NEWSLETTER Parish of St George Hanover Square

St George’s Church Grosvenor Chapel July—October 2019: issue 43

Inside this issue

The Rector writes 2

Mayfair Organ Concerts 4

Services at St George’s 5

Benefactions A & M 8

Parish Officers & Committees 11

Services at Grosvenor Chapel 12

Prisons Mission 13

Contact details 16

Hanover Square in 1750 the plague, but in the 19th century (from a print in the Choir Vestry at St George’s) supporting various hospitals. These parish ‘benefactions’ contin- aying down my quill after to try and place the current work of ue to this day but under the banner editing the last 37 edi- the Charity in its historical context. of the Hyde Park Place Estate Chari- tions of this august parish The Parish of St George has never ty, originally established 105 years organ, the temptation is L just been about ‘church’. From the ago by the then Rector and Church- to reminisce. As the Rector has outset, as a Civil as well as an Eccle- wardens, Messrs Thickness, Trotter so kindly said on the next page, siastical Parish it has been deeply and Thynne. the past eleven years have been involved with the lives and wellbeing busy and for those of us privi- General Steuart would surely be of the people who have lived and leged to have been directly in- pleased to note from the latest list worked in this part of West London. volved, it’s also been rewarding of beneficiaries that funds continue The List of Benefactions produced by and a lot of fun. But no, I won’t to go to St George’s and St Au- my predecessor in 1885 (see page 9) reminisce. Neither will I specu- gustine’s Primary Schools. And the illustrates the range of support avail- late wishfully through rose tint- Trustees of the graphically entitled able - from General Steuart’s well- ed spectacles on what might Pest House Charity would note with known championing of education to now follow. What I have done equal pleasure the support given to Mrs Nasmyth’s provision of relief for though may be found on pages two charities for blind people as the deserving poor (with a strong 8—10. well as to those suffering from mo- bias in favour of married persons, tor neurone disease and cancer. In each of the previous 36 Parish widows and widowers!). We see too Newsletters for which I have Mrs Wilkins, Mrs Teage and the Duch- This is surely history as it should be: been responsible, a page has ess of Gloucester anticipating the rich in past achievement but with a been set aside to record the ac- winter fuel allowance by providing forward momentum propelling it tivities of the Hyde Park Place for the distribution of bread and coal through the present to a future of Estate Charity. Rather than fol- on St Thomas’s Day (21st December) which this and later generations at low this somewhat predictable in perpetuity and the Pest House St George’s can justifiably be pattern one final time, it Charity, originally set up in 1687 to proud. seemed rather more interesting benefit poor persons suffering from

The Rector writes . . .

