NEWSLETTER Parish of St George Hanover Square

St George’s Church Grosvenor Chapel March—June 2019: issue 42

Inside this issue

The Rector writes 2

Mayfair Organ Concerts 4

Services at St George’s 5

Pour encourager les autres 7

Modern slavery 8

Services at Grosvenor Chapel 10

St George’s Undercroft 11

Prisons Mission 13

HPPEC 15

The Rector attends Forum on Modern Slavery in Istanbul January 2019 Contact details 16

ne of the recurrent enquir- Plus ça change . . . Modern slavery is alive in our very ies we receive in the Vestry midst – yes, even in Mayfair. Mayfair still gives the impression is from people in pursuit of it is a playground for the wealthy. March 23rd 2019 marks the 294th information about long O To some extent of course it is. anniversary of the consecration of dead relatives. This is often The car showrooms for vehicles St George’s which means there are couched in terms of hushed expec- with prices in six figures and the just six years before our tercen- tation. The words, ‘my great, buildings which seldom show a tenary. Current plans to give sub- great, great grandmother was mar- light in their windows — buildings stance to the celebration of this ried at St George’s’ often carry none of us could afford to occupy milestone include commissioning a with them the unspoken expecta- — attest to wealth beyond the book about The Parish of Mayfair in tion that Great-great-great Granny wildest imagination of our fore- all its diversity, sacred and pro- was probably a great lady if she’d bears. Those of us who deal daily fane, and to complete the task been married in such a grand with local rough sleepers and oth- started but by no means completed church. The reality, as one gently ers who depend on St George’s for in 2010, to ensure that the Parish explains to the enquirer, is that for a square meal can and do tell a Church is in a condition of which all every great lady in 18th or 19th cen- very different story. Yet, as the who know and love the building can tury Mayfair, there were dozens of Rector points out in his article on be proud. The 21st century Chris- ladies’ maids, scullery maids, modern slavery (on page 8), the tian community can sometimes look cooks, cleaners and other domestic lifestyles of the affluent in our down its nose at decorative refine- servants to say nothing of the hair midst sometimes ride on the back ments, forgetting that in medieval dressers, milliners, dress makers of questionable employment prac- times, when levels of personal and myriad others that were need- tices that make the conditions wealth were substantially lower ed to ensure that milady functioned enjoyed by 18th and 19th century than at present, there was no hesi- in the style to which she was accus- domestics and service providers tation to spend extravagantly on tomed. look like a model of liberal values. the best adornments for God’s house.

The Rector writes . . .

sponding when he was calling. Friday 19th April Instead, God is met with stub- bornness and disobedience. GOOD FRIDAY 2.30pm

In Jesus Christ the Word of God ST GEORGE’S, HANOVER starts afresh his conversation SQUARE with us, to breach the distance, to restore God’s presence to us. And the desire of God to share St Matthew Passion his life with us is expressed again in Christ who says: I have The popular annual performance called you friends, because I of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, have made known to you every- sung in German, and part of thing that I have heard from my Good Friday Vespers. This is a Father. rare opportunity to experience the work in its original liturgical context. Complete with sermon We are fortunate at St George’s and congregational hymns. in having wonderful friends in America who oversee the Ameri- NATHAN VALE his is my commandment, can Friends of SGHS and who Evangelist & tenor that you love one anoth- have visited us recently as they er as I have loved you. No do regularly, and I would like to GEORGE HUMPHREYS T one has greater love than record my immense gratitude to Christus & bass this, to lay down one’s life for them for their support and all one’s friends. You are my the encouragement and work ERICA ELOFF friends if you do what I com- they do on our behalf. Also to Soprano mand you. I do not call you serv- bring the existence of our Amer- ants any longer, because the CHRISTOPHER AINSLIE ican Friends to your attention, Countertenor servant does not know what the and especially our wonderful master is doing; but I have Trustees: Dick Schulze, Marilyn LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA called you friends, because I Bodner and George Nowak. CHOIR OF ST GEORGE’S, have made known to you every- HANOVER SQUARE thing that I have heard from my LAURENCE CUMMINGS conductor Father. Sunday 14th April TICKETS: £55, £45, £40, £15, £12 Those who have good friends Palm Sunday Liturgy: 11am www.london-handel-festival.com find in their close friendship real blessings, and a generous love Monday 15th April, and acceptance. Not to mention Wednesday 17th April & Maundy Thursday 18th April an invaluable support in difficult Holy Communion: 1.10pm times. We have so much to be thankful for in our friends. Tuesday 16th April Holy Communion: 5.45pm There are other times when we feel the need to keep others at Tuesday 16th April distance. It gives us some sense Ecumenical Stations of the Cross of security and a protection of personal space. Some say that with clergy from St George’s, Grosvenor Chapel and The distance is also at the heart of Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street religions. The unknown gods, un- Starting at Farm Street & ending at the Grosvenor Chapel reachable and far removed, communicate their demands Friday 19th April through the mouth of the chosen Good Friday shaman or priest, who are able Liturgy of the Passion at 10.00am to bridge the gap and receive Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion: 2.30pm (with sermon) their word. Sunday 21st April But our faith is different. From Easter Sunday the moment we are created, God constantly offers himself to be Sung Eucharist & renewal of vows & Holy Baptism:11.00am with us. In the Book of Genesis followed by a reception. we dwell together with Him in the garden of Paradise, not to Members of the congregation (but regretfully not their guests due to limited space) who wish to attend the St Matthew Passion keep us at bay but to be close to th us. But it was we who tried to should please inform the Vergers by Monday 15 April. hide our faces from him, not re- 2 Lent course. Details of the The Revd Prebendary Jeremy There are daily prayers in 2019 Lent Course, held in the Crossley will be the preacher, church, Monday – Thursday Grosvenor Chapel on and the Sung Eucharist will be at 12.10pm. The Midday Wednesdays in Lent, are to followed by a festive recep- Office is said on most days be found on page 10. tion. except when the Eucharist is celebrated on Fridays and Mothering Sunday is on Sun- The Annual Parochial Church Saints’ Days. Please join us day 31st March and all chil- Meeting is on Thursday 25th if you are in the area. dren and families are warmly April at 6.30pm. Members of invited to join us for what the Parochial Church Council Requiem for departed are thrice-yearly services are elected at this meeting loved ones will be celebrat- where children are involved which is preceded by the An- ed on Friday 12th April at in leading worship/reading, nual Vestry Meeting to elect 1.10pm. Please inform the and the sermon geared to Churchwardens. Please join us Verger if you wish to include families with children at the to hear reports and plans for names for prayer. Contact Sung Eucharist at 11am. Fol- the future. details are on the back lowed by customary refresh- page. ments. Marriage Renewal Sunday will be on Sunday 14th July – Holy Cocktail Hour Open Whitsunday on 9th June is of with preacher The Ven Luke House – all are welcome for drinks on Wednesdays 15th May, course another Sunday when Miller, Archdeacon of London, th th we extend a similar invita- followed by a reception. 5 June, 26 June, at 6.30pm until 8pm at the Rectory, 21a tion to families to celebrate Down Street W1J 7AW: en- Pentecost, and again fol- Morning Calm details of trance in Brick Street opposite lowed by drinks. which appear below starts the tapas bar – top bell. This again on 6th May after a 21- follows the 5.45pm celebration St George’s Patronal Festi- month moratorium caused by of Holy Communion at St val will be kept this year on work on the Undercroft. George’s. Sunday 28th April at which MORNING CALM

