Michael's Church Research Articles

Richard Marsden, Wayward Clergyman

A PPRAISED by later standards, clergymen of the eighteenth-century Church of England have seemed lamentably wanting in spiritual zeal and incorruptibility. In the colonies, of course, the Church was making heroic efforts to disseminate the gospel, yet even there, natural hardships and administrative difficulties sometimes brought out the personal flaws of laborers in the Anglican vineyard. Quite naturally, historians have focused their attention on the lives of virtuous ministers, neglecting to trace the scandalous careers of men like the Reverend Richard Marsden. Marsden's history, however, offers a rapid survey of colonial life and of the Church in America. It also furnishes a striking illustration of the problem of clerical discipline-and one that emphasizes by contrast the true worth of clergymen who overcame temptations and surmounted obstacles no less great than those encountered by Marsden. Probably born in the early i670's, Richard Marsden was described nearly seventy years later as a full-bodied man, about six feet tall, stoopshouldered, having a Swarthy Complexion and mark'd with small-pox.' In May, I700, he was serving as lay reader at St. Michael's Church, Talbot County, Maryland.2 Ordained five months later at London, Marsden returned to become rector of the St. Michael's cure.' Without obtaining his bishop's permission, however, Marsden sailed for Charleston in i706. It was later rumored that he was forced to fly, for some ill thing he did in Maryland.4 Along the way, nevertheless,

Special Documentary Supplement: Robert Mills' "Contemplated Addition to St. Michael's Church, Charleston" and "Doctrine of Sounds"

Research Article| March 01 1953 Special Documentary Supplement: Robert Mills' "Contemplated Addition to St. Michael's Church, Charleston" and "Doctrine of Sounds" Robert Mills, Robert Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar George W. Williams George W. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1953) 12 (1): 23–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/987625 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robert Mills, George W. Williams; Special Documentary Supplement: Robert Mills' "Contemplated Addition to St. Michael's Church, Charleston" and "Doctrine of Sounds". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 1953; 12 (1): 23–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/987625 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

St. Michael's Church, Burleigh street, Strand

St. Michael's Church, Burleigh street, Strand

St. Michael's Church, Burleigh Street, Strand

St. Michael's Church, Burleigh Street, Strand

The Antiquities of the St Kilda Group of Islands

During demolition of the original village on St Kilda a number of stone cists containing bones and pots were revealed. Other remains discussed include Christ Church and St Michael's Church, Tobar na Cille well, the watching house at Tigh na faire, beehive structures and a cave on Soay Island. Other islands in the group include Boreray and the Dun Island.

The Wheatstone Memorial at Gloucester

AS was mentioned briefly last week, p. 623, on October 19, Sir charles Sherrington, president of the Royal Society, unveiled at Gloucester a bronze memorial tablet to Sir Charles Wheatstone, who was born at Barnwood, Gloucester, on February 6, 1802, and died in Paris, October 19, 1875. The memorial tablet is placed on- the outer wall of St. Michael's Church, and on it is reproduced in low relief the portrait of Sir Charles Wheatstone, by Samuel Laurence, in the National Portrait Gallery. The lettering beneath the portrait is as follows:

The Religion of the Hebrews. John Punnett Peters, Rector of St. Michael's Church, New York. Ginn & Co.1914. $2.75. - The Religion of Israel. Henry Preserved Smith, Union Theological Seminary. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1914. $2.50.

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The Organ at St. Michael's Church, Hamburg

The Organ at St. Michael's Church, Hamburg

St. Michael's Church, Worcester

St. Michael's Church, Worcester

St. Michael's Church, Burleigh Street

St. Michael's Church, Burleigh Street

St. Michael's Church, Bassishaw

St. Michael's Church, Bassishaw

The records of St. Michael's parish church, bishop's Stortford

The records of St. Michael's parish church, bishop's Stortford

St. Michael's church “in peril of the sea” and its English possessions

St. Michael's church “in peril of the sea” and its English possessions