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EASTER 2019

On the third day… n January I took some of the Icurates from the diocese on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It brings the Bible to life like nothing else. We stayed in Bethlehem along Star Street, not far from Manger Square. In Jerusalem, we walked the Mount of Olives and along ancient streets up the Via Dolorosa to the Holy Sepulchre. We went to Bethany, the home of Jesus’s friends Mary, Martha and Lazarus and to the River Jordan. Then we drove north to Galilee. It is not far, about two hours, and stayed in Tiberias. It was the base to explore upper Galilee and the lake shore where Jesus called the disciples. The open into wine at a wedding, we followed landscape seemed timeless in a way a large group of Nigerians into the that even an ancient city is not. place where that first miracle is Jesus was here, or hereabouts. remembered. Their pastor was just You can’t go to the Holy Land coming to the end of extempore without the modern politics of the prayers which concluded with “And Middle East pressing hard. It is may God make our country a happy uncomfortable and it is holy. For the country once again”. three Abrahamic faiths Jerusalem is Now we are into impossible territory. a holy city. When the Psalmist prays I am writing in early March and you for the peace of Jerusalem we are are reading nearer Easter, after 29th praying for the world’s peace, and March. I have no idea whether we always were. will still be part of the EU or not, So far, so familiar, but in Cana of nor on what terms that relationship Galilee, where Jesus turned water will or will not have ended/is being FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 2

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continued temporarily/will be put to damaged and a community violated another vote. But I do know that my by reckless behaviour that endangers prayer for our country is that we innocent people. This cathedral in become happy once again. this city wants to build community locally in such a way as to make it During Lent the cathedral held a easier to live together in this fragile series of conversations, bringing earth, our common home. diverse people together to see what they made of big and potentially The wedding at Cana is the first divisive issues. Cathedrals are miracle in John’s Gospel. “On the hospitable places in which we find third day there was a wedding at ourselves in relationship with God Cana in Galilee…”. It is an on the and one another, with a sense of third day story, an Easter story, a God’s kingdom being near at hand. A resurrection story. This is about the cathedral is a good place to convene transformation of what we have now such conversations. BBC Radio into something that tastes like the Wiltshire thought they would be kingdom of God. worth listening to and broadcast Friends, I wish you a happy Easter. them. Salisbury post-novichok has something to say about how to live The Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam, together when trust has been

From the Chairman and ministry, in accordance with our constitution. elcome to our Easter newsletter Wand thank you for your All you have to do is to complete the continued support for the Friends of simple instruction to your bank to . enable the Friends to take your payment. We will, of course, send You will see from the article on page you written confirmation before any 4 and the enclosed mandate that you payment is taken. The Friends’ can now pay your annual Council members have led the way subscription to the Friends by direct and been the first to switch to direct debit. We would greatly appreciate debit. We encourage you to do the your co-operation in moving to this same. form of payment. As you know, we work hard to ensure that your As you read this newsletter, our subscription is dedicated to executive secretary Julia has had a maintaining, preserving and busy and successful first eight enhancing the fabric of the months in the role, having Cathedral, its music, life, worship succeeded Kate Beckett last August. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 3

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And in January, we welcomed Rosie Wilkinson as assistant secretary. She brings a great deal of experience to our Friends’ team and we hope she will be very happy with us. We are looking forward to our flagship annual event – our fourth Secret Gardens of the Close afternoon on Sunday 9th June. This will be three weeks later than in previous years - by popular demand - so the roses will be in bloom. We hope as many of you as possible with your friends and family members will come along and support us. Perhaps some of you might like to join our happy band of volunteer garden stewards? Please contact the Friends’ chairman Duncan Glass completes his Friends’ office if you can help. direct debit mandate. Last year’s event raised nearly major refurbishment this year and £11,000, enabling us to fund our will be the focus of a substantial very own Friends’ pinnacle on the grant from the Friends. north-east corner of the Cathedral, as part of the Sponsor a Stone You will find details of the scheme. We hope the pinnacle will Cathedral’s Easter services on the be in place soon. back page, as well as details of the Cathedral’s and the Friends’ events - This year’s Friends’ Day will be on We look forward to seeing you. Saturday 14th September when we Please bring a friend who would like extend a warm welcome to all who to become a member. Finally, I join can join us for an afternoon among our Friends’ Council and staff in Friends. We will be paying special wishing you all a very happy Easter. attention to the Cathedral's Father Willis organ, which is undergoing Duncan Glass, Chairman FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 4

