Centenary Readings from C.S. Lewis edited by John Stevens and Raphael Lyne.
Certificate of the contract for the redemption of Land Tax in relation to two messuages in St Giles copyhold of Merton College, Oxford and St Michaels [Copped Hall].
Certificate of land tax in connection with the White Bull Inn.
Copy certificate of payment of estate duties for the purchase of 1-3 Cross Keys yard.
Certificate of Registration of a Mortgage or Charge created by W. Stockbridge & Sons Ltd for securing £6,000.
Certificate of the contract for the redemption of Land Tax relating to land and premises in Chesterton Lane.
Certificate of contract for the redemption of land tax for Benjamin Jolley.
Printed forms completed and signed by A.S. Ramsey (Bursar).
Information includes:
(1) name of the parish
(2) name of occupier
(3) estimated size of property
(4) gross estimated rental (or value)
(5) description of land and buildings
(6) details of lease
(7) rent
Parties: (1) W. Stockbridge and Sons Limited (2) Magdalene College
Conveyance of freehold property known as 25 and 26 Bridge Street.
There is a note in the box signed by Charles Knighton dated 22/09/2000 which reads:
"No. 28 as listed in the Handlist not found among documents returned from solicitors and placed in archives"
This volume is set out with a different room on each page and amounts owed for room rent and hire of furniture.
Sitting rooms were often shared by three students and payment was due to the senior student from the others for items like blankets, fire thongs, joiner for repairs, curtains, pillows, and chairs.
Change for the Better by Clive Smitton.
The Chapel dates from the 15th century and its oak roof (c.1470-72) is fully exposed.
In the 17th century a flat ceiling was put in and at the same time the stained glass was removed (due to the Puritan fervour of William Dowsing).
From 1733 for a period of about 20 years the Chapel was converted into a classical 'preaching box', with the east window bricked up and replaced by a reredos.
Between 1847 and 1851 the Chapel was re-gothicised by John Buckler. The reredos was removed but the 1755 floor was retained. In the sanctuary, four niches with the remains of richly decorated canopies were re-exposed and restored.
In 1850 the east window, designed by A.W. Pugin, was put in. Five of the other six windows were also made by the Birmingham firm Hardman between 1854 and 1880.
The Chapel entrance passage was panelled at the instigation of by A.C. Benson (Master) using 18th century Corinthian oak pilasters on pedestals.
The altar was designed by Sir Ninian Comper in 1910.
The War Memorial was designed by Reynolds Stone and executed by Will Carter on Aberllefeni slate.
The 19th century Coptic Cross was presented to the College in 1972.
The organ was built in 2000 by Goetze and Gwynn.
File of refence papers put together by Dr Ronald Hyam. They are divided into sections:
Guides
(i) four page typed sheet acting as a guide to the Chapel
(ii) copy of an article, ‘Encountering Magdalene’s Ancient Heart’, by Nick Widdows (Chaplain) from Magdalene Matters, No. 43 (May 2016)
General Business
(i) terms of reference for the Chapel Affairs and College Livings Committee (GB Paper, 2011)
(ii) notes on the history of the Building and Livings Fund which was established in 1828. It lists the College’s Livings as:
St Stephen Walbrook (London); Longstanton St Michaels (Ely); Anderby-cum-Cumberworth (Lincs); Grainthorpe (Lincs); Steeple Ashton (Wilts); Great Fransham (Norfolk); Ringstead All Saints (Suffolk); and Privett-cum-Froxfield (Hants).
