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Bishop Blomfield and Church Extension in London
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
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When the Wellington government translated Blomfield from Chester to London in 1828, he came to a diocese where pastoral superintendence had long ceased to bear any relation to the needs of the people. As early as 1811, 75,624 people lived in St. Marylebone, but the parish church had room for only 900 of them. Twenty years later, Baptist Noel computed that, owing to the deficiency of church accommodation, about one-third of the million and a half of the inhabitants of London were living ‘without any Christian instruction and without any public acknowledgement of God’. In 1834, in the north and north-east of London, there were only ten parishes for 353,460 people.
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page 203 note 1 Home Office Papers: The Census of Great Britain, 1851.
page 203 note 2 B. W. Noel, The State of the Metropolis Considered, 11.
page 203 note 3 C. J. Blomfield, The Charge of 1834, 14.
page 203 note 4 J. Ayre, A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Edmonton 16th February, 1834, 14.
page 203 note 5 B.M. Add. MSS. 34587, fol. 20: Blomfield to Butler, 17 April 1828.
page 204 note 1 B. W. Noel, op. cit., 41–5.
page 204 note 2 Ibid., 41.
page 204 note 3 Ibid., 83.
page 204 note 4 H. P. Liddon, The Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey, i. 329.
page 204 note 5 British Critic (Third Series), xix (April 1836), 301.
page 204 note 6 C. J. Blomfield, The Uses of a Standing Ministry, 13.
page 204 note 7 C. J. Blomfield, The Charge of 1838, 39.
page 204 note 8 C. J. Blomfield, Proposals for the Creation of a Fund, 3.
page 204 note 9 Ibid., 4–5.
page 204 note 10 Ibid., 10.
page 205 note 1 British Critic, Third Series, xx (July 1836), 199.
page 205 note 2 Ibid., 200.
page 205 note 3 Ibid., 200.
page 205 note 4 Hansard (Third Series), lv, Cols. 273–326.
page 205 note 5 Hansard (Third Series), lv, Cols. 354–8.
page 205 note 6 Viscount Hailsham (ed.), Halsbury's Laws of England, xi. 525–6.
page 205 note 7 Church and State Gazette, 10 February 1843.
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page 205 note 9 B.M. Add. MSS. 40533, fol. 10: Blomfield to Peel, 1 September 1843; B.M. Add. MSS. 40549, fol. 280: Blomfield to Peel, 6 August 1844.
page 205 note 10 B.M. Add. MSS. 40533, fol. 12: Peel to Blomfield, 3 September 1843.
page 205 note 11 B.M. Add. MSS. 40538, fol. 259: Peel to Blomfield, 6 February 1844.
page 206 note 1 British Critic, Third Series, xx (July 1836), 206.
page 206 note 2 Ibid., 206.
page 206 note 3 Hansard (Third Series), lv, Cols. 314–15.
page 206 note 4 S. C. Carpenter, Church and People, 1789–1889, 47–8.
page 206 note 5 T. Dale, A Report to the Parishioners of St. Pancras, 3–4.
page 206 note 6 Hansard (Third Series), lv, Col. 314.
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page 207 note 1 A. Mozley (ed.), The Letters … of J. H. Newman, ii. 141.
page 207 note 2 H. P. Liddon, op. cit., i. 329.
page 207 note 3 Church Commission, Files 20856 and 15154.
page 207 note 4 W. Rogers, Reminiscences, 48.
page 207 note 5 Church Commission, File 3033.
page 207 note 6 Church Commission, File 20859.
page 207 note 7 Church Commission, File 17509. See their letter of 20 March 1841.
page 207 note 8 Church Commission, File 20856. See his letter of 24 June 1839. Blomfield's comment on his objections to St. James's was: ‘They are not well-founded’. (Letter of 22 July 1839.)
page 207 note 9 Church Commission, File 15450.
page 207 note 10 Church Commission, File 17809. See his letters to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of 23 June and 22 July 1843.
page 207 note 11 Church Commission, File 17468: Letters of 1 and 8 July 1843.
page 207 note 12 Church Commission, File 3378.
page 208 note 1 Church Commission, File 17468.
page 208 note 2 Church Commission, File 14181.
page 208 note 3 Guardian, 5 August 1846.
page 208 note 4 Illustrated London News, 8 March 1851.
page 208 note 5 Church Commission, File 36098.