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We have lift off! The Friends benefit from this simpler and more efficient way of collecting ou will have seen from the subscriptions and it removes the Ychairman’s message that the need for members to remember to Friends have launched payment of send a cheque or cash each year. annual subscriptions by direct debit and we are urging all members to You will find a direct debit switch to this form of payment. mandate and prepaid envelope with this newsletter. Many members are generously paying more than the £20 for a Once you have completed and single membership or £30 for a joint returned it to the Friends’ Office, membership, and we are very please remember to cancel your grateful to them. We hope they will standing order mandate if you are continue to support the Friends at currently paying by this method. their existing level. If you wish to give more than the standard amount, please indicate Many members, however, are paying this on the direct debit instruction. below the minimum subscription rate. We hope that these members Finally, to keep our records up to will also complete a direct debit date, please let us have your email instruction (DDI), which will result in address by emailing their subscription being paid at the [email protected]. correct level. We thank you for your help with this It costs £5.50 to send our two exercise and look forward to hearing newsletters and annual report Spire from you soon. to members each year and postage rates regularly increase. We strive to ensure that your subscriptions go directly to fund Cathedral projects in accordance with our constitution, with the minimum deducted for printing and postage. Everyone is used to paying council tax, water rates and other bills by direct debit. Switching payment method simply involves completion of a DDI. We will send you an email confirmation before any payment by direct debit is taken and you can The Friends’ direct debit mandate, which is cancel your instruction at any time. quick and easy to complete. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 5

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Grants to the Cathedral We will keep you informed, as these n the financial year 2018/19 the projects become firm plans. IFriends have been able to make grants of £189,000 to Cathedral projects. The total comprises £6,000 for the Mogford model, £106,000 towards the restoration of the organ, £74,000 to the Little Paradise project and £3,000 to Cathedral flowers. Chapter members are currently working on a number of project The poster appealing for funds towards the ideas for the Friends to fund in the organ restoration, to which the Friends have 2019/20 financial year. donated £106,000.

Secret Gardens of the Close Tea and homemade cakes will be t’s all change for this year’s Secret served in the garden of South Canonry IGardens of the Close event: Not – the home of the Bishop of Salisbury, only will it be taking place in June the Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam and his instead of May, but there will be new wife, Helen. Proceeds from the teas gardens on show too. will go to the Sudan Medical Link. The date for your diaries is Sunday The Medieval Hall is the venue for an 9th June and the event runs from exhibition of botanical art by 1pm to 5pm. Salisbury Florilegium Society and The Friends are hoping for fine weather and a bumper turn-out of visitors for this flagship event to enable last year’s total of nearly £11,000 to be surpassed. The money raised last year is being used to sponsor a prominent pinnacle on the north-east corner of the Cathedral, which will be unveiled in September (see separate article about the pinnacle’s progress). Flashback to 2018 and visitors catch up with Eleven gardens will be open, friends while touring the magnificent including five new ones. gardens in the Close. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 6

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would support this year’s event in even larger numbers. He said: “Once again many of those who live in the Close have kindly agreed to support the Friends’ charity by opening their, usually unseen, gardens to the public for our special day. “Each year this event attracts more interest from locals and visitors, with Visitors will be able to spot artist Cliff more than 1,100 attending last year. Topping sketching in some of the gardens. “The success of this event enables visitors will be able to spot artist the Friends to make additional Cliff Topping sketching in a number grants to the Cathedral and we look of the gardens. forward to welcoming everyone on 9th June.” Recorder group Close Consort will be playing and there will be stalls on Choristers’ Green, including the Friends’ own plant stall. Friends’ chairman Captain Duncan Glass said the public’s response to the first three Secret Gardens of the Close afternoons had been overwhelming and he hoped visitors

