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MISSION A community seeking to live well with God, gathered around Jesus Christ in prayer and fellowship, and committed to welcome, worship and witness.

The Church Office , Skipton BD23 6AL 01756 710238 [email protected] The The Rectory, Bolton Abbey, Skipton BD23 [email protected] Website www.boltonpriory.church

The Tower of Bolton Priory is open for private prayer from 09.00 to 17.00 every day. Everyone is most welcome to come and say a prayer and light a candle. Access is restricted to the Tower, and we ask that no more than one individual or family group enters at one time. At the Sunday 10.30 Morning Service, attendance is limited. Please telephone 01756 710238 if you would like to attend. WEDDINGS and FUNERALS : By arrangement via the Church Office.

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Issue Number 476 NOTE FROM THE RETIRING WARDEN TO THE PCC November 2020 There are far fewer opportunities these days to communicate From Revd Nicholas Mercer amongst ourselves, so I thought I would take this opportunity to explain to the PCC the background to my recent resignation as November is the month of Remembrance: Churchwarden for Bolton Priory. On the first Sunday we remember our Saints on All Saints Day as well Many people will remember that back in April 2019, I told the PCC as those who have departed this life on the feast of All Souls. This is that I would like to stand down, having served for eight years and followed by Remembrance Sunday when we remember those who through two interregna. However, I felt that I should continue for died in two World Wars and conflicts that have sadly blighted our one more year, in order to provide continuity as Nicholas settled country ever since. himself in as our new Rector. I therefore fully expected to be able to stand aside at the APCM in April 2020. My own family is probably similar to many others both in this As we know, that APCM could not take place, and so I found myself, and around the country. My Grandfather joined a Yorkshire Infantry somewhat involuntarily, serving my tenth year as Churchwarden! I Regiment to fight against Germany in 1914. He was just eighteen could have waited until a postponed APCM, currently scheduled for years old and responded to the call to arms after the violation of November, but we are all aware that public gatherings in these times Belgium neutrality agreed in the Treaty of London 1839. Along with are very much hostages to fortune. Submitting my resignation at this other members of my family from Leeds and Hull, all those of fighting time allowed me to take control of events, as well as allowing others age responded to a similar call to arms in 1939 when Germany again to step into that role in my place. In that context, I would like to wish violated International Law by invading Poland. As the former Rector Susan Barker all the best as our acting Churchwarden. of the Falkland Islands, I was daily aware of the just basis for the Writing to you also gives me the opportunity to place on record my grateful thanks to Matt Hey. Matt and I have been Churchwardens Falklands War after the Argentinian invasion in 1982. together for over nine years, have seen a great deal, and been This country should be proud of standing up for International Law through many trials, tribulations and successes together. Clearly we throughout the past century and rightly honour those who have are very different people, but, as the ‘Ying and Yang’ of Bolton sacrificed their lives in defence of freedom. We honour them on Priory, have complemented each other’s skills perfectly and have Remembrance Sunday. However, as the Archbishops and Bishops been, I believe, an extremely effective team together. Many thanks, have rightly pointed out in their recent letter to the Government ‘If Matt, for all your friendship and support. laws can [now] be ‘legally’ broken, on what foundations does our My resignation does not mean that I am disappearing from the democracy stand?’ Priory scene. I am the final link in the weekly chain that produces our online services, and I continue to run the website and the Facebook As we stand and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice page. As and whenever possible, I will still be singing in the choir, this month on Remembrance Sunday perhaps it would be worth and as soon as we can restart the programme, I will again be remembering, at the same time, what they made their sacrifice for. responsible for Priory concerts. As one door closes, another opens... Many thanks to you all. Nicholas Paul Middleton

