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Gloucester Cathedral News The Editorial Team consists of: Richard Cann, Sandie Conway, Pat Foster, Barrie Glover, Mission Statement: Stephen Lake, Christopher and Maureen Smith. ‘We aim to produce a Christian magazine which is widely accessible and which informs, involves and inspires its readers.’ Editor: Maureen Smith

Cathedral Chapter The next Editorial meeting is on Monday 12th September at 10.30am. Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake

Canons: Lay Canons: Nikki Arthy John Coates "We are happy to receive articles, handwritten or typed. We regret that, due to the limited space available, and to enable us to Dr Andrew Braddock Paul Mason continue to produce a lively, varied and informative magazine, we Jackie Searle Dame Janet Trotter can normally only accept articles of 400 words or less. Articles over Celia Thomson 400 words will only be accepted at the Editor’s discretion.

The Editor reserves the right to alter articles as necessary, without losing the general sense. Chief Operations Officer: Emily Shepherd

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Cover picture: Detail from the Henry III Coronation Window The deadline is the 5th September The Nave - Gloucester Cathedral

Photograph by: Richard Cann

See article about the window on page 6.

2 31 Sat 8 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm Cathedral Library Tours. CONTENTS

Wed 12 7.30pm Cathedral Conversations - Dame Janet Trotter - The Church in Contemporary Society. (See page Page Thu 13 12.30pm Organ Recital performed by Molly Patrick Buttars (Oundle Award Winner). Peace be with you David Runcorn 4 Admission free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music. Henry III Coronation Window Richard Cann 6

Fri 14 5.30pm Eucharist for Holy Cross Day. Three Choirs Festival Eucharist Sermon Rachel 8 Sat 15 11.00am Coffee Concert - Claire Deniz, Cello. Tickets £6, to include refreshments, available on the door. All ‘...One of Those Beastly Fruits proceeds go towards the work of the Cathedral of the System’! Maureen Smith 12 Choir.

Sat 22 7,30pm An Evening with Jane Austen. Bishop’s Chaplain David Gardiner 8

Sat 22 - 23 Greek Literature weekend. The Eleven ‘Lost’ Days Maureen Smith 10

Mon 25 - Sat 29 Coronation Crafts - Free Half-Term Family Fun. Around the Community 12 Wed 26 and Thu 27 6.15, 7pm and 7.45pm Pottering Around the Cathedral. Cathedral Book Club 13 Fri 28 7.00pm Henry III talk by Professor Richard Rastall.

Sat 29 7.30pm St Cecilia Singers Concert - ‘Crowning Glories’. King’s School Chaplaincy – Some of the Highlights of the Year John M. Webster 14

Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the Boy King's Coronation at Gloucester Cathedral 16 - 17

Gloucestershire Industry series: The Founding of the George Marchant 18

Jottings from the West End Humph ’n Harry 20

Diary of special services and events

Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 September special services and events:

Thu 1 - Mon 5 Tower lit gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Thu 1 10.00am Study Day - The Benedictines - How They Lived, Worked and Worshipped.

Sat 3 10am - 5pm Model Funfair Exhibition in the Cloisters.

Sat 3 4.30pm Evensong and Installation of Richard Mitchell - Director of Congregational Development and Precentor. Come along and welcome Canon Richard to Gloucester Cathedral.

Sat 3 - Sun 4 Latin Course - Ancient Rome a History.

Sat 10 Royal Parade and Re-enactment of the Coronation of Henry III. Peace be with you Fri 15 7.00pm Fundraising concert performed by the Gloucester

Old Choristers Association, Cathedral Choir and ‘We pray for peace in the world’. Youth Choir. Admission free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music. Is any prayer prayed with more frequency and longing Sunday by Sunday? But in the face of the continued violence and suffering that Sat 16 11.00am Coffee Concert - Kapsetakis Piano Duo. Tickets £6, is the experience of millions on this planet these words quickly feel to include refreshments. empty and powerless to change much. All proceeds go towards the work of the Cathedral Choir. In the bible ‘Shalom’ (peace) is concerned with all levels of human Tue 20 6.30pm and 8pm - Henry III Lecture Series. (See page 16). relating, including relationships within societies and nations. But, when we try and imagine what the peace of God must be like, we Wed 21 5.30pm Evensong on behalf of people with Dementia and tend to start from our best and most personal experiences of earthly their Carers. peace. Surely it must be like that - only much deeper and more 7.30pm Celebratory Organ Recital by Adrian Partington. (See page ). lasting? But that is precisely what Jesus says it is not. He said, ‘My peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives. Do not let your Thu 22 6.30pm and 8pm - Henry III Lecture Series. hearts be troubled’. (Jn 14:27). Fri 30 7.00pm Medieval Banquet.

