All Saints Parish Paper margaret street, london w.1

JULY 2010 £1.00

Vicar’s LETTER is allotted a number of psalms to be recited I am beginning to get used to being daily, so that the whole Psalter is said addressed or referred to as “Prebendary” each day by the College of Canons. Mine and realising that someone is talking to or are Psalms 12 to 16. A quick-witted and about me, rather than some character in biblically-literate member of All Saints was Trollope’s Barchester. In fact, I have already quick to point out that they begin; “Help been addressed affectionately as “Preb”. me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left: for the faithful are minished from It was very good to see such a large among the children of men”. Psalm 16 contingent from All Saints at St Paul’s on ends on a happier note: “Thou shalt shew Sunday May 16th for my installation. At the me the path of life; in thy presence is the beginning of the service, the Bishop was in fullness of joy: and at thy right hand there populist mode and went round the five new is pleasure for evermore.” I can echo too prebendaries and called for a supporting its words “The lot is fallen to me in a fair response from their parishes. The All Saints ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage”; response he described as “diminuendo” but true of St Paul’s but even more of All added “that is your style”. True enough, Saints whose people I think of whenever we are not given to shouting in church and I come to the words “All my delight is on more positively, as Hutt notes in his the saints that are in the earth”. letter, we are good at keeping silence. After the service, we new prebendaries After we had made the declaration of were taken to the Dean’s Vestry to sign assent and sworn our oaths of allegiance the register and be presented with a copy to the Sovereign and canonical obedience of the cathedral Constitution and Statutes to the Bishop, and promised on the holy and a bread bun. The latter is symbolic Gospels to uphold the Constitution and of the prebendal income which supported Statutes of the Cathedral, we received their our distant predecessors in maintaining the Deeds of Collation and were then placed in services of the cathedral. our stalls by the Dean. Canon Lucy Winkett explained in her sermon the historical Now that I am a prebendary of St origins of our office and its present rôle. Paul’s, I am invited to various services. Many clash with services or other duties My stall can be identified by the title of here, but I was at Evensong on June 9th my prebend, “Holbourn”, and the Latin when the 350th anniversary of the Royal text Salvum me fac Domine. These are the Society was being marked by a sermon first words of Psalm 12. Each prebendary from the Archbishop of Canterbury. The 1 service proceeded normally until almost writing them all off as foolish. At the the end of the first lesson when the fire same time, we are called to give profound alarm went off. Clergy, choir and the large attention to the tradition we have received congregation had to evacuate the cathedral as source of knowledge and wisdom. This and assemble outside the west doors until is something which can only be achieved a false alarm had been confirmed and we in combination with a committed search were allowed to return to our places. We for holiness. So some other verses from all, including the Archbishop, did this my psalms seem apt too: “Lord, who shall with a speed and informality rarely seen dwell in thy tabernacle: or who shall rest in St Paul’s. The Canon in Residence took upon thy holy hill? Even he that leadeth up the lesson where he had left off, then an uncorrupt life: and doeth the thing announced that, because of pressure of which is right, and speaketh the truth time, the choir would miss out the rest of from his heart.” (Psalm 15: 1) Evensong and go straight to the Anthem before the Archbishop preached. There was The writer Sara Maitland’s last book much wry speculation about some atheist was about silence. She has chosen to live scientist on the Dawkins school setting alone in a remote cottage in Galloway but off the alarm in protest at the Society emerged from this hermitage to take part celebrating in a cathedral. Of course, many in the National Pilgrimage to Walsingham of the Society’s founders were clerics of and wrote about it in the Guardian. “The the . Another of my Walsingham pilgrimage refreshes the parts psalms, No. 14 begins “The fool hath said that other Anglican practices do not reach.” in his heart, there is no God”; not the most Her reminiscence of a fellow-pilgrim years diplomatic of comments. A rather higher ago describing it as “like Blackpool, only level of intellectual engagement than more religious” echoed my own “religious name-calling would seem to be required in Butlins”. the continuing dialogue between faith and “ is” she says, “a practice science. If we need any reminding that such of great and true beauty and moderation, a conversation is necessary, I was given intelligence and good taste; the National one by a college chaplain in Cambridge Pilgrimage is none of these things. It is a last year. He had spent days interviewing jamboree for people who do not necessarily would-be students of philosophy, most of care much for dignity and good order, but whom had absorbed Professor Dawkins’ do believe, often quite inarticulately, that “The God Delusion” as if it was holy writ. joy is pleasing to the Lord.” In his sermon on Trinity Sunday, Sir This echoed what I said on Corpus Roy Strong spoke of how All Saints has Christi when welcoming our visitors from managed to combine seeming timelessness Notting Hill, saying that they had brought and the ability to move on. The challenge a touch of carnival with them. When we to the Church today, including All Saints, is went out into the streets for the procession, both to face up to the challenges of science we should look as if we were enjoying and other aspects of modern culture and ourselves. Long-faced Christians are no knowledge, probing those which are advertisement for the Gospel. intellectually questionable, while not

2 In fact, just as the psalms reflect the begun on the upper section. Work is also gamut of human thoughts and emotions, proceeding apace on the roof space and so must our worshipping life. Worship at walls in the north aisle. Careful attention is All Saints has always been based on the being paid to matching colours so that the measured order of the Book of Common unity of scheme is respected. Now that the Prayer and now of Common Worship. very dirty reddish tiles on the north and west There is an element of restraint and order, wall have been cleaned, the right shade of of objectivity about it all. We can get on red for the grisaille painting in the arches at and do it however we might be feeling. the foot of the west wall can be established It is solid and reliable. But All Saints has and that work commence. Sufficient funds brought to this bedrock more than a dash had come in within days after the Vicar’s of colour and music and excitement which Sunday morning appeal, for the go-ahead helps us to rejoice in our faith. It is almost to be given for the work on font, pulpit and impossible I find not to smile and tap one’s chancel wall to be included in this phase of feet during a Mozart Mass, even sometimes the work. at the Kyrie! All Saints too has long had We anticipate that the scaffolding in a reputation for powerful congregational the north aisle will be taken down in the singing. Hymns have long supplemented week beginning July 19th. It will then be the liturgy. re-erected in the south aisle. This work will As so often, it is not a matter of either/ take about ten working days, so we regret or but both/and. We need the objective and that the church will have to be closed to the intellectual as well as the emotional and public until the end of the month for safety physical. If they are not held together so that reasons. they inform and enrich each other, the former become arid and remote; the latter descend An Important Visitor into the sentimental and reactionary. The Chairman of the Victorian Society, Dr Yours in Christ, Andrew Cunningham, contacted us to ask Alan Moses if he could bring the new chair of English Heritage, Baroness Andrews, to see Parish Notes All Saints as part of a tour of churches in central London. Fr Alan and our architect RESTORATION PROGRAMME Colin Kerr were on hand to show her the The Church of England has a programme restoration work being undertaken here called “Building Faith in the Future”. We are and she was able to speak to some of those doing that here at All Saints in part through carrying it out. Later in the morning she the restoration of the building. At the most went on to the Annunciation. She asked recent site meeting with architects and if we had received any help with the work contractors, the clergy and churchwardens from English Heritage. In fact we had a were able to see the progress that had been substantial grant when we replaced the roof made. You will be glad to hear that work in 1996, but nothing since then. is proceeding on schedule. The glass from the lower section of the great West Window The Victorian Society’s annual Summer which has been restored in Lincolnshire School will be visiting All Saints this month is now being re-installed and work has and the Director, Dr Ian Dungavell, hopes