with music by students from the Royal College of Music

Monday 6th May – Friday 28th June 2019

Mondays to Fridays at 8.45am

FINDING SILENCE AND STILLNESS

3 Mayfair Organ Concerts

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

March 5 St George’s Loreto Aramendi San Sebastián, Spain March 12 Grosvenor Chapel James Johnstone Trinity Laban March 19 St George’s Rashaan Allwood Rice University, Texas March 26 Grosvenor Chapel Richard Hobson Grosvenor Chapel April 2 St George’s Matthew Jorysz Westminster Abbey April 9 Grosvenor Chapel Alexander Pott Magdalen College, Oxford April 16 St George’s Domenico Gioffré London April 23 Grosvenor Chapel Jeremiah Stephenson All Saints, Margaret Street April 30 St George’s Andrew Benson-Wilson Basingstoke May 7 Grosvenor Chapel To be announced May 14 St George’s Carolyn Craig Truro Cathedral May 21 Grosvenor Chapel Janette Fishell Indiana, USA May 28 St George’s Markus Sterk Munich June 4 Grosvenor Chapel Julian Haggett St Peter Mancroft, Norwich June 11 St George’s Philip Meaden Leeds Cathedral June 18 Grosvenor Chapel Margaret Phillips Royal College of Music June 25 St George’s Gary Cobb Pepperdine University, California

4 Services at St George’s March—June 2019

Friday 1st March Sunday 17th March St David, Bishop of Menevia, Second Sunday in Lent Patron of Wales, c601 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Sunday 3rd March Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) Quinquagesima Sicut cervus (Palestrina) 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Fugue in C minor BWV 546ii (Bach) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & preacher: The Rector Monday 18th March Missa Bel’Amfitrit’ altera (Lassus) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 2nd April O nata lux (Tallis) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Fantasisia in A minor (Byrd) Tuesday 19th March 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 3rd April Monday 4th March St Richard, Bp of Chichester, 1253 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 20th March 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Tuesday 5th March 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 4th April Thursday 21st March 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 6th March 12.10pm Midday Prayer ASH WEDNESDAY Friday 5th April 1.10pm Holy Communion Friday 22nd March 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) With imposition of ashes (BCP said) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Sunday 7th April Thursday 7th March Sunday 24th March Fifth Sunday in Lent 12.10pm Midday Prayer Third Sunday in Lent Passion Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Friday 8th March 11.00am Sung Eucharist 11.00am Sung Eucharist 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Celebrant: The Rector Celebrant: Preacher: The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Sunday 10th March The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Preacher: The Rector First Sunday in Lent Missa Brevis (Grayston Ives) Mass for five voices (Byrd) 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Wash me throughly (S S Wesley) Crucifixus (Lotti) 11.00am Sung Eucharist & Prelude & Fugue in F minor Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 543 Admiral Byng commemoration BWV 534 (Bach) (Bach) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Mass for four voices (Byrd) Monday 25th March Monday 8th April Peace, perfect peace (Piers Maxim) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Comfort them, O Lord (Handel) Prelude in B minor BWV 554i (Bach) Tuesday 26th March Tuesday 9th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 11th March 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 27th March Wednesday 10th April 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 12th March 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 28th March Thursday 11th April Wednesday 13th March 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Ember Day 12.10pm Midday Prayer Friday 29th March Friday 12th April 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said)

