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WORCESTER CATHEDRAL NEWS Autumn/Winter 2019 Inside this issue Installation Undercroft Mayor’s of new Learning Charity Canon Centre Event Page 3 Page 7 Page 15 Plus, full events calendar and details of regular Cathedral services From the Dean Community News Autumn/Winter 2019 Canon Stephen Contents Edwards installation 3-6 Community News 7 Development To live is to change The Revd Dr Stephen Edwards was installed 8 Maggs Day Centre as a Residentiary Canon of Worcester Cathedral 9-11 Events and to be perfect is in a special service of Evensong on Sunday 12-13 Events Guide 15 September 2019. 14-15 Christmas at to have changed often At the service Helen Dimmock MBE, the Cathedral Ecclesiastical Secretary to the Crown, presented 16 Enterprises Stephen to Bishop John on behalf of the Queen. 17 Time For Reflection The autumn has seen new faces in the Cathedral community - in the Chapter, in music, in education, Also present was the Mayor of Worcester, 18 Cathedral Information the Vice-Lieutenant and High Sheriff of and in the office. With the new faces come new points 19 Gift Aid Form Worcestershire and the former Bishop of 20 Tidings of Joy of view, new ideas, and new opportunities for creative Dudley, David Walker, who is now Bishop of Christmas Concert and imaginative collaboration among the different Manchester. Stephen was also supported by cathedral organisations and departments. The physical friends and family from across the country. appearance of the site is changing as well: the coming Stephen said: ‘The service was a joyous occasion Editorial Team down of the scaffolding on Edgar Tower is the last Susan Macleod and Emily Green through which I felt blessed by the warmth and major repair project on the exterior of the Cathedral Photography generosity of welcome and the prayerful support buildings for the foreseeable future; but the building Chris Guy, James Atkinson of all those who attended. I am very excited about and others site surrounding College Hall and the Undercroft is this new role and I am looking forward to meeting Cover Photograph the sign that that exciting development is well under many of the wonderful and creative projects and ‘King of the Building’ by Kevin way. ‘To live is to change and to be perfect is to have organisations in the City and County, and to Phillips (First prize, over 18 changed often’ wrote Cardinal (now Saint) John Henry being part of the Cathedral community.’ Stephen Edwards with Bishop John Photographic Competition) Newman; and the Cathedral today is a place of change, as it has ever been. Worcester Cathedral News The Chapter Office, 8 College Yard, But some things remain. The Faith that inspired the Worcester, WR1 2LA building of the Cathedral remains the Faith which Welcome New Director of Music Telephone: inspires all we do today. ‘Jesus Christ is the same only to be for a short time, though, until our 01905 732900 yesterday, today and for ever’, we read in Scripture. Samuel Hudson, Director of Music wedding at the end of September. While I shall Email: Whatever the changing face (and faces) of the Church, be sorry to be away from my new role so soon, [email protected] that is the unchanging Rock which sustains us. And I am thrilled and honoured Louise and I are very grateful for all your good Website: whatever the changing face of the world around us, to have taken up the post of wishes, we are very excited to be starting our worcestercathedral.co.uk and the turbulences of society, that is the Rock which Organist & Director of married life together here in Worcester! enables us to stand firm and bear witness to the Music here at the Cathedral. My busy first few weeks have felt like Twitter: something of a whirlwind, but above all it is unchanging love of God shown to us in Jesus Christ. My sincere thanks go to the @WorcCathedral Choristers and their extremely exciting to be working as part of Michael Whitefoot Facebook: families, the Lay Clerks, such a wonderful team in the Music @WorcesterCathedral Photo: colleagues on the Cathedral Department and across the whole Cathedral, Instagram: staff, and the wider community for their and humbling to be following in the footsteps worcestercathedral generous and warm welcome. of so many highly esteemed predecessors. It has been an absolute pleasure to get to work Tripadvisor Peter Atkinson, On a slightly humid August Saturday Certificate of Excellence Dean of Worcester Cathedral afternoon, Louise and I arrived in Worcester – and I look forward very much indeed to all with a van-load of our possessions. This was the coming years will bring! 