Founded in 1927, the Royal School of Church Music spend much of its working life at Addington Palace in Croydon, and era which saw a massive expansion of its work and influence in parish church music, both at home and abroad. This is the first published comprehensive history of those years - stretching from the post-WW2 years based at Canterbury, through four decades at Addington Palace, up to the move in 1996 to Cleveland Lodge in Dorking, Surrey. John Henderson and Trevor Jarvis are Hon Librarian and Hon Assistnat Librarian to the RSCM.