3 to organise a major visit when the present which called upon HM Government to: phase of work has been completed. 1 Substantially increase the amount of money available for the repairs of listed SAVE the Listed Places of church buildings; and Worship Grants Scheme! 2 Give an early commitment to continuing beyond March 2011 the Listed Places of This scheme refunds 100% of the VAT paid Worship Grant Scheme. out by listed places of worship on repairs to fabric, professional fees etc. It has proved Of course now we have a new government very effective and it is very simple to apply with whom we will be continuing the case. for and efficient in the service offered. What can you do? Since 2001 nearly £105 million has been Sign the Downing Street Petition put up paid out to listed places of worship across by Manchester Diocese at http://petitions. the UK. It now provides grants worth number10.gov.uk/VAT-refundscheme/. £1million a month to England alone, which The closing deadline is August 29th 2010. goes directly to the places of worship who It only takes a minute. undertake the work. All Saints has benefited substantially from this scheme. Send a letter to your MP. A template sample letter will be available on the All The scheme is due to come to an end Saints website which you can use to send in March 2011. The grant scheme was to your MP. introduced by Gordon Brown, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, as an interim “Fitzrovia News” measure while the European Community The summer issue of our neighbourhood was holding a review of the Directive newspaper did not look very inviting with covering VAT rates. Although a reduced its banner headline: “Vice continues after VAT rate has not been agreed with Europe, Sex Club Closure”, but inside there was a the Scheme is still due to come to an end. centre page spread on the restoration of All The Cathedral and Church Buildings Saints and the history of the parish, written Division of the Church of England is working by Peter Whyatt with assistance from John with a range of organisations who work with Forde, Rebecca Hirst and Frances O’Neil. and support places of worship to build a campaign to make the case to Government An Ecumenical Wedding that this scheme should continue. Paul Gurnham, of All Saints and Cheryl Richards of Wesley’s Chapel were married A debate at the February 2010 General at the Chapel on Saturday June 5th. The Synod considered the funding of church marriage ceremony was conducted by the buildings. In his opening presentation, the Minister, The Revd Lord Leslie Griffiths Bishop of London reminded Synod that and his assistant The Revd Jennifer Potter “we are the custodians of countrywide and the nuptial Eucharist was celebrated infrastructure which would take billions to by the Vicar. Fr Alan is sure he must the replicate and which has huge potential at a first Vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, to time of financial stringency”. celebrate the Eucharist in that great shrine Synod passed unanimously a motion of Methodism.

4 The newly married couple were with us Corpus Christi 2010 for Evensong the next day, having attended There was a brief interlude in the dreadful the morning service at the chapel. Paul even weather we have been experiencing this year, attended his first meeting of the All Saints so that it was fine for our outdoor procession Foundation as a newly elected trustee on on Corpus Christi. Fr Paul Thomas from St the following Monday; before going off on Marylebone Parish Church, who is a member their honeymoon. of the Church of England’s Liturgical Our congratulations to Paul and Cheryl. Commission, was our preacher and his sermon appears in this issue. We welcomed Canon Hutt’s 40th Anniversary groups from other parishes including All Saints, Notting Hill, St Paul’s, Rossmore Canon David Hutt returned to All Saints Road, and St John’s Wood Church. to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood at High Mass Services at All Saints can be complicated on Trinity Sunday. The preacher was his affairs, but the occasion on which this old friend Sir Roy Strong. Copies of the is especially true is Corpus Christi. The sermon are available in church. Wine service in church is straightforward but was served in the courtyard after Mass in then the congregation and various groups honour of the occasion. within it, choir, flower girls, stewards and Canon Hutt writes: visitors, have to be marshalled out into the ‘I really am most grateful for the street and formed up for the procession: opportunity to celebrate last Sunday… what Westminster City Council calls our In my diary I’ve noted: “A day to be “demonstration”. This is an exercise which remembered and treasured… I had requires careful planning, meticulous forgotten, to a degree, the power of attention to detail, and huge reserves of place and was profoundly moved by the patience and good humour. We are very experience (and privilege) of standing grateful to Cedric Stephens and his team before that High Altar again. I recall for making this all happen. We are also — with gratitude — the depths of the grateful to the catering team who provided silences, the laughter and happiness in much-needed and appreciated refreshments the courtyard afterwards… truly a sense after the service. of homecoming.”’ Theatre Visit Walsingham: A group of fifteen people went to see the The National Pilgrimage play Ruined at the Almeida Theatre in Islington on Thursday May 27th. When The coach party set off bright and early Jean Castledine approached Fr Gerald on the bank holiday Monday morning to saying ‘there’s a new play out about Africa’ the National Pilgrimage. Although there and he readily agreed to organize a party, was some rain on the journey, it remained neither realized that it was about life in a mercifully dry for the services and Congolese brothel. procession. Our thanks to Ross Buchanan who carried out his duties as transport The reviews, however, were reassuring manager with his customary efficiency. and in the event it proved to be a remarkable

