Order of Service
Order of service for the funeral of Cecil Audrey Waterfield at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Leamington Spa, on 3 May 1985 at 11.45am
Order of Service Booklet
A printed Order of Service for the Burial of the Dead booklet for the funeral service of Mr Frank Gaskin, father of Mrs Edith Banwell (nee Gaskin). The service took place at Leamington Spa Cemetery on ...
Order of Service for King Edward VII's Funeral
An eight-page order of service in commemoration if his late majesty King Edward VII to be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales on the day of his funeral, 1 January 1910.
Palm Sunday Evening Service Music Programme
This programme contains the music for the Palm Sunday Evening service at St Peter's Church, Leamington Spa in 1988.
Pillerton Hersey. G F S at Pillerton Manor
Ladies from Alderminster at the G F S festival at The Manor, Pillerton Hersey. June 23rd 1934
Prayer and Thanksgiving Booklet - King George V's Silver Jubilee
A service of prayer and thanksgiving booklet for King George V's Silver Jubilee, 1 January 1935. This accompanies the programme M4540.2001.1.
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577, 'History of Scotland', - a sermon, woodcut, p.144, detail.
Sermons: frequently heard by Shakespeare.
Regular attendance at church made all Elizabethans familiar with sermons delivered by the local, or visiting clergy. In Shakespeare's comedies especially, ...
Reverend J. Lincoln Galton
Henrietta Gubbins Reverend J. Lincoln Galton, 1842 Pastel on paper 350mm x 255mm A portrait of the Reverend J. Lincoln Galton preaching at Christ Church, Leamington Spa, in 1842.
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - A corpse awaits burial, p.89r, detail.
A body in its linen burial cloth, or shroud, and laid in a tomb: a possible source for Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare, in 1605, purchased an interest in the local tithes, and so automatically became ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Baptism woodcut,, p.61v. detail
An Infant Baptism: Shakespeare was baptised 23 April 1564.
William Shakespeare, the first boy, but third child of John and Mary Shakespeare, was baptised in the local parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Christian duty p.53v, detail.
Homilies : life-style advised for Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
All children would accompany their parents to church each Sunday, where they would hear the readings from the Bible, and also the ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Communion woodcut, p.62r, detail.
Holy Communion: a church service attended by all Elizabethans.
This woodcut shows the distribution of wine and bread at Holy Communion to the congregation at the altar. It was the duty of all confirmed ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - infant woodcut detail, p.100v.
Infant mortality: Shakespeare's older sisters died young.
William's two older sisters both died in infancy. For Elizabethans the death of a child was a common occurrence. William's younger brothers, ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Life and death, p.122v.
Death in everyday life in Shakespeare's time.
Life and death went hand-in-hand everywhere in Shakespeare’s England, where medical knowledge was very limited, and most illness depended on traditional ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Momento mori woodcut, p.89v, detail.
A possible source for the Capulet tomb.
The end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes place in the Capulet family tomb where the apparently dead Juliet has been laid. Such places had a ghostly reputation, ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Momento mori woodcuts, p.89v.
The everyday presence of death in Shakespeare's England.
Much of Richard Day’s prayerbook has illustrations which remind readers of the everyday presence of death in the 16th century. ‘Thou ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for family use, p.61v.
The Shakespeare family in Elizabethan England.
Richard Day's popular book of prayers intended for personal use by Elizabethans, was re-published several times after it was first printed in 1578. Its ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for wisdom, p.89r.
Private prayers in Shakespeare's time.
Many members of the gentry and the nobility had ordained clergymen as part of their households, and had private indoor chapels, or churches in the grounds of ...