So when we pray for peace what are we asking for and what might it October looking ahead……. ask of us? Sat 1 3.00pm Primrose Piano Quartet - Gloucester Choral Society Not only was Jesus’s peace not like the peace of the world, he was Concert. very often a peace breaker. The peace of Christ is disturbing at Sun 2 3.00pm County Harvest Thanksgiving Service. times. His presence led to furious conflict. He himself said, ‘I have All are welcome to give thanks for the gift of not come to bring peace but the sword’. (Matt 10:34). The Prince of God's creations. Peace must confront and judge all our attempts at living in peace. It This service replaces Choral Evensong.

4 29 seems that the peace of God can only be received after the peace of An Evening with the world has been shattered and exposed as false. So the peace of Jane Austen God is to be found in the midst of trouble not an absence of it. But this is very good news in a world like ours. For if peace is only Saturday 22 October, 7.30pm available where there is no conflict, then only the privileged few who can afford to live there will ever enjoy it.

Enjoy a candlelit soiree in the company We must be very careful assuming where God is or is not to be found of some of Jane Austen’s most in this world - whose side he is on and how much he shares my sense memorable characters. Adrian Lukis, of what is important. In a complex world the issues are so easily who played the duplicitous Mr Wickham in the BBC production of • oversimplified. Western attempts at making (or enforcing) peace in Pride and Prejudice, and Caroline Langrishe (Lovejoy and Peak the world in recent history have been disastrous. Our values are Practice) perform a series of duologues from some of Jane uncritically assumed to be ‘good’ for everyone. Our ‘enemies’ are Austen’s most-loved novels, accompanied by live Regency-era all bad and evil. We have been blind to when self-interest has driven music. our actions.

Praying for peace requires a willingness to feel the pain of others. Meet the performers at a VIP reception in the Chapter House at 7.00pm ‘Blessed are those who mourn’, said Jesus (Matt 5:4). Tears have an important place in the Christian prayer. They express a participation

Tickets: VIP £50, Standard £25 available from 0845 652 1823, and divine discontentment with the way life is for too many. Cathedral Gift Shop or www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk Praying for peace must include careful listening and research. Hurt people do not fight fairly - even Christians. We too distort issues in our favour. We misrepresent our ‘enemy’s’ case and motives. We must take great care over the words we pray with. Crowning Glories There can be no peace without actual meeting with those we are St Cecilia Singers Concert divided from. Praying for peace means not only seeking God but requires us to generously and imaginatively enter the world of our Gloucester Cathedral ‘enemies’. We must pray with understanding. Peace-making is Saturday 29 October 7.00pm prayer in action.

Gloucester’s premier chamber choir will present a concert of selected At the end of Christian worship we are often sent out with the words choral music that has featured at the coronation of various English Monarchs including favourites such as ‘Zadok the Priest’ and ‘I was ‘Go in peace’. We are not being urged to leave ‘feeling peaceful’. glad’. There will also be an organ performance of William Walton’s We are being invited to enter somewhere - to go into shalom. That great Crown Imperial. Come and enjoy a feast of English coronation is what it means. In a troubled and divided world go into the place music from across the centuries! where Christ’s reigning love is found in the midst of it all, making possible new ways of living together, overcoming divisions, building

Tickets £15 available from 0845 652 1823, Cathedral Gift Shop or trust, and guiding our ways into his peace of his Kingdom.

www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk David Runcorn.