5 evening leaving us all with much to think Gala, Fr Hutt’s 40th anniversary and Corpus about. What lifted the subject matter out of Christi all in a very short space of time) that the sordid was the passionate commitment they would give the National a miss. This of the writing and the cast to justice and the is understandable, but with Corpus Christi power of love to redeem what seems lost. being later next year it would be good to see Carol Ford suggested that reference is made if we can give the event a boost and order to the charity the Medical Foundation for the two coaches. Watch this space. Care of the Victims of Torture. When he was in Queen’s Park, Fr Gerald met the founder Centenary Organ Gala Helen Bamber and his then parish (St Anne’s, May 29th 2010 Brondesbury,) raised funds one Lent for its work. To learn more about Helen Bamber It has often been said that All Saints inspires her biography, The Good Listener: a Life permanent loyalty from those who have Against Cruelty by Neil Belton (Pantheon come under its influence. The Centenary 1998) is an excellent read. As if great theatre Organ Gala, celebrating our 1910 65- wasn’t enough, drinks at the home of Dee and stop Harrison organ, brought together Andrew Prior beforehand and Janet Drake’s ten organists, seven of whom are current afterwards (both quite near the theatre) made or former members of the music staff. it an evening to remember. However, in this light perhaps I should begin this appreciation by expressing thanks to all Pilgrimage who did so much behind the scenes: food, drink, ushering, ticket sales, programme, A full coach headed for Norfolk on Monday flowers, photography, publicity. Thank you, May 31st carrying an enthusiastic group of one and all. pilgrims for the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Henry Parkes led off with the entire This was a year of miracles: no rain and Elgar Sonata. It was only right that he who it even became so warm that some of the nourishes us most at the instrument week party caught the sun. Mass was celebrated by week should take the greater share of the by the new Bishop of Whitby and onetime limelight, and we were not disappointed. It Administrator of the Shrine, XMartin was a performance of bravura and sensitivity, Warner. The sermon was preached by the though no surprise to any of us who listen Bishop of Stafford, XGordon Mursell. His carefully to Henry each Sunday. Stephen theme (given that it was the Feast of the Farr of St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, followed Visitation) was Our Lady’s journeys and how with a deliberately introspective first- these encourage us in our own pilgrimages. half centrepiece of Mendelssohn, Brahms His message was particularly poignant as ‘Fugue in A flat minor’ and Schumann. This he is soon to retire on the grounds of ill- was playing of consummate understanding health. Our thanks go to Ross Buchanan for and profundity, providing the seriously organizing the day. It was very pleasing to contemplative atmosphere that suits All share the coach with members of All Saints, Saints so well. Andrew Arthur (Associate Notting Hill, Holy Cross, Cromer Street, St Director of Music 2000 - 2008) closed the Mary’s, Bourne Street and St Matthew’s, first half with the Bach Passacaglia and Westminster. Some people decided this Fugue, reminding us of his ability to make year that with so much going on (the Organ this instrument speak fluent Baroque North 6 German, and of course with articulation and moving this performance was: ‘strangely fingerwork of world-class quality. and intrinsically “connected” with the spirituality and witness of All Saints and all Fortified by an excellent lunch, with it stands for’. Then followed two very special members of the large and appreciative ‘welcomes-back’ to the instrument: Nick Luff audience doing their bit to make sure the rain (Associate Director of Music 1989 - 2000; a didn’t dampen our spirits, Timothy Byram- person who took so much responsiblity for Wigfield of St George’s Chapel, Windsor the music during that time and to whom Castle, treated us to Edwin Lemare’s this place is permanently indebted) with a arrangement of the Overture to Nicolai’s stylish, apt and well-projected York Bowen ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. This set a ‘Fantasia’, and Dr John Birch (Director of high standard of entertainment which led to Music 1953 - 1958) sounding more 28 than our organ scholar Evelyn Tinker joining the 80 in Lloyd Webber and Harvey Grace, and Director of Music in the last movement of reminding us all why he remains one of the Samuel Wesley’s ‘Grand Duet’. Suffice it to country’s most prodigious players. Stephen say her considerable talent was well shown, Disley of was just and people have been kind enough to say that the right person to finish off in true ‘gala’ we played ‘as one’. Dr Bramma (Director of style with the end of Widor’s ‘Symphonie Music 1989 - 2004 and the prized architect of 6’, and contribute the final encore, Norman the organ’s restoration in 2002) displayed his Cocker’s ‘Tuba Tune’, TBW having slipped infectious commitment in Smart and Karg- in a delicious Hollins ‘Maytime Gavotte’. Elert. Fr Gerald, who as we know can so A thoroughly happy event. often find the ‘mot juste’, remarked on how Paul Brough

RESTORATION APPEAL WEEKEND Friday July 16th ‘These stones that have echoed their praises are holy…’ The Founding of All Saints, Margaret Street the story of sacred and secular events, entertainments and personalities in the life of All Saints from 1859 told in words and music at 7.30 p.m. in church Tickets £20 will include a glass of wine in the interval available on Sundays after the principal services or from the Parish Office Monday to Friday, 7 Margaret St, London WI W 8JG (tel: 0207 636 1788) Cheques payable to All Saints PCC Restoration Appeal. ************************************ Sunday July 18th ‘A Revolution in Architecture’ (John Betjeman) Colin Kerr, our present architect, talks about what makes All Saints Church a building worth restoring and cherishing Following 11.00 a.m. High Mass in church The talk will be followed by a glass of wine in the courtyard and a chance to meet Colin Kerr.

7 DIARY DATES Thursday 1 July 7.05 p.m. HOLY HOUR led by the Vicar.

Monday 5 July 7.00 p.m. Meeting of the Parochial Church Council in the Dining Room.

Sunday 11 July A Poetry Tea will be held again at the home of Pamela Botsford in Marylebone at 3.00 p.m. All welcome. The theme will be “Your Desert Island Poems and Prose”. Each guest has about 2 minutes to recite their chosen piece. For more details, especially if you haven’t been to Pamela’s before, and to let the organising group know that you are coming, please contact Sandra Wheen (020 7637 8456 [email protected]). Thank you. 11 July is ALMA Sunday. There will be a special Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral at 3.15 p.m. that day.

RESTORATION APPEAL WEEKEND — 16 - 18 JULY when we launch our appeal for £250,000 to enable us to start work for Phase 3 of the restoration. This phase will include work to clean the chancel and, we hope, design a lighting system for the church which will compliment the newly cleaned interior. Please see notice elsewhere in this issue giving details of the events planned for this weekend.