Thursday 14th March Sunday 31st March Sunday 14th April Ember Day Fourth Sunday in Lent Palm Sunday 12.10pm Midday Prayer Mothering Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Friday 15th March 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Ember Day Celebrant: Missa Brevis (Mathias) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) The Revd Dr Alan McCormack St Matthew Passion (Lassus) Preacher: The Rector Pueri Hebraorum (Victoria) Missa Brevis in F (Haydn) Valet will ich dir geben BWV 736 Ave Maria (Parsons) (Bach) Prelude in G BWV 541i (Bach) Monday 15th April Monday 1st April Monday in Holy Week 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said)

5 Tuesday 16th April Friday 3rd May Friday 24th May Tuesday in Holy Week The Invention of the Cross 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Sunday 26th May Sunday 5th May Fourth Sunday after Easter Wednesday 17th April Second Sunday after Easter 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Wednesday in Holy Week 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant: The Rector Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector Preacher: Thursday 18th April Missa Cantate Domino (Lobo) The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Maundy Thursday Vidi aquam (Gabriel Jackson) Missa Brevis in B flat (Mozart) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Fantasia & Fugue in G minor (Parry) All things bright and beautiful (Rutter) Friday 19th April Monday 6th May St Andrews’ Suite (MacMillan) GOOD FRIDAY No services 10.00am Good Friday Liturgy Monday 27th May 2.30pm Vespers Tuesday 7th May No services St Matthew Passion (Bach) 12.10pm Midday Prayer (Admission by ticket only from Lon- Tuesday 28th May don Handel Festival box office: Wednesday 8th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 01460 54660) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Wednesday 29th May Sunday 21st April 12.10pm Midday Prayer EASTER DAY Thursday 9th May 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist Thursday 30th May Celebrant: The Rector Friday 10th May ASCENSION DAY Preacher: 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Coronation Mass (Mozart) Sunday 12th May Friday 31st May Hallelujah (Handel) Third Sunday after Easter 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Paraphrase sur un chœur de Judas 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Maccabée de Händel (Guilmant) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 2nd June Celebrant & Preacher: TBA Sunday after Ascension Monday 22nd April Communion Service in B flat 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Monday in Easter Week (Stanford) 11.00am Sung Eucharist No services Blessed be the God and Father Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector (S S Wesley) Missa Ascendens Christus (Victoria) Tuesday 23rd April Choral Song (S S Wesley) Ascendit Deus (Philips) St George’s Day Fantasia and Toccata in D minor 12.10pm Midday Prayer Monday 13th May (Stanford) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 24th April Monday 3rd June 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 14th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Tuesday 4th June Thursday 25th April Wednesday 15th May 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Wednesday 5th June Friday 26th April St Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Thursday 16th May Bishop, Martyr 754 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Sunday 28th April 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) First Sunday after Easter Friday 17th May St George’s Patronal Festival 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Thursday 6th June 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 19th May Celebrant: The Rector Fourth Sunday after Easter Friday 7th June Preacher: 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) The Revd Preb Jeremy Crossley 11.00am Sung Eucharist Missa in Tempore Paschalis Part of London Festival of Sunday 9th June (Philip Moore) Contemporary Church Music Whit Sunday Give us the wings of faith (Bullock) Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Alleluya (Faulkes) Mass for All Saints (Gabriel Jackson) 11.00am Sung Eucharist O sacrum convivium (Grayston Ives) Celebrant: The Rector Monday 29th April Prelude ‘The Road to Emmaus’ Preacher: 12.10pm Midday Prayer (Judith Bingham) The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Messe Solennelle (Vierne) Tuesday 30th April Monday 20th May Loquebantur variis linguis (Tallis) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Imperial March (Elgar arr Martin)

Wednesday 1st May Tuesday 21st May Monday 10th June Ss Philip & James, Apostles 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Wednesday 22nd May Tuesday 11th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Thursday 2nd May 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Wednesday 12th June Thursday 23rd May Ember Day 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said)

6 Thursday 13th June Thursday 20th June Wednesday 26th June Ember Day 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Friday 21st June Thursday 27th June Friday 14th June 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) 12.10pm Midday Prayer Ember Day 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Sunday 23rd June Friday 28th June Nativity of St John the Baptist St Peter the Apostle (transferred) Sunday 16th June (transferred) 1.10pm Holy Communion (BCP said) Trinity Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday 30th June 11.00am Sung Eucharist Celebrant: Second Sunday after Trinity Celebrant & Preacher: The Rector The Revd Dr Alan McCormack 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP said) Mass in G (Schubert) Preacher: The Rector 11.00am Sung Eucharist The heavens are telling (Haydn) Communion Service in C (Ireland) Celebrant & Preacher: Final from 1st Symphony Cum audisset Joannes (Cardoso) The Revd Dr Alan McCormack Litanies (Alain) Missa Collegium Regale (Howells) Monday 17th June Monday 24th June Ave verum corpus (Philips) 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer Paean (Leighton)

Tuesday 18th June Tuesday 25th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 12.10pm Midday Prayer

Wednesday 19th June 12.10pm Midday Prayer 5.45pm Holy Communion (BCP said)

Pour encourager les autres . . .

