‘A Goodly Heritage’

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Performances

Place: DeTillens Lane Field (Limpsfield) (Limpsfield, Surrey, England)

Year: 1933

Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors

Number of performances: 2

Notes

28–29 June 1933

Name of pageant master and other named staff

  • Author and Producer [Pageant Master]: Williams, Melville
  • Costumes: Joan Kislingbury, Elaine Connell and Mary Williams
  • Sound Effects: John R. Ferguson
  • Researcher: W.F. Mumford

Names of executive committee or equivalent

  • Chairman: Charles Steer, Rector of Limpsfield

Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)

  • Williams, Melville

Names of composers

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Numbers of performers

95 - 105

Financial information

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Object of any funds raised

In aid of the Church Fund

Linked occasion

600th Anniversary of the Limpsfield Parish Church

Audience information

  • Grandstand: Not Known
  • Grandstand capacity: n/a
  • Total audience: n/a

Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Associated events

A commemorative service held straight after the Pageant

Pageant outline

Scene I. Mount Olivet. Immediately after the Ascension

Scene II. Tidy and Knight

Scene III. Nicholas de Taunton and the Archdeacon

Scene IV. Sir William Gresham and Bailiff

Scene V. George Harding and Nicholas de Taunton make merry.

Scene VI. The Parish Council Meeting

Interval.

Scene VII. Joe and Ben gossip about things which have happened in the village, 1900.

Scene VIII. Procession of Actors to St. Peter’s Church

Key historical figures mentioned

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Musical production

Violin played by Vera Godson

Newspaper coverage of pageant

Surrey Mirror

Book of words

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Other primary published materials

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References in secondary literature

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

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Sources used in preparation of pageant

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Summary

Village pageants were notably popular in interwar Surrey (see Merstham (1920) and Tatsfield (1938)). This example was held in association with the six-hundredth anniversary of the parish church, or at any rate the induction of Nicholas de Taunton, its first-known rector. The focus of the pageant was very much on local parish history.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘‘A Goodly Heritage’’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1494/