Friday 23 - Sunday 25 July Cell of OLW/All Saints Pilgrimage to Walsingham led by Fr Gerald Beauchamp.

THE LONDON - ST PETERSBURG LINK

The Story of the Link stays in the St Petersburg Theological The link between the Dioceses of London Academy and Seminary and this is an and St Petersburg is the initiative of the important feature of the trip because it Bishop of London. The Bishop’s vision is enables us to get to know students training to enable friendships to develop between for the priesthood, as well as those studying Christians in our two cities by means of in the choir school and the icon painting an annual visit to Russia by clergy and school. The accommodation is not luxurious parishioners from London. This visit has but is comfortable and in a convenient, not happened for ten years now and more than a to mention historic location in the grounds hundred Londoners have made the journey of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, the oldest to St Petersburg. monastic foundation in the city.

The object of the visit is to build Official relations between the Russian friendships, to experience the worship and Orthodox Church and the Anglican life of the Orthodox Church and to build Communion are not always easy at the links between our two traditions. Our group moment, so our informal, on-going

8 relationship with the Church in St Petersburg art activities and opportunities for play. is a valuable way of keeping friendly contacts Many of the workers have themselves been open with the Church in Russia. patients in the hospital. The project began when local Christians started visiting the Seeing Orthodox Faith in Action hospital and volunteered to clean and mop Since the fall of Communism, the Church has up. It has since become a wonderful lay-led once again been allowed to engage in good hospital Chaplaincy. works in wider Russian society. During our stay in Russia the London group visits a number of Come to Russia and See inspirational projects with the help of our partner We would be delighted if you would like organisation ‘Diakonia’. to join our Diocesan trip to St Petersburg. The Sisterhood of the Protecting Veil We do of course visit some of the tourist The friendship with the Sisterhood has attractions but this is a working visit and the developed over a number of years and week is quite full. You need to be aware that during that time their work has developed. Russia is still not very acceptable to people When we first met them they worked from with disabilities and there is often quite a lot a small flat in the city. Now with the help of walking — not always when expected. In of a businessman, they have a hospital and fact the whole trip must be approached in a residential home where they care for the spirit of adventure! homeless and elderly people who have no Recent highlights have been: families. They also work in a hospital in the l Visits to social projects city where they care for homeless patients l Visits of the Russian Museum and The who have no documents and therefore, no Hermitage status. l Sharing in the Liturgy and making friends in the Seminary The Society of Vladimir the Great l Meetings with parish and Orthodox Julia Nikitin is the head of an organisation believers which runs rehabilitation programmes for l Visiting the historic Peter and Paul teenage young offenders. 6 young men Fortress live together and follow a three month l Ballet or Opera at the Mariinsky Theatre. life skills programme run by a small group of professional social workers and The 2010 Visit psychologists, together with volunteers. The The Diocesan trip to Russia this year will young people often come from very difficult be from September 29th till October 6th home backgrounds and the care they receive and will be led by Fr Tim Pike, the Bishop is life-changing. The Society of St Vladimir of London’s Chaplain for Russian Orthodox is now recognised by the St Petersburg courts Church Relations, and Patricia Morton. and looks very much like an embryonic Both are Russian speakers and have visited Russian probation service. St Petersburg many times. The closing date for bookings is July 31st 2010. The Society of St Joseph working in the Hospital for Children with The cost of the trip, including flights, Infectious Diseases board and lodging at the seminary and visa A small group of volunteers works within costs is likely to be £850. Spending money this hospital providing religious education, is up to you, but tickets for the theatre cost 9 about £30 - £40. Museum fees will be the obtained from: same sort of price as in London. Patricia Morton, Kingsbury Vicarage, If you would like to experience more 54 Roe Green, London, NW9 0PJ. of Orthodox worship and culture and are Telephone: 0208 204 7531. interested in joining us, more details can be Email: [email protected]

THE GREAT REREDOS OF ALL SAINTS’ MARGARET STREET By Colin Surtees — PART 1

2010 marks the centenary of Sir Ninian setting before congregations pictures and Comper painting copies of the Dyce reredos coloured glass representations of sacred of the church. He set about making these symbols and saints. For some considerable copies in oil paint to stand in front of the time many were nervous of how these original frescoes thus protecting them from would be received as the agents of militant the smoke and atmosphere of the church. Protestantism stirred up trouble. Those who week by week come before the reredos might well take time one day The Norfolk Diary of the Revd B.J. to pause and consider just how special the Armstrong has revealing insights into reredos is. When the original Dyce work attitudes towards the growing use of was finished in 1859 it was one of the most Christian symbols in this period. He was the remarkable pieces of art to come from any incumbent of the parish of East Dereham British painter in terms of its technique, its and was confident enough to introduce a size, its colours, the quality of the painting plain cross into his church as early as 1852. and not least its subject. When, however, his beloved daughter died in 1856 and he marked her tomb in the From the sixteenth century religious grave yard at head and foot with a simple art in Britain had been largely confined gothic cross he records that he was fearful to scriptural subjects and mainly painted of the local opposition and expected “some for private homes. In the early nineteenth sacrilege” might take place upon the grave. century churches usually contained a There were similar instances of opposition painted board with the Royal Arms on it set to innovations in church decoration all over where, in the churches of the Middle Ages England. Into this reticent, fearful world ,the rood had once stood. Many churches Dyce’s great masterpiece broke forth. also had other boards with the Creed, Our Father and Ten Commandments written William Butterfield, the architect of upon them set near the east end of the the church, had been a member of the church. Most churches had little else by Margaret Chapel congregation. He was way of decoration since most of the great also a member of the “Engagement”, that paintings of pre-reformation times had been select group within the church of mainly whitewashed over. All this began to change Oxbridge men including Mr Gladstone, in the wake of the Oxford Movement. From who met for devotional exercises and for the 1840s people began the process of the planning of different good works.

