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I've been on the Carlisle Diocese website and it seems from one of the downloads that the Church Warden has to keep a log of the building maintenance.
Hi Rena that's why I suggested contacting the Parochial Church Council secretary, who would be able to pass on cpercival's enquiry to the correct person. Whether the disposal of a prayer desk would be logged is another matter
Yes I thought that was the case. It seems strange that the vicar didn't mention any possibilities of who to approach in his own church, as I'm presuming there has to be a book or ledger containing the inventory. Possibly an auction house removed everything for disposal and I'm assuming it will be nigh impossible to trace the prayer desk now, especially as we don't know what it looked like. Most salvage yards and companies specialising in selling church fixtures and fittings don't mention where the items originated, all except one that sold very expensive desks and named the original church.
I've searched for images of church interiors but the only image to appear online of this church has been the modern interior. Back in the 1950s-1960s I knew a chap who collected calendars depicting churches. As St John's is a large historical church I'm pretty sure that somewhere there'll be an old black & white photo of the interior showing the prayer desk.
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