ROTHERHAM.
The Rt. Rev. G. V, Gerard, C.8.E.,. who was m charge of this Diocese of Waiapu lor five years, has commenced his ministry as vicar m the Parish of Rotherham, Yorkshire. Rotherham is about seven miles from Sheffield m the West Riding, and has mass foundries, large iron and steel works and colleries, and has a population of 78,000. The Church, named "All Saints," is very ancient, and is mentioned several times m the Doomsday Book. It has a beautiful peel of eight bells, which are rung weekly. The organ is a Snetuyler, over 100 years old, and the clock, which chimes the quarter hours and strikes the hour, iii times past, was the only means of many of the inhabitants of knowr ing the time. All .Saints overlooks the river Don and stands on a rise. There is a very fine Lady Chapel,, where Mary Queen of Scots as supposed to have stopped to pray on her way to the Tower of London.
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 36, Issue 6, 1 September 1945, Page 5
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