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| | Special collections |
 | | The four parochial libraries which form the collection are the remnants of libraries originally attached to the parish churches of Bradfield, Norton, Tankersley and Worsbrough, which today all lie in the Sheffield diocese of the Church of England. |
 | | In 1947 for example the Tankersley library was rescued from the cock-loft of Worsbrough vicarage. |
 | | Although a proportion of books are in a satisfactory physical condition, many are not, and their present poor physical condition reflects the treatment afforded to ancient volumes which, with the passage of time, had become largely irrelevant to the concerns of clergy or parish. |
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