Bishop Cheesman possessed all the episcopal qualities. He had the
hands of a physician and the brow of a scholar. He was filled with a
sense of the importance of his position, and in that perhaps was
included n sense of the importance of himself. He was eloquent in
public, grandiloquent in private. To him Father Rowley wrote shortly
after his enthronement.
St. Agnes' House,
Keppel Street,
Chatsea.
March 24.
My Lord Bishop,
I am unwilling to trouble you at a moment when you must be
unusually busy; but I shall be glad to hear from you about the
opening of the new church of the Silchester College Mission, which
was fixed for Easter Sunday. Your predecessor, Bishop Crawshay, did
not think that any new licence would be necessary, because the new
St. Agnes' is joined by the sacristy to the old mission church.
There is no idea at present of asking you to constitute St. Agnes'
a parish and therefore the question of consecration does not arise.
I regret to say that Bishop Crawshay thoroughly disapproved of our
services and ritual, and I think he may have felt unwilling to
commit himself to endorsing them by the formal grant of a new
licence.
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