10 When Butterfield undertook the design of improvement of education in Design and the new church there is little doubt that he Art and was appointed Secretary and then knew that the absence of an east window, Superintendent of new schools set up by made necessary by the close presence of the Board of Trade. From this he advanced buildings at that end of the site, would to various educational rôles, ending up facilitate the employment of a great piece as Professor of Fine Art at Kings College of art and provide a focal point to the area London. above where the altar would stand. The old Margaret Chapel had been quite Spartan In 1843 the first competition of cartoons despite Frederick Oakeley’s attempts to for the decoration of the new Houses of introduce some coloured glass and simple Parliament was held in Westminster Hall. decorations of the altar. This had hardly Dyce did not enter the competition. He mattered since, as Mr Gladstone once had however already been marked out remarked, “the whole place was so filled by Prince Albert as a favoured artist and by the reverence of Oakeley’s ministrations one whom Albert thought he could work and manner, that its barrenness and with. He produced for the 1844 exhibition poverty passed unnoticed”. This was examples of fresco work based upon all to change, for the new chapel was The Consecration of Archbishop Parker designed to be splendid. The employment which were highly praised. He was then of William Dyce as the chosen artist to commissioned to produce a cartoon of The give exceptional decoration to the east end Baptism of King Ethelbert for the 1845 was a great masterstroke by Alexander exhibition. In some respects this painting, Beresford Hope and Sir Stephen Glynne which was to stand above the throne in the (Gladstone’s brother-in-law), the two men House of Lords, is the most prominent and who were given responsibility for the plans important painting in the entire building. to develop the church. The choice of the subject for the painting is thought to have rested mainly with Albert Dyce was a Scotsman, he was born in and this, with other subjects, in fact sought Aberdeen in 1806 and he left Marischal to bring notice to the Royal household as College with a M.A. at the age of sixteen! well as chronicle British history. As Dean He entered the Royal Scottish Academy Stanley was to note, the name Ethelbert Edinburgh and then became a probationer is the same as Albert so the link to the at the Royal Academy in London before reigning consort, who if not an Anglo- going on to study in Rome and Tuscany. Saxon King, was at least from the family From his time on the continent he developed of the Dukes of Saxe Coburg Gotha, comes quite advanced views on religion and out as quite explicit. The cartoon was a became interested in Gregorian or Plain great success in the 1845 competition and Chant, upon which he was later to produce Dyce proceeded to execute his design. a book. He also painted subjects previously Dyce was then asked to produce a series of unknown to British artists, subjects like paintings within the new Palace decorating that of the Madonna and Child, a first the Queen’s Robing Room with frescoes version of which being produced soon based upon The Legend of King Arthur. He after his return to Scotland in 1826. Dyce also painted a fresco in the summer-house soon became involved in schemes for the at Buckingham Palace and at Osborne he

11 painted Neptune Resigning the Empire to make progress with the Queen’s Robing of the Sea to Britannia, a work recently Room, which was put out of commission beautifully restored. Dyce had become to accommodate the painting, was marked the most sought after British painter of the with considerable disapprobation. Dyce, age. however, found his work at All Saints’ to be much more congenial. Granted all this, it is remarkable that Beresford Hope and Glynne secured his Dyce was slow in his fresco painting but services for All Saints’, Margaret Street this was probably because of the care he ,and even more remarkable that they were took in his work. In the 1860s another artist able to keep him working on the frescoes was to write to the Times that the detail of for such a long time. It was probably All Saints’ reredos, “in the highest and Dyce’s religious leanings which inclined most remote place, almost invisible from him to look favourably on the work. Dyce the ground, was as careful as if intended submitted a cartoon for a figure of St for viewing ‘on the line’ at the Royal Peter to be painted in All Saints’ Church, Academy”. This was something of a new Marylebone, in the Royal Academy standard in mural painting. Previously in Exhibition of 1853 (exhibit 931) and set England where one or two, mainly Italian, about the massive undertaking as soon as the artists had undertaken decoration, it had basic shell of the building was completed. been more like theatre painting intended His work here drew some unfavourable for effect, to be viewed only from a comment over the next six years, firstly distance and not to be subjected to close from those who resented his involvement scrutiny. It might be noted that in the in a church known for its ritualism. There 1970s, when a Ninian Comper panel was was another problem, in order to work removed to examine the original beneath, at Margaret Street he needed to leave the eyes and face of the Victorian original unfinished his paintings at Westminster so revealed certainly seemed to compare and keep swapping between the two. As quite favourably with those of the later both sets of work were undertaken in buon artist, and this despite the poor condition. fresco this was regarded by some as a very Dyce also used new deeper colours to give serious error of judgement. shade and character to his figures and more particularly their drapes. Buon fresco painting is a process whereby colour is applied to wet plaster The critics from outside were joined and allowed to combine giving, it is hoped, by other critics from within the parish as a hard deep matt finish. This process had the long delay before the church could be been almost reinvented for the new work opened would seem to have put people’s in Westminster but was considered only nerves on edge. The congregation of the possible in the warmer summer months Margaret Chapel had insisted that their granted the wet, cold climate of England. new church should occupy the site of their This was to give the plaster the chance to old home, much against the wishes of harden and partly dry before the next day’s Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiological new plaster was applied and coloured. In Society, and the very small and wholly the higher levels of society Dyce’s failure inadequate rooms taken as a temporary

12 church must have been a trial to all those designs. One problem was that some of who worshipped there. Dyce’s painting was the new colours being introduced from one of the main obstacles to the opening manufacturers were not suitable for use of the church and for some it could not be in fresco work. No one knew this at the finished too soon. time and it only emerged as the fresco work got underway. Another problem was To this problem was added the changes in getting the right sort of sand, having it to the architect’s decorations which Dyce prepared for use and cleaned of impurities. required to the areas which were near to Then there was the massive problem of the his developing painting. Dyce asked for lime which had to be slaked to remove its different coloured glass to be put into the capacity to bleach out any colour used with windows near the fresco since the original it. Some of the German artists prepared blue colouring gave his painting a cold their lime over many many years before appearance. He also had gilding and gold venturing to use it in their art. One of the paint applied to the alabaster work around greatest problems, however, was that the the painting to give greater relief to the air in London was being turned acidic by pictures. Then the roof areas near the reredos the burning of unprecedented quantities of were repainted. Some saw these alterations coal for heat and of town gas for lighting. to the architect’s vision of the church as a This acidity was changing the colours of mistake and Butterfield and Beresford paintings and making them decay. Victorian Hope fell out over the matter. Butterfield London thus managed to create one of the was in later years, when Beresford Hope most toxic atmospheres imaginable for had removed himself from the church, to the reception of mural decoration whilst undo some of these changes as repairs and its inhabitants enjoyed a mania for their other alterations were carried out. No one production. Dyce’s attempts to use new seriously disputed the greatness of Dyce’s and deeper colours for the drapes of his work but there was a question which arose, figures exacerbated the problems known one which might still be asked today. How in other pictures and this meant that do these two pieces of art, Butterfield’s remedial work was called for even before nave architecture and Dyce’s chancel the painting had been given time to settle painting, stand in relation to each other? in. Dyce had been sent by Prince Albert to Do they really work well together, do they study fresco techniques in Germany and match? in Italy and one might assume that of all All of the fresco work carried out in those who undertook fresco work at this London during this period was to cause time he should have been best placed to problems, much of it being destined succeed. In fact all this training proved to decay, discolour and rot. It is quite of little avail. By 1863, only four years remarkable and more than a little ironic that after the completion of the painting in All at the period when so many people sought Saints’ it was known that the reredos was to produce works of art in a medium that in serious trouble. Then, in February 1864, would last for generations they embarked whilst still planning what to do as best to upon their task using materials and in save the work, William Dyce died. an atmosphere wholly ruinous to their To be continued