28 5 Many people have asked us to publish the sermon Bishop Rachel Mr. H. will miss going to the EU as General Secretary of the preached at the Three Choirs Festival Eucharist on Sunday 24th July. International Union of Rodent and Vermin Operatives, especially the We are delighted to do so below: Belgian chocolates, the interesting sausages and the chips with everything. It’s all change from now on, so we are re-reading the Benedictine Rule, which has a great deal to off in trying times. It controlled our lives in the past, even if Mr. H. was in constant Three Choirs Festival trouble of one kind or another. The monks were extraordinary! Eucharist Sermon Colossians 3: 12-17 and Luke 11:1-13 We are awaiting our new Precentor and we hope that he and his family will be very happy with us. If you think it’s a bit warm in here, or if you start thinking that the service is quite long, I We were deeply saddened by the death of Anne , a dear and suspect you’ve never worshipped in a church in brave lady, and we send our condolences to Eric and to her family. Africa. Four Sundays ago I had the privilege of being in Tanzania for the 50th anniversary of our partner diocese of Western Tanganyika. We welcome Rosie, the new addition to the Smith family and a The main celebratory event on the Sunday was held outside - About companion for Shandy, Maureen and Chris. We look forward to 6000 people in the searing heat with very little shade and it lasted meeting her very soon. over four hours - and partly that was due to so many different choirs - certainly more than three - dancing and singing with energy and Waves all round and Salutations to everybody. God for Harry, passion - and if you’ve ever experienced it you will no doubt have England and Saint George. Rule Britannia and Up the Corbels. been inspired by the vibrancy and distinctive harmony. All the best to one and all! Henry III here we come! Harmony: Did you notice that word in our first reading from Paul’s letter to the Colossians - “Clothe yourselves with love which binds Humph ’n Harry everything together in perfect harmony” (Colossians 3:14)? (with thanks to Sylvia Coppen-Gardner for deciphering Mr. H’s handwriting). Here we are on the opening weekend of this Three Choirs Festival and over the coming days there will be superb music and much harmony…

Yet we are so very aware of so much disharmony in our world…

Did you also notice in our first reading those words of peace: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts...” And don’t we long that peace would rule in people’s hearts?

We only have to look at our world’s brokenness and pain and we can recognise that people have actively chosen not to clothe themselves with compassion, kindness, humility and patience…

6 27 Jottings from the West End And perhaps this week many will come to this festival to escape the horrors of the world. They will come here to enjoy the beautiful Greetings from us Corbels Humph ’n Harry music, this splendid cathedral and the wonderful festival experience. After all, this could be a place to try and bury fear and Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho,, it’s off to work we go, even if we didn’t have anxiety - a place to get caught up in the noise of the music and to a holiday. According to Humph’s calendar “Life is short. Smile while block out so much of the noise of disharmony of our world. you still have teeth”, so he’s smiling for England. Mr. H. has been dispatched to the dentist and being dentally challenged is And yet this week’s music was written by composers immersed in justifiably nervous! the hopes and fears of their daily lives and the world around them. Just one tiny example is Tuesday’s performance of Vaughan Williams It’s been a funny old time and Humph had to make a quick dash to Dona nobis pacem written in 1936 and making a plea for peace the allotment to save the radishes and he does like a good radish. during the growing fears of another war. Mr. H. stayed at home and dealt with the emails. He had a nice tray of faggots, as one does, and made a mound of peppermint ice and So whilst I hope that this week will offer people a place of joy and had an evening at “The Pelican” catching up on the news. delight, I hope it won’t be a place of escapism. But I do hope and pray it will be a place of deep connection and relationship amidst The Festival was a triumph, with a stream of friends old and new the joy and pain of life. from near and far and we provided a constant flow of “refreshment” and “facilities”. The Festival Pigeon Chorus made a Those beautiful words from St Paul’s letter to the Colossian church, sparkling contribution in which Classic FM was seriously interested talked about followers of Christ clothing ourselves with compassion, and there is talk of the Triangle Band being under consideration for kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. I wonder how well we a future Prom. Mr. H. and his harmonium are supposedly on track have lived that this week? Clothing ourselves is not about covering for the Last Night, so watch this space. up what we really think and feel and presenting a fake exterior (usually, we can’t keep that up for very long) - This is about that The Festival Village was of huge interest and Ulf, our neighbouring place deep within us which changes who we are outwardly. beast head, had high hopes for a nice little job in the Champagne Bar. He does love those bubbles - “so much nicer than mead”! Harmony and peace are not external forces that descend upon us. Sadly, his services were declined, but he managed to find another Harmony and peace begin in a place of connection and relationship - source of employment to his amazement and to that of everyone and it begins deep within each of us. Or rather, it begins with us else as I/C Dustbins. All his leftover sandwiches (coronation beginning with God - Indeed, beginning with the love of God: chicken, cheese and bacon etc…), entrance to the Beer Tent (good company, crisps and real ale) and an enviable position on top of the Jesus said to his disciples, when you pray say ‘Father, hallowed be bins growling at the gulls and wearing his war gear and roaring your name.’ And straightaway we have this glorious paradox: A rude, derogatory and very unseemly remarks at anyone with ill relationship with God which is both intimate and at the same time intent in College Green. The gulls were terrified and he said that it totally other: There is that intimate relationship as of that with a was just like the old days. Humph, as a precaution, and confiscated perfect parent – deep love, compassion, mercy; And yet that very his blood-axe, but he was so excited by the whole week that he put close relationship is interwoven with a relationship with our God his name down for 2019. who is beyond comprehension - totally other - holy and glorious.

