Context (Production / use)
The name of the Rt. Rev. Iwuagwu is woven into the cloth and it is thought to have been intended as a wall hanging.

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Author: rachel hand

Context (Other owners)
The cloth has been in the care of Brian MacDonald-Milne who was Rural Dean when Dr Glasswell was Rector and subsequently Priest in charge of the Parish.
Details taken from a letter from Canon Graham W.J. Cook, Vice chair and Treasurer Sampford Parish Church Council to Revs. B.J. MacDonald-Milne, 13 July 2021

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Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Details of the cloth and its history are given in a letter from Canon Graham W.J. Cook, Vice chair and Treasurer Sampford Parish Church Council to Rev. B.J. MacDonald-Milne, 13 July 2021
Event Date 13/7/2021
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
The cloth is believed to have been given to a former rector of Sampford Parish Church by Rev. Dr Mark Glaswell, by a Nigerian Bishop, the Rt Rev Professor Iwuagwu in recognition of his services to the Anglican Church of Nigeria.


Event Date 13/7/2021
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Brightly coloured woven fringed textile incorporating cotton and metallic thread in orange, black and white, red and green stripes. With the text 'THE RT REV DR A. O . IWUAGWU." embroidered across the centre of the cloth in white thread. This refers to the Rt Rev Prof Iwuagwu, Augustine Onyeyirichukwu (1935-2022), the second Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Aba
Event Date 4/2/2022
Author: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
Augustine Onyeyirichukwu Iwuagwu, (born 1932 Umuobom-Umunkwo in Isiala Mbano L.G.A., Imo, Nigeria- 2022), trained as a teacher, receiving his certificate through external studies from London in 1963. He completed his PhD at the University o Ibadan in 1971. He was ordained a deacon in 1963, a priest in 1964 and was consecrated bishop in 1987, retiring in 2003

During his rise in the hierarchy of the church, he served many parishes. As the Bishop of Aba Diocese, he founded more than 50 church congregations. He spearheaded the creation of two new dioceses out of Aba Diocese: Ukwa and Umuahia dioceses.

He personally funded the establishment of more than fifty local congregations in his present jurisdiction of Aba and beyond. He has founded two new schools, for boys and for girls, respectively. He also established a center for the in-service training of pastors who might not be able to go to theological schools or universities. He has taught in the Alvan Ikoku College of Education where he rose to become the head of the Department of Religious Studies and, later, the Dean of the School of Social Sciences. He has served as chairman or member of several government committees on education and has translated the church liturgy into the Igbo language.'

Emele Mba Uka, 2001.
Accessioned from https://dacb.org/stories/nigeria/iwuagwu-augustine/

Event Date 4/2/2022
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
19 boxes of Glasswell’s papers are held by the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. Their archives notes: Mark Glasswell (1938-95) graduated B.A.from the University of Durham in 1960 and trained for Anglican orders at Westcott House, Cambridge, being ordained in 1967. From 1965 to 1974, he was a lecturer at Fourah Bay College, an institution founded by C.M.S. affiliated to Durham University until 1967, thereafter a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone. From 1975 to 1985, he was a lecturer in the Department of Religion at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. After his return to England in 1985, he continued his active links with African Christians.

The extensive collection of material gives valuable insight into the church and education in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, as well as the wider Anglican Communion.

The archive substantial correspondence includes locally-published material by John Mbiti, John Pobee, and other African theologians and substantial papers of Canon Professor Harry Sawyer, theologian in Sierra Leone and Barbados. There is also administrative material and publications relating to the universities, and to several west African churches and the World Council of Churches from the 1960s onwards.

The Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh also holds Glasswell papers (GB 3189 CSCNWW30), inluding personal items held by Glasswell; correspondence to Glasswell from his African students, including two letters from Desmond Tutu; articles, sermons and papers collected by Glasswell relating to the church in Africa; and pamphlets and cuttings related to the German Mission to West Africa
Event Date 4/2/2022
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
Cannon MacDonald Milne was the Rural Dean and then Priest in Charge of Sampford Parish and therefore responsible for Rev Dr Mark Glasswell's effects.

In his letter to the Museum he notes, 'It was placed in my care after the owner, the Rev Dr Mark Glasswell, died. He had taught for a while in Nigeria, and then was a parish priest in the Deanery of Saffron Walden, of which I was Rural Dean... some of his personal archive regarding his work in Nigeria is now deposited at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide'.




Event Date 15/8/2022
Author: rachel hand