Time to stand and stare: visitors at last year’s event wonder at the beauty of an English garden. As well as needing more people to act as garden stewards on the afternoon to welcome visitors, the Friends would be grateful for donations of plants for the Friends’ Recorder group Close Consort will be playing plant stall. If you can help, please a selection of music in one of the gardens. contact the office on 01722 335161. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 7

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Meet our new Friends’ assistant secretary Rosie Wilkinson ome of you will have met Rosie at Sour Sarum Six concert, our February coffee morning, our Desert Island Discs evening, or if you have popped into the office during the last three months. Rosie Wilkinson, the Friends’ assistant Rosie, who became assistant secretary, outside the Friends’ office. secretary in January, has a wealth of Rosie’s husband’s job brought the experience of events and charities. couple and their son to Wiltshire in 2011 and they settled in East During her time living in London she Grimstead. was a corporate fundraiser at the Southbank Centre when the “Since moving we have had our little Southbank and Royal Festival Hall girl. We wanted to bring up our were undergoing a £111 million family in the countryside,” she said. refurbishment. Rosie will be dealing mainly with “It was a huge development and membership for the Friends and will included improving the acoustic in be in the office on Tuesdays and the Royal Festival Hall,” she said. Thursdays. “Before that I worked for the Rugby “I am delighted to be here and Football Union and was one of the working to support the Cathedral,” England team’s sponsorship she said. managers.” “It is a wonderful place to be.”

Friends' Day 2019 McVicker, whose subject will be Father Willis. e are looking ahead to Friends’ WDay on Saturday 14th Sept and what a special afternoon we have planned for you! Due to the restoration of the Cathedral’s Father Willis organ, the North Transept is out of bounds so our AGM and lecture will be held in the Trinity Chapel.

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Dr McVicker offers advice on Dr McVicker said that at the height technical and musical matters, of his powers, Willis was travelling specialising in acoustics, project round the country producing one management and Heritage Lottery organ a week. Fund applications. He is organs He said: “Willis was producing organs adviser to the Diocese of Southwark, for churches on every street corner. chairman of the Association of Independent Organ Advisers and a “I do not know if he had any member of the Church Buildings connection with Salisbury, but he Organs Committee. built an utterly magnificent instrument for Salisbury. It is in this latter capacity that he has visited Salisbury. “Willis’s musical vision was quite spectacular and that is what I want “I have been to Salisbury many times to speak about. and have played the Father Willis organ,” he said. “It was a revolution in English organ building terms – big, rich, sonorous “As organ adviser for the Cathedrals’ sounds, which had not been heard Fabric Commission for England I before.” came to Salisbury as part of a delegation in November to see the As part of his lecture, Dr McVicker organ and talk about the scope of will also play some of the music that the (restoration) work. was popular in the 1870s when Salisbury’s Father Willis organ was “It is a very important organ, built by built. ‘Father’ Henry Willis, who was an unknown until the Great Exhibition of “In 1877 Gilbert and Sullivan were 1851, after which he sprang to fame. coming to the fore and music in church would have been jolly,” he said. “He was an arrogant young man who felt he could change the way English “I will play some music to illustrate organ building was going - and he did. what Willis thought his organs would play.” “He had huge confidence and it was not long before he had built organs Dr McVicker teaches organology at for most of the Cathedrals: St Paul’s, the Royal Academy of Music, focusing Truro, Salisbury and Hereford are on the national schools of organ examples, as well as the organ for construction and repertoire, and how the Royal Albert Hall. consideration of them affects the approach to performance. “He only travelled first class and was a great yachtsman, owning four As a performer, he has appeared yachts.” throughout the UK and Europe, and FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 9

