Lady Bay All Hallows

Features and Fittings

Pulpit

Detail of pulpit
carving

Font

Lectern

The wooden pulpit was originally located at Nottingham St James and was donated to that church by the widow of John Wells Leavers in 1898. A brass plaque still affixed to the pulpit states:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN WELLS LEAVERS
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
AUGUST 13TH 1897

THIS PULPIT WAS GIVEN BY
HIS SORROWING WIDOW
NOVEMBER 3RD 1898.

St James' church was closed and demolished in 1935 and the pulpit was transferred to a storeroom in Porchester St James. The pulpit was eventually offered to Lady Bay church and was restored by Cecil Roworth and installed in 1956.

The wooden font was gifted by Mrs Burton to celebrate the consecration of the church in 1950. A small brass plaque at the base of the font reads:

IN COMMEMORATION OF
THE CONSECRATION OF
ALL HALLOWS CHURCH
ADVENT. 1950.

PRESENTED BY MRS ARTHUR BURTON

There is also a wooden lectern.

Choir frontage

A decorative frontage to a choir stall is now in the sanctuary. A brass plaque on the end of the panel reads:

THE RE-SEATING OF THIS
CHURCH WAS EFFECTED
OUT OF A LEGACY UNDER
THE WILL OF
CLAUDE RAYNOR
DECEASED
OF THIS PARISH IN THE
YEAR OF CONSECRATION
1950

Reading desks

Also in the sanctuary is a reading desk bearing a brass plaque that states:

PRESENTED TO
LADY BAY CHURCH,
IN MEMORY OF ISAAC PAYNE,
BY HIS WIFE AND FAMILY.
SEPTEMBER 1912.