Services
Papers include:
(i) Remembrance Sunday Service
(ii) The form for admission and installation of the Revd Philip Hobday as Fellow and Chaplain & the order of service for choral evensong, 11 Oct 2009
(iii) statistical report on attendance 2010-11
(iv) The Advent carol service, 27 Nov 2011
(v) seating plan for Evensong and laminated order of service
(vi) Founder’s Prayers with other Collects
(vii) Order of service for choral evensong service of commemoration to mark the bicentenary of the death of Peter Peckard (1781-1797), 2 Dec 1997
(viii) Order of service for the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, 2003
(ix) Order of service for choral evensong on the eve of all Saints’ service of commemoration to mark the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey, with a sermon by the Most Revd Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, 31 Oct 2004
(x) ‘How Shall I Sing that Majesty’ hymn by Jason Mason
(xi) List of recommended hymns for use in the Chapel with hand written annotations by Dr Hyam giving opinions (some unfavourable) on some of the hymns
Funerals / Memorial Services
(i) various orders of service for memorial services which are to be used as templates
(ii a list of Fellows buried in Ascension / St Giles Burial Ground
Memorials
(i) some photocopies of pictures of Chapel stall plates
Livings
(i) schedule of Livings, 2011
(ii) brochure about Crowland Abbey
Choir
(i) priorities for choral scholars, 20 June 2005
(ii) Choir survey, Nov 2000
(iii) a copy of a Finance Committee Meeting Minute about recommendations to do with the Choir, 5 March 1998
Precentor
(i) Notes about the offices of organist and precentor (responsible for the music in the Chapel)
Chaplain
(i) terms and conditions of employment of the College Chaplain, 1995
(ii) papers relating to the recruitment of Philip Hobday
(iii) papers of the re-election of the Dean of Chapel
(iv) Order of service for the institution and installation of David Hoyle as Dean of Bristol held in the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Bristol, 29 May 2010
(v) Chapel Affairs Committee minutes, 18 Feb 2013
(vi) Chapel Affairs and College Livings Committee Annual Reports to the Governing Body, 1999-2012
Chaplains and Deans since 1900
Joseph Robinson, 1901 - 1919
Francis H. H. Clark, 1919 - 1951 (Dean from 1924; intermitted during war 1940 - 1946)
George K. Tibbatts, 1940 - 1946 (later Chaplain of Sidney Sussex College)
C. A. (Tony) Pierce [M], 1951 - 1956 (later Warden of Wallaston Theological College, Perth)
Simon Barrington Ward [M], 1956 - 1960
E. Ryder W. Whalley, 1960 - 1963
Simon Barrington Ward [M], Dean 1963 - 1969
W. Geoffrey B. Holland [M], 1969 - 1973
C. (Kitt) J. F. Scott [M], 1973 - 1979
Phillip J. Seddon, 1979 - 1985
Dr Christopher D. Hancock, 1985 - 1988
Dr David M. Hoyle, 1988 - Dean 1995 (Dean of Bristol and of Westminster)
Dr Hueston E. Finlay, 1995 - Dean 2004 (later Warden of St George's House, Windsor)
Dr James T. Rigney, 2005 - 2009 (later Dean of Newcastle, NSW)
Philip P. Hobday, 2009 - Dean 2015 (later PhD, Sub-Dean of Wakefield)
Nick J. Widdows, 2015 - 2018
Sarah Adkins [M], 2018 - present
[M] = matriculated at Magdalene College
Six Chaplains have been promoted to Dean of Chapel.
Starting with Hoyle in 1988, Chaplains have been Fellows. Before that only Clark and Barrington Ward were Fellows because they were Deans.
A letter and bill transcribed below.
Sir,
Your favor with a bill on Newnham and Co. for £9 3s 4d I received this day which balances your account. I am much obliged to you for it, and am very sorry you should have occasion to complain of the candles sent to you, my son will be in Cambridge next week. He will take the liberty to call and look at them and if it's your wish will change them.
London January 9th 1796
I am Sir yours,
Benjamin Jiggins
Magdalen College London January 27 1795
Bought of Benjamin Jiggins
Wax Chandler
Successor to the late Mrs Jones No. 19 Poultry
Wax long = £0 6s 0d - 56
Wax = £0 3s 0d - 8
Total = 64 - 2s 10d = £9 1s 4d
Box = 2s
Total = £9 3s 4d
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
Gives the music used in services for:
Lent Term 1976
Easter Term 1979
Michaelmas Term 1979, Lent Term 1980
Michaelmas Term 1980, Lent Term 1981, Easter Term 1981
Lent Term 1982, Easter Term 1982
Michaelmas Term 1982, Lent Term 1983, Easter Term 1983
Michaelmas Term 1983, Lent Term 1984, Easter Term 1984
Michaelmas Term 1984, Easter Term 1985
Michaelmas Term 1985, Lent Term 1986, Easter Term 1986
Michaelmas Term 1986, Lent Term 1987
Michaelmas Term 1987, Lent Term 1988, Easter Term 1988
Easter Term 1995
Michaelmas Term 1995, Lent Term 1996, Easter Term 1996
Easter Term 1997
Easter Term 1999
Lent Term 2003, Easter Term 2003
Michaelmas Term 2004, Easter Term 2005
Michaelmas Term 2005, Lent Term 2006, Easter Term 2006
Michaelmas 2006
Easter Term 2009
Lent Term 2010
Lent Term 2018
Michaelmas Term 2021
'Magdalene College Chapel Organ An Assessment' by Paul Hale (Organ Consultant) and related correspondence.