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has undertaken extensive broadcast lecture, there will be a special and recording work. afternoon tea for Friends in the South Cloister, served by Cathedral He is organ curator at London’s Royal Refectory staff. Festival Hall and a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music. A short organ recital will follow and the day will close with . His subject for the Friends Day lecture will be ‘Father Willis’. The A booking form for the lecture and lecture will follow the AGM. tea will be included in Spire, which will be published at the end of June. His lecture, at 3pm, will follow the Friends’ AGM at 2pm. After the

Organ restoration he project to restore Salisbury TCathedral’s magnificent Father Willis organ is well underway. The work, which started in January, will take 14 months and cost about £700,000. The Friends have contributed £106,000 to the project, thanks to a The Holy Family tableau surrounded by scaffolding, as work to dismantle the organ bequest from a generous and long- began in January. serving Friend. Durham who have cared for Scaffolding went up in the Quire and Salisbury’s organ since 1978. Quire aisles in January and it took about three weeks to dismantle the The team is led by Ian Bruce, who organ. has 30 years’ experience working with pipe organs. Some of the pipes will be cleaned on site, with the remainder taken away “Salisbury Cathedral’s Father Willis is for cleaning. The mechanics, bellows one of our flagship organs,” he said. and reservoir will be repaired. “We work on a lot of his organs, but It was 50 years ago that the organ this one is really top of the tree last underwent such a comprehensive musically and very well respected, restoration. due to the high-quality workmanship and the way it is all put together. The work is being carried out by Harrison and Harrison, renowned “It’s such a pleasure to be part of organ builders and restorers from the organ’s history. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 10

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Salisbury’s Father Willis organ was built in 1877 at a cost of £3,500, a sum given by Miss Chafyn Grove. It has just under 4,000 pipes, ranging in size from ones as small as a matchstick to others that stand 32ft high. It is regarded by many as one of the finest pipe organs in the country,

The team from Harrison and Harrison (Ian Bruce in green helmet) carefully dismantle the organ pipes.

“It will take a year to clean the organ and reassemble it, but by next January everything will be back in position.” During the first three months of 2020 each pipe will need to be ‘voiced’ (have the right tone created) and tuned individually before the organ Following the removal of the pipes and will be heard again in March. mechanics for cleaning and restoration, the scaffolding in the Quire was taken down in February.

and Willis himself is said to have considered it to be his best. Over the years, Cathedral musicians have prevented it from undergoing potentially harmful ‘improvements’, their aim being to allow the public to hear it as it was intended - a Victorian masterpiece. John Challenger, assistant director of music and one of the Cathedral’s Some of the larger organ pipes were moved organists, said: “This is probably the to the North Transept before the Pulling out only time in my life that this sort of the Stops exhibition was assembled. overhaul will take place. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 11

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“It’s sad to think that the organ will “When it returns, clear of the be silent for the next 11 months, but accumulated dust and grime of half this is a brief moment in the life of a century, it will sound all the the organ and it deserves restoration brighter and hopefully be good for work of the highest quality. another 50 years.”

‘Pulling out the stops’ he Cathedral has received a grant Tof £82,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the restoration of the organ and its organ exhibition Pulling out the Stops. This grant, the £106,000 donation from the Friends and other contributions bring the total raised to more than halfway towards the The Pulling out the Stops exhibition in the £700,000 restoration cost. North Transept runs until November. The exhibition was curated by Dr unique sound of the Father Willis Alex Woodhall and designed by RFA organ. Design. It was built by the They can also discover how an organ Cathedral’s works department, led works from a child-sized model by ecclesiastical joiner Richard Pike. organ created by Harrison and Launched in February, it explores Harrison, the Durham company the history of the organ from its undertaking the restoration work. installation in 1877 to the present David Halls said: “We are thrilled day, makes ‘visible’ the organ’s with the exhibition, and the virtual construction and takes visitors organ is astonishing. through the restoration process. “The absence of Father Willis is felt Videos in the display show the daily here but everything is going Cathedral’s director of music, David according to schedule and the HLF Halls and assistant director of music, grant is a very welcome gift, helping John Challenger talking about and that process on its way.” playing the instrument. The grant will also help the Cathedral The exhibition also includes a virtual share the 'conservation in action' with organ with stops, created by Milan the community and visitors through Digital Audio. Visitors are able to talks, family activities and workshops. play a keyboard and pull out stops on a touch screen to recreate the The exhibition runs until November. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 12

