ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH TIVOLI– a gallery of historic images
ST STEPHEN’S: THE WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL by Brian Torode
The War Memorial Chapel was created out of the existing South Transept. It was dedicated at 3 pm on Sunday May 9th 1920 by Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson, Bishop of Gloucester. Also present with the Vicar, the Rev Robert Hodson, were the Archdeacon of Cheltenham, former Parish Priest Canon Jennings, and the first Vicar of St Stephen’s, the Reverend C. McArthur. Continue reading
W E ELLERY ANDERSON AND ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH by Richard Barton
William Elbert Ellery Anderson and the changes made to the Sanctuary of the Church of St Stephen, Tivoli, on the Eve of the Second World War: on 8th October 1939 a newly-decorated altar and its ornaments were dedicated at St Stephen’s Church. Continue reading
REV EDWARD CORNFORD, FIRST CURATE-IN-CHARGE OF ST STEPHEN’S by Brian Torode
The Reverend Edward Cornford was the son of Edward Cornford, a solicitor of Dorset Gardens, Brighton.He studied at St John’s College, Cambridge, BA 1855 and MA 1863. Edward was made Deacon at Exeter Cathedral in 1856 and ordained Priest in 1857 at Grahamstown. In 1856 he was appointed curate at Loxbear, and served as Chaplain to the Bishop of Grahamstown from 1857-1859. Continue reading
FURTHER HISTORICAL NOTES ABOUT ST STEPHEN’S
The Model of St Stephen’s Church, Tivoli: The model of St Stephen’s Church was found in the St Stephen’s Club, Tivoli Street, which used to be the centre of Parish Social Life until the mid 1920s. Continue reading
Memories of Joyce Kirkland: In 1973 Joyce Kirkland looked back over the sixty years that she had worshipped at St Stephen’s Tivoli. Continue reading