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ST MARY’S RETREAT, WOODCHESTER, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1846 - 1850

RACK IVA:

SHELF ONE:

BOX ONE:

1. Platea of Northfield House, Woodchester, 1846-1849
2. Woodchester Mass Book, 1849 - 1850 and Broadway, 1850 - 1877
3. Book of Visitations and Permissions, Woodchester and Broadway, 1847-1877
4. Mass Suffrage Book for Benefactors and Dead Religious, Woodchester, 1848-1850
5. A handwritten copy of the obituary of Blessed Fr Dominic Barberi in the Woodchester Book of Suffrages, 1848-1850
6. Two photocopies of Dedication: Our Blessed Ladye of the Annunciation, Woodchester, 11 October 1849
7. Notes from Fr Vincent McNabb OP
8. The Woodchester Story, 3 parts, compiled by the Dominicans
9. Three photos of the cottage at Nympsfield where it is reputed Blessed Dominic said Mass
10. Photo of St Mary’s Retreat, Woodchester, 1849-1850
11. Photo of Northfield House, Woodchester
12. Dominican Priory Church, Woodchester, anonymous, undated
13. E. Essex OP, Dominican Church, Woodchester, undated
14. A white envelope containing 2 photos of the Church and Dominican priory, Woodchester
15. Newspaper cutting, Catholic Herald, 11 February 1949, article on Woodchester Dominican Priory
16. Newspaper cutting, Tablet, 4 December 1926, referring to an entry in the Tablet, 5 December 1846 about the Passionists in Woodchester.
17. Four copies of typed MS, Woodchester, Gloucestershire, 1846-1850 (by Fr Sylvester Palmer? 1950s?)
18. Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, an article on Woodchester, in Students’ Magazine, Preachers of the Passion, Winter 1952
19. Programme of Festival of Flowers, Church of the Annunciation, Woodchester, Restoration Appeal, undated.
20. R. Barton and B. Torode, Nailsworth’s Italian Missionary - Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God, 1987, typescript
21. Sr Dominic Savio (Hamer) CP, ‘The Church of the Annunciation: A Monument to Blessed Dominic Barberi, Passionist’, Gloucestershire Catholic History Society Journal, no. 32, Winter, 1997, pp.3-19, 2 copies.
22. Duff Hart-Davis, ‘Woodchester Park Mansion’, Telegraph Magazine, 19 October 1991, pp.52-58

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Includes:
 A visitor book containing entries from pupils of St. Fintan’s College and other visitors from 1972 to 1990.
 A visitor book signed by visiting priest from 1974 to 1982.
 A visitor book signed by past pupils of St. Fintan’s College who attended the last formal past pupil’s reunion on 27 May 1990 and a typescript document recounting the reunion.

A visitor book signed by visiting priests who celebrated mass in Cashel Convent.

Some of the files in this subseries include combined visitation reports on missionary activity in both South Africa and Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia).

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A collection of records mostly relating to the Temperance Sodality of the Sacred Thirst attached to St. Mary of the Angels, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin.

The sub-series contains a collection of original Total Abstinence Society pledge cards. Most of the cards are signed by the pledge-taker and by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The cards were decorated with various temperance symbols and vignettes. An illustration on one side of the cards depicted a scene warning of the dangers of intemperance – a man driven by alcohol to beat his wife. Another illustration showed a scene of temperance – a happy family reading together by the hearth. The cards are listed in chronological order.

This section contains mainly legal documents including various types of deeds of title including leases, mortgages, wills, property abstracts, searches and financial documents. The section also includes correspondence from solicitors engaged in legal work connected with the conveyance of property. The material is divided into three sub-series relating to the approximate location of the plots of ground to which the document refers: Queen Street (later Father Mathew Street); Charlotte Quay (later Father Mathew Quay); St. Joseph’s Cemetery; Other locations in Cork.