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THE PRIORY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBORETUM This will now take place at 12 noon on Sunday 22 November in Bolton We recently visited the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Abbey Village Hall. Staffordshire. It first opened to the public in 2001 as the UK’s year- There are vacancies for two Churchwardens, elected annually, four round centre for Remembrance. It contains more than 370 memorials Deanery Synod representatives and five vacancies for the PCC. Sandra for military and civilian organisations and associations, together with Stubbs, the PCC Secretary, will be in the Tower on 08, 15, and 22 tributes to individuals. November with the appropriate forms for anyone who wishes to fill We were surprised by the sheer size of the site. It encompasses over one of these posts. Proposers and seconders will also need to sign the 150 acres of formal gardens, wildflower meadows and maturing forms. woodland. Whilst it is still a young arboretum, 30,000 trees have been Please come equipped with your own pen. planted, including all of the British native species as well as a number Sandra will be able to answer any queries on those dates and can also of specimen and foreign varieties which have been symbolically be contacted on 01943 463332 if you need any further information. chosen to represent the stories they tell. The accounts and AGM documents will also be available for collection There were several connections to Yorkshire, including monuments to on those Sundays. These reports can also be found online the Green Howards and The Prince www.boltonpriory.church or by emailing the Church Office of Wales’ Own Regiment of [email protected] . Alternatively you can send an A4 self Yorkshire. addressed envelope with a stamp to the value of £1.15. If you wish to be included on the Electoral Roll before the AGM, which enables you to vote and attend the meeting, please contact: Rosemarie Fisher the Electoral Roll Officer, 01943 607486 or [email protected] as soon as possible. She can then post or email you the form to complete and return. The roll will be closed for any changes or additions by close of business on Sunday, 08 November. THE PARISH OFFICE The Parish Administrator, Margaret Cody, is now working from the Parish Office and no longer from her home. Therefore the office telephone number is 01756 710238. The email remains the same. The Office is open until 15.00 on Mondays and Fridays and until 12 noon on Wednesdays. If you wish to visit masks must be worn and hands sanitised. I found the children’s memorial MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING particularly moving, a garden with A cheque for £1,299.70 has been sent by Bolton Abbey to Macmillan white planting. At its centre was a for their Coffee Morning. I cannot thank you all enough for the tree dedicated to Anne Frank. The support you have given. We have surpassed last year’s exceptional blossom on this tree is cut off as total. I am now worrying about next year!! soon as it flowers in remembrance that Anne herself was not allowed Margaret Cody, Church Office, 01756 710238 to bloom. Val Middleton

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PAINTERS OF THE PRIORY PART 1 His last visit was in 1834. He painted this picture which Bolton Priory has stood for nearly 900 years but it wasn't until the was published in a book of 18th Century, when travel became more widely available, that this poems by Samuel Rogers, area, and the Priory in particular, became so popular with the artists particularly for the poem and poets of the day. ‘The Boy of Egremont’. This The most famous painter of our landscape was Joseph Mallord famous work was about the William Turner who first visited Bolton Abbey on a visit to Yorkshire in son of Alice de Romille, Lady 1797 but had the of Skipton Castle and the opportunity only to founder of the Priory. Her make a very quick son was allegedly drowned sketch while his coach at the Strid. changed horses at Turner's friend and companion was Thomas Girtin. He and Turner Bolton Bridge. He were born within weeks of each other in 1775 and within a stone’s was so struck by the throw of one another in London. He accompanied Turner on several beauty of the place sketching tours to Yorkshire and stayed with him at Farnley Hall. that he returned the During this time he too produced a number of beautiful paintings, following year to engravings and sketches of Bolton Priory. paint this lovely watercolour in 1798.

Important support for Turner's work came from Walter Ramsden Fawkes, a Yorkshire landowner and Whig Member of Parliament for York who became a close friend and avid collector of Turner's work. He had inherited Farnley Hall outside Otley in 1792 and Turner first visited there in 1797, aged 22. He was so attracted to this area that he stayed at Farnley almost every year from 1808 to 1825. During this time he visited the Priory frequently and produced a wonderful series of watercolours of the Priory ruins. Sadly, Girtin died in 1802, the same year that another very famous painter who enjoyed our Priory landscape was born, Sir Edwin Landseer. He also visited Yorkshire and painted the scene on the right, in oil, of the Priory in 1830 which

can be seen in Manchester Art Gallery.

