Ely Theological College

Ely Theological College was a school in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for training clergy in the Church of England. Founded in 1876 [1] by James Woodford, Anglican Bishop of Ely, [2] the college had a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition.[3] It closed in 1964.[4]

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Ely Theological College, about 1960.

Coordinates: 52°24′N 0°16′E / 52.40°N 0.26°E

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Dowland, David A. Nineteenth-Century Anglican Theological Training: The Redbrick Challenge, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 5. ISBN 0-19-826929-3
  2. ↑ Ollard, Sidney Leslie (ed.). A Dictionary of English Church History, Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Company, 2nd ed., 1919, p. 590, col. 1.
  3. ↑ Symondson, Anthony. "Renovating Heaven and Adjusting the Stars," in Thompson, Damian (ed). Loose Canon: A Portrait of Brian Brindley, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004, p. 82. ISBN 0-8264-7418-7 Ely's "ritualistic" (i.e. "Catholic") tendencies were attacked in a House of Commons debate in 1899. Hansard, House of Commons Debates, 9 February 1899, vol. 66, cc344-460.
  4. ↑ See History of Guyhirn.