Reproduced from

DRYPOOL - Being a History of the Ancient Parish of Drypool cum Southcoates
by M. Edward Ingram (1959)

62 St. Columba's Church, 1960. [Click image for larger version]

63 by that from All Saints, Scu1coates. Other gifts and alterations included a lectern given in 1935 in memory of Woo]f and Henry Zimmerman, an altar cross in memory of Doris Sophia Wood, a Children's Corner in the north transept, and a Chapel in the south transept furnished in memory of Fred Ernest Mawer, for 23 years churchwarden. This chapel also houses the mutilated remains of the lectern from St. Peter's, which had been given to that church in ] 900 in memory of A]derman Henry Morrill and his wife Susannah. In October, 1921 the old Beeton Street rooms were sold, and the new parish hall, attached to the Abbey Street Rooms, was opened on St. Andrew's Day, 1923. THE CHURCH OF ST. AIDAN, SOUTHCOATES With the end of the first World War, the remaining fields of the parish, the old East Fie]d of Southcoates, was invaded by houses, when the Corporation of the city planned a housing estate on what had been Sa]vidge's Farm. Had the placing of St. John's been more carefully conceived, it might have served part of this area. As it was, a hut was built close to the Ho]derness Drain Bank and opened in January, ]925. A nucleus for a church had been formed by holding services at 77, College Grove. The new church, designed by Messrs. Mi]ner & Craze, architects also of the new St. Co]umba's, was consecrated as a parish church by Archbishop Garbett on 12th March, 1955, when a district was assigned to it under the title of St. Aidan, Southcoates. This church possesses a handsome eighteenth century font, with a very fine cover, surmounted by a dove. THE SECOND WORLD WAR With the outbreak of hostilities practically all the parochial buildings were commandeered. This meant a