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Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access published online on July 12, 2009
Journal of the History of Collections, doi:10.1093/jhc/fhp033
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

An Ark for England

Esoteric heritage at J. S. M. Ward's Abbey Folk Park, 1934-1940

Geoffrey A. C. Ginn


  Abstract

New Barnet's Abbey Folk Park embodied the unique sensibilities of its director, the antiquary, occult scholar and ‘irregular bishop’ Father J. S. M. Ward. A populist ‘open air’ museum on a pattern that proliferated across Britain after World War II, Ward's museum was also a vehicle for the pentecostal millennialism of his Confraternity of the Kingdom of Christ. The museum, its collection and the manner of its display demonstrates an unusual confluence between occult Christianity and more familiar themes of national heritage and Spenglerian notions of decline in inter-war Britain.

Correspondence: Address for correspondence, Dr Geoffrey Ginn, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Q4072, Australia. g.ginn{at}uq.edu.au


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