Sir Stephen Glynne - a pioneer church recorder: a postscript

In volume 17 of this journal the late Lawrence Butler published a fairly full account of Sir Stephen Glynne and his activities as a church visitor and recorder (Butler 2013). He gives no hint, however, that Glynne ever visited Sussex or that any of his church notes for that county were ever published, but he did visit on more than one occasion and there are some seven Notebooks in the Gladstone library which record his observations. A very small selection of the entries in these Notebooks was published in Sussex Notes and Queries, a journal which appeared from 1926 to 1971 under the auspices of the Sussex Archaeological Society, but which is not widely known outside the county. Most of the transcripts, with only minor editorial comments, were published in the separate six-monthly parts that became the penultimate volume of the series, with an additional contribution in the final volume (Torr 1963–71).