page_title: Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove
section_title: Curates
hierarchical_section_title: Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove / Curates
caption_attribution_description: Walter Charles Gosling (1861-1950), curate of the Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove, nr Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, from 1899 to 1908.
context_page_description: The Church of St John the Divine, designed by William Swinden Barber, was built as a mission church in 1892–1893 in the parish of St James, Chapelthorpe, Crigglestone, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It is Grade II listed. It was funded by local benefactor Mary Mackie in memory of her husband. It is of Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts design. The exterior is small, plain and simple and the interior is low church; nevertheless the interior contains a fine scissor-truss roof which retains its original 1892 stencil paintings. The church is still in commission as a shared benefice with the parish church of St James, Chapelthorpe.
context_section_description: The first curate appointed specifically to this benefice was Charles Oldroyd (1859–1806), who served from January 1896 to April 1898, then went on to the Church of St Philip and St James in Scholes, Cleckheaton. Oldroyd died in Somerset in 1906 at the age of 46.
  Oldroyd was followed in January 1899 by Walter Charles Gosling (1869–1952), who stayed until November 1908. Gosling attended Merton College, Oxford, attaining his BA in 1894, and his MA in 1897; he was ordained priest at Ripon in the same year. He had been chaplain of the Church of St John the Evangelist at Oulton from 1896 to 1898.
  Next came Thomas Hadfield (b.1857), who officiated from October 1910 until March 1912. The last curate to be appointed before World War I was Charles David Day (b.1885), serving from June 1912 to June 1914. During the war it was William Lesswaine Brambston (1875–1959) from July 1915 to June 1920.
  There were five curates between the wars, beginning with Robert Clement Owen (b.1884) from May 1921 until July 1925; he spoke both English and Welsh. Then it was George Goode, December 1925 to September 1929. After him came the youthful James Albert Kings (1906–1987), serving under the economically devastating conditions of the Great Depression from June 1930 to April 1934. Fred Herrington carried on this work from December 1934 to November 1937.
  It was Philip Melville Berry (1915–1962) who was in office when World War II started. He served from September 1938 to June 1942 when Ronald Ernest Helm took over as curate.
caption: Rev. W.C. Gosling
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