W i c k h a m P a r i s h M a g a z i n e July/August 2020 photos by Nicki Oliver Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 The Parish Church of St Nicholas Wickham PO17 6HR (The United Benefice of St Nicholas, Wickham and St John the Baptist, Shedfield) www.stnicholaswickham.org.uk The Rector Assistant Curate The Revd Jane Isaac The Rectory, The Revd Dr Ruth Howlett-Shipley Southwick Road, [email protected] Wickham, PO17 6HR [email protected] 01329 280 905 01329 835 295 Associate Priest Lay Minister The Revd Juliet Montague Mr Stephen Campion The Vicarage, [email protected] 52, Brooklyn Close, Waltham Chase, SO32 2RZ [email protected] 01489 895 012 Churchwardens; Caretaker Magazine Editorial Team Mr Fred Crosskey Mr Ron Burt Mr John Landaw (Editor) [email protected] 5, Mill Lane, Wickham Mr Den Boylan, Mrs Sheila 01329 609 161 01329 833 751 Campbell, John Farrow Mr Richard Cannadine (photogapher) [email protected] Distribution; Mr Robert Goulson 01329 513 530 Church Flowers [email protected] Mrs Jane Buckle 01329 833 299 01329 832 517 Parish Administrator/PCC Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Secretary Wickham, PO17 5NN Mrs Jane Goulson Mothers' Union (Secretary) Advertising; Mrs Sue Pittam [email protected] [email protected] Sabrina Gwynn 01329 833 299 Tel: 01329 233 637 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Email: [email protected] Wickham, PO17 5NN Methodist Church Minister; The Revd Joseph Tembo Honorary PCC Treasurer Friends of St Nicholas Church 01329 833 518 Mrs Di Frost Mr John Landaw [email protected] [email protected] Roman Catholic Church 01329 832 633 01329 830 088 Revd Canon Alan Griffiths The Laurels, Mayles Lane 02380 273 882 Wickham, PO17 5ND Church Room Bookings Mrs Jane Goulson Park Place Centre Verger/Sacristan [email protected] Franciscan Sisters Mrs Rosemary Simpson 01329 833 299 Winchester Road, Wickham 01329 512 629 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, 01329 833 043 Wickham, PO17 5NN Chaplain; Fr Andrew McMahon Choir Trainer Sunday Mass 9:00am Mrs Valerie Shuttleworth Parish Magazine; Copy 01329 833 805 01329 835 233 Mr John Landaw Wessex Jamaat [email protected] Mr Abbas Rahim (Hon. Secretary) Bell Ringers 01329 830 088 [email protected] Greg Painter 1, Church View, School Rd [email protected] 07753 813075 2 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Editorial We are pleased to present this We are impressed with the Quab Farm, in the Parish of bumper, midsummer edition, submissions of the Chilled Art Wickham. The actual document on-line and hard copy, of the Group,( see p 8 & 9). We knew is copied for your perusal parish magazine. We have that there was much creativity (p45/46). They have kindly received a number of comments and artistic talent in the vicinity, included an English translation, recently regarding the lack of now some local residents are should your Latin be a little rusty. paper editions and now produce calling for an exhibition to view both on-line and paper options. the full range of the group’s Our long term magazine Editor, artistic talents. John has finally decided to call it We live in strange times. Not a day and take a well earned since 1208, during the reign of Many local residents have found retirement. We are therefore King John, have Church doors the restrictions of lockdown seeking a replacement Editor, it been barred to the difficult to cope with. To those requires quite a few hours per congregations. To many friends and neighbours who month, full training and back-up parishioners, the thought of have provided company, support will be provided to being denied access to the support, shopping and running continue this much respected Church has been a difficult time. of errands for the less mobile, we publication. It has been something of a relief extend our gratitude. these last few days to see the doors of St Nicholas open The Wickham History Society DB worshippers again, full details (p have discovered in Winchester, a 14/15) 730 year old Deed of Transfer of Thank you to Joyce After many years of persuading Rectors to part with details of the next month’s church services in good time, Joyce Johnston has decided that the time has come to retire from her role as compiler of the parish magazine’s diary of Sunday worship. Thank you, Joyce, for your energy and commitment to keeping the Rector on target and the parish up to date! We are very grateful for all your work and attention to detail. Given that for the foreseeable future it’s going to be very difficult to maintain a regular pattern of Sunday services, for the time being there won’t be a Sunday service diary in the magazine – you’ll be able to find details of each Sunday’s services on the church website and the church noticeboard in the Square. Revd Jane Dog Show (See pages 18 & 19) On pages 18 & 19 there are pictures of the entrees for the Dog Show. My task was to judge "The Dog Most Like it's Owner" and "The Dog I'd like to take home". And the winners are; Most Like it's Owner is Number 9 Ben & Hugo The Dog I'd like to take Home is Number 2 Molly 3 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Letter from the Curate It is hard to believe that I have worshipping there as people now been in the Benefice for a have over the generations and year – and what a year it has not to be meeting together in been! As I have reflected here that worship. But that didn’t previously, life in ministry is meant that the church hasn’t hugely variable and been here throughout the time unpredictable but this time of lockdown. We have last year I could never have developed ‘Being Church at imagined quite how different Home’ which is available on that ministry was to become. the Church website and which As you read this I should be on has been accessed by both retreat preparing for my our regular congregations but Ordination as Priest on 4th July also by others, both locally and then celebrating my first and further afield, who don’t Eucharist on 5th July. But due challenging time for many. necessarily come to church to the coronavirus this, like so There are many families who regularly. We have learned to many other things, has been have faced bereavement, use Zoom and access put on hold. My mother both due to Covid-19 and due webinars and even how to celebrated her 80th birthday to other causes, and have upload videos to YouTube. during lockdown, but without been unable to mark that in From the 15th June we have the family gathering and party the way that they would have been able to open the church this would normally have expected. Many couples have for private prayer and it was entailed. My son should have had to postpone their tremendously exciting on that just finished his GCSEs and weddings. There are those Monday morning to push my daughter, who was a whose mental health has open the doors of our church chorister at Salisbury suffered as they try to deal buildings and let the sunlight Cathedral, has probably sung with the loneliness, the in. As you read this we may be her last service with the choir. uncertainty and the fear that able to open for public However, despite all that has the pandemic has generated. worship but I suspect it will be been different and uncertain There are those who have a long time before we are able over the last few months, I am been trapped in their homes to operate normally. But we hugely appreciative that as a with an abusive partner. There will continue to be here and to family we have all remained are many ways in which serve the community in healthy. I have been able to people have suffered during whatever way we can. spend far more time with my the lockdown and my children than I would normally thoughts and prayers go out be able to and have enjoyed to them all. that very much. I have been During lockdown the able to get to know my Government ordered that all neighbours better as we all places of worship should be stand, socially distanced, on closed. This was hard for our driveways and clapped for many, and was certainly not the carers and on our daily something that theological exercise we have noted that training had prepared me for! when someone asks ‘how are Whilst it is clear that Jesus you?’ they genuinely seem to taught us that the Church is care about the answer. the people, rather than the However, I am also very building, it was very hard not conscious that this has been to be able to go into our an extremely difficult and Church building, not to be 4 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 St. Nicholas re-opens for private prayer on Monday 15th June 2020 ‘Another piece of history…the Rector’s hair hasn’t been as long as this since she had pigtails aged 6!’ 5 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Thank you from the Rector I know that elsewhere in the magazine the fete committee has thanked everyone who made a donation to the ‘Fate of the Fete’ appeal, but I’d like to add my own thank you as well. As you’ll be aware, St Nicholas’ Church depends very much on the income from the fete.