worked in Naples during the first Sunday of that month. This 1970s, and it was a delight to time of flowering and blossom- hear from Stephen about his own ing is dedicated to Mary, the visits to discuss arrangements Flower of flowers, as she was for the great man’s 75th and 80th called by Chaucer. And then birthday celebrations. He then later on in June for the Feast of went on to run a number of or- Corpus Christi, flowers and chestras and ensembles – both petals are scattered in great here in the UK (London Mozart Processions of the Blessed Sac- Players) and in South Africa in rament both in church and Johannesburg, Pretoria and Dur- through the streets. ban. In 1994 he played a signifi- cant role in the arrangements Certain flowers, plants and for Nelson Mandela’s inaugura- trees from the scriptures were tion as president. adopted by the Church Fathers, and incorporated in the Litur- But Stephen was not only to gy, as specific symbols of have such a wonderful musical Mary’s Conception, such as the pedigree, which has helped Blossoming Stem of Jesse from fter over 11 very active enormously with the liaison/ Isaiah's prophecy of the Virgin years with us, which have links with the various groups Birth of the Messiah. Also Rose seen major work restoring who use St George’s for con- Plant, Lily Among Thorns, Ex- A St George’s Church, in- certs. For some years he was alted Cedar, and Fruitful Olive stalling a new organ, and latterly Bursar at Ely Cathedral and Tree, from the Wisdom tradi- bringing the Undercroft into use, brought to us a wealth of experi- tion. Stephen Wikner will be retiring ence in church administration. as our Administrator at the end There is an Annunciation with of September. Very kindly he has There will be a farewell drink Flower Symbols from a 16th– kept me up to date with his with Stephen to thank him after century French Book of Hours - thinking and plans and has given the Sung Eucharist at Michael- which exhibits a panel of indi- plenty of notice of his intention mas (on Sunday 29th Septem- vidual symbolical flowers be- to hand over to a new pair of ber). neath a miniature painting of hands. I am personally most the Virgin Mary with the an- grateful to him and aware that Flowers nouncing Archangel Gabriel, a like me, there will be many peo- vase of white Annunciation Lil- ple, groups and organisations We are fortunate at St George’s ies, and the descending dove of involved with St George’s (and to be able to worship in such a the Holy Spirit. Among these the Grosvenor Chapel) who will beautiful and well-proportioned flowers are those which sym- miss him greatly. The good news and restored building which bolise the purity of Mary: is that from time to time we needs little in terms of extra shall continue to see him, as adornment. Those weddings and White Lily - Annunciation Lily, there are projects and plans in funerals and memorial services symbol of Mary's purity. advance of our Tercentenary that call for flowers to enhance where his involvement and con- the church are the more suc- Impatiens - Our Lady's Earrings, tribution will be most helpful cessful by not overwhelming the symbolic of the ears of Mary and useful. space. I call to mind a comment who heard the word of God and that might have come from the kept it. Stephen’s various jobs through- pages of a Mapp and Lucia nov- out his career made him wonder- el…at a party where two grand Violet - symbol of Mary's humili- fully suitable for his time with dames of neighbouring churches ty regarded by the Lord. us. As a young man he was a pro- not far from Sloane Square and fessional violinist, and then Pimlico were competing for the Lady-Slipper - Our Lady's Slip- worked around the corner in attention of several young cu- per, symbol of Mary's trip to Conduit Street where the London rates, having been part of a Mis- visit Elizabeth in the hill coun- office of the music department sion Team. O what lovely jewel- try. of OUP was based, and one of lery you have Lorna – and how our former Organists (Director of very clever of you to wear it all Thistle-Down - another Visita- Music) Christopher Morris was his at once! tion symbol boss. William Walton was just one of the many composers My training incumbent (that is Rose - symbol of the Blessed whom Stephen looked after. It is the Vicar who trained me as a Virgin of prophecy, the Rose only recently that I have made curate in Portsmouth) always plant bearing the flower, the pilgrimage to Ischia to see would ask for the Hymn The Christ. Lady Walton’s wonderful garden, Happy Birds Te Deum sing – ‘tis even though my father lived and Mary’s month of May on the Daisy - Mary's Flower of God

2 Periwinkle - Virgin Flower, em- Flower Rota St George’s in Venice Friday blem of the Blessed Virgin. 9th – Sunday 11th October. There are a number of major Columbine - symbol of the dove Festivals on which it would be Prisons Week Sunday - Sunday of the Holy Spirit. good to decorate St George’s 20th October led by St George’s modestly with flowers, and to members of the Prisons Mission Pansy - Trinity Flower, symbol this end Anne Barnes has very team. of the Trinity. kindly offered to gather a group of volunteers from the congrega- There are daily prayers in Strawberry - Fruitful Virgin, in tion who would like to be in- church, Monday – Thursday at flower and fruit at the same volved in joining a rota. We 12.10pm The Midday Office is time. would aim for between about 8 said on most days except when to 10 Sundays and Major Festi- the Eucharist is celebrated on In the English countryside the vals per annum to start with and Fridays and Saints’ Days. Please wild arum, with leaf-like spathe see how we get on. If you would join us if you are in the area. and rod-like pistil, was seen as like to help could you please a Virgin and Child symbol and is contact Richard or Jake by email The Royal Society of St commonly known to this day as (details on the back page) and George to whom I am National Lady-Lords. they will then pass on your con- Chaplain will join us for their tact details to Anne. Annual Parade Service on Sun- The Flowering Stem of Jesse day 27th October. (grape vine) - symbol of the vir- Marriage Renewal Sunday - Sun- gin birth - was extended to the day 14th July with preacher The Requiem for departed loved blooming rose, as in the Christ- Ven Luke Miller, Archdeacon of ones will be celebrated on mas carol, Lo how a Rose e’re London, followed by a recep- Friday 13th September at Blooming. Other flowers of the tion. 1.10pm. Please inform the Ver- Nativity include Star of Bethle- ger (contact details on the hem - Our Lady's Bedstraw - Baptism Renewal Sunday - Sun- back page) if you wish to in- which, according to old legend, day 15th September, followed by clude names for prayer. acquired its golden colour when a reception. the new-born Jesus was laid on Holy Cocktail Hour Open it in the manger - and Our La- Sunday 29th September House – all are welcome for dy's Milkdrops, also from leg- (Michaelmas) – reception after drinks on Wednesdays 18th Sep- end and anticipating the Nurs- the Service to thank Stephen tember, 16th October, 4th De- ing Madonna in art. Wikner. cember at 6.30pm until 8pm at the Rectory, 21a Down Street The doctrine of Mary's Virginity, Harvest Festival - Sunday 6th W1J 7AW - entrance in Brick defined in the 12th century, October. Street opposite the tapas bar – was seen to be symbolised in top bell. This follows the the garden by the strawberry - 5.45pm celebration of Holy in flower and fruit at the same Communion at St George’s. time.