n Sunday 10th March St nd each side were similar and not George’s will mark the 262 severe. The French withdrew and anniversary of the execution of th Byng remained on station for a O Admiral John Byng on 14 further four days but made no at- March 1757 with performances of mu- tempt to land the small number of sic by two composers linked to the troops he had on board, judging unfortunate admiral and St George’s. th that they would be hopelessly out- On 11 March 1757, Handel, undoubt- numbered. On 24th May, with the edly aware of what was to happen agreement of his senior officers three days later in Portsmouth, presid- that there was no realistic pro- ed over a performance at Covent Gar- spect of relieving the garrison, den of his oratorio Triumph of Time Byng ordered his fleet back to Gi- and Truth from which the anthem braltar for repairs, re-provisioning Comfort them, O Lord is taken. 259 and reinforcement. However be- years later Piers Maxim, sometime fore he could set sail again, a ship countertenor in the St George’s choir, arrived from England bearing the Admiral John Byng composed a Threnody to the memory news that he was relieved of his of the late admiral, in which Handel is command and ordered home to went before Parliament where portrayed lamenting Byng’s death. face a court martial. the Commons voted in Byng’s Peace, perfect peace is taken from favour and Lords against him. this work. It would appear the French com- Public sentiment, which had ini- mander’s bullish account of the tially not been favourable, had John Byng (1704—57) was a career na- Battle of Minorca reached London also swung behind the belea- val officer from a distinguished naval before Byng’s own dispatch and guered admiral but to no avail. family who went to sea at the age of this had provoked a wave of hostil- On 14th March 1757 he was taken 13. He worked his way steadily up the ity both within government circles on to the quarterdeck of HMS naval hierarchy, reaching the rank of and among the public at large. Monarch and shot dead by a de- captain at the age of 23, and vice- tachment of Royal Marines. admiral at 43. The Court convened at the end of December. Although it ruled that Voltaire’s quip addressed to the In 1756, in command of the Channel Byng was not guilty of personal eponymous hero of his novella Fleet, he was ordered to sail to the cowardice, it held that he had Candide that ‘dans ce pays-ci, il Mediterranean to relieve the garrison ‘failed to do his utmost’ to fulfil est bon de tuer de temps en at Port Mahon on the island Minorca his orders and was thus in breach temps un amiral pour encourager which was under attack by the French. of the 12th Article of War, a ver- les autres’ encapsulates the be- Byng protested that the forces at his dict which resulted in a mandatory musement of a confirmed Anglo- disposal were inadequate for this pur- death sentence. However the phile. But like many another pose but in due course was prevailed court also unanimously recom- word spoken in jest, it contained upon to set sail. He arrived off Minor- th mended that the Lords of the Ad- more than a germ of truth for ca on 19 May by when the French had miralty petition the King to exer- there is little doubt that later already landed 15,000 troops. While cise his prerogative of mercy. The naval commanders displayed a attempting to make contact with the First Lord at the time was Richard consistently more bellicose atti- beleaguered garrison, a French naval Grenville-Temple, William Pitt’s tude towards their foes. squadron appeared, which Byng brother-in-law. Both men were promptly engaged in what became roundly disliked by George II who That said, what happened was known as the Battle of Minorca. The therefore seems to have had no manifestly unjust and the Byng two fleets were evenly matched, and hesitation in rejecting the Admi- family’s recent efforts to right the damage and losses suffered by ralty petition. The matter also this wrong is wholly understanda- 7 ble.

Modern Slavery Forum

arly in January, Fr Alan McCormack and I were invit- ed by His All-Holiness Ecu- E menical Patriarch Bartholo- President Porochenko attends the ceremony recognising an mew to Istanbul to celebrate the autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church Theophany and Blessing of the wa- ters of the Golden Horn, prior to a The Forum itself gathered par- general term) includes the Forum on Modern Slavery Aware- crimes of human trafficking, ness, Action and Impact. ticipants from around the globe – including Australia, Af- slavery and slavery-like prac- rica, India, Europe and quite a tices such as servitude, forced number from North America. labour, forced or servile mar- We began by looking at Human riage, the sale and exploitation Rights and Legal issues, fol- of children, and debt bondage. lowed by a session on Forced How are we affected in this Migration and Human Traffick- area? Mayfair is the home of ing before considering a range many luxury 5 star hotels, high of practical responses to the end shops, luxury flats owned grave crime of modern slavery. by wealthy Arabs, Chinese and The next day focused on par- Russians and of wealth that ticular ministries in this field comes from various dubious within the Orthodox Church. sources. Many properties are By pure coincidence the Dio- kept empty for a large part of cese of London will be high- the year. In the summer lighting the same issues during months Mayfair fills up as an Lent as the Bishop of London escape from the Middle East. has chosen the following And a lot of Saudis travel with theme for the Lent Appeal domestic servants . . . often 2019: Modern Day Slavery - slaves. Nearly 20,000 overseas Hidden in Plain Sight. There domestic worker visas are Frs Roderick Leece & are six suggested charities but granted each year by the UK, Alan McCormack the Parochial Church Council one suspects without sufficient top right have chosen two in particular questioning. to support this Lent. Kalayaan A definition of luxury is that it It was an especially interesting – a small London charity work- needs a lot of servicing. We time as the Ukrainian Orthodox ing to provide practical advice might dream about a luxury Church were being recognised as and support to, as well as cam- home in Hollywood with the independent from Moscow and a paign with and for the rights pool and garden etc. but forget new (and young) Patriarch wel- of, migrant domestic workers just how many people will be comed. The Liturgy took up the in the UK; and The Rise Pro- involved in keeping it all going. whole of Sunday morning from ject (run by the Children’s So- Just as in the past; all the 10am until after 2pm, and Ukraini- ciety) for boys and young men grand palatial houses would an President Poroshenko was com- in London aged 11-17 who have had armies of servants, ing and going during the service have been trafficked into the although it is quite possible followed by journalists and securi- UK or are at risk of being traf- many of the staff would have ty protection. ficked. been rather better treated Modern Slavery (which is a then than many are in our own time.