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If you would like to make a donation at Wyndham House, 65 The Close, towards the restoration of the Salisbury SP1 2EN. Donations can also organ, please make cheques payable be made online at: to Salisbury Cathedral and send to www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/get- Jilly Wright, development manager involved/donate-now/donate.

ome facts about Salisbury’s fame aged 30. After SFather Willis organ and ‘Father’ the Great Henry Willis: Exhibition he went on to build ● Built in 1877, the organ contains or rebuild more just under 4,000 pipes, the largest than 1,000 being 32 feet in length and the organs. He died smallest thinner than a pencil. on 11th February ● It was a gift from Julia Chafyn 1901. Grove of Zeals House, near Mere. ● Organ building ‘Father’ Henry Willis She paid £3,500 for it, with £930 company who built spent on the case and £850 on the Salisbury’s organ Harrison and blowing apparatus. in 1877. Harrison of ● ‘Father’ Henry Willis was the most Durham, which has been looking important organ builder of the after the Salisbury organ since the Victorian era. He was a craftsman, 1970s, is undertaking the restoration designer and engineer, and an work. Every pipe has been organist himself. dismantled and each job requires a Born on 27th April 1821, he was particular skill to bring the organ apprenticed aged 14 to organ builder back to its original glory. The people John Gray. He built a pipe organ for working on it are skilled in the Great Exhibition at Crystal metalwork, woodwork, electronics, Palace in 1851, winning a gold and have expertise in ‘voicing’ or Council Medal and acquiring instant creating the right tone for the organ.

Events round-up Those who attended the concert spent an enjoyable evening in the big thank you to those of you Chapter House and Refectory who attended our first three A listening to pieces by William Byrd, Friends’ events of 2019. Thomas Tallis, Maurice Durufle, Tickets for the concert by Sarum Six Charles Stanford, Edward Bairstow, in February and our Desert Island Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennon & Discs evening in March sold out soon McCartney, and by Sarum Six after going on sale. themselves (see Veronica FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 13

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Deus by Gregorio Allegri to Make You Proud by rock band Dead Man’s Whiskey, featuring his son, James. Robert recounted his life’s journey from boyhood in Kent, through Cambridge University, the National Coal Board and theological college to ordination. Sue, Veronica and Sylvia get ready to He held a number of roles in the welcome Friends to the February coffee morning, held in the Bell Tower Tearooms. Diocese of Southwark spanning 30 years and including managing the so- Armstrong’s review of the concert, called “largest parish building which follows). project since the Second World War” We have taken note of the comments following a fire that swept through regarding the cold of the Chapter All Saints’, West Dulwich. House and are looking into the He described his role as Canon possibility of welcoming Sarum Six Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral, a back on a warm summer’s evening. post he has held since 2015, as “a The February coffee morning at the bit like being Home Secretary – Bell Tower Tearooms was well anything that doesn’t obviously fit attended, despite a cold and frosty with someone else’s brief, lands on start to the day. Dozens of Friends my doorstep. came along to enjoy a feast of “And if it’s missing or not working, homemade cakes and an hour or two it’s my fault!” he joked. spent in conversation with old As it was Shrove Tuesday, the friends and new acquaintances. refreshments included mini pancakes. We are grateful to all those who baked cakes or helped in any way on the day. In March, the Cathedral’s Canon Treasurer Robert Titley was ‘cast away’ to a desert island by Friends’ trustee Katharine Shearing. Robert’s musical choices ranged from the gentle Elizabethan Serenade by the Canon Treasurer Robert Titley is ‘cast away’ Ronald Binge Orchestra to the by trustee Katharine Shearing during the booming Sinfonietta by Leos Janacek, Desert Island Discs evening held in the and from the delicate Miserere Mei, Refectory in March. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 14

