Magazine Archives
All the old magazines have been scanned and added to a Magazine Archive in the St James's archives and can be dowloaded here. N/A means that a magazine is not available, perhaps not printed. The quality of the scans vary and correspond to the quality of each original magazine. See the links on the left. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them which you can download free from Adobe. 1884 -1899 | 1900 - 1919 | 1920 - 1939 | 1940 - 1959 | 1960 - 1979 | 1980 - 1999 | 2000 - 2019 | 2020 - 2039 From November 1884 until January 1933 the magazines are preserved, without their covers, bound together as hard-backed books, one or two years in a book. Consequently, there is no record of the covers of these particular magazines, which also means not many records of services and staff at this time as they were mostly printed on the covers. From January 1933 the magazines are preserved separately with their covers, all the same and showing the church staff and services. There are no records of magazines from 1937, 1938 or 1939 and only a few magazines are available from the 1940s.
Downloading tips• Most magazines will appear full width on your screen. If they do not then go to the horizontal navigation bar at the top of the magazine and click the arrow at the side of the percentage box. A drop down menu will appear. Scroll down and choose the width you require. Alternately, just zoom in to your choice of text size. Find out moreMagazine Covers (photos) Receive the Spire by emailTo receive the Spire by email sign up here. |