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Landseer also painted the wonderful oil painting below of ‘Bolton Abbey in Olden Times’. It is thought that this may depict the busy scene at the old gatehouse. Three very famous painters were entranced by our beautiful Priory and left us a legacy of their superb skills, but many lesser known artists also enjoyed painting the Priory. Susan Beerling To be continued

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THE SALES TABLE WITH CHRISTMAS ITEMS During the Covid restrictions

there is going to be a small sales table in the Tower. There will be items from the main table and also a small DATES FROM THE CHURCH CALENDAR amount of Christmas stock. NOVEMBER One day a week there will be 01 SUNDAY ALL SAINTS’ DAY the ‘Christmas Corner’. This was a great success last year 08 SUNDAY REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY but because of the nature of 11 Wednesday Armistice Day these goods it cannot be left 15 SUNDAY TRINITY 23 out permanently. It would be 22 SUNDAY CHRIST THE KING really helpful to have 29 SUNDAY ADVENT SUNDAY someone to man this for whatever amount of time you would like to stay. If you would like to volunteer, and I have had two kind people DECEMBER already, please either ring or email me. 06 SUNDAY ADVENT 2

Christmas and much of the other stock is bought in January when I 13 SUNDAY ADVENT 3 go to the trade fairs. It had all been ordered and now is piling up in 20 SUNDAY ADVENT 4 the office! There are lots and lots of lovely new things so do please come along and have a look. 24 Thursday Christmas Eve Margaret Cody 01756610238 [email protected] 25 Friday CHRISTMAS DAY PARISH MAGAZINE DEADLINE DECEMBER/JANUARY 27 SUNDAY CHRISTMAS 1 MAGAZINE; THIS EDITION WILL BE A PRINTED VERSION Remembrance Sunday Please could we have any copy for the December/January magazine This year Remembrance Sunday is the 08 November. We will by 15 November. It can be sent to the Editor or the Church Office. celebrate this event at the 10.30 am service and online. Please send by email to either; [email protected] or Our guest preacher will be Revd Bob Mitchell. [email protected] WEEKLY ONLINE PRIORY SUNDAY SERVICES Morning Service 10.30 This service can be seen online on the Priory’s own YouTube channel. Go to the home page of the Priory website www.boltonpriory.church and click on: ‘Our Online Services’ You can also find our channel if you go to the YouTube web site and search for ‘Bolton Priory’. On the first Sunday of the month we also record our Liquid Family Service, a service suitable for all age groups. WEEKLY SHEET Please see the Home Page of our website www.boltonpriory.org.uk 17 18

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BOLTON PRIORY ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS PROGRAMME 29 November Advent Sunday 10.30 Holy Communion (with choir) 10.30 Online Morning Service 18.00 Online Advent Carol Service 06 December Advent 2 10.30 Holy Communion 10.30 Online Morning Service 10.30 Online Liquid Worship 13 December Advent 3 10.30 Holy Communion 10.30 Online Morning Service 20 December Advent 4 10.30 Holy Communion 10.30 Online Morning Service 24 December Christmas Eve 14.00 Christingles available from the Tower 16.00 Online Christingle 18.00 Online Nine Lessons and Carols 25 December Christmas Day 10.00 Festal (with choir) 10.30 Online Morning Service 27 December Christmas 1 10.30 Holy Communion 10.30 Online Morning Service 03 January Christmas 2 Epiphany 10.30 Holy Communion (Reverend Barry Overend) 10.30 Online Morning Service 10.30 Online Liquid Worship