13 The Sermon for Corpus Christi, at High Mass on June 3rd 2010, by Fr Paul Thomas, St Marylebone Parish Church

In the name of the Father, and of the Son picks up the narrative of Patriarch Abram and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. who has returned from bearing arms against Chedorlaomer, one of the four kings of the I was confirmed twice. Highly irregular, I north, and once in Psalm 110 where the appreciate, but I distinctly recall kneeling monarch of Israel is referred to as ‘a King before the Lord Bishop of Llandaff as he forever after the order of Melchizedek’. raised his episcopal hands and imposed Of him we hear nothing more in the Old them upon me saying: ‘Confirm, O Lord Testament as we commonly know it. He this thy servant’, his eyes closed, caught disappears as quickly as he appears. in invocatory prayer. He opened his eyes, he leant forward — his hands still But Melchizedek’s presence is felt on my head — and said, ‘I’ve forgotten elsewhere in the Jewish tradition. When your name’. ‘Paul’, I replied. The Bishop the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered raised his hands heavenward again and re- in Qumran (not Cwmbran as I once imposed them saying ‘Confirm O Lord this heard someone say!) between 1947-56 thy servant Paul’. I take that as a double the scroll found in cave 11 was found to confirmation… have the name of the -King running throughout its text, suggesting to scholars Well and truly admitted then to the that the one who offered the sacrifice inexhaustible mysteries of Christ’s love to God for Abram’s victory was a more broken and poured in bread and cup, I drew significant figure for certain groupings near the altar; and I will for ever recall that within Judaism than had been supposed. as I for the first time received the Blessed Here and in other similar texts of the 1st Sacrament, for whose institution we give century AD Melchizedek is presented as a thanks today with a great tuba mirum type of Christ, a messianic figure who will down Oxford Street, I looked up and saw offer the once-and-for-all sacrifice that the figure of Melchizedek bringing forth atones for the sins of God’s people. bread and wine, leaning out in sharp relief from the reredos. The scholar Margaret Barker has developed this theme to suggest that the He comes again into sight today, Salem’s priestly figure of Melchizedek was vital for King, in the panel beneath the great the earliest Christians. In fact she suggests west window (if it were not hidden by a that the early Church’s understanding holy hording!); his image is in the holy of Jesus developed quite so quickly and scriptures, bringing forth bread and wine became defined quite so precisely because for he was a priest of God most high. the earliest Christians were drawing on a Melchizedek appears only twice, primitive strand of Jewish tradition centred tantilizingly, in the canonical Hebrew on the figure of Salem’s Priest-King, a Scriptures. Once in the first lesson which strand which had largely been buried

14 underneath another later tradition, under reject the use of wine in the celebration of the many volumes of mosaic law which, it the Eucharist, preferring instead water. is argued, was hostile to the Melchizedek strand and its Temple-based tradition. These bread-and-water eucharists were as common, as much as we can tell, within It may be significant that it is the orthodox groupings in the church as they Epistle to the Hebrews, a book saturated were within heretical movements such in the customs of the Jerusalem Temple’s as the Montanists, the Ebionites and the liturgical cult, is the only book of the accursed Encratites. Bread-and-water New Testament to pick out this thread eucharists were widespread. There is even and liken Christ to a Melchizedek figure evidence that Justin Martyr, the great whose oblation is ultimate and effectual, Christian apologist of the 2nd century an oblation which supplants the offerings whose day we kept on Tuesday, was of the Aaronic priesthood established in accustomed to celebrating the Eucharist in the Torah. this way. So on this carnival day of Corpus Christi ‘Very many bishops are ignorant or we might just reconsider the Priest-King of naïve’, wrote Cyprian, ‘because they offer old who appears before us so fleetingly, for water alone in the cup of the Lord’. So to perhaps he recalls us to a primitive strand counter this practice, the Bishop of Carthage in the Hebrew tradition, largely ignored called upon the example of Melchizedek and forgotten, whose character and content as a figure from deepest religious antiquity is rooted in a primeval notion of sacrament who offered the right and proper sacrifice and sacrifice, and not in Levitical code and to God in bread and wine. The second Deuteronomical regulation: Melchizedek’s reason, then, to awaken to Melchizedek praise of the goodness of God and God’s on this Corpus Christi is that, in no small deliverance lies not in his recitation of the part because of his example, we have been Law but in the raising up of plate and cup. delivered, thank God, from a diet of bread- and-water eucharists! And there is a second reason to reconsider him today, for if it were not for And he brings them forth, the bread Melchizedek’s example the Holy Eucharist and the wine: brings them forth. Here is we celebrate now might have a decidedly the third of three lessons to learn from the different flavour. Priest-King of Salem. I know that Margaret Street holds a high Thanksgiving to God is the cause of doctrine of the grape, whether that grape Melchizedek’s offertory, he sets forth be employed in sacred or profane rites. creaturely gifts before the Creator with However, the writings of blessed Cyprian thanksgiving; and this ‘setting forth’, the of Carthage (who, by the way, was the action of thankful offering to God, is too first to call the Eucharistic celebration frequently obscured in the Church by our ‘the Lord’s Supper’, and he was no tendency to scholasticise the Eucharist, presbyterian!) reveal to us that in the 3rd our vain and tidy-minded desire to define, century there were a number of groupings lay bare, make explicit what the Eucharist within the Church whose practice was to is or isn’t.

