Denchworth, St James' Church Parochial Library
Owner Id00017435
TypeCorporate body
GenderUnknown
Biographical dates - Period of existence1693-1852
Other Information"The library was begun in 1693 by Ralph Kedden (b. c. 1665), vicar 1691-1720, and Gregory Geering (b. c. 1664), patron, churchwarden, and owner of the chief manor in the parish, when a room was built over the porch to house the books, all then chained to the shelves. [...] After the restoration of church in 1852 by G. E. Street the then vicar, E. Horton, removed the books to the vicarage and stripped them of their chains, except for two kept as specimens." See A Directory of the Parochial Libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales, first edition by Neil Ker, revised edition edited by Michael Perkin (London: The Bibliographical Society, 2004), p. 192. After 1852, the library becomes Denchworth Vicar's Library.
Bod-inc: see The Denchworth Annual (Wantage, 1875), 17-1; Supplement to the Denchworth Annual (Wantage, 1875), 2, 17-18; Jasmine S. Howse, Denchworth through the Centuries (Stanford-in-the-Vale, 1967), 47-8, 83-4; Morgan, Oxford Libraries, 158. The Denchworth breviary is now also housed in the Bodleian as MS. Lat. liturg. b. 14.
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id="1004"])
Activity
Start (year)1693
End (year)1852
NoteSt James' Church Parochial Library was founded in 1693 but in 1852 it became Denchworth Vicar's Library (see above).
MARC Area Codee-uk
PlaceDenchworth (Geonames Id: 2651381)
Profession / Type of InstitutionLibrary
CharacterisationReligious
Last Edit2017-07-12 04:06:37