26 7 And it is from that place of extraordinary relationship deep within us that we cry out to God amidst both the beauty and brokenness of Cathedral Study Day our lives and our world. We long for that day when God’s kingdom will be fully present on earth as in heaven - no more horror, no more The Benedictines - How They Lived, massacres, no more pain, no more tears, no more death - God and Worked and Worshipped Thursday 1 September, 10.00am - 3.45pm God’s people in perfect relationship. Perfect harmony and peace. ********************* And until that day when God’s kingdom is fully present, we are Tickets £31.50 (includes coffee on arrival and lunch in the historic persistent in our prayer - persistent in our desire to see yet more of Parliament Room, rarely open to the public) available from 0845 652 God’s transformation in people’s lives in the places around us and 1823, Cathedral Gift Shop or www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk far away - But we also know that we must be part of the answer to that prayer. Every time we pray for peace and harmony we put ourselves in the frame. Celebratory Evening Organ Recitals

A couple of years ago when I was in London, there was a fabulous To celebrate the 350th anniversary of the building of the initiative by a church in West Hackney. The church had built Cathedral’s organ case, Cathedral organists, past and present, significant relationships with people in the wider community and will perform the chorale-fantasias of Max Reger (1873-1916) in there was a recognition of the importance of relationship and a the centenary year of his death desire to create encounter between a diverse group of people - and Wednesday 21st September - 7.30pm a talented Christian musician had the vision to do this through Adrian Partington music: The ‘Can’t-ignore-us-chorus’ was formed. It brought together a diverse group of people, many of whom did not feel valued or ******** loved and struggled with relationship: clients from a homeless Wednesday 19th October - 7.30pm Ashley Grote project; members of Narcotics Anonymous; a project working with vulnerable women. And then there were members of an over 50s Admission Free with retiring collection in aid of Cathedral Music. dance group; an organic gardening project and all sorts of other members of the church congregation. The choir met in the church.

It was merry chaos and deeply inspiring - and it was a place of hope.

At the heart of the music stood relationship and imagining a LANGUAGE COURSES AT THE CATHEDRAL different way of being together. And it was rooted in relationship with Jesus Christ in the hearts of those who initiated it, held it and Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th September 10.00am - 4.30pm prayed for it. Ancient Rome: a history ** In a little while those of us gathered here will share the peace of Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November, 10.00am - 4.30pm Christ. We will acknowledge that we are created to live in Women in the Aeneid relationship with one another, and that our connectedness is rooted Details from: www.lingua.co.uk/latin, in our relationship with Jesus Christ. [email protected] or call 01452 731113

8 25 then moved to a small workshop in Grosvenor Place At the start of this new week ,as we stretch out our hands to receive South and concentrated on keeping his head above water. However, the bread and the wine, we are saying ‘yes’ to the good things God in 1934, he received significant orders for components for the longs to give us. We are saying yes to God’s grace and love. biplane and the Bristol Bulldog fighter. Expansion followed, and in 1935-6 Dowty purchased Arle Court, a mansion that In this week of the Three Choirs Festival, whether we will be became his home and an estate that became his industrial enjoying the magnificent music or whether our lives take us in a headquarters. World War Two brought masses of orders to Dowty different direction, may we not flee from the stuff of everyday life Equipment Limited, as the firm was now retitled. Thousands of or from things in our world which create uncertainty or fear; But undercarriages and other hydraulic units were fitted to Hurricanes, rather, amidst all the many experiences of our week, may we be Lancasters and other famous . open to encounter God’s love in the deep places within us so that we are clothed outwardly in a way which can be transforming to the After the war, the company continued its aircraft component people and places around us. interests and also expanded its expertise in hydraulic engineering into other fields, such as mining. This led to the formation of As we receive God’s love within, may we be clothed with love, subsidiary companies, operating within the overall structure of the which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And may the Dowty Group Limited. peace of Christ rule in our hearts... AMEN.

George Marchant. Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Glouce Main Sources: The Dowty Story by LTC Rolt (Two volumes). Available in the Library at Archives (Ref. GAL E4). ************************************************** Dowty Silver Jubilee 1931-1956, pictorial history published by the Dowty Group (Gloucestershire Archives Ref. JF 13.109 GS) Prayer of St Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; Cathedral Conversations where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; Wednesday 12 October 12.30pm where there is despair, hope;

Dame Janet Trotter: where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. The Church in Contemporary Society O Divine Master, Dame Janet is Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. This role gives grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled her a broad perspective on the concerns and opportunities facing as to console; our county and the part that the church, alongside other to be understood, as to understand; communities, can play in creating a better society for all. to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, Dame Janet is a former vice-chancellor of the University of it is in pardoning that we are pardoned Gloucestershire and a member of the Chapter of Gloucester and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Cathedral. Amen.

