{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2022}} {{Short description|Anglican priest and liturgical scholar}}
'''Cheslyn Peter Montague Jones''' (4 July 1918–13 October 1987) was an Anglican priest and liturgical scholar.
== Biography == Jones was ordained priest in 1942 after studying at Magdalen College, Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web |accessdate=26 June 2022 |title= Canon Cheslyn Peter Montague JONES |url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/34041/canon-cheslyn-peter-montague-jones |website=Crockford's Clerical Directory|url-access=subscription}}</ref> After curacies in Wallsend (1941–1943) and Northolt Park (1943–1946), he lived at Nashdom Abbey (1946–1951). He then served as Chaplain of Wells Theological College (1951–1952).<ref>{{Who's Who |year=2007 |title=Jones, Rev. Canon Cheslyn Peter Montague |id=U165859 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U165859 }}</ref>
In Oxford, from 1952 to 1956, he served as Priest-Librarian at Pusey House and Chaplain at Christ Church, before moving to Chichester where he was Canon, Chancellor and Librarian of Chichester Cathedral, and Principal of Chichester Theological College.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chichester Theological College |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d1a89a30-cf6a-4290-badf-d655899758b0 |website=The National Archives |access-date=4 August 2022 |language=English |date=1839–1994}}</ref> In 1971, he returned to Pusey House to take up the role of Principal. From 1981 he returned to parish work in the Diocese of Peterborough.<ref>{{cite web |title=What is Pusey House? |url=http://www.puseyhouse.org.uk/what-is-pusey-house.html |website=Pusey House |access-date=4 August 2022 |language=en |archive-date=3 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803193223/http://www.puseyhouse.org.uk/what-is-pusey-house.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1983 |edition=1980–1982 |location=Oxford |pages=540 |language=English}}</ref>
He delivered the 1970 Bampton Lectures on ''Christ and Christianity: a study in origins in the light of St Paul.''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Cheslyn |title=Christ and Christianity: A Study in Origins in the Light of St Paul; The Bampton Lectures 1970 |date=1994 |publisher=Frank Hawkins |location=Chichester |oclc=978362210 |language=English}}</ref>
He was also a member of the 20th Century Church Light Music Group.<ref>{{cite book |title=Thirty 20th Century Hymn Tunes |date=1960 |publisher=Josef Weinberger Ltd.}}</ref>
== Works == * {{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Cheslyn |title=Christ and Christianity: A Study in Origins in the Light of St Paul; The Bampton Lectures 1970 |date=1994 |publisher=Frank Hawkins |location=Chichester |oclc=978362210 |language=English}} * {{Cite book |last=Jones, Wainwright, Yarnold |first=C P M, Geoffrey, Edward |title=The Study of Spirituality |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1986 |isbn=9780195041705 |location=Oxford |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Jones, Cheslyn, Wainwright, Geoffrey, Yarnold, Edward |title=The Study of the Liturgy |publisher=SPCK |year=1978 |isbn=0281035814 |location=London |language=en}}
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