8 Celebration of the Theophany (Christmas) in St George’s Cathedral, Istanbul on 6th January 2019

Through the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) the Salvation Kingdom forced into drugs and to be supported by the Dioce- Army are partners with the Gov- criminality. 45% victims are ex- san Lent Appeal, Tamar, sup- ernment authorities in responding ploited for labour, 42% for sex- ports volunteers who reach out to Modern Slavery. Their recent ual exploitation, and 14% for to those who have been sex report in October 2018 shows an domestic servitude. trafficked. increase in the numbers of victims How might we respond in this Please support the Lent Appeal they support of 20% last year and area? I’ve noticed only a few 2019: Modern Day Slavery - other charities (HESTA in 2017) top restaurants and legal firms Hidden in Plain Sight. report a 30% increase in people in the area have policies to who are helped. show they are aware of the is- And please join others in the Diocese of London as we pray: This brings the number of report- sues surrounding Modern Slav- ed victims who receive support to ery and that they review and Lord of the lost, we pray today 774 in London, although the po- check their recruitment, supply for all those who are victims of lice estimate there are 1600 peo- chain, and training as part of modern slavery: people lured ple who are trapped in Modern their regular audit. We as a from their homes and families; Slavery in the capital. Those num- church are in the process of people deceived while trying bers are surely an underestimate. introducing a similar policy. to find a better life; people Kevin Hyland (the first Independ- Should we have asked questions who are desperate to trust an- ent Anti-Slavery Commissioner) when it came to our recent yone. Help us to be more vigi- was given a total figure nationally building project of £1.5 million lant and watchful; to be aware of 13,000 in 2017 but in reality on the church undercroft? of those who may need our expects the true number of vic- Where did our contractors find help, and those who do not tims to be in the tens of thou- their worker? What conditions know where help may lie. sands. were they working under? And Amen similarly do we need to ask The majority are female – from all questions when it comes to the over the world with a large num- army of cleaners we’ve had in The Revd Roderick Leece ber from Albania and Nigeria. Also to give the church a number of Rector men and women from Vietnam for deep cleans due to building the cannabis market and of course work dust and debris? Eastern European gangs working in car washes, building sites, and The parish also sees an influx farms. of sex workers - especially in the summer, congregating in 80% of victims in London are from the vicinity of Shepherd Market overseas compared to 51% nation- where old-fashioned brothels ally. There are also huge and ris- still exist, and nearby 5 star ing numbers caught up in Modern hotels. Another of the charities Slavery who come from the United 9 Services at Grosvenor Chapel March—June 2019

Thursday 18th April Sunday 9th June Maundy Thursday The Feast of Pentecost 7.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00 Sung Eucharist Victoria Missa trahe me post te Tye Mass Euge Bone Stanford Gloria in C major Tallis Loquebantur variis linguis Duruflé Ubi caritas Vaughan Williams Love bade me Sunday 16th June Sunday 3rd March welcome Trinity Sunday Sunday next before Lent Tallis O sacrum convivium 11.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00 Sung Eucharist Tallis The Lamentation of Jeremiah Mozart Missa in C major K167 Mozart Missa Brevis in F K192 Tchaikowsky Hymn to the Trinity Friday 19th April Howells Like as the hart rd Good Friday Sunday 23 June Wednesday 6th March Plainsong The St John Passion The First Sunday after Trinity Ash Wednesday John of Portugal Crux Fidelis 11.00 Sung Eucharist 7.00 pm Sung Eucharist John Sanders The Reproaches Lennox Berkeley Missa Brevis Lassus Missa super Je prens en gres Poulenc Tenebrae factae sunt Messiaen O sacrum convivium Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences Sunday 21st April Sunday 30th June Easter Day The Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday 10th March 11.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00 Sung Eucharist The First Sunday of Lent (with orchestra) Lassus Missa super Mon Cœur se 11.00 Sung Eucharist Walford Davies O sons and daugh- recommende à vous Plainsong The Lent Prose ters Peter Philips Tibi laus Lassus Missa super Amor ecco colei Mozart Missa Solemnis in C K337 Allegri Miserere mei Handel Hallelujah Lassus Timor et tremor Widor Toccata in F

Sunday 17th March Sunday 28th April LENT COURSE 2019 The Second Sunday of Lent The Second Sunday of Easter 11.00 Sung Eucharist 11.00 Mass with hymns and organ Palestrina Missa Pater noster music During Lent Grosvenor Chapel will Walton Drop, drop slow tears Sunday 5th May join with St George’s and St John's Sunday 24th March The Third Sunday of Easter Hyde Park to explore the dynamics The Third Sunday of Lent 11.00 Sung Eucharist of God’s calling and sending in our 11.00 Sung Eucharist Lassus Missa Paschalis Lennox Berkeley Peter Philips Surgens Jesus lives. Join us on Wednesdays at