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BOLTON PRIORY’S USE OF THE BOOK OF LA CROIX DES ÉPIDÉMIES COMMON PRAYER HAS A ‘MISSIONAL Françoise Ainsworth, a member of the Priory Choir, spends summers EFFECT’, REPORTS ITS RECTOR in the Cévennes in her native France. She made a most interesting Bolton Priory, said to be one of the finest medieval and appropriate find this year. churches in the north of England, is the latest to join I discovered there was a cross not far from our hamlet which is the Prayer Book Society (PBS) as a corporate member. known as ‘ La Croix des épidémies’. It stands along a narrow road at Located in the village of Bolton Abbey in the Leeds a place named ‘La Pradette’, crossed by a Roman way, between St Diocese, the church takes its name from the ruins of the twelfth- Julien Chapteuil and century Augustinian monastery which closed in the 1539 Dissolution Montusclat. The department of the Monasteries. of Haute Loire, west of Le Puy Bolton Priory’s Rector, the Revd Nicholas Mercer, formerly Rector of en Velay, is quite a remote part Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands , of the Eastern Cévennes. The reports that, since the year it was published, the 1662 Book of cross, close to an oratory Common Prayer (BCP) has been used by the Priory for all Sunday dedicated to Saint-François services as well as midweek Holy Communion. Régis, patron saint of the ‘That prompted our decision to join the PBS which encourages area, was probably erected rediscovery and use of the Prayer Book’s majesty and spiritual depth following an epidemic of at the heart of the ’s worship,’ he explained. bubonic plague (or maybe to ‘Since its foundation in the twelfth century, Bolton Priory has been a ward off the plague) in the site of continuous Christian worship, surviving Scottish raids, the Black second half of the 16th century. Death, the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the religious turbulence of later centuries.’ ‘During the Coronavirus lockdown we have valued the support of the PBS, particularly through its links to audio church services online.’ Nicholas says that Bolton Priory’s regular use of the BCP has had a ‘missional effect’, drawing congregations from a wide geographical area well beyond the parish boundaries. The size of the congregation, aged between 20 and 90, has grown by almost a third in the past year. From a press release from the PBS 22.10.20 The Prayer Book Society encourages rediscovery and use of the majesty and spiritual depth of The Book of Common Prayer at the One can see distinctive pustules heart of the Church of England’s worship. on the arms of the cross. Christ The society was founded in 1972 amidst liturgical reform in the Church crucified is represented on one of England. It was feared that the 1662 Book of Common Prayer – side and the Virgin Mary with despite its continued status as the Church of England’s official child is on the other side. standard of teaching – would fall into disuse, being replaced by contemporary forms of worship. Françoise Ainsworth

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We eventually reached the bottom to be confronted by a wall topped with A SUNDAY WALK barbed wire and the railway line! Thwarted! However we did manage to This is not a Covid 19, Brexit, Boris Bashing or an ‘uncertain or scramble over a rather dangerous wall coming down from the moor. It had unprecedented times’ related story in any way. This is a short story about very loose stones. We negotiated that with a fair amount of huffing, puffing two ladies of ‘a certain age’ having an unintended adventure and saved and bad language! We crossed the railway line, resisting the temptation to from possible disaster by a guardian angel. walk down the line towards Skipton. We were in fact only just the Skipton My walking friend Janet Sharpe and I set off on one of the last warm, sunny side of Rylstone, a good two miles or so ‘off piste’! clear days of autumn. We parked in the Heifer pub on the Skipton to We trudged through the waterlogged field between the railway line and the Grassington Road. We were appropriately dressed, adequate clothing, road once again to be confronted by another barbed wire topped wall. This walking boots, walking poles, mobile phones, water and a section of an OS was the really hard bit as we literally had to crawl through a broken part of map clearly marking out our intended walk, one Janet had done before. It the wall on our tummies. Then we were in real danger, the grassy kerbside was an anti clockwise circular walk to take us on the bridle path, over the was no wider than about 18 inches, the road was extremely busy and there top of the moors between Sharp Haw and Rough Haw, leading us to Flasby was no way we were going to be able to walk along the road. We weren’t and back the other way, and re-joining the original pathway back to the car. sure how far it was to the car. We stood for a few minutes, traffic thundering We walked up the Skipton Road, crossed over and followed the public past us, trying to work out what we were going to do. Then round the corner footpath through a field eventually picking up a wide bridle path. A few coming from the Rylstone direction came a bus! No bus stop of course. In a hundred yards up the said path we came across a sign post leading off to gesture of desperation I waved my walking pole at the bus as did Janet, I said the right up a grass pathway. We consulted the instructions on the map ‘there is no way he’s going to stop’, then to our utter amazement, I saw the which said quite clearly…..continue straight up the bridle path. We brake lights go on and he stopped! We dodged the oncoming traffic, crossed hesitated as we felt we ought to have taken the right fork. We actually the road, ran up the kerb and scrambled onto the bus. Fortunately there consulted two people who were on that path and when we said we were were no other passengers which saved us the embarrassment of having to heading for Flasby they told us to keep going. explain our situation. Also, I suspect that if there had been other passengers After about a mile we felt we were heading in the wrong direction. Janet did on board the driver would not have stopped for us. I said to the driver ‘thank not recognise the terrain at all from having previously done this walk. We you so much, we are in a bit of trouble’ to which he replied, ‘You’re right consulted several other walkers and getting somewhat varied advice we love, I could see that’!! We asked if he could drop us off at the Craven Heifer, kept going. Eventually Janet realised that we were on the right track but ‘no problem’ he said. It was a good two miles down that road side, I dread to that we were doing it in reverse, and in fact instead of going in an anti think what would have happened had that lovely man driven straight past us. clockwise direction we were going clockwise . Fast forward a couple of miles I’d love to write to the bus company to thank him but I daren’t, he might get or so and we arrived in Flasby which was where we should be heading back, into trouble for making two unscheduled stops! this time walking back homewards between Sharp Haw and Rough Haw. How can one get so lost on your own doorstep for heaven’s sake? After an extremely arduous trek up through very rough terrain, and In my time, ’I ve walked in the Himalayas, done a long trek on foot and worryingly seeing no other walkers, we emerged on the top of the moor horseback in North West Nepal, spent 6 hours walking through a forest in hoping we would find some sort of sign or a more designated footpath. No Tanzania with a guide who we think had lost his way too. One summer whilst such luck, we got to the top. We had obviously got our Haws mixed up! working in Switzerland I missed the last train down from the top of the Now we were looking down into the valley below. Way off into the distance Gornegrat Mountain opposite the Matterhorn. This time I was the guide we could see the Skipton road but still no visible pathway down. We had no accompanying a group of English tourists, easy finding your way down a option but to continue our downward journey, the bracken was nearly mountain in winter as the ski runs are clearly marked, not so easy in shoulder high and the terrain underfoot was boggy and lumpy. Some tracks summertime. I’ve walked up to the ‘Sun Gate’ in Machu Pichu on the Inca we thought might be a path turned out just to be sheep tracks leading Trail and encountered numbers of scary llamas coming the other way. I’ve nowhere. It must have taken well over 45 minutes to get out of the bracken. skied, seriously ‘off piste’ in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal but Our biggest fear, apart from the fact that we didn’t know where we were, I’ve never felt so silly and so disorientated as I did on that lovely late Autumn was if we had fallen or stumbled and twisted an ankle, or worse, how on Sunday…….only ten minutes from home!! earth could we be rescued? There was nowhere for a helicopter to land and Jill Riley we’d have felt such fools, so calling for help was definitely the last resort. 25 26