24 9 Theodore of Tarsus

Theodore was born in Tarsus in Cilicia in 602, and was of Byzantine Greek descent. At some time before the 660s, he travelled to Rome, where he joined a community of Eastern monks, probably at the monastery of St. Anastasius. At this time, in addition to his already profound Greek intellectual inheritance, he became learned in Latin literature, both sacred and secular.

In 664 The Synod of Whitby confirmed the decision that the Anglo- Saxon Church should follow Rome, and when, in 667, the see of Gloucestershire Industry series: Canterbury fell vacant Theodore was chosen to fill the post. He was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in Rome on 26 March 668, and The Founding of the Dowty Group sent to England with Hadrian, arriving on 27 May 669.

Theodore conducted a survey of the English church, appointed Recent media reports tell us that the Dowty Group name may soon various to sees that had lain vacant for some time. He then be lost and replaced by that of the current owners . As the called the Synod of Hertford (673) to institute reforms concerning great name fades, it is worth reflecting on the small-scale way in the proper celebration of Easter, episcopal authority, itinerant which it began. What is the story behind the plaque at 10 Lansdown monks, the regular convening of subsequent synods, marriage and Terrace Lane, : ‘Here, in 1931, Sir George Dowty started prohibitions of consanguinity, and other matters. his aircraft component business?’

Theodore and Hadrian established a school in Canterbury, providing George Dowty was an aircraft draughtsman with Gloster Aircraft instruction in both Greek and Latin, resulting in a "golden age" of Company when he produced an innovative idea for a new design of Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Theodore also taught sacred music, landing wheel. No one could be found to finance it, but he introduced various texts and knowledge of Eastern saints. He may publicised it in the technical press and received an order for six even have been responsible for the introduction of the Litany of the wheels from Japan. Determined to meet this, he set up his own one- Saints, a major liturgical innovation, into the West. man company, Aircraft Components Limited, and rented a loft in Lansdown Terrace Lane for two shillings and sixpence per week. Pupils from the school at Canterbury were sent out to be Here he assembled the wheels, with the aid of the company’s first Benedictine abbots in southern England where they disseminated machine tool, a pillar drill costing around fifty shillings. Dowty the curriculum of Theodore. wrote that he could not afford fire insurance for the loft, even though the floor below was occupied by a wheelwright and covered Theodore died in 690 at the remarkable age of 88, having held the in wood shavings and next door was a garage that stored petrol. archbishopric for twenty-two years, and was buried in Canterbury at Parts for the wheels were machined by local friends of George Saint Peter's church. He is best known for his reform of the English Dowty, working in garages or back-garden workshops. Despite this Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury. His Feast Day shoestring operation, a packing case containing the completed falls on September 19th. wheels left Cheltenham by rail on 21st September 1931. Richard Cann. 10 23 The Eleven ‘Lost’ Days in September

In September 1752, eleven days were ‘lost’ for ever in Britain. Happily this was not caused by some devilish act, but by an Act of Parliament, namely the “Calendar Act” of 1751 - An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use.

Prior to 1751, Britain had used the Julian calendar, introduced in 46 B.C by Julius Caesar. This, however, had an inbuilt error of one day every 128 years, due to a miscalculation of the solar year by 11 minutes. This affected the date of Easter, traditionally observed on Centenary of First World War series: March 21, as it yearly moved further away from the spring equinox.