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page 208 note 7 Church Commission, File 3033.
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page 209 note 1 Church Commission, File 78983.
page 209 note 2 Church Commission, File 14440.
page 209 note 3 Church Commission, File 1483.
page 209 note 4 Church Commission, File 3580.
page 209 note 5 Church Commission, Blomfield's Copy Book (February–December 1851), Letter to the Churchwardens, 5 August 1851.
page 209 note 6 Church Commission, Blomfield's Copy Books (May–December 1844 and November 1846–August 1847), Letters to Hodgson, 19 July 1844 and 31 December 1846.
page 209 note 7 Church Commission, Blomfield's Copy Book (February–December 1851), Letter to Phillips, 12 September 1851.
page 209 note 8 Church Commission, Blomfield's Copy Book (November 1842–May 1843), Letter to the Churchwardens, 31 December 1842.
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page 210 note 1 B. W. Noel, op. cit., 44.
page 210 note 2 Church Commission, File 12522.
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page 210 note 4 ‘F.R.I.B.A.’, Consecration versus Desecration, 14.
page 210 note 5 Ibid., 18.
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page 210 note 8 Record, 20 July 1854.
page 210 note 9 Guardian, 13 July 1853.
page 211 note 1 Guardian, 5 February 1851.
page 211 note 2 A Blomfield, A Memoir of Bishop Blomfield, 178.
page 211 note 3 Guardian, 14 August 1850.
page 211 note 4 Church Commission, File 15154.
page 212 note 1 Church Commission, File 520.
page 212 note 2 Ibid.
page 212 note 3 Church Commissions, File 4413.
page 212 note 4 Church Commission, File 4417.
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page 212 note 6 Guardian, 30 May 1849.
page 212 note 7 A Congratulatory Testimonial Presented to the Lord Bishop of London by the Churchwardens of Bethnal Green, 5–6.
page 213 note 1 Ibid., 8.
page 213 note 2 Guardian, 21 September 1853.
page 213 note 3 Record, 10 February 1853.
page 213 note 4 C. J. Blomfield, The Charge of 1854, 33.
page 213 note 5 T. Dale, A Report to the Parishioners of St. Pancras, 3.
page 213 note 6 Ibid., 2.
page 213 note 7 Ibid., 5.
page 213 note 8 Record, 22 July 1852.
page 213 note 9 ‘A London Churchman’, The Gospel Unfettered, 10–11.
page 213 note 10 Ibid., 15.
page 213 note 11 Record, 3 August 1854.
page 213 note 12 Guardian, 21 September 1853.
page 213 note 13 C. J. Blomfield, The Charge of 1854, 29.
page 213 note 14 A. P. Stanley, The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, 367.
page 214 note 1 In his Charge of 1853. See the Guardian of 10 May 1853.
page 214 note 2 H.O., 129/11–17.
page 214 note 3 H.O., 129/18–27.
page 214 note 4 Letter of 1 December 1856 to archdeacon Sinclair. (Published in The Times of 13 December 1856.)
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page 214 note 8 W. E. Gladstone, Gleanings of Past Years, iii. 37–8.
page 214 note 9 F. G. Blomfield, Note to Sermon XXIII in Twenty Four Sermons on the Christian Doctrine and Practice and on the Church by C. J. Blomfield. (Selected by F. G. Blomfield from Sermons hitherto unpublished.)
page 215 note 1 Illustrated London News, 15 August 1857. The fund was to be called The Bishop Blomfield Endowment Fund.