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NOVEMBER The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell And the old dog for his night journey stares: The path leads somewhere but they cannot tell And neighbour meets with neighbour unawares. The maiden passes close beside her cow And wonders on and thinks her far away. The ploughman goes unseen behind his plough And seems to loose his horses half the day. The lazy mist creeps on in journey slow; The maidens shout and wonder where they go. So dull and dark are the November days, The mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smokey haze: The place we occupy seems all the world. John Clare

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OUR KNIGHT OF THE GARTER ……. practice on a Sunday, supervised by the clergy. Failure to attend On a rainy morning some years ago, a rather damp visitor strode incurred a fine of about half a day’s wage. Every town and village had crossly into the Priory and said accusingly to the guide on duty, ‘I to provide archery butts for this practice and in Ilkley the name of one suppose you know there’s a tombstone of a gartered knight out of the roads testifies to where this took place: Golden Butts Road. there that you don’t seem to be bothered about.’ No we didn’t Why ‘Golden’? Presumably they had archery contests with substantial know, but yes, we were bothered about it. We’d been looking prizes. around for a tombstone which the guide book described as blue A law which has never been repealed says that if you see a Scotsman marble with a brass inlay of the garter symbol. These broken stone on the streets of York you can shoot him with a bow and arrow any fragments were neither blue nor marble, but washed clean by the day of the week except Sunday. Fortunately subsequent laws mean rain even without the brass inlay we could at least make out the that nowadays Scotsmen can wander around in York whenever they garter symbol. At last we’d found the remains of the tombstone of like without having to keep a wary eye open for lurking archers. Lord Clifford, the 7th Baron de Clifford, friend of Henry V and survivor The best bows were made of staves of yew but for practice or for of the battle of Agincourt. The stones were brought inside and laid hunting staves of ash, elm or laburnum were adequate. The bow under the model of the Priory to keep them safe but clearly visible. string was attached to the bow by a horn ‘nock’ and at the end of the Those of you who know Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV Part 1’ or who have practice the string would be released. They called it ‘nocking off’. We visited Alnwick Castle may like to know that John Clifford married spell it differently now but when we have finished our work, like the Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry Percy, son of the Earl of bowmen of old, we knock off and go home. Northumberland and nicknamed Hotspur because he rode so eagerly Liz Higgins into battle. John Clifford had inherited the Honour of Skipton when his father died in 1389, meaning that John would be about three at the time. He had been called to Parliament in 1411 and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1421. He died at the siege of Meaux in 1422 and his bones were brought back to the Priory for burial. His bones are no doubt in the ruined but at least we can preserve his tombstone as a reminder of one of our early patrons. ….. and his Archers When John went to France with Henry’s force (a force financed largely by Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, now of pantomime fame), he would take with him longbowmen: he was In 2009, 25th October, the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt fell indented to take at least three. There would be plenty of good on a Sunday and a re-enactment society came to show us their archers to choose from. In those days when a boy was 7 years old he longbow skills. At the actual battle the archers drove in stakes in front was given his first bow so that by the time he was 14 he would be of them to protect them from a cavalry charge, as demonstrated here. skilled enough to join the men for the two hours compulsory archery But we didn’t have any cavalry!