Details from reredos carvings at St George’s

3 Mayfair Organ Concerts

A weekly series of lunchtime organ concerts now in its seventh year at St George’s, Hanover Square & the Grosvenor Chapel. Every Tuesday 1.10-1.50pm Free admission — retiring collection

July 2 Grosvenor Chapel Gordon Stewart (Huddersfield Town Hall)

July 9 St George’s Jeremiah Stephenson (All Saints, Margaret Street)

July 16 Grosvenor Chapel Zsombor Tóth-Vajna (Budapest)

July 23 St George’s Ian Hockley (Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra)

July 30 Grosvenor Chapel Wyatt Smith (organ) with Tracelyn Gesteland (mezzo-soprano)

August 6 St George’s Jeremy Lloyd (Rochester Cathedral)

August 13 Grosvenor Chapel Andrew Benson-Wilson (Basingstoke)

August 20 St George’s Relf Clark (Didcot)

August 27 Grosvenor Chapel Kai Krakenberg (Husum, Germany)

September 3 St George’s Richard Hobson (Grosvenor Chapel)

September 10 Grosvenor Chapel Mike Overend (Horsham Parish Church)

September 17 St George’s Alexander Knight (St Mary Magdalene, Richmond)

September 24 Grosvenor Chapel Jonathan Gregory (London)

October 1 St George’s Zsombor Tóth-Vajna (Budapest)

October 8 Grosvenor Chapel Richard Hobson (Grosvenor Chapel)

October 15 St George’s Travis Baker (St Mary’s, Putney)

October 22 Grosvenor Chapel João Santos (Leiria Cathedral, Portugal)

October 29 St George’s Simon Williams (St George’s)

4 Services at St George’s July—October 2019

Monday 1st July 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 19th July 1.10pm Holy Communion Tuesday 2nd July 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 21st July Fifth Sunday after Trinity & Wednesday 3rd July St Mary Magdalene 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 5.45pm Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector th Thursday 4 July Communion Service in A (Stanford) th 12.10pm Midday Prayer When Mary through the garden Sunday 4 August went (Stanford) Seventh Sunday after Trinity Friday 5th July Postlude in G minor (Stanford) 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 1.10pm Holy Communion 11.00am Sung Eucharist Monday 22nd July Celebrant: Sunday 7th July 12.10pm Midday Prayer The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Third Sunday after Trinity Preacher: The Rector 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) Tuesday 23rd July Missa Aeterna Christi Munera 11.00am Sung Eucharist 12.10pm Midday Prayer (Palestrina) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Sicut cervus (Palestrina) Mass in E flat (Rheinberger) Wednesday 24th July Fugue sur le Trompette (Couperin)

Panis angelicus (Franck) 12.10pm Midday Prayer th Paean (Howells) 5.45pm Holy Communion Monday 5 August 12.10pm Midday Prayer th th Monday 8 July Thursday 25 July th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 6 August 12.10pm Midday Prayer th th Tuesday 9 July Friday 26 July th 12.10pm Midday Prayer St Anne, Wednesday 7 August Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 10th July 1.10pm Holy Communion No 5.45pm service

