Peter Bridges (priest)

Peter Sydney Godfrey Bridges, ARIBA (30 January 1925 – 24 January 2015) was an Anglican priest who served in three senior posts during the last third of the twentieth century.^[1]

Bridges was educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School and initially trained as an architect.^[2] He was ordained in 1958^[3] and began his career as a Curate in Hemel Hempstead. After this he was Resident Fellow at Birmingham University’s Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture from 1964 to 1967 and a Lecturer there from then until 1972 when he became the Archdeacon of Southend.^[4] In 1977 he became Archdeacon of Coventry;^[5] and in 1983 Archdeacon of Warwick, a post he held until his retirement.^[6] He died in January 2015, only a few days before his 90th birthday.^[7]

References

↑ ‘ BRIDGES, Ven. Peter Sydney Godfrey’’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 5 May 2013
↑ Architects Database
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959-60: Oxford, OUP, 1959 p 134
↑ Church news The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Mar 07, 1972; pg. 16; Issue 58420
↑ Church news The Times (London, England), Wednesday, May 18, 1977; pg. 18; Issue 60006
↑ Church news The Times (London, England), Thursday, January 18, 1990; pg. 14; Issue 63606
↑ The Venerable Peter Bridges, priest-architect - obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2015, accessed 23 February 2015.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Neville Welch	Archdeacon of Southend 1972–1977	Succeeded by John Moses
Preceded by Eric Ancrum Buchan	Archdeacon of Coventry 1977–1983	Succeeded by Alan Wyndham Morgan
Preceded by Edward Taylor	Archdeacon of Warwick 1983–1990	Succeeded by Michael Paget Wilkes

Archdeacons in the Diocese of Chelmsford

Southend	Percy Bayne Ellis Gowing Neville Welch, Bishop of Bradwell Peter Bridges John Moses Jonathan Bailey David Jennings David Lowman (became Archdeacon of Chelmsford) Mina Smallman

Harlow etc.	Unknown Archdeacon of Harlow Michael Fox, Archdeacon of Harlow Peter Taylor, Archdeacon of Harlow Martin Webster, Archdeacon of Harlow David Lowman, Archdeacon of Chelmsford (previously Archdeacon of Southend) John Perumbalath, Archdeacon of Barking Robin King, Archdeacon of Stansted

See also: Archdeacons of Essex and of West Ham; Archdeacons of Colchester.

Archdeacons of Coventry

High Medieval	Richard Peche Edmund Nicholas Richard Brito (I) Richard de Leghes Robert de Bosco Richard of Gloucester Alexander of Hales Adam de Hoo Lawrence of St Martin William of Kilkenny John Kirkby Richard Brito (II) Robert Stafford Peter de Insula

Late Medieval	Gregory Giudice de Alatri Richard Riccardi de Urbe John Cardinal Gaetani de Urbe Humphrey de Hastanges Hugh de Marisco William de Sallowe William Cross Richard Boule William de Driffield John de Pipe Richard de Birmingham William Lombe Robert de Stretton Robert de Oxton John Heyworth Robert Esple Roger Wall Thomas Mills

Early modern	George Strangeways Ralph Colyngwood John Blythe Henry Comberford Thomas Lever William James William Hinton Samuel Brooke Ralph Brownrigg Francis Walsall John Riland George Downing Lancelot Addison Richard Davies William Wilson Thomas Smallbrook Norman Fotheringham

Late modern	William Vyse Charles Buckeridge William Spooner John Sandford Charles Holbech George Arbuthnot Claude Blagden Joseph Hunkin Richard Brook Richard Howard Leonard Stanford Eric Buchan Peter Bridges Alan Morgan Ian Russell Mark Bryant Ian Watson John Green (Acting; became Archdeacon Pastor)

Archdeacons of Warwick

James Peile Claude Blagden Hugh Back St Barbe Holland Algernon Ward Malcolm Parr Jesse Proctor Edward Taylor Peter Bridges Michael Paget-Wilkes Morris Rodham

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