Various historical items
TABLES & BOXES
Altar
Altar Frontal box
Ottoman
Oak vestment chest
Credence Tables (2)
Flower tables (2)
CHAIRS & DESKS
Oak chairs with haircloth
Cathedra
Red Fabric chair
Winchester chair
Prayer desks (5)
Pews
HISTORICAL ITEMS
Belfry stone
Sanctuary lamps (2)
Book of Remembrance
Plaque of Christ with crown of thorns
Triptych
Communion tokens in stone cross
OTHER ITEMS
Advent Candle stand
Funeral candlesticks
Flower Stands (2)
Exhibition organ
Organ stool
Pascal candle
ALTAR FRONTAL BOX
This box is used to store the altar frontals when not in use. We have frontals for the main altar in the liturgical colours of
White – for festivals
Red – for Saint’s days
Green – for ordinary Sundays
Black – for funerals
There are also three frontals for the Lady Chapel altar
White – for festival seasons – donated in memory of Christina (Chrissie) Guild
Patchwork – donated by a local Patchwork group
Plain – for ferial seasons
OTTOMAN
This box, along with a number of other items , was included in an inventory dated May 1935 compiled by Revd John Symon, from which one can assume that it had been around for some time, probably since St James was built, and may have even come from time of the High Street Chapel.
OAK VESTMENT CHEST
This ornate chest resides in the Sacristy, and contains some of the vestments used during the Eucharist. It has a pull out table, so that the vestments can be laid out neatly and properly ready for the priest to ‘robe up’ before the service.
CREDENCE TABLES
These small tables are used to hold the the various vessels (wafer box, wine jug, water jug, towel and other items) used in the communion service, and presented to the priest during the service by the server.
FLOWER TABLES
As the tablet on the table states, these two small flower table were presented by Arma and Peter Iles in memory of Arma’s mother pat Gray. They are situated on either side of the glass doors into the Nave, under the Memorial Plaques.
CHAIRS and DESKS
OAK CHAIRS with horsehair seatpads
HISTORICAL ITEMS
BELFRY STONE from the HIGH STREET CHAPEL
The first Episcopal chapel was a wooden building built in 1737. It was ransacked in 1745. That site was bought a re-used starting in about 1755, and in 1788, they could afford a bell, and ‘belfry’ was built on the end gable wall of the chapel, as can be seen in the painting opposite. When St James’ was built, the bell was removed and installed in the tower of this church. The chapel was demolished, but not before the stone sheltering the bell was rescued, and engraved (on its top surface). It now resides in its own alcove in the Baptistry.
OTHER ITEMS
ADVENT CANDLE STAND
The stand, of modern acquisition, is used for the four candles which are lit, in sequence, on the four Sundays in Advent. There is also a central candle, lit on Christmas Eve.