12.10pm Midday Prayer th 5.45pm Holy Communion Sunday 28th July Thursday 8 August Sixth Sunday after Trinity 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 11th July 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist Friday 9th August Celebrant: The Rector 1.10pm Holy Communion Friday 12th July Preacher: 1.10pm Holy Communion The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Sunday 11th August Missa Brevis (Palestrina) Eighth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 14th July Exsultate Deo (Palestrina) 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) Fourth Sunday after Trinity Canzon detta La Capricciosa 11.00am Sung Eucharist 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) (V Pellegrini) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Mass for four voices (Byrd) Renewal of Marriage Vows Monday 29th July Ave verum corpus (Byrd) Celebrant: The Rector 12.10pm Midday Prayer Twelve Organ Pieces: No 3 (William Preacher: The Ven Luke Miller Herschel) Missa Brevis in C Tuesday 30th July ‘Spatzenmesse’ (Mozart) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 12th August Set me as a seal upon thy heart 12.10pm Midday Prayer (Walton) Wednesday 31st July Hornpipe from Watermusic (Handel) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 13th August 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 15th July 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 1st August Wednesday 14th August 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 16th July No 5.45pm service 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 2nd August 1.10pm Holy Communion Thursday 15th August Wednesday 17th July 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion Friday 16th August 1.10pm Holy Communion Thursday 18th July 12.10pm Midday Prayer

5 th th Sunday 18 August Sunday 8 September Sunday 29th September Ninth Sunday after Trinity Twelfth Sunday after Trinity St Michael & All Angels 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant: The Rector Celebrant: Celebrant: The Rector Preacher: The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Preacher: The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Preacher: The Rector The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Communion Service in B flat Missa Brevis (Walton) Mass in F sharp minor (Widor) (Stanford) O for a closer walk with God Factum est silentium (Dering) Beati quorum via (Stanford) (Stanford) Toccata (Gigout) Prelude on Song 22 (Stanford) Psalm Prelude Set 1 No 1 ‘Lo the poor crieth’ (Howells) Monday 30th September Monday 19th August th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 9 September 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 1st October Tuesday 20th August th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 10 September 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 2nd October Wednesday 21st August th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 11 September 5.45pm Holy Communion No 5.45pm service 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion Thursday 3rd October Thursday 22nd August th 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 12 September 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 4th October Friday 23rd August th 1.10pm Holy Communion St Batholomew, the Apostle Friday 13 September (transferred) 1.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 6th October 1.10pm Holy Communion Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 15th September th Harvest Festival Sunday 25 August Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) Tenth Sunday after Trinity 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Celebrant: 11.00am Sung Eucharist Renewal of Baptismal Vows The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Celebrant: The Rector Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Preacher: The Rector Preacher: Missa sine nomine (Hassler) Missa Ego flos campi (Padilla) The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Come, Holy Ghost (Attwood) Cantate Domino (Monteverdi) Short Service (Batten) Praeludium in C (Buxtehude) Prelude in G major BWV 541/I (Bach) O sing joyfully (Batten) th Praeludium in D (Buxtehude) Monday 16 September th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 7 October Monday 26th August 12.10pm Midday Prayer th Church closed: no services Tuesday 17 September th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 8 October Tuesday 27th August 12.10pm Midday Prayer th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 18 September th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 9 October Wednesday 28th August 5.45pm Holy Communion St Denys, Bishop of Paris, 12.10pm Midday Prayer Martyr c 250 No 5.45pm service Thursday 19th September 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion th Thursday 29 August th 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 20th September Thursday 10 October 1.10pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer th Friday 30 August th 1.10pm Holy Communion Sunday 22nd September Friday 11 October Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 1.10pm Holy Communion st Sunday 1 September 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) th Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Renewal Sunday 13 October 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) of Baptismal Vows Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Missa Brevis (Kelly) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Missa Brevis in D minor (Mozart) Justorum animae (Byrd) Celebrant & Preacher: Laudate Dominum (Mozart) Second Suite: Final (Boëllmann) Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff Sonata No 6/ii – Fuga (Mendelssohn) Missa Iste confessor (Palestrina) Monday 23rd September Panis angelicus (Dering) nd Vigilia (Martinů) Monday 2 September 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer th Tuesday 24th September Monday 14 October Tuesday 3rd September 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer th Wednesday 25 September th Wednesday 4th September 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 15 October 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion 8.45am Morning Calm 5.45pm Holy Communion 12.10pm Midday Prayer th Thursday 26 September th Thursday 5th September 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 16 October 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.45am Morning Calm Friday 27th September 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 6th September 1.10pm Holy Communion 5.45pm Holy Communion 1.10pm Holy Communion 6 Thursday 17th October Monday 21st October Sunday 27th October 8.45am Morning Calm 8.45am Morning Calm Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Royal Friday 18th October Tuesday 22nd October Society of St George Parade Service St Luke, the Evangelist 8.45am Morning Calm Celebrant: The Rector 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer Preacher: The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Communion Service in F (Darke) 1.10pm Holy Communion rd Wednesday 23 October O salutaris hostia (Howells) Sunday 20th October 8.45am Morning Calm Crown Imperial (Walton) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity th Prisons Sunday 5.45pm Holy Communion Monday 28 October Ss Simon & Jude, Apostles 8.30am Holy Communion BCP (said) th 11.00am Sung Eucharist Thursday 24 October 8.45am Morning Calm Celebrant: The Rector 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer Preachers: The Prisons Mission Team 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 29th October Missa Brevis (Grayston Ives) th Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Friday 25 October 8.45am Morning Calm (trad arr Tippett) St Luke, the Evangelist 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tema met varieties (Andriessen) 8.45am Morning Calm 1.10pm Holy Communion Wednesday 30th October 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion

Thursday 31st October 8.45am Morning Calm 12.10pm Midday Prayer

7 Benefactions ancient & modern

October 1885. It details the restrictions, only the latter benefactions of nine individu- two functions remain. als, groups of individuals or institutions, some dating from The position of the Charity was before St George’s was built, further enhanced when, with that were administered by the the agreement of the Charity Rector, Churchwardens and Commission, a decision was Vestry of the sprawling civil made a decade ago to bring a and ecclesiastical empire that significant number of smaller at the time still covered 1,100 charities falling under the trus- acres of London bounded by teeship of the Rector and Oxford Street, the Thames, Churchwardens, including eight Regent Street and the Serpen- of the nine listed by J H Smith, tine although by then the ec- under the HPPEC umbrella. clesiastical parish had already begun to shrink. The Trustees of the HPPEC Ecclesiastical Charity now ne of the unexpected ben- One can but speculate as to Mr meet twice a year, when they efits of opening up the Un- Smith’s motives for assembling make discretionary grants for: dercroft at St George’s has such a list. Little of the infor- been that at long last the O mation it gives was new, but it  clergy working in the His- church has somewhere on site does serve to illustrate that toric Parish of St. George’s where it can store things it would from the outset, St George’s Hanover Square; like to keep but which it would was engaged in a lot more prefer not to send to the West- than the spiritual welfare of  the preservation and minster City Archive where its his- those living and working within toric records are housed. maintenance of the fabric the parish boundary. of churches in the Historic

The old storage area in the boiler Parish; And that work continues today room was never satisfactory and long after the responsibilities once it was absorbed by the new of the civil parish passed into  any other ecclesiastical Undercroft, identifying an alterna- other hands at the turn of the purpose within the Historic tive space became essential. High 20th century and the civil par- Parish. above and to the west of the or- ish itself was abolished in gan case was a chamber running 1922. Interestingly though, the The Civil Charity was estab- the full width of the church hous- civil parish’s most notable lished to assist and benefit the ing the blower and wind trunking manifestation, the parliamen- residents of Westminster, spe- of the Hope Jones organ of tary constituency of St George cifically to alleviate poverty, 1894/96. This equipment had re- Hanover Square (renamed assist the elderly and help fund mained in place unused for dec- Westminster St George’s in need-based social action more ades because it was considered 1918) survived until 1950. generally in the community. too bulky to be removed – until recently. Needs must and St The Hyde Park Place Estate The Charity operates two grant George’s now boasts its own Ar- Charity (HPPEC) was set up schemes: an organisational chive Room. under a Scheme dated 7th May scheme - making block grants 1914 to administer funds gen- of between £500 and £5,000 to Among the things we can now erated by properties in Hyde charitable organisations work- store – and view – properly are a Park Place and Hyde Park Ter- ing in Westminster in response number of paintings, illustrations race off Bayswater Road. Its to detailed applications consid- and prints. Sadly, these include no original purpose was threefold: ered at formal quarterly meet- Rembrandts but among them are to provide the means by which ings; and a small grants items of considerable local inter- the Rector and Churchwardens scheme - making grants in the est, notably a delightful poly- of St George’s Church, Hano- region of £50 - £200 for indi- chrome statue of St Michael, pre- ver Square might maintain the viduals, through formal re- sumably (in this context) masquer- disused Parish Burial Ground quests from recognised social ading as St George, an oil paint- and its chapel ‘in a fit and welfare organisations which is ing of the East End stained glass in proper condition’ and to divide operated on rolling assessment its original gothic windows and any residual income equally basis. what is best categorised as a post- between an Ecclesiastical er, illustrated on the opposite Charity and a Civil Charity. It is the Trustees’ policy to page. With the subsequent sale of award grants only for the di- the burial ground, after the St rect benefit of Westminster This is the work of the present George Hanover Square Burial residents permanently resident writer’s predecessor as Vestry Ground Act of 1964 was passed in the UK. Clerk, J. H. Smith, and is dated to remove previous building

