The Alcuin Club is an Anglican organization seeking to preserve or restore church ceremony, arrangement, ornament, and practice in an orthodox manner. The organization was founded in 1897 and named after Alcuin of York. It was a reorganization of an earlier group, the Society of St Osmund, which was formed in 1889. The Alcuin Club's first publication, ''English Altars'' by

W. H. St. John Hope Sir William Henry St John Hope (1854–1919) was an English antiquary. Life Hope was born in Derby, the son of the Reverend William Hope, vicar of St Peter's Church, Derby, Saint Peter's Church. He was educated at Derby Grammar School and en ...

, appeared in 1899. The club is dedicated to the ''

Book of Common Prayer The ''Book of Common Prayer'' (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christianity, Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 ...

'' and conformity to its exact

rubric A rubric is a word or section of text that is traditionally written or printed in red ink for emphasis. The word derives from the la, rubrica, meaning red ochre or red chalk, and originates in Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the 13th c ...

. The club was active in the debate over the rewriting of the ''Book of Common Prayer'' in the 1920s.A Survey of the Proposals for the Alternative Prayer Book From the Alcuin Club - 1923 & 1924
Society of Archbishop Justus Its influence faded somewhat after the first part of the century and it is now dedicated to studying ceremony of all

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words '' Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρ ...

churches. The club's members are active in the liturgical researches of the Anglican churches. The club has 450 members, with over half being in the United Kingdom and many in the United States. The Alcuin Club selects works on liturgy and ceremony and

hagiography A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies migh ...

every year to include in its collections.

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Project Canterbury Project Canterbury (sometimes abbreviated as PC) is an online archive of material related to the history of Anglicanism. It was founded by Richard Mammana, Jr. in 1999 with a grant from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold Frank T ...

Anglican organizations Anglo-Catholicism Text publication societies Religious organizations established in 1897 {{Anglicanism-stub

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