Mass for Five Voices th 7.00pm in the Chapel Garden Palestrina Sicut cervus Sunday 12 May Room (blue door opposite the Flo- The Fourth Sunday of Easter Sunday 31st March 11.00 Sung Eucharist rist Pulbrook & Gould) for a The Fourth Sunday of Lent Francis Jackson Missa Sancti Petri light supper, followed by a short 11.00 Sung Eucharist Guerrero Regina coeli talk and lively discussion amongst Kelly Mass in C Mathias As truly as God is our Sunday 19th May friends both old and new. Across Father The Fifth Sunday of Easter the five sessions we’ll discuss the 11.00 Sung Eucharist ways in which we are loved and Sunday 7th April Richard Hobson Missa Brevis The Fifth Sunday of Lent Rhiannon Randle A New Heaven received by God and how this gives 11.00 Sung Eucharist us the freedom to deal with the Sunday 26th May Guerrero Missa de la Batalla pressures we face with an imagina- Escoutez The Sixth Sunday of Easter Tallis Sancte Deus 11.00 Sung Eucharist tive and compassionate response. Mozart Missa Brevis in B flat K275 th Howells O pray for the peace of Sunday 14 April From Wednesday 13th March until Palm Sunday Jerusalem 11.00 Sung Eucharist Wednesday 10th April. Weelkes Hosanna to the Son of Sunday 2nd June David The Sunday after Ascension Lassus Missa Bel amfitrit altera 11.00 Sung Eucharist John Scott St Luke Passion Victoria Missa Ascendens Christus Bruckner Christus factus est Wood O Rex gloriae

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The Undercroft at St George’s

e believe the Under- croft at St George’s was originally built to W house a free school. Certainly the New Churches in London and Westminster Act of 1710, which set up a Commis- sion to build 50 churches in the West End and City of London, regarded the provision of edu- cational facilities as of the ut- St George’s Undercroft at the conclusion of Phase 1 most importance. In the end only 10 ‘Queen Anne Churches’ and St George in the East. and this ended his occupation. were built, of which St Thomas Archer built two: St During the Second World War the George’s was one, but no John’s, Smith Square and St undercroft was used to store all school was ever opened here. Paul’s, Deptford, and James the stained glass from the East Nine other churches were re- Gibb one, St Mary le Strand. St windows which were removed in built or modified. George’s Hanover Square is the early 1940, and not reinstated only one architect John James until after the war ended. From Hawksmoor built four of the built on his own account, but the early 1950s the space was new churches: Christ Church, he was also joint architect with again rented out, with Sotheby’s Spitalfields, St Anne’s, Lime- Nicholas Hawksmoor for St being the tenant for most of this house, St George’s Bloomsbury, John, Horsleydown and St period until they vacated in Luke, Old Street. 2013.

James’s design included en- Thought and plans as to how to trances along Maddox Street re-integrate the space into the and on the south side of the life of the church have been on- church which allowed a certain going since 2007, and Maxwell amount of daylight to enter the Hutchinson, architect, drew up undercroft. However, for rea- some plans in 2009, but at the sons we don’t fully understand, time we were about to under- but lack of daylight was possi- take the refurbishment of the bly one of them, the planned interior of the church, and in- free school never opened and stall a new organ, so funds were the space was used for storage not available. When Sotheby’s for most of the next three cen- finally gave notice in 2012, we turies. Our first Church school had to make some decisions, opened in 1742 in South Street, whether to remain as landlords on a site adjacent to the pre- and find new tenants, or embark sent school. on plans to engage the space with the mission action plan of During the inter-war years of the church. the twentieth century the un- dercroft space was used for New plans were drawn up by wine storage by a local vintner. Colin Kerr, Church architect, and This continued until the Bishop the decision to improve the of London received too many church facilities with a new lava- The new SW staircase complaints about the noise, tory block under the portico, a

11 vestry. This room will also be used for all larger church meet- ings, PCC meetings, and the Lit- tle Dragons Sunday School.

The restaurant area will include a bar which will serve interval drinks during concerts, and a seated dining area for up to 100 covers. The restaurant will be open weekdays, Monday to Fri- day only. On Saturdays the space will be available for pri- vate hire and wedding recep- tions, which we hope will in- crease St George’s attraction as a wedding venue. On Sundays, the space will be used to serve drinks when we have refresh- ments following the service in church. The disability lift inside the Church We are lucky the space has good headroom. A lot of undercrofts green room/large meeting and crypts were built with low room and restaurant facilities ceiling heights and left unfin- was taken by the PCC in 2017, ished. Our vaulted ceiling was with building works starting plastered back in 1724 and well Jane Glover that August. finished; again, leading us to believe the space was built to in conversation This work is now complete. be occupied, and not just to be The new lavatory block reo- used as a storage vault. with Andrew Gant pened last October and we started using the new Green about her recently published Room in December. Phase 2 — book the fit out of the kitchen, the décor and furnishing of the Handel in London new facility — has now begun and we are anticipating a full The Making of a Genius opening during the summer.