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9 RECENT MEETINGS At a meeting of the Ecclesiastical Trustees on nd th th Sunday 2 June 2019 a total of £76,005 was At their meetings on 27 February and 5 June awarded in grants for the benefit of the church- 2019, the Civil Trustees awarded grants totalling es and clergy based in the original historic par- £124,115 to the following organisations working ish of St George’s Hanover Square. The next rd in the City of Westminster: meeting will be held on Sunday 3 November 2019. St Andrew’s Club Zacchaeus 2000 Trust Coram Beanstalk St John’s Wood Adventure Playground Blind in Business All Souls Clubhouse Macmillan Cancer Support Shelter Mosaic Community Trust St Mungo’s London Music Fund Westminster Befriend a Family St John’s Hyde Park St Augustine’s CE Primary School The Prince’s Trust Westbourne Park Family Centre Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking Motor Neurone Disease Association South Westminster Community Festival Central London Samaritans The Avenues Youth Project The Royal National College for the Blind Future Frontiers The Passage Westminster Boating Base St George’s Hanover Square – ‘Morning Calm’ St George’s School SGHS - Coupon Scheme for the Homeless

The next meeting of the Civil Trustees will be on Wednesday 18th September (deadline: Monday 2nd September). A further meeting will be held on Wednesday 27th November (deadline: Monday 11th November). The Chairman of the Fabric Committee at work

10 Parish of St George Hanover Square

Parish officers & committees 2019/20

Parochial Church Council

Ex-Officio Members

The Rector, St George’s The Revd Roderick Leece Priest-in-Charge Grosvenor Chapel The Revd Dr Richard Fermer Assistant Priest, St George’s The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Assistant Priest, Grosvenor Chapel The Revd Dr Alan Piggot The Church Wardens Mr M A Hewitt, Mr G E Barnes Grosvenor Chapel Wardens Mrs Denise Scots-Knight & Mr Philip Eyre Deanery Synod Representatives Ms Mura Blackburn & Ms Janet St John-Austen (Chapel), Mrs Diana Dennis, Ms K Belton, & Mrs A Mather (SGHS) Elected Members

PCC Members representing St George’s Church

Mrs E Adair Miss P Atekpe Mr W M C Beckett Mr G Bingham Mr A Jones Mrs S Jackson-Stevens Mr A Milward Mr S J Munro Mr J Rowland Mr C Stephens

PCC Members representing The Grosvenor Chapel

To be nominated.

PCC Officers & Committees appointed by the PCC

Secretary to the PCC: Mr Stephen Wikner

Parish Treasurer: Mr Mark Hewitt

Lay Vice Chairman of the PCC: Mr Mark Hewitt

Deputy Church Wardens: Mrs Elizabeth Adair, Miss Pamela Atekpe, Messrs Alistair Milward & Stewart Munro plus Mr Philip Eyre (Chapel Warden), Mrs Denise Scots- Knight (Chapel Warden),

Standing Committee: Rector, Church Wardens, (Treasurer), Messrs Alistair Milward & Stewart Munro, the Priest-in-charge & the Chapel Wardens

Finance & Fundraising Committee: Mr Mark Hewitt (Chairman & Treasurer), Rector, Messrs George Bingham, Stewart Munro, John Rowland, Charles Stephens & Oliver Chubb

Fabric Committee: Mr Graham Barnes (Chairman), Rector, Mrs Elizabeth Adair & Ms Pamela Atekpe, Messrs Andrew Jones, Alistair Milward & Charles Stephens

Grosvenor Chapel Committee : The Revd Dr Richard Fermer (Priest-in-charge), Mr Philip Eyre (Chapel Warden), Mrs Denise Scots-Knight (Chapel Warden), Mrs Jennifer Eyre (Hon Secretary), Mr Oliver Chubb (Hon Treasurer), Ms Mura Blackburn (Deanery Synod representative), Ms Janet St John-Austen (Deanery Synod representative), Mr Richard Hobson (Ex officio), Messrs Neil Anderson, Nathan Bedwell & Nathaniel Campbell-Brown, Mrs Francine Coleman, Messrs Gary Eaborn & Evan Flowers, Mrs Yoshimi Gregory & Mr Edward Hasted

