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 |