The news that St. Anthony of Padua, the beautiful Catholic Church in Rye’s Watchbell Street, was about to close came like a bolt out of the blue to Rye’s Catholic community.
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This collection traces Catholic Church across Rye’s Own, bringing formal news together with the personalities and everyday moments behind the name. Readers can move between “Rye Medieval Conference 2012”, “Editorial March 2015”, and “John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Rye Medieval Conference 2012
“These Conferences were begun eight years ago as part of a joint bid by Rye Castle Museum and the Rye Partnership to get a grant to stop the main Rye Castle – Ypres Tower leaking. One condition was to get Rye acknowledged by the academic world as a centre where the latest research in Medieval … Continue reading Rye Medieval Conference 2012
John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004
Vocal parts of a lost Mass, written for the Catholic Church in Rye by the composer John Bath, have been found a week after his own Requiem was held there. A significant figure in both the church, where he was choirmaster and organist in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Rye Singers, he wrote hundreds … Continue reading John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004