15 The Church of England is shaped by alert the inhabitants of Oxford Street to a the controversies of the Reformation, and different vision, one which announces to our approach is that of the Christian West, all that the very vocation of matter itself we cannot pretend otherwise, and those is to bear and body-forth God’s life, love, theological faultlines run right through our grace and glory. Let us trumpet the catholic apprehension of the Holy Eucharist; yet truth that the material world becomes any polemical approach to the Mass from truly itself when all things are enfolded in whichever theological direction ultimately thanksgiving and so begin to bear God’s leads us away from the truest appreciation presence, reflect his goodness, and Christ of its very character: thanksgiving is its is all and in all. character; thanksgiving is the Eucharist’s very grammar. Let it be our care and delight to bring forth bread and wine like Melchizedek of Corpus Christi ought to recall us to the old, that we might perceive in these Holy sheer joy of what it means to stand before Gifts the depth of life to which all creation God and sing in thanksgiving for who God has been summoned in Jesus Christ, our is and what through Christ’s self-giving great High Priest, whose body is meat love has been wrought. Corpus Christi indeed and whose blood true drink. ought to recall us to the sheer privilege that is given us, to set forth on God’s altar gifts Thanks be to God. of his own creation. Liturgical Christians are often guilty of thinking of the Eucharist 100 Years Ago in terms of what happens at the end of the Paul Brough reports in this issue on the Liturgy. We are not always alive to the very Organ Gala to mark the centenary of the spirit of the Liturgy itself. The Mass is not installation of the Organ, so this letter from any mechanism, but a mysterious ‘coming the Vicar, Churchwardens and PCC from the before’ and ‘setting forth’, an encounter Parish Paper of a century ago seems apt. with God that is infiltrated and inspired in every thread and fibre with thanksgiving. Organ Restoration The world as Oxford Street would have We beg to put before the friends of All Saints us receive it, is a world with no room for the condition of the Organ restoration Fund, thanksgiving. Each of its shop windows and to invite their help to carry out the work affords us a glimpse of a world-view, one it has been necessary to undertake. The in which Creation’s sole purpose is to mechanism of the organ which, owing to provide materials for human manipulation, the division of the instrument, is costly and acquisition and consumption. All things intricate, has been for some time in a faulty there have a price but no value, all things are and precarious state. Its renewal in a year possessed and nothing is gift. In this world- or two would have been inevitable, and we view every thankful instinct is pushed to were in danger of being suddenly deprived the very margin in favour of a bald and of an organ which we were unprepared savage materialism which reduces matter to replace. After careful consideration we to something mean and meaningless. unanimously decided that the restoration of the organ should be proceeded with Let our Corpus Christi tuba mirum simultaneously with the other portions of

16 the restoration of the Church. We were to us on the Eve of All Saints in this year, he anxious to avoid the embarrassment to the should find the work of restoration completed work of the Church which its disorder over and free from debt. We are conscious of the a further period on time would involve. great generosity with which the friends of And we were also anxious to avoid any All Saints have hitherto responded to us, possible injury to the restored East Wall and we appeal to them with confidence to from so large a displacement of dust. make this final effort and complete a great work which will stand for generations. We consulted a considerable number of experts as to the nature of the work that should be done, and they all impressed Sundays and upon us that we must take the opportunity Solemnities in renewing the mechanism to rebuild the whole instrument. Music and Readings

The organ had been added to from time l SUNDAY 4 JULY to time with the result that the narrow cases had become so congested that it was TRINITY 5 impossible either to tune or clean the organ properly. It was further pointed out to us HIGH MASS at 11.00 a.m. that in doing this we ought to remedy the Entrance Hymn: 447 (v 5 Descant — Caplin) obvious defect of our fine instrument, the Introit: Exaudi, Domine paucity of soft stops, which has given the Mass: Credomesse — Mozart organ that monotony of loudness so often Lessons: Isaiah 66: 10 - 14 complained of. Psalm 66 For the work contemplated we have Galatians 6: 1 - 16 accepted estimate of Messrs Harrison & Hymn: 379 Harrison, of Durham. The best of the pipe Gospel: Luke 10: 1 - 11, 16 - 20 work of the old organ will be incorporated Preacher: Fr Julian Browning by Messrs. Harrison in the new. And they Anthem: Laudate Dominum — Mozart will apply to the action, the systems of Hymns: 279 (T 182), 481 (T 462), 361 tubular pneumatic and electro-pneumatic Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C, mechanism which they have installed in BWV 545 — Bach Durham, Ely, Glasgow, Ripon and Wells Cathedrals. To complete the work at present Solemn Evensong contemplated, the sum of at least £3,000 at 6.00 p.m. will be required. This includes the cost of Psalms: 65, 70 the structural alterations. Towards it, £1,650 Lessons: Genesis 29: 1 - 20 have been offered before the issue of any Mark 6: 7 - 29 appeal. Our task is therefore to raise the Office Hymn: 150 (S) sum of about £1,450 as speedily as possible. Canticles: Service in E — Wesley The builders have contracted to have the Anthem: Thou wilt keep him — Wesley instrument ready for use on October 15th. Preacher: The Vicar We are very anxious that at the Bishop’s visit Hymn: 239

