Oundle Road Baptist Church Peterborough Centenary Pageant
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Oundle Road Church (Peterborough) (Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England)
Year: 1958
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 1
Notes
18 April 1958, at 7.30pm.
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Written and Produced by [Pageant Master]:
Doyle, Mrs A.C.
- Producer: Mrs F. Kennelly
- Stage Manager: Mr E. Vinter, assisted by
Mr A. Garner
- Costumes: Miss G. Apthorpe
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Doyle, Mrs A.C.
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
For the modernisation of the schoolroom
Linked occasion
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Audience information
- Grandstand: No
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
Free but with a retiring collection
Associated events
Special celebratory services and a supper.
Pageant outline
Scene 1. A Sunday Morning at New Fletton, 1855
Scene 2. 1858 – Opening of First Baptist Chapel in Oundle Road
Scene 3. The Home of Mr and Mrs Smith
Scene 4. 1858 – The Sunday School
Scene 5.
a. Church Meeting at Queen Street
Baptist Church, 1886
b. A further Church Meeting, 1898
Scene 6. View outside the new Baptist Chapel in George St, 1900
Scene 7. Sitting Room of Mr and Mrs Smith
Scene 8. Children coming out of Sunday School. Band of Hope. Christian endeavour society.
Scene 9. Women’s Own Formed – 1909.
Scene 10. Church Meeting at George St. 1925
Scene 11. View outside George St. Chapel
Scene 12. Girls’ Life Brigade; Boys’ Brigade; Life Boys; Men’s Fellowship
Scene 13. Stone-laying ceremony of new Baptist Church in Oundle Road – July 1936
Scene 14. Opening of new church, May 1937.
Scene 15. Procession
Scene 16. War-time Scene: Warden’s Post at Rear of Hall
Scene 17. Over sixties club and youth club
Scene 18. Dedication of new organ at the church
Scene 19. Business Women’s Fellowship
Scene 20. Finale.
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
- None noted
Other primary published materials
- Oundle Road Baptist Church Peterborough Centenary 1958: Depicting the History of the Church 1858-1958. Peterborough, 1958.
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Programme in Huntingdon Archives, Reference FR 20/8/4
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
Nonconformist religious groups were notably active in the pageant movement. This is an example of a pageant held in association with a Baptist church in Peterborough. Other Baptist pageants were held at ???. It was a very small affair, and performed just once. Its focus was entirely on the history of the church, the centenary of which the pageant was celebrating.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Oundle Road Baptist Church Peterborough Centenary Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1460/