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Old Moreton 1589-1914
In the early years of the twentieth century, Elizabethan revels held as added attractions during Merrie England-type fetes were ten a penny. However, that held in 1914 in the village of Odd Rode, C... -
‘Faith of Our Fathers’ Anglo Catholic Pageant
Pageants were very popular with religious groups and churches during the interwar period. This is an example of one such pageant, held to commemorate the centenary of the High Church Oxford Movemen... -
Pageant of Church History
The Pageant of Church History was an unashamed fundraiser and was part of a larger initiative to raise money for those perennial problems of bishops the world over—namely, stopping the church roof ... -
Buckingham Pageant and Bazaar
This was one of very few pageants held in the small rural county of Buckinghamshire. Despite the pageant being held under the auspices of the Buckingham Methodists, it seems to have involved many p... -
Aidan the Christlike
St Aidan is widely regarded as the greatest evangelist of the north east of England and so is especially revered—indeed, he is often called the apostle of Northumbria. The 1300th anniversary of the... -
Hellesdon Pageant
Hellesdon had celebrated a previous pageant in 1951. This 1970 pageant, strongly religious in its themes, was staged by local schoolchildren in St Mary’s Church (the 600th anniversary of which the ... -
850 years of Crich Parish Church, 1135-1985.
This was a small-scale village pageant, held to commemorate the 850th anniversary of Crich Parish Church. It was staged indoors, in the church itself. Parish-level pageants, particularly associated... -
Hellesdon Pageant of Thanksgiving for the Past
This is an example of one of the many small village-level historical pageants held in connection with the 1951 Festival of Britain. Hellesdon held a subsequent pageant in 1971. -
The Pageant of St Magnus
The St Magnus pageant, which took place in 1937 in Kirkwall, Orkney, has the distinction of being the most northerly historical pageant performed in the British Isles. Holding a pageant in these re... -
Grand Pageant at Ilston Valley
The Pageant told the story of John Miles, the Baptist Minister, who established the Baptist form of worship in the local area and in South Wales more generally. The 1936 pageant was one of at least... -
Pageant of the Church Beyond the Seas
Surrey was a pageant hot-spot in the interwar period—at least as far as smaller-scale pageants were concerned. This is an example of one such pageant. Performed by local schoolchildren in Farnham P... -
Historical Pageant in the Hermitage Garden
This is an example of an interwar church pageant, which tells the story of Christianity in England, from the arrival of St Alban through to the missionary work done by the present church, a common ... -
Illuminated Pageant of Dartford and its Parish Church
Church pageants remained quite popular into the 1960s and 1970s (see St Wilfrid's (1965)). This is an example of one such pageant, focusing on the religious history of Holy Trinity Church, Dartford... -
Lichfield Pageant
Held in June 1972, this pageant commemorated the 1300th anniversary of the death of St Chad, who became bishop of Lichfield in 669. It featured a street procession, but also a dramatic re-enactment... -
Rahere: An Historical Pageant-play
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Pageant of Sussex Saints
Although religious pageants went back to the 1909 English Church Pageant, it was only during the interwar period that they became major features of the pageant movement. Paradoxically, this accompa... -
Clifton Parish Church Centenary Pageant
There had been a church on the site in Clifton Parish, to the north of the centre of Bristol, since 1154 AD. During the early nineteenth century, Clifton became a fashionable area of Bristol. In th... -
A Pageant of Bristol Cathedral
A pageant was held to mark the 800th anniversary of Bristol Cathedral. Three performances were given in the nave of the cathedral. The focus of the pageant on the history of the cathedral, from its... -
Pageant of a Thousand Years of the Church of Barton, 669 to 1672
A number of churches and cathedrals held pageants in celebration of key events in their history, including the Clifton Parish Church Centenary, Somerset (1922), Adel Church Octocentenary, West York... -
Middleton Parish Church Historical Commemoration Pageant
This pageant celebrated the history of what the Manchester Guardian newspaper referred to as 'among the more notable ecclesiastical buildings of Lancashire'.14 Certainly, the church could claim ant...