Safeguarding Officers: Mr Graham Barnes (SG’s Safeguarding Officer), Mrs Sarah Jackson-Stevens (SG’s Children’s Champion), Mrs Jennifer Eyre (GC Safeguarding Officer), Ms Virginia Allel and Ms Fumiko Sekiguchi (GC Children’s Champions)

Stewardship Records Officers: Mr Stephen Wikner & Ms Janet St John-Austen

Electoral Roll Officers: Mr Stephen Wikner & Ms Lorraine Fraser 11 Services at Grosvenor Chapel July—October 2019

Sunday 1st September Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 11.00 Sung Eucharist Mozart Missa Brevis in D K194 Byrd Exsurge Domine

th th Sunday 8 September Sunday 7 July Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Third Sunday after Trinity 11.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00 Sung Eucharist Sebastián de Vivanco Missa Assumpsit Jesus Juan Esquivel Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima Parsons Ave Maria Purcell I was glad Clerambault Dialogue th Sunday 15 September th Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 14 July 11.00 Sung Eucharist Fourth Sunday after Trinity A. Scarlatti Mass for Five Voices 11.00 Sung Eucharist Purcell Lord, how long wilt thou be angry? Haydn Missa Sancti Johannis de Deo Mozart Ave verum corpus nd Frescobaldi Canzona Quarta Sunday 22 September Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity st 11.00 Sung Eucharist Sunday 21 July Monteverdi Missa à 4 da Capella Fifth Sunday after Trinity Byrd Beati mundo corde 11.00 Sung Eucharist Anthony Caesar Missa Capella Regalis th Chilcott Be thou my vision Sunday 29 September Jacob Festal Flourish Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity St Michael and All Angels th 11.00 Sung Eucharist Sunday 28 July Palestrina Missa Aeterna Christi munera Sixth Sunday after Trinity Dering Factum est silentium 11.00 Sung Eucharist Rheinberger Mass in E th Rossini O salutaris hostia Sunday 6 October Bach Toccata in D minor Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity BWV 565 Harvest Festival 11.00 Sung Eucharist th Schubert Mass in G Sunday 4 August Jackson For the fruits of his creation Seventh Sunday after Trinity 11.00 Sung Eucharist th with cantor and organ Sunday 13 October Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity th Feast of the Dedication Sunday 11 August 11.00 Sung Eucharist Eighth Sunday after Trinity Rheinberger Cantus Missae 11.00 Sung Eucharist Brahms Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen with cantor and organ th Sunday 18th August Sunday 20 October Ninth Sunday after Trinity Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 11.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00 Sung Eucharist with cantor and organ Peeters Missa S Josephi Ireland Greater Love th Sunday 25 August th Tenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 27 October 11.00 Sung Eucharist Last Sunday after Trinity with cantor and organ 11.00 Sung Eucharist Rubbra St Dominic Mass Monteverdi Adoramus te, Christ

