From Country House Catholicism to City Church

The Registers of the Oxford Catholic Mission 1700-1875
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-902509-77-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 75, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Oxfordshire Record Society

Sacramental records known to survive from the Oxford Catholic Mission, 1700-1875.

This volume presents the contents of the sacramental records known to survive from the Oxford Catholic Mission, 1700-1875. These original registers are held in five volumes in the Archives of the Oxford Oratory. The Oratory's Oxfordshire archive consists of registers from Waterperry House, the chapel of St Clement's, Oxford, and the church of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Oxford. [1] The registers feature much common form and use of Latin and the contents are made accessible here in transcribed, translated and tabulated form.

The records opened up by this volume will be of use and interest to historians of religion, locality and family alike. They throw light on an era of 'country house' Catholicism, when the practice of the faith was largely linked to the presence of local landowners, they illuminate the theory and practice of legal exclusion, the gradual movement to a more public faith, and the emergence of a confident and outward-looking Roman Catholic role. The names and identities recorded in the registers help identify the nature of congregations and how they changed and varied over time.

[1] A further brief register, from the Catholic chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Bampton, 1856¬60 found its archival home in the collection but is not historically linked to the Oxford Mission. It is included here for completeness. See also Appendix B.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hadland, Tony

Parker, Arabella St John

Weitere Mitwirkende

Parker, Arabella St. John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps and illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions

Introduction
- The national and local historical context
- The legal status of Catholics
- Locations of the Oxford Mission
- Local timeline
- The registers: editorial method and description of contents
- Commentary on entries in the registers
- Themes found in the registers

The Registers: transcribed, translated, and tabulated
- Baptisms
- Confirmations
- Marriages
- Deaths and burials
- Conversions

Appendices
A: Priests of the Oxford Mission
B: The Catholic Mission at Bampton

Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hadland, Tony
Tony Hadland has lived most of his life in the Thames Valley. He studied architecture at Oxford Polytechnic and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He was formerly chairman of the Oxfordshire Local History Association, vice-chairman and journal editor of the Oxfordshire Family History Society, and administrator of the Vale & Downland Museum. He is a member of the Catholic Record Society, the Catholic Family History Society, and the Midlands Catholic History Society. The second edition of his book Thames Valley Papists was published in 2004.