DC/CB/1
Reference code
DC/CB/1
Level of description
Series
Title
Canon Eldon Bankes, Collection of Sermons
Date
1861, 1875-1910
Quantity & Format
1 volume
Description
A collection of manuscript sermons written by Canon Eldon S Bankes. Each sermon is preceded by a biblical text and is dated. Two sermons are identified as being given on 'The Opening of Bere Church' (1875), and 'The Hartley Colliery Disaster'.
Also included are a number of loose sermons and a letter to 'Darling Aunt Gertrude' dated 16th November 1915.
An inscription at the front of the volume reads: 'Gertrude L Effiel [?] sermons by the Revd Eldon S Bankes 45 years Rector of Corfe Castle, Dorset. Canon of Salisbury.' Another later inscription reads 'Rector from 1854 to 1899.'
Language
English
Physical Characteristics
Material: paper
Keywords
Bankes, Eldon Surtees