Chapel papers of H.H. Clark including:
(1) arrangements for the funeral of A.C. Benson, June 1925
(2) correspondence about quality of singing by the choir
(3) correspondence about special services of Intercession held on Wednesday evenings
(4) dedication of the new organ immediately before Mattins, Nov 1927
(5) prayers and order of service of thanksgiving on the quincentenary of the foundation of the Monks’ Hostel, June 1928
(6) ‘The Form and the Order of Thanksgiving for the Victory in Europe of the Arms of the United Nations Appointed by Authority’, 1945
(7) A Service of Lessons and Carols, 3 December 1946
(8) A report compiled from information received from Colleges in May 1951, on the College Mission of the Lent Term 1951
(9) copy of a College Order stating that ladies should be admitted to the College Chapel Services, 20 June 1908
(10) letter from Stephen Neill (assistant Bishop to the Archbishop of Canterbury) about a movement called Koinonia which had been growing up in the university, 2 May 1946
(11) forms of services for the admission of the Master, 1925 and 1948; copies of the notices sent to scholas and posted up; seating plan for Fellows and guests; and notes on the admission of a Master
(12) order of service for the unveiling and dedication of the war memorial, 6 Nov 1949
(13) carols [undated]
(14) correspondence about Sunday morning services
(15) seating plan for the admission of A.M. Ramsey as a Fellow, 1950
(16) papers on the Mission in the University, 1933-48
(17) Chapel term cards for Michaelmas term 1953 and Lent term 1954
(18) types copy of a leaflet from the Anglican Society [undated]
Easter 1928
Michaelmas 1947 [missing], Lent 1948, Easter 1948
Michaelmas 1948, Lent 1949, Easter 1949
Michaelmas 1949, Lent 1950, Easter 1950
1950s
Complete set
1960s
Missing Lent 1960, Lent 1965, Lent 1966
1970s
Missing: Lent 1972, Lent 1975, Easter 1976, Michaelmas 1976, Lent 1978, Easter 1979
1980s
Missing: Michaelmas 1980, all for 1981, Michaelmas 1988, Lent 1989
Among the missing cards for 1980-81 is that listing Miss Ruth Etchell as preacher. She was the first female preacher in Chapel, Principal of St John’s College Durham, recommended by Sir Derman Christopherson.
1990s
Missing: Michaelmas 1998
2000s
Missing: Lent 2001
2010s
Complete set
2020s
Easter 2020 - no card was produced due to the Covid National Lockdown
Michaelmas 2020 - a card was produced and was available online but not printed
Lent and Easter 2021 - no term cards were produced as such but a more informal leaflets were produced. Restrictions meant services were changed at short notice
Notebook containing the Chaplain's notes for services giving the date of the service and the hymns, lessons and psalms for each.
At the back of the book, written in pencil in another hand, probably Mr Dixon's, are various other notes:
(1) the transcript of a letter from the archdeacon Edward Prest who had taken a Clerical meeting as the writer of the notes was ill. The letter is addressed to Mr Dixon and is dated 8 December 1865. It is signed Edward Prest.
(2) a list of 'Inhibited Clergymen in the Diocese', July 1864
(3) a list of churches he has visited between 1863 and 1865
(4) Abstract of his Commission from the Bishop of Durham as Rural Dean, July 1863.
(5) notes on Church Diocesan meetings, 1863-1865
Parties (1) William Bullen (innkeeper) (2) Emma Smith (widow)
Mortgage of a messuage near the Pickerel Inn for securing £400 and interest.
Attached is a letter to The Trustees of the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society from Fosters & Lawrence (attorneys and agents for Emma Smith) informing them of the mortgage.
Photograph album with a carved wooden cover depicting an eagle and goat. The inscription on the inside of the front cover reads: 'Present from Lucerne, France - Bell, Springfield Dukes, August 1877".
Contains a carte de visite of the Magdalene College Coat of Arms on the first page followed by a further 96 carte de visite sized portraits. Many are of undergraduates (1873-1876) and some are labelled with their names and College, and there are also women and older people. There are also 6 cabinet card size portraits.
The named undergraduates are:
T.E.J. Lloyd (Magdalene)
F. Petre
O.L.J. Evans (Magdalene)
J.A. Watson-Taylor (Magdalene)
D.W. Tanqueray (Magdalene)
C. Hughes (Magdalene)
Wood (Trinity)
Biggs (St Johns)
W.R. Pym (Magdalene)
R.E. Leach (Magdalene)
C.M. MacAnnaly (Magdalene)
G.A. Williams (Magdalene)
E.E. Stock (Magdalene)
Rachkam (Pembroke)
Royds (Trinity)
Hedges (Trinity)
Pearson (Trinity)
Tuck and Hedges (Trinity)
Gate, Clifford, Clifford
Watson-Taylor (Magdalene)
P.L. Underhill (Magdalene)
A.W. Godby (Magdalene)
Handwritten notes on teaching art.
Proposed history course, letter to the Headmaster explaining the course and two draft lectures.
December 21 1794
A bill to "Magdlen Coldge" for one Quarter sweeping the Kitchen chimneys £0 4s 0d
Received the contents
By me William Press
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
June 19 1795
A bill to "Maglendon Coledge"
For one Quarter sweeping the Kitchen chimneys = £0 4s 0d
Received the contents
By me William Press
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
September 25th 1795
A bill to "Magglen Collge" for one Quarters sweeping the
Kitchen chimneys = £0 4s 0d
The Combination Room chimney = £0 0s 6d
The Porters Lodge chimney = £0 0s 6d
Received the contents = £0 5s 0d
By me Will Press
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]