The new facilities will greatly enhance the life of the church, St George’s, Hanover Square both in terms of far better amenities for all church users, Tuesday 23rd April and when the construction costs are paid, an additional 6.30—8.00pm income stream for the church. The lavatory block under the portico is entered via a new The event will begin with a Portland stone staircase at the south west corner of the short recital and will be church. This staircase can be followed by a book signing accessed either internally, session and a glass of wine from the south west side of the church, or from a new exterior entrance on the south west The disability lift off the South Yard side of the church into the Tickets from Handel House church yard, next to the large metal gates on to St George’s So, in 2019, after a mere 295 website Street. Those who remember years, the undercroft of St www.handelhendrix.org the rickety staircase to the old George’s Church will for the or by phoning 020 7399 1953 lavatories will notice a great first time become an integral improvement. part of the body of the Church, and in its own way, help the Early bird tickets: £12 The green room/large meeting church to continue to profess room provides greatly im- the Gospel of Christ. Tickets booked proved facilities for musicians and other users of the church, after 1st April: £15 who up to now have had to manage in the cramped condi- tions of the vestry and choir

12 Churches Together in Westminster Prisons Mission

Catholic church in Leicester volved with this team at Square, work to support the multi Bronzefield. Safer Custody -faith Chaplaincy Team at the Teams aim to identify, manage Heathrow Immigration Removal and support prisoners and detain- Centre. This is a prison in all but ees who are at risk of harm to name, within which about 550 themselves, to others and from people, mainly men, subject to others. These prisoners may have immigration controls are de- complex needs and display chal- tained indefinitely, pending asy- lenging behaviour. They are as- lum claims, other appeals or de- sessed and reviewed, taking into portation. Nearly 40% of those account risks and triggers to self - detained are eventually allowed harm, using the multidisciplinary to remain in this country, either ACCT procedure (Assessment, temporarily or permanently. Care in Custody and Teamwork).

Introductory visits are arranged For the last few months I have for potential Volunteers who are been going to Bronzefield about one day each week, shadowing a ur Prisons Mission, run un- genuinely interested in the pro- ject but need to see “behind member of the Safer Custody der the auspices of Church- Team. A day’s work may include es Together in Westmin- prison walls”, learn and discuss more, before making a commit- any number of ACCT reviews with O ster, continues to make ment. Small groups meet several “residents” (the title used for in- cautious but encouraging pro- of the Chaplains, attend a guided mates at Bronzefield) for whom gress. New Volunteers have joined tour of the establishment and there may be concerns. These from both already engaged have a preliminary discussion meetings are time consuming and churches like St Martin-in-the- about the activities for which meticulous and each one involves Fields and new churches of differ- Volunteers are needed. After a range of operational staff. The ent denominations, like Blooms- problems and worries of these bury Central Baptist this there are further discussions with the Coordinator and other women are addressed and an ac- Church. These Volunteers bring Volunteers and if it is decided to tion plan put into place to miti- with them a very useful range of gate and deal with these as best skills and experiences. proceed there will be another meeting with a Chaplain to agree as possible. I also attend Health and Care Review meetings where Introductory visits have recently the best match of skills, experi- ence and available time and the residents with mental and physi- been arranged to HMP Wormwood cal health issues reside in a sepa- Scrubs, the huge Victorian prison appropriate starting place. Often new Volunteers will begin by rate wing. Along the way, in the for 1,200 men and to HMP ands shadowing a Chaplain or Prison main corridors or the outside Young Offenders Institution Officer concerned with educa- spaces, we meet women who ask Bronzefield in Middlesex. The lat- tion, literacy classes or chapel for a “distraction pack” for the ter is now the biggest prison for worship. Volunteers are given time alone in their cells, or wom- girls and women in Europe and suitable training and properly en who have an immediate prob- looks and feels very differ- lem and need something in partic- ent. There are grassed spaces supervised as they become useful additions to the inside team. ular sorted out. and quite modern two storey building which hold 550 women, All concerned with the Prisons A prison is a place of much sad- who are remanded in custody ness and some badness, but the while awaiting trial or sentence, Mission are well aware that for many people prisons are entirely sense of commitment to effecting or to serve short, medium of unfamiliar, strange and even hos- change and achieving results, of “life” sentences. tile places. Volunteers are con- care and consideration for each sequently carefully supported individual woman, and of a strong We expect to resume work with and learn from each other, both sense of responsibility, which is the Befriending Programme at HMP informally and via regular bi- palpable in the work of the Safer Wandsworth, under which Volun- monthly Review Meetings. Custody Team at Bronzefield. At teers mentor inmates for several present my role is to shadow the weeks before discharge and then team, observe, listen and continue to meet them when re- VOLUNTEER SARAH JANE VERNON WRITES: learn. Despite this, my experi- leased in order to provide support ence, so far, is that every day as the men begin the difficult tran- I attended an introductory visit I leave with a sense of practical sition into liberty, which needs a achievement. home, positive adult relationships to HMP and YOI Bronzefield ar- ranged by the Prisons Mission. I and employment. The first few found it significantly different VOLUNTEER ALISTAIR MILWARD days and weeks are crucial for re- from other London prisons of WRITES: covery and building new, inde- which I have experienced. It is pendent and crime-free lives. managed by private sector con- I have been volunteering for a tractor Sodexo and its Chaplaincy charity called StoryBook Dads and In addition to these prisons, our working at HMP Wormwood Scrubs Volunteers, led by the team from Team is welcoming and open to Volunteers. Every prison has a [aka 'The Scrubs'] under the direc- Notre Dame de France, the Roman Safer Custody Team and I am in- tion of the PACT team there