The Battle of Jutland To correct this, Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar in 1582, later known as the Gregorian Calendar. However, whilst Jacky Cornwall VC and the White Ensign in the north transept. Catholic countries readily accepted it, European Protestants did not, fearing it was a popish plot to destroy them. So, until 1752, Easter Almost all the visitors who come into the Cathedral and wander and other holy days had been celebrated at different times by those around ask the guides “What is the flag in the north transept for?” using the Gregorian calendar and those using the Julian one. The response is a variation on the following: The change posed some difficulties. Firstly, the year 1751 had to be “A young lad named Jacky Cornwall was a teenager on HMS Chester shortened to 282 days, running from 25th March (New Year in the in the First World War and, at the awful battle of Jutland in the Julian calendar) to 31st December. 1752 then began on 1 January. North Sea, he stayed at his post under continuous fire, until he was Secondly, aligning the English and European calendars meant losing killed.” eleven days. Thus, Wednesday 2nd September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14th. Many people were suspicious of the new ‘popish’ A new book by Richard Osborne describes how “Boy First Class Jack calendar, and the subsequent moving of saints and holy days; others Cornwall was a sight-setter and communications number at one of believed they would lose eleven days lives of their lives. However, Chester’s 5.5” guns, and, despite receiving a mortal wound, stories that this caused angry riots are now believed to be untrue. remained at his post adjusting sights and passing orders until, with the last of the gun’s crew killed or injured, his weapon fell silent. Maureen Smith. During a lull in the fighting, he was found standing erect at his post Sources: Various. awaiting orders despite the severity of his wound. His courage and Editor’s note: Since the 1751 Act, other reforms to the calendar determination were recognised by the award of a posthumous have been put forward. In the 1840s, philosopher Auguste Comte Victoria Cross.” He is still the youngest person to have done so. suggested that the 365th day of each year be designated as a holiday and not a day of the week. This genereric ‘Year Day’ would Barrie Glover. allow January 1 to fall on a Sunday every year. Needless to say, this Copyright: Richard Osborne, Pen & Sword 2016. clever solution was not widely embraced!

22 11 The Henry III staff donated more than 210 kilograms of food for the Gloucester Food Bank. There was a Memorial Service in the Cathedral for Derek Coronation window James, the oldest former pupil of the school. Derek was the President of the Former Pupils’ Society, GKSS, and also a former When the Dean and Chapter King’s School parent and much involved in the life of the Cathedral. initiated a major restoration Canon Stephen Bowen gave the address at our End of Lent Term programme for the windows in Service. the nave, no overall scheme was put in place that required a In April, we celebrated the work of William Shakespeare on the 400 th donor to conform to a specific anniversary of his death and the 475th anniversary of the founding of plan. Each donor was, therefore, the school. In June, I gave a talk at the Sixth Form Conference on allowed to choose the subject for the Future of Religion. Canon Celia presided at the Leavers’ their individual window. Eucharist and Revd Daniel Button gave a memorable talk at the End of Year Service. The window illustrating the Coronation of the young boy I am very grateful to all the pupils and staff who contributed to the Henry III was donated by Sir services and assemblies during the year and would like to pay William Guise. The maker is special tribute to David Evans who is retiring as Deputy Head Clayton and Bell and the year is Academic. He has done a huge amount for our assemblies and 1860. special services in his many years at King’s. Finally, I would like to thank all those at the Cathedral who do so much on behalf of the There are 17 coats of arms in the school. window, all of which are John M. Webster. identified, but the main lights School Chaplain depict the coronation itself. There are three main lights. The left hand light depicts Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and other nobles. The central light shows the seated King Henry with, on the left, Gualo, the Papal Legate and, on the right, Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester. Over the king’s head they are both holding a chaplet.

In Latin under this light is the inscription – Henricus Rex in Ecclesia Gloucestrie Coronatus.

The right hand light shows Joceline, Bishop of Bath with other nobles. At the time that the inventory on all the stained glass was carried out, this window showed deterioration in various parts. However, at the time of the completion of the inventory, it had been very successfully restored. Richard Cann.

12 21 ‘...One of Those Beastly Fruits of the System’!

With the Three Choirs Festival still very fresh in our minds, the GCN Team thought readers might find the following item amusing. I hasten to assure everyone, however, that this is no way reflects the Team’s view of the Festival which was, as usual, utterly magnificent.

On 12th September 1826, William Cobbett arrived at Gloucester, having travelled for 25 miles, hoping to spend the night in the city. King’s School Chaplaincy Report – Unfortunately, he had arrived during the Three Choirs Festival. Clearly, he was unimpressed! Some of the Highlights of the Year He subsequently wrote of his experience as follows: Revd Daniel Button presided at our Service for New Pupils and Parents in September and the Dean gave the talk at our Beginning of ‘when I came to Gloucester, I found that I should run the risk of Year Service. Following a welcome and introduction by the Dean, having no bed if I did not bow very low and pay very high, for what Imam Hassan from the Masjid-E-Noor Mosque spoke in Chapel about should there be here but one of those scandalous and beastly fruits his work and met with some of the pupils and staff afterwards. The of the system called a “Music Meeting”! School had a very successful ISI Inspection which coincided with the Rugby World Cup! The Inspectors recognised the importance of the Those who founded the Cathedrals never dreamed, I dare say, that Cathedral in the pupils’ spiritual development. Our Heritage/Prayer they would be put to such uses as this! They are on these occasions Walk took place on a beautiful afternoon and once again brought made use of as Opera Houses; and I am told that the money that is together people from different parts of the school. The Junior collected goes, in one shape or another, to the clergy of the church. School Harvest Service took place at St Mary de Lode Church for the or their widows, or their children or something. first time and was a lovely occasion and we appreciated the warm These assemblages of player folks, and half fools, began with the welcome from Canon Nikki. small paper money and with it they will go. They are amongst the

