Cameley Church, Somerset : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Cameley Church, Somerset / Robert Cutts
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| 説明 | The little Church of St James at Camely has strong associations with the Rees-Mogg family..The Rev. John Rees (1772-1835) married Mary Mogg Wooldrige (1774-1846), heiress of Cholwell and, in 1805, in accordance with the will of his wife's grandfather John Mogg (born 1722) of Cholwell, he assumed by royal licence the additional surname and arms of Mogg.John and Mary's elder son was William Wooldridge Rees-Mogg (1815-1909). He became one of the two principal landowners in Camely as it was spelt at the time). His son was Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg (1889-1962). He was a wealthy farmer who served in World War I as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps and was the High Sheriff of Somerset in 1945.Edmund's son, William Rees-Mogg (1928-2012), was born in a nursing home in Clifton, Bristol. Like one of his heroes, Winston Churchill, he had an American mother. He was educated at Clifton College, Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. During that time he developed political ambitions and twice during the 1950s contested the safe Labour seat of Chester-le-Street, County Durham. But he was defeated on both occasions and instead became a journalist on the Financial Times. In 1960, he became city editor of the Sunday Times and when in 1967 Lord Thomson, already the proprietor of The Times, added the Sunday Times to his portfolio he made Rees-Mogg editor of his new acquisition. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the two papers in 1981, Rees-Mogg resigned as editor. Nevertheless, he continued writing for the paper occasionally until the early years of the 21st century. He was made a life peer as Baron Rees-Mogg in 1988. He died on 29 December 2012 after a brief illness. Read about his long life in his Guardian obituary or in his Memoirs published in 2011.William Rees-Mogg's son Jacob Rees-Mogg (b 1969) is the controversal Conservative. MP for North East Somerset which includes Cameley, Pensford and Bishop Sutton.There is a memorial to John Rees-Mogg within the Church. You can see it at www.flickr.com/photos/panr/4250311999. Until the 1930s there were coalfields in NE Somerset. In 1835 William Rees-Mogg's grandfather William Wooldridge Rees-Mogg purchased the old Bishop Sutton field and, in 1853, he added the Old Pit at Pensford to a portfolio which, by then, may have been considerable.Within the church is the following notice which gives some idea of its history:This ancient church is dedicated to St James (we don’t know which one) and was the parish church of Cameley from at least the 13th century. About 200 years ago the village moved to the nearby hamlet of Temple Cloud, probably because of the new toll road. Tamely became the hamlet to Temple Cloud, but the parish was still known as Cameley.In 1925 a Chapel of Ease was built at Temple Cloud, dedicated to St Barnabas, and the village, small as it was, then used both churches, until in September 1956. St James church was closed, having become dangerous, as well as in general bad repair.At this time ‘The Friends of Cameley Church Association’ came into being, and this body of mainly local people did fine work in restoring the church over the next twenty years. Services were resumed in 1960 and have been held here ever since, regularly if not always very frequently. The continuing high maintenance costs of this building and pastoral considerations led to the Parochial Church Council asking for a redundancy scheme for the church, and on January 1st 1980, St James was ‘closed’. That means it ceased to be a parish church. There will however continue to be a few services each year at festivals.In 1981, the building became the responsibility of the Redundant Churches Fund, which has already provided a great deal of money for restoration work, and it will have to bear the cost of future maintenance. There is a local committee to support the Redundant Churches Fund in its work, and to maintain local interest in the care and use of the church. Although the financial burden of maintaining this building no longer falls locally, we would ask for your continued generosity. There is a box by the door for your contributions to the Redundant Churches Fund; and also all collections taken here services are divided equally between the Fund and Parish. The churchyard continues to be in use, and is maintained by the Parochial Church Council with the help of a grant from the Parish Council.In 1975 the ancient parishes of Clutton and Cameley were united and the new Parish covering the area of Clutton and Temple Cloud villages and the houses at Cameley became known as ‘The Parish of Clutton with Cameley’. The parish church is now that of St Augustine of Hippo in Clutton, but services continue also at some Barnabas, Temple Cloud, which in 1981 was converted into a dual-purpose building. The rectory is also situated at Temple Cloud.St James has many ancient and interesting features: there is a church guide and an explanation of the mediaeval wall paintings. Please enjoy your visit; you are most welcome to look around. Although St James church is no longer a parish church it is still a church and not merely a museum. It has been hallowed by the prayers and worship of many generations; it is a holy place and will always continue to be served. Please therefore use the opportunity of your visit to pray for yourself and for others, for the needs of the world, the sick and the sad, for those who have worshipped here in generations past, and for those who lie buried in the church and churchyard. Please pray to for this parish, for those seeking to be the Church in this generation. The world has changed a great deal since this church was built – surrounding village which has come and gone is but a small token of that. But the Good News of Jesus Christ, which this church was built to proclaim, does not change. People come and go; the world by its nature is full of change and decay, but ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever’.1981, Christopher Tookey, Rector of Clutton with Cameley. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-04-10 11:59:52 |
| 撮影者 | Robert Cutts , Bristol, England, UK |
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