Alexander Nowell
(c. 1507–1602),Dean of St Paul's. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1536. In Mary's first Parliament he was returned as the member ...
bell
1 This popular and ubiquitous mus. instr. varies in weight from over 100 tons to a fraction of an ounce. For public bells the most usual bell metal is a bronze of 13 parts copper to 4 parts tin: the ...
cardinal
A high church official, appointed by the pope. The cardinals (from Latin cardo, ‘hinge’) were defined as a ‘sacred college’ with clearly defined functions in the 11th century, when they ...
Cassinese Congregation
A monastic congregation of Benedictine monks which owes its origin to a reform initiated by Ludovico Barbo at Padua in 1409. The aim of the reformers was to overcome the evil of appointing abbots in ...
construction Industry
The largest structures of the medieval and early modern periods were monasteries, churches, cathedrals, castles, and town walls. York, with its 13th-cent. motte and bailey castle, known as Clifford's ...
Court of Audience
Formerly an ecclesiastical court of the Province of Canterbury in which the Archbishop exercised his legatine authority. In the 17th cent. it was superseded by the Court of Arches.
diocese of London
The senior see after the two archbishoprics, it comprises Greater London and part of Surrey north of the Thames. Though a British bishop from London attended the Council of Arles in 314, Augustine ...
Doctors' Commons
The popular name for the College of Advocates founded in the 1490s by Richard Blodwell, dean of the arches (i.e. the judge of the provincial court of the archbishop of ...
Dorset
Is one of the oldest and most beautiful shires. The county is largely the basin of the river Frome. For centuries it was the quietest of rural counties, with small market towns like Shaftesbury, ...
ecclesiastical commissioners
The body which from 1835 to 1948 managed the estates and revenues of the C of E. In 1948 it was united with Queen Anne's Bounty to form the Church Commissioners for England.
Edward Copleston
(1776–1849),Bp. of Llandaff. A fine classical scholar, he was elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, in 1795 and Provost of the college in 1814. In 1826 he became ...
Edward Stillingfleet
(1635–99)English Churchman. A Fellow of St John's college, Cambridge, Stillingfleet became Archdeacon of London in 1677, Dean of St Pauls in 1678 and Bishop of Worcester in 1689. He feared that his ...
Erconwald
(d. c.693),Bp. of London. Born of a princely family, he devoted his fortune to the founding of two religious houses, over one of which, that at Barking, he placed ...
Faith
Female name. St Faith (3rd century?) was a virgin and martyr; her shrine at Conques was a popular centre, and she was invoked by Crusaders and pilgrims. She is shown with a sword or a bundle of rods, ...
fire of London
A major fire that devastated London in September 1666. The fire began in a baker's shop and, fanned by an east wind, raged for four days, destroying 87 churches, including St Paul's, and more than ...
George Frederick Bodley
(1827–1907).Hull-born English architect, one of the most successful and sensitive of the Gothic Revival. A student of George Gilbert Scott in the 1840s, his first churches include St Michael and All ...
Henry Hart Milman
(1791–1868),professor of poetry at Oxford (1821–31) and dean of St Paul's (1849). He wrote a number of verse dramas including Fazio (1815); a Miltonic epic, Samor (1818); and various historical works.
Henry Longueville Mansel
(1820–71),Anglican divine. He was successively scholar (1839) and tutor (1844) of St John's College, Oxford. In 1859 he became the first Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy at ...
Henry Parry Liddon
(1829–90), Canon of St Paul's from 1870 and from 1870 to 1882 also Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis at Oxford. He was a powerful influence at Oxford in face of post-Tractarian liberalism; ...
Henry Purcell
(1659–95),English composer. He composed many anthems and sacred works; songs for stage works by Dryden, Shadwell, D'Urfey, Southern, and others; a celebrated opera, Dido and Aeneas (1689, libretto by ...