profligate pranks which idleness plays when fed by the sweat of a Our speaker at the Remembrance Service was Revd Canon Richard starving people. Atkins from BBC Radio Gloucestershire; he made reference to his work as an RAF and Royal British Legion Chaplain. Revd Philippa From this scene of prostitution and pocket-picking’ I moved off with Donald, a former King’s School parent, presided at our Advent all convenient speed, but not before the ostler made me pay 9d for Eucharist. The Carol Services were once again a real highlight of the letting my horse stand for about ten minutes, and not before he had year and more than £3000 went to support the work of various begun to abuse me for declining, though in a very polite manner, to charities. make him a present in addition to the 9d. How he ended I do not know; for I soon set the shoes of my horse to answer him.’ Many people attended the Junior School Candlemas Service and Maureen Smith. greatly enjoyed the many special features of the service (Canon Andrew Braddock presided). Bishop Rachel presided at the Ash Source: William Cobbett. Rural Rides 1830. Wednesday Eucharist – a wonderful and historic occasion. Pupils and

20 13 Cathedral Newcomer Cathedral Book Club - Profile September 2016 – February 2017

David Gardiner - The Book Club meets on the 3rd Monday of the month (usually) at 3 Miller’s Green from 2 pm – 3 pm. All are welcome. Bishop’s Chaplain SEPTEMBER 2016 Book: The Road to Wigan Pier. George Orwell. I was born in Troon, South Ayrshire, in 1981, and moved to Monday 19th September** 2 pm 3 Miller’s Green. the Forest of Dean in 1992. My David pictured with his wife Sarah. education in England was at OCTOBER 2016 Book: Kolymski Heights . Photo by Chris Smith. Tutshill Lionel Davidson.

Primary School and Wyedean Monday 17th October 2 pm 3 Miller’s Green. Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre, with a focus on English and Drama, which I went on to study at university. It was while studying for my degree at St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, NOVEMBER 2016 Book: The Universe in your Hand. Christopher Galford. that I met Sarah, who would later become my wife. She was th studying theology, and says I stole her subject! I first felt called to Monday 16 November 2 pm 3 Miller’s Green. ministry at a youth concert when I was about 12, and again at my DECEMBER 2016 Book: Birds, Beasts and Relatives confirmation aged 18, but it wasn’t until I did terribly at a PGCE Gerald Durrell. that I decided to give up fighting against God. th Monday 19 December 2 pm 3 Miller’s Green. During the next year, I held a couple of jobs as learning support worker, IT support, and playground supervisor at my old primary JANUARY 2017 Book: Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the school in Tutshill, alongside a role as a supermarket stock controller Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll. in Chepstow. According to a report by PeoplePerHour in 2014, th Teaching is the fourth-largest employer in the UK (610k), and retail Monday 16 January 2 pm 3 Miller’s Green. is the biggest (2.7m), with nearly a million employed by the big four supermarkets alone. In short, this was an important phase in my FEBRUARY 2017 Book: The Penguin Lessons vocation, as I was experiencing the kinds of work and life that most Tom Mitchell. people in this country live – including the somewhat fractured th experience of multiple part-time jobs. Monday 20 February 2 pm 3 Miller’s Green.

As part of my vocational exploration, I was encouraged to stretch All these titles have been suggested by members of the Book Club. myself by experiencing a different tradition within the Church of England, and ended up working for an academic year in the ‘modern catholic’ Anglican parish of St Matthew’s, Westminster. Incense and vestments and ‘masses,’ oh my!