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We are grateful, as always, to and History of the Salisbury Region Cathedral Refectory manager Kevin in the Early Medieval Period. Oborne for allowing the Friends to He revealed that, contrary to popular use the Refectory and Bell Tower belief, the Salisbury area in the years Tearooms for our events. 400-1200 (just before the Cathedral Our events continue on 24th April with was built) was in anything but a Dark the coach trip to Stratfield Saye on the Age at that time. It was an area of Hampshire/Berkshire border, home to vibrant social and economic activity the Dukes of Wellington since 1817. and where the craft skills we see today began to thrive and develop. On Sunday 9th June our fourth Glazing Manager Sam Kelly gave an annual Secret Gardens of the Close insight into work to conserve the event takes place (see separate stained glass windows and there was article), and the Friends’ holiday an update on the Cathedral’s fabric to Durham runs from 24th to 28th repair work. June. The legacy event in March, entitled Friends’ members have also been Estate Planning: Wills, Powers of invited to attend events organised Attorney and Inheritance Tax included by the Cathedral’s development a talk by Naomi Wilkes, partner at department. Parker Bullen solicitors in Salisbury. In February Charles Saumarez Smith, Details of our events for the second former chief executive of the Royal half of the year, including a booking Academy of Arts in London, spoke on form for Friends’ Day, will be the Beauty of Holiness. published in our annual report, Alex Langlands of the BBC’s Victorian Spire, which will be sent to members Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime at the end of June. Farm, gave a talk entitled Salisbury Please book early to avoid in the Dark Ages: The Archaeology disapointment.

Concert review Following the same pattern as last nce again Sarum Six pulled out year, we began in the Chapter Oall the stops – if one can when House, where, by candlelight in this singing a capella and with the perfect setting, we heard the music Cathedral organ in pieces! of William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and four motets by Maurice Durufle, all This ensemble of talented musicians memorable and uplifting. remains a firm favourite with the Friends and gave us an evening of The interval gave us time to enjoy immense pleasure and amusement. wine and nibbles, and the raffle. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 15

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with two lively numbers from Lennon & McCartney. We were also treated to a home- grown number – an hilarious ‘Citizenship Test for the Friends’, which focused on local issues, characters and events. The encore was a favourite from Sarum Six entertained the Friends on a cold previous concerts – African American evening in February. From left: Steve spiritual Standing in the Need of Abbott, Crispin Morton, Nick Hawker, Philip Lawson, Alistair Watson and Richard Hooper. Prayer. The second half focused on music What a lovely way to enjoy an from the early 1900s, with evening with great singing in the adaptations from Stanford, Bairstow, company of friends! and Vaughan Williams and ended Veronica Armstrong.

he running of the seventh annual TSalisbury Pancake Race featured two competitors well known to the Friends. Tricia Glass, wife of our chairman and a Cathedral guide, ran on behalf of the Cathedral volunteers, and Shane Brennan, a member of the

Tricia concentrates on keeping her pancake in the pan. Cathedral staff at Wyndham House, ran for the Friends. Sadly they failed to win their heats and so were eliminated, but judging by their smiles, they had a lot of fun. Well done to them both and thanks! The race is organised by St Thomas’s Church, with the Revd Jonathan Tricia Glass and Shane Brennan took part in the Salisbury Pancake Race on behalf of the Plows acting as master of Cathedral Guides and the Friends. ceremonies. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 16

