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PCC meeting BERIAH BOTFIELD
MONDAY 28 JUNE - Zoom
Eight (8) members of the PCC
attended.
Summary of main points
 Resolutions: to elect Dick Franks
Lay Vice Chair; to formalise nave
altar arrangement - communion rail
retained along short sides of nave
dais; no rail along front of dais
 Finance: visitor numbers and
donations rising since relaxation of
lockdown; initial discussions of
Parish Offer for 2022
 Safeguarding: one new DBS issued
 Vision: revised expression of
interest for National Heritage
Lottery Fund bid
 Policies: reviewed and adopted
Pastoral Care policy
 Fabric: coffee shop scheme update;
completion of Clive Arch repairs
delayed by late delivery of stone
from quarry; roof repairs delayed by
national shortage of lead; project to
map Garden of Rest on-going
 Date of next meeting:
Monday 27 September
A copy of the latest set of confirmed
PCC minutes is available on the
noticeboard in church. All previous
minutes can be viewed in the church
office, by arrangement.
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After the Palmers’
Annual Meeting in
June, John Cherry
gave a talk on
Beriah Botfield and
St Laurence’s, West
Window, marking
his retirement as a
trustee of the
Conservation Trust.
Beriah Botfield by
A notable feature of Camille Silvy licensed
the window, one of
under CC BY-NC-ND
3.0 © National Portrait
the church’s most Gallery
striking ornaments,
is its lack of religious content; a unique
selling point, perhaps.
A colourful display by Thomas
Willement, the ‘Father of Victorian th
Stained Glass’, it is, rather, a mid-19
century blog on the warlords and
landowners (royal and otherwise) who,
over the years, built or occupied
Ludlow Castle.
Botfield inherited his family’s Shropshire
coal mining and ironmaking businesses.
He became was also, a bibliographer,
geologist and botanist with two spells
as Conservative MP for Ludlow. He
and his wife Isabella gave the window
(with the glass being inserted into the
th
existing 15 century stone tracery) in
1860, as part of the Gilbert Scott
‘restoration’ started in 1859.
Our new Ludlow Palmers website
(https://ludlowpalmers.uk/) includes
particulars of the individuals
commemorated in stained-glass glory.
Ian Marshall