2 Worcester Cathedral News Worcester Cathedral News 3 Community News Community News Welcome New Director In Memoriam Music Department of Education changes in staff Jean Davidson MBE Matthew Armstrong The Cathedral welcomes Daniel At the beginning of the new academic Jean died on Tuesday, 13th August, Parnell as our new Director of year, the Music Department has been peacefully at home, with her family around Education in November. Daniel delighted to welcome several new her. Her memorial service was held in has been a teacher since 2002, members of staff, both organists and Crowle Church as a celebration of her life, training in Liverpool and singers! and was a colourful and a cheerful occasion, teaching in St Helens. In 2008 At the Cathedral Eucharist on Sunday rather than one of mourning. During the he moved to Nepal, where he 8 September, the Dean installed Samuel service, the Rev Eli Jenkins’s Sunset Prayer worked for 10 years at a Hudson as Organist & Director of from Under Milk Wood was sung as a hymn Christian international school. Daniel was a Music, Ed Jones as Sub-assistant set to music. Jean and her husband Charles member of the leadership team and became School Organist, and Ben Markovic as Organ had lived in the Boathouse in Laugharne Director in 2014 overseeing both the primary and Scholar. Tom South was admitted as before Dylan secondary schools. In 2018 he returned to the UK our Bass Choral Scholar, and in a happy Thomas, and We were deeply shocked and saddened to and settled with his family in South Birmingham. landmark occasion for the Cathedral, recognised learn of the sudden death in August of the Daniel has a master’s degree in Education; we welcomed our first female members several of the Headmaster of The King’s School, Matthew Leadership and Management. He has two of the back row – Alexis Hutchinson as characters when Armstrong. Matthew had not only been an children. Outside of work his favourite ways to Principal Alto Lay Clerk, and Hope they appeared in outstanding headmaster, but he and Kate relax are spending time with his family, gardening Pugh as Alto Choral Scholar. We are Thomas’s radio had been active members of the Cathedral and football. delighted too that William Gee is piece. Jean community and strongly supportive of continuing in the Choir as a Principal volunteered at the Cathedral Choir. Matthew served as a Lay Clerk having sung for several years the Cathedral member of the Cathedral Council. Our Leaving the Cathedral as an Assistant Lay Clerk. for over 30 years, thoughts and prayers are with Kate, with We welcome all new members of the guiding until she Matthew’s family, and with the whole school Jane Rogers team, and wish them a happy time here was 90. She is community at this sad and difficult time. in Worcester! fondly missed A memorial service at the Cathedral will be We are sorry to say good-bye to our Director of by all. held on Monday 21 October 2019 at 2.30pm. Fundraising and Development, Jane Rogers who has been with us for 3 years. During this time she has secured funding for the Undercroft Learning Polly Oakley Centre and Edgar Tower, in particular, along with Polly Oakley first came to help in the Cathedral Library when the books other important grants to support other areas of needed to be packed up in 2014 ready for the ceiling repairs. She stayed the Cathedral. Jane will be taking up a position on as a volunteer helping with diagrams and artwork for the library’s as Fellow and Director of Fundraising and Medieval Law exhibition in 2016, and was one of the co-ordinators Development at St Catherine’s College, Oxford of the Constructing the Cathedral exhibition in 2017. Polly made and for the start of the new academic year. donated new fabric covers to protect the display cases, a display Richard James table, hundreds of home-made cards, second-hand books and a collection of paintings all to help raise money for the Our long standing and much-loved Finance Officer, library. She answered enquiries, researched Richard James has moved onto a new role. Richard the suffragettes in Worcester, helped on has been a stalwart of the Finance Team for 25 years the library stall at several Christmas and through many changes and developments in Fayres and on Heritage Days. She finances, has been a solid and professional member was a committed member of the of staff. He has accepted a job, working with his congregation and part of the servers’ wife (car sharing initiative!) in a finance role. We team. She will be greatly missed. said fond farewell to him recently and wish him Hope Pugh and Alexis Hutchinson well for the future. 4 Worcester Cathedral News Worcester Cathedral News 5 Community News Development Exciting times for the Cathedral Bellringers Our bellringers have also compete in the Ringing World Mark Regan, Ringing Master travelled to York twice this year; National Youth Contest.