14 19 Welcome! I then had the amazing experience of training in , the Around the We extend a very warm welcome to Canon university that houses what is arguably the world’s premier theology Community Richard Mitchell and his family. Canon department, while based at Wesctott House. I should say that I Richard will be installed as Director of don’t have a ‘proper’ Cambridge degree: although some of the Congregational Development and Precentor Batchelor of Theology for Ministry (BTh) classes were by the at a special Evensong on Saturday 3rd University Divinity faculty, and the degree is assessed by the University, it is partially delivered by the various theological September at 4.30pm. colleges in the ecumenical Cambridge Theological Federation. It also ************************************************** doesn’t magically convert into a Master’s degree a few years later! In Memoriam: I was ordained to serve as in North Cheltenham in 2008, We were saddened to hear of the recent death of Anne London and where I was trained by the excellent Revd Canon Michael Cozens, we extend our deepest sympathy to her husband Eric and all their who is now my Spiritual Director. I also hugely valued my family. experiences in youth work with Andy Macauly (now of The Rock, Cheltenham), as an actor in the Prestbury Passion Play, directed by We were also saddened to hear of the recent death of John Wathern Daphne Philpot, and was nourished by being a part of the Bible and we extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Jane and all their Study group that sprang up because of the wonderful people who family. came to me and asked for a Bible Study Group! ************************************************** Appointment of new Head Steward: From 2012 I was Team Vicar in the Richmond Team Ministry in south- By the time you read this, I will have west London, where I stole Daphne’s passion play idea and caused been Head Steward for about 4 weeks. the local Churches Together group to put on the first Good Friday The Dean asked me to take on the role passion plays in Richmond in living memory. Initially worried about following Chris Stretton’s retirement insufficient advertising and potentially small audiences, we immediately after Three Choirs Festival attracted a crowd of some two thousand the first year, and grew after he had completed 5 years in post. I that the next! wish to record my thanks to Chris for all he has done and for the many hours he There are few things which could lure me away from my work in has devoted to the Cathedral as Head Richmond, but when your wife and various friends around the Steward. We hope there will be an country are all pointing out the same job advert and saying ‘you opportunity to thank Chris publicly, should be thinking hard about this,’ it takes a particular brand of following the 10:15am service on 11th September. stubbornness not to listen. So here I am. I try to swim every day, will go to the cinema to see almost any film, and love stargazing, I feel very privileged to have been asked to take on this role and camping, and table-top games. was somewhat overwhelmed by the number of people who attended my commissioning during the final Three Choirs Festival choral David Gardiner. th Evensong on 29 July. I am aware that people both from our own congregation and from the Festival community were there especially to support me, for which I am very grateful. Thank you also to all those who have offered me words of support and encouragement, as

I start on this new chapter of my life in the Cathedral.

Colin Eddy. 18 15 Celebrating the 800th Friday 30 September 7.00pm – 11.00pm Anniversary of Henry III’s Medieval Banquet Come and experience the majesty of a medieval banquet in the beautiful Coronation at Gloucester Cathedral Nave. Enjoy a welcome drink followed by a bountiful medieval Cathedral feast. Let costumed musicians, medieval ladies, and knights transport you back in time with music, dancing, storytelling and even table side combat! Celebrations will take place over three months, Audience participation is encouraged so do come along in costume if you wish and have a truly entertaining evening. from August-October 2016 and will include the following: Tickets £50 available from 0845 652 1823, Cathedral Gift Shop or from gloucestercathedral.org.uk Discounts are available for larger group Saturday 10 September bookings. Please contact Laura Neale on 01452 874965 for further Heritage Open Day 2016 information or to discuss a large booking, or to pre-order table wine. ‘Royal Parade’ and re-enactment of the Coronation of King Henry III with a Medieval Market and Festival events. Friday 28th October 7.00pm Follow the young prince and members of the nobility through the city What happened at Henry III's Coronation at Gloucester in 1216? streets to the Cathedral, where the moment of coronation and Organised by Friends of Gloucester Cathedral, Professor Richard Rastall, enthronement will be re-enacted in a full ceremony in the Nave. Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at The University of Leeds, will discuss what might have happened on this day 800 years ago. ***************************************************************

Henry III Lecture Series at Gloucester Cathedral Saturday 29 October 7.00pm Spread across two evenings these lectures will take aspects of the story of Crowning Glories - St Cecilia Singers Henry and his coronation and explore deeper. A display of items from the A concert of selected choral music that has featured at the Cathedral Library and Archive will be set out on both evenings. coronation of various English Monarchs. Tuesday 20 September

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Henry III: Power & Intrigue 8.00pm 'Gloucester 1216: How the Italians Rescued Magna Carta' Marc Morris by Professor Nick Vincent. Sunday 11 September 2.30pm - 3.30pm ************************* Henry III and the First Journalist: Matthew Paris - Janina Ramirez Thursday 22 September ********************************************************************************** 6.30pm 'Magna Carta 1216: Its political and social context' Exhibition at the by Professor David Carpenter. Saturday 10 September 2016 – Friday 27 January 2017 Henry III: Good King or Bad Ruler? 8.00pm 'A loving husband, father and brother: King Henry III www.gloucester.gov.uk/museums and his women' ********************************************************************************** by Professor Louise Wilkinson. For more information about any of the Henry III events,

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