17 BENEDICTION Tantum Ergo: Howells O Salutaris: Harry Bramma (No 2) Voluntary: Andantino — Vierne Hymn: 52 Tantum Ergo: Harry Bramma (No 2) l SUNDAY 18 JULY Voluntary: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein, BWV 641 TRINITY 7 — Bach High Mass at 11.00 a.m. l SUNDAY 11 JULY Entrance Hymn: 440 (v 6 Descant — Brent Smith) Trinity 6 Introit: Omnes gentes Mass: Missa secundi toni — Lassus HIGH MASS AT 11.00 a.m. Lessons: Genesis 18: 1 - 10a Entrance Hymn: 351 Psalm 15 Introit: Dominus fortitudo Colossians 1: 15 - 28 Mass: Missa Brevis Hymn: 87 (T 486) — Malcolm Archer Gospel: Luke 10: 38 - end Lessons: Deuteronomy 30: 9 - 14 Preacher: The Vicar Psalm 25 Creed: Credo II Colossians 1: 1 - 14 Anthem: Sing joyfully — Byrd Hymn: 367 (ii) Hymns: 328, 424, 410 Gospel: Luke 10: 25 - 37 Voluntary: Caprice sur les Grandes Jeux Preacher: Fr Gerald Beauchamp — Clérambault Creed: Credo III Anthem: Jesu, dulcis memoria — Francis Pott Solemn Evensong Hymns: 284, 431, 422 at 6.00 p.m. Voluntary: Rhapsody No 3 in C minor Psalm: 81 — Howells Lessons: Genesis 41: 1 - 16, 25 - 37 1 Corinthians 4: 8 - 13 Solemn Evensong Office Hymn: 150 (S) at 6.00 p.m. Canticles: Service in B flat — Stanford Psalm: 77 Anthem: O for a closer walk with God Lessons: Genesis 32: 9 - 30 — Stanford Mark 7: 1 - 23 Preacher: Fr Gerald Beauchamp Office Hymn: 150 (R) Hymn: 244 Canticles: The Gloucester Service — Howells BENEDICTION Anthem: God be in my head— Howells O Salutaris: Francis Jackson Preacher: Fr Julian Browning Hymn: 376 Hymn: 350 (T 309 (i)) Tantum Ergo: Francis Jackson Voluntary: Durch Adam’s fall ist ganz BENEDICTION verderbt, BWV 637 — Bach O Salutaris: Howells Hymn: 294 18 l SUNDAY 25 JULY Vicar: Prebendary Alan Moses 020 7636 1788 / 9961 St James the Assistant Priest: The Revd Gerald Beauchamp 020 7636 1788 apostle Honorary Assistant Priests: The Revd Julian Browning 020 7286 6034 High Mass and baptism Prebendary John Gaskell 020 8858 9589 at 11.00 a.m. Parish Administrator: Entrance Hymn: 215 (T 434) Mr Dennis Davis 020 7636 1788 / 9961 Introit: Mihi autem Fax: 020 7436 4470 e-mail: [email protected] Mass: Mass for three voices — Byrd Lessons: Acts 11: 27 - 12: 2 Sundays Low Mass at 6.30 p.m. (Sat), 8.00 a.m. Psalm 126 and 5.15 p.m. Morning Prayer 10.20 a.m. 2 Corinthians 4: 7 - 15 HIGH MASS and SERMON at 11.00 a.m. Hymn: 175 SOLEMN EVENSONG, SERMON and BENEDICTION at 6.00 p.m. Gospel: Matthew 20: 20 - 28 Preacher: The Vicar Monday to Friday Morning Prayer at 7.30 a.m. At the Procession to the Font: Low Mass at 8.00 a.m., 1.10 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. Litany of the Resurrection Confessions from 12.30 - 1.00 p.m. and 5.30 p.m Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. (arr Kitchen) Anthem: Tout puissant/Seigneur, Saturday Morning Prayer at 7.30 a.m. je vous en prie — Poulenc Low Mass at 8.00 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.* (* First Mass of Sunday) Hymns: 225 (i), 295, 235 Confessions 5.30 p.m., Voluntary: Marche Héroique — Brewer Evening Prayer 6.00 p.m. Confessions are also heard by appointment Solemn Evensong 020 7636 1788 at 6.00 p.m. Instruction in the catholic faith as taught by the Church of England can be obtained on application to Psalm: 94 any of the priests, who will also give help in preparing Lessons: Jeremiah 26: 1 - 15 for the sacraments. Mark 1: 14 - 20 Office Hymn: 213 PARISH OFFICIALS Churchwardens: Canticles: Service in G (lower voices) Mr John Forde 020 7592 9855 — Sumsion Mr Christopher Self 020 8858 6370 Anthem: I will lift up mine eyes PCC Secretary: — Walker Dr Dilys Thomas 020 7794 3626 Preacher: The Vicar Hon Treasurer: Hymn: 216 (v 5 Descant — Caplin) Mr Patrick Hartley 020 7607 0060 Director of Music: SOLEMN BENEDICTION Mr Paul Brough 020 8655 3361 Associate Director of Music: O Salutaris: Bach (No 2) Mr Henry Parkes 01223 566942 Hymn: 224 (T 178) Honorary Assistant Organist: Tantum Ergo: Bach (No 2) Mr Norman Caplin 020 8989 3295 Voluntary: In dir ist Freude, Electoral Roll Officer: BWV 615 — Bach Miss Catherine Burling c/o 020 7636 1788

19 CALENDAR AND INTENTIONS FOR JULY 2010

1 Henry, John and Henry Venn Unity 2 Those in need 3 St Thomas the Apostle Christians in India 4 X THE 5th Sunday AFTER TRINITY OUR PARISH AND PEOPLE 5 Parochial Church Council 6 Thomas More, scholar and John Fisher, bishop The homeless 7 Our Deanery 8 v for Unity Christian Unity 9 Those in need 10 General Synod 11 X THE 6th SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY oUR PARISH AND PEOPLE 12 The unemployed 13 r Requiem (1.10 p.m.) The departed 14 John Keble, priest, poet Friends of All Saints 15 St Swithun Unity 16 St Osmund Those in need 17 Restoration Appeal Weekend 18 X THE 7th Sunday AFTER TRINITY oUR PARISH AND PEOPLE 19 St Gregory and his sister Macrina Teachers of the faith 20 Margaret of Antioch; Bartolome de la Casas Archbishop of Canterbury 21 v for Peace World Peace 22 St Mary Magdalene Unity 23 Bridget, abbess Those in need 24 v of Our Lady Walsingham 25 X ST JAMES THE APOSTLE OUR PARISH AND PEOPLE 26 Ss Anne and Joachim, parents of the BVM Parents and families 27 Brooke Foss Westcott The Armed Forces 28 The Emergency Services 29 Sts Mary, Martha and Lazarus Unity 30 William Wilberforce Those in need 31 St Ignatius of Loyola Spiritual Directors

Please note: All Friday Masses are ‘for those in need’ — intercessions from the board inside church are used on these days. r — Requiem — the monthly Requiem (1.10 p.m. this month) v — a Votive Mass

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