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CTiW Prisons Mission

THE ‘CRISIS’ IN BRITISH gain qualifications. Time out of cell for many prisoners was lim- PRISONS. ited to around two hours each member of our con- day. gregation recently On top of all this, ‘a staggering complained that Pris- 47% of prisoners (about 80) were A ons Mission Volunteers released every month homeless, seem to use the word ‘crisis’ or into temporary accommoda- too readily. Surely, he said, tion which did not enhance their the prisons are not really chances of rehabilitation’. In that bad and anyway, they conclusion, the Chief Inspector shouldn’t be like holiday informed the Justice Secretary camps. Well, they are not that ‘On the basis of this latest all bad. Some very good and inspection, I can have no confi- caring staff do excellent dence that HMP Bristol will work with vulnerable and achieve coherent or sustained troubled inmates and often work in very difficult cir- cumstances. Indeed, Bronzefield prison has re- cently gained an unusually positive report and our Pris- ons Mission Volunteers are very impressed by much of what they see and are in- volved with there. Unfortu- nately, this is one of a very small minority. Most prisons are dirty, foul-smelling, un- safe, understaffed, over- crowded and largely unfit for the purpose of encourag- ing, enabling and supporting damaged inmates to begin the journey towards recov- ery and away from re- offending. The HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, an ex- police officer, recently in- voked the ‘Urgent Notifica- tion’ process, in respect of HMP Bristol. This was done because ‘the latest in a se- ries of disturbing inspections Chaplaincy team away-day of the prison over the last six years’ had identified improvement in the future’. George’s and other London ‘numerous significant con- churches, is very small indeed, cerns about the treatment If this prison stood alone, the but highly valued. and conditions of prison- word ‘crisis’ could surely be ers’. The inspection re- properly used to describe its vealed that serious violence grave failures. Unfortunately, had increased, as had the the conditions described are CHAPLAINCY TEAM AWAY-DAYS rates of self harm and most widespread and evidence of this We reported previously about an of the accommodation was can be found in many of the re- Away-Day hosted by the Prisons ‘bleak and grubby, with too ports of the HM Inspectorate of Mission and St Martin-in-the-Fields many overcrowded Prisons, all of which are submit- for the entire multi-faith Chap- cells’. Purposeful activities, ted to the Justice Secretary, pre- laincy Team from Wormwood including work, and educa- sented to Parliament and pub- Scrubs prison. All 21 full and part tion, ‘were not given priori- lished for members of the public -time members of the team found ty, classes were poorly at- to read. this first ever off-site meeting ex- tended and often cancelled, Measured against the scale of this tremely useful, as it enabled them the quality of teaching was to reflect and plan very construc- weak and too many prisoners crisis, the volume of human re- sources invested in the Prisons tively in the very different envi- failed to make any progress, ronment. complete their courses, or Mission by members of St

13 starting with easy steps such as attending worship with inmates in the prison chapel. Members of the congregation are not expected to make an immediate commitment to be- come a regular Prisons Mission Volunteer. If you are just in- terested, talk to me, or anoth- er of our experienced Volun- teers at church so that we can discuss the prospects. Then, if you wish, we will arrange an escorted exploratory visit to one of the prisons, or the IRC. This would enable you to see behind prison walls and meet some Chaplains.

John Plummer Coordinator Chaplaincy away-day meeting CTiW Prisons Mission 020 7272 1639

Members of the Prisons Mission and the clergy of St Martin-in-the NEW VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Fields were so encouraged by this experience, that it was decided to Our Prisons Mission provides offer a similar Away-Day to the opportunities for Volunteers Chaplaincy Team of to undertake interesting, var- Bronzefield. This is now the larg- ied and challenging work in est prison in Europe for women Wormwood Scrubs and Wands- and girls, holding 550 ‘residents’ worth prisons for men, as who are remanded in custody well as Bronzefield prison for while awaiting trial or sentence, women and girls. In future or serving short, medium or life we expect to add Downview, sentences. another prison for wom- en. We also assist the multi- The second Away-Day was held on th faith Chaplaincy Team of the 15 May. Sarah Jane Vernon of St Immigration Removal Centre George’s , who volunteers regular- near Heathrow – a prison in all ly at Bronzefield , contributed to but name. The work is de- the event, with Rev Richard manding and sometimes frus- Carter, John Plummer and other trating and requires both pa- volunteers. The discussions in- tience and persis- cluded candid exchanges of views tence. Training and support is and ideas from chaplains of differ- given by experienced Volun- ent faiths. They are often so busy teers and by Chaplains and with the daily pressures of the job Volunteers are not expected, and the needs of many distressed or allowed to fumble and anxious inmates, that they around. Care is taken to seldom talk to each other about match the experience, skills the much wider concerns of the and time availability of each purposes and aims of chaplaincy potential Volunteer to the or learn from their diversity. The needs identified by members day concluded with the Managing of the Chaplaincy Team. The Chaplain Rev Marcel McCarron of- Prisons Mission holds bi- fering Reflections at the open, monthly Review Meetings informal Eucharist at the church at different churches at in the evening. He made use of which Volunteers exchange this time to explain the work of information and learn from his team in the prison and the each other. There are many need for the support of regular opportunities to learn on the Volunteers. job and to transfer from one News of the value of our Away- type of work to another in the light of experience. New Vol- Days has spread and the Managing Detail from reredos carving Chaplain of HMP Downview has unteers sometimes begin asked if we might host a similar working in this strange and at St George’s event for them. unfamiliar environment by 14 15

PARISH OF ST GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE Charity No: 1134811

Rector: The Revd Roderick Leece

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