13 (Prison Advice and Care Trust). those with children but sometimes tially very rewarding. The prison sys- StoryBook Dad was founded by addressing the partners and wives tem is in crisis and it does not work Sharon Berry whilst working as directly. A few applications were well. It fails the offenders, the vic- a volunteer in HMP Channings snatched from our hands by part- tims of crime, the tax-payers and the Wood. Sharon began to realise ners who filled them in on behalf wider society. Our Prisons Mission’s how difficult it was for impris- of the inmate who couldn't write. achievement is modest, against the oned parents to keep in touch Given that these few couldn't read scale of the problems, but these are with their children. She helped either this seemed either brave or definitely worthwhile. the Writer in Residence develop foolish, but we were able to reas- the Storybook Dads idea. Sha- sure all concerned that we could For further information, to ask ques- ron moved to HMP Dartmoor help them all the way. tions, or for a discussion, please con- and introduced the scheme tact the Coordinator, or one of our there, recording prisoners on Two family day recruits came to us Volunteers. the wings and editing the sto- in the workshop a few weeks later, ries from home. News of the their clearances passed and their John Plummer work spread and it proved so families waiting. I remembered Coordinator, Prisons Mission popular that the Governor gave peddling the idea to the family of Churches Together in Westminster her a prison cell to work from one, an older inmate, who was 020 7272 1639 and allowed her to employ a grizzled and hardened, quite a lot couple of prisoners to help with of life and ink in the lines. Very the editing of the recordings on shaved. We were a trifle nervous I -site. Other prisons heard about have to say. A pause lengthened, Storybook Dads and wanted to we waited. Finally he cleared his implement the project too. throat, rubbed his hand over his face, wiped his eyes and standing Every Tuesday one of three vol- said without turning from the unteers goes into The Scrubs, door, "I'll come again if that's al- signs into a workshop located right. Just feeling a bit emotional on the prison's main 'spine', at- here. Sorry. Sorry." Three weeks tached to which are the wings, later he read a story for his young- which is also home to the edu- est but that day, the day he didn't cation department with class- read a story but reached into him- rooms and library etc. There we self and found himself to be want- set up simple recording equip- ing was the day of which we Vol- ment and receive applicants unteers might be almost more and help them to record a story proud. His children came to mind for their children. The appli- and reminded him that he was cants are all vetted beforehand there and they were here and for and the families have an oppor- that fact he alone was at fault and tunity to refuse to be contacted he wished it were different. by the prisoner - these checks alone add 10 days sometimes to We never see the faces of the chil- a treacle-like layer of bureau- dren as they receive a CD or a DVD cracy. The stories cleared for with the voice of their father copyright and available to the reading them a story set to sound prisoners are, in the main, for effects and sometimes with music. younger children and have vari- We don't get to see their eyes wid- ous iterations of the Gruffalo or en with wonder and recognition or some simple retellings of nurse- their eyelids droop as they drift ry favourites. As for the appli- off to the sound of their father's cants themselves we tend to voice, calming and constant in see the gentler sort, those who their own chaotic lives. want to reach out to their children, to play a part. FUTURE NEED AND PLANS. Remorse and regret will be just below the surface one suspects. There is an urgent need for our Some will be young, barely Prisons Mission to expand and im- adults themselves sometimes prove the effectiveness of our with a couple of children and work in support of the multi-faith an engaging naïveté as, smiling Prison Chaplaincy Teams. For this but without pride, they at- purpose, we need to recruit addi- tempt to explain why one child tional, suitable Volunteers from St lives with one mother and the George’s Hanover Square and oth- other with another. A chaotic er churches. As well as work inside life left on hold, clutching at prisons, we also need Volunteers the slender strands that keep it to assist with work essential to all together. They've volun- the founding purposes of the initi- teered themselves after all, ative, including the Shows of Art they're there because they by Prisoners and the promotion of want to be. Prisons Week. New Volunteers will be given appropriate training and One afternoon I attended a support and be able to undertake family day at the visitors centre regular work in often difficult cir- where the aim was to snag a cumstances. This work will be few applicants as they sat in challenging and varied, but poten- their family circles, identifying

14 Hyde Park Place Estate Charity

CIVIL TRUSTEES

At their meeting on 28th November 2018, the Civil Trustees of the Hyde Park Place Estate Charity awarded grants totalling £52,179 to the following organisations working in the City of Westminster:

Woman’s Trust Groundswell UK London Music Masters Age UK Westminster Family Lives Police Community Clubs of Great Britain St Vincent’s Family Project Revitalise University of Westminster – Regent Street Cinema London Firebird Orchestra Crisis at Christmas 2018 St George’s School St George’s Hanover Square - Refreshment Coupon Scheme for the Homeless

The next meeting of the Civil Trustees will be held on Wednesday 5th June (deadline: Monday 20th May).

ECCLESIASTICAL TRUSTEES

A total of £53,325 was awarded in grants at the Ecclesiastical Trustees’ meeting held on Thurs- day 29th November 2018, for the benefit of the churches and clergy based in the original histor- ic parish of St George’s Hanover Square. The next meeting will be held in May/June 2019.

Shirley Vaughan Clerk to the Trustees

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PARISH OF ST GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE Charity No: 1134811

Rector: The Revd Roderick Leece

St George’s Church The Vestry, 2A Mill Street, London W1S 1FX Tel: 020 7629 0874 Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org

SGHS Enterprises Ltd Company No 10023760 VAT No 276582758 Email: [email protected]

St George’s Hanover Square Foundation Charity No 1120505 Email: [email protected]

Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Charity No 212439 Email: [email protected]

Grosvenor Chapel 24 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA Tel: 020 7499 1684 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk

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