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EVENSONG AT IS BALM FOR THE SOUL PRIORY DIRECTORY From The Observer, 18 October In York for the weekend, we made a point of going to the Minster for Rector The Revd Nicholas Mercer 01756 710326 evensong. At last, live music. But things are not, of course, precisely Parish Administrator Margaret Cody 01756 710238 the same as they were. The service no longer takes place in the Churchwardens Matthew Hey 07702 555339 forgiving gloom of the choir, but in the minster’s vast nave, the tiny Acting Churchwarden Susan Barker 01756 711260 congregation spread out like currants in a fat rascal; there are no PCC Secretary Sandra Stubbs 01943 463332 prayer books and to see those responsible for the heavenly sounds PCC Treasurer Michael Heatley 01423 509629 that fall on the ears like fine silk or pure gold, you must crane your Gift Aid Peter Loweth 01756 711129 neck, for the singers are all about a mile behind you. Director of Music Tim Raymond Strangest and most haunting of all is the sight of the clergy processing [email protected] towards you in their Concert Coordinator Paul Middleton 07906 082037 masks – or at least this Works Committee Matthew Hey 07702 555339 is what I thought at Deanery Synod Liz Clayton 07880 700339 first. The scene, I felt in Peter Lambert 07985 136819 my quietly hysterical Verger Peter Lambert 07985 136819 way, was so horribly Sacristan Jennifer Hardaker cinematic: nine Chalicists’ Rota Mike Vineall 01756 753013 parts The Name of the Liquid Worship Joan Mason 01943 608049 Rose to one part Electoral Roll Officer Rosemarie Fisher 07964 561959 Vincent Price in The Environmental Officer Elaine Adams-Lambert 01756 794542 Last Man on Earth. Contact for Young People Lorna Heatley 07772 498838 Parish Disability Officer Jean Crawford 07951 788909 But later on, my eyes raised to the glories Parish Safeguarding Jean Crawford Sidesmen’s Rota of the great west window, I thought of the Susan Whittaker 01943 831165 Flower Rota building’s 1,000 year history and was Lorna Freegard 01943 607907 Welcome Team Leader Kate Templeton 01943 463150 comforted. Like the Black Death before it, Cleaning Rota Andrew Wade 01943 862614 and any number of other literal or Friends of Bolton Priory Jill Riley 01943 830190 metaphorical plagues, Covid 19 is just Fund Raising Liz Clayton 07880 700339 passing through. I listened to the plainsong Deputy Churchwarden Barry Cody 01756 710587 and to the old familiar words and when it was all over I went out into the Yorkshire MAGAZINE TEAM rain, feeling about a stone lighter and Editor Val Middleton 01943 430654 ready for tea. [email protected] Rachel Cooke Deputy Editor Judith Allen 01943 513275 Advertising Liz Clayton 07880 700339 The Rector read this article to those Distribution Gill Holme 01756 710482 attending the 10.30 Service on 11 October.

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