visit to the Church of SS Peter and Paul, Friars Lane, Lower Brailes, OX15 5HU to include Mass and a talk by Fr Brian Doolan on Bishop William Bishop followed by lunch in the village.

The church is in the upper storey of a medieval malt barn attached to the Old Rectory Farm. It is one of the oldest post-Reformation public Catholic churches in England. More details of the church can be found here.

Booking application and fee of £10, to include a buffet lunch at the George Inn, Brailes, to: Vincent Burke, 16 Brandhall Court, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 8DE