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FROM THE ARCHIVES:The vicar of St John’s church in Sandymount, Dublin, the Rev SRS Colquhoun, was suspended for six months in 1937 by a Church of Ireland court for carrying out unauthorised practices. Evidence heard by the court of three bishops, three Northern judges and one Southern judge included the following. – JOE JOYCE

ALBERT E. MURPHY, the first witness, said that he was present in St John’s Church, Sandymount, at the institution of the present incumbent, on the 7th June, 1930. The Stations of the Cross were not there at that time. He had been in the church since then, and the Stations of the Cross, in the shape of fourteen plaster plaques, are now on the walls. A crucifix, about 2 or 3 feet high, hangs on the wall high above the pulpit.