Press Photo Annual Service Dedication St Mary Angels Song School

The "Angles" of the song school make their own boy Bishop at an Annual service of Dedication: Inside the wooden church in the grounds of St. Mary of the Angels Song School, the ReviDesmong Morse-Boycott, a cousin of Winston Churchillm takes the service during which the boy bishop is enthroned, This year, 13-year old Timothy Owen-Burk was elected by the boys and is here kneeling before the vicar while his chaplain stands behing him, A Boy is mad a Bishop-for 23 days... Thirteen-year0old Timothy Owen-Burke was made a Boy Bishop according to the Centuries-old-custom and ceremonies, at St. Mary-ddlestone, Surrey famous as a boarding school productin christers known as "Angels" and run by the Rev.Desmond Morse-Boycott, as causing of teh PRemier Annualy the boys elect one their number-he must however be able to get into the vestments, have a good voice and be of the very best character-for teh ceremony and succeeding engagements which llast until Holy Innocents Day. His only reward other than a Spiritual one, is golden guinea, and that of his chaplain or runner up in the voint half-a-guinea. The origins of having Boy Bishops at Christmastime is ancient. The cerem~nies and subsequent enagagements were very elaborate and surrounded by Veneration by the populaee. Henry VIII made a delivered a Sermon. As early as 1262, St. Paul's Cathedral records show that there was Boy Bishop.Ot of his vestments, the bishop os just an ordinary schoolboy; in them he receives fom his fellow pupils, the respect that his tempora"Illegible" high office requires.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.

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