Parsonage and Parson: Coping with the Clergy - thirty years of eccentricity and delight - Couverture souple

Trahair, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1915122937 ISBN 13 : 9781915122933

Editeur : The Book Guild Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

Richard Trahair shares an insider's experience of the wide-ranging 'goings on' in a large Church of England diocese in the south of England from the 1980s.

As estate manager - Diocesan Property Secretary - for more than thirty years, he reflects on the astonishing range of characters he worked alongside, and the diverse buildings and land for which he was responsible. Richard delves into the nature of a parsonage house, its parish loyalties, and the keen controversy over selling the grand old houses and replacing them with smaller ones so that the impoverished clergy and their families can at least keep warm.

Both people and places were a heady mix of the delightful, the worthy, the curious and the downright eccentric. With encounters recounted that range from wacky and hilarious, to thought-provoking and historical, catch a glimpse into the life of a twenty-nine-year-old surveyor in a diocesan office dominated by retired military gentlemen, rattling around in a huge 15th century former city workhouse, as he grows into his role.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Trahair is a retired chartered surveyor and Justice of the Peace, a church organist and one-time churchwarden, immersed with his wife Biddy in the frantic life of a small rural parish community a long way from anywhere in particular. He has written two published novels during his retirement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Book Guild Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1915122937
• ISBN 13: 9781915122933
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
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• Personne responsable: non disponible