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The Friends’ Pinnacle y the time our Easter newsletter Breaches you, we are hoping work will have started to fix in place the Friends’ pinnacle on the north-east corner of the Cathedral’s Trinity Chapel. The project forms part of the Cathedral’s Sponsor a Stone initiative. Here head mason Lee Andrews updates us on progress. “All the stones for the Friends’ Details of Major Repair Area 6 showing the Friends’ pinnacle (top right) marked ‘SCF’. pinnacle have been worked,” said Lee, “and spring is the time when as soon as those areas are done, we we can get back up (on the roof) and will aim to start the pinnacles.” fix it in place. Meeting the £10,000 cost of the “We aim to do it in April when the carving, conserving and stone weather should be better, but last replacement of the pinnacle, which year we did not get out until May will be just visible from the back of because of the snow in February and the Friends’ office, was made March. possible by the money raised from “There are a few areas that are the Friends’ 2018 Secret Gardens of priorities, as they are part fixed, but the Close event. Lee explained that the project involved conserving some of the existing stone, adding stones where the existing ones had deteriorated and replacing the six 1860s Ashburton columns (below the base) with Purbeck stone columns. He said the finial crown was carved by Canadian stonemason Stephane Woodside, who was with the Cathedral works department for 18 months. “Stonemason Alan Spittle did the setting out. This involves doing the drawing for the templates so the Stonemason Stephane Woodside, who carved masons can work the stones to those the top of the Friends’ pinnacle. templates,” said Lee. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 17

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“We share out the carvings so Sullivan will add a set of initials to everyone gets a shot at doing the bottom base of one of the something and the stones are replacement stones to recognise the worked in an order.” Friends’ sponsorship. As well as Stephane and Alan, The Cathedral is planning a stonemasons Jamie Woolrich-Moon ceremony to mark the completion of and Matthew Barton worked on the a number of Sponsor a Stone pinnacle, Dave Vanstone was projects, including the Friends’ responsible for part of the fixing of pinnacle, in September. the Purbeck shafts and Christian

News in brief… produced a book (front cover pictured here) entitled A Guide to Booking for events Salisbury Cathedral Close. The Friends’ events continue to be so popular that tickets sell out The book, a short shortly after they have gone on sale. history of the houses of the Close, is We urge you to book as early as available, priced £4, possible in future to avoid from the Friends’ disappointment and in the office. For more meantime, we are looking into the information visit possibility of repeating the holiday the website: to Durham next year. www.salisburyclosepreservation.org Volunteers Good Friday family service at Thank you to those who contacted St Thomas’s Church the office following our article on With the North Transept being out of volunteering in the Christmas bounds due to the organ restoration newsletter. We are grateful to you project, there will be no family for your offers of help at our service on Good Friday, 19th April. events. Instead worshippers are encouraged However, we still need more of you, to join the 9.45am family service at particularly to act as garden St Thomas’s Church. stewards for our Secret Gardens of The service will be family-orientated the Close event on 9th June. and include music, songs, prayers and If you can help, contact the office a Passion tableau. on 01722 335161 or 555190. Rector the Revd Kelvin Inglis will be Close Preservation Society book talking to the children about Palm The Close Preservation Society has Sunday and Maundy Thursday. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 18

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he Revd Bill Smith is a member of Salisbury Cathedral - Tthe Friends and Head Chaplain at A Prayer for Pilgrims Salisbury Cathedral. Here he shares Lord God a prayer he has written. We pray for all of us who have entered this building today that As we enter we shall sense your greatness and majesty The ticking clock will remind us of how precious is your gift of time The living water of the font will release the Spirit’s flow within us We may find in some small corner a place to encounter You in stillness We shall be able to look up beyond our worries and fears We shall offer our presence here as our true worship of You We may be inspired to utter a prayer or light a candle of hope We may leave this place enriched by Your eternal presence. This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.

A new precentor During that time she organised national acts of worship, including he Revd Anna Macham will be the Consecration of the Bishop, the installed and welcomed as the T Installation of the Dean, the Borough Cathedral’s new canon precentor on of Southwark’s Civic Service for 5th May. Queen’s Jubilee, and one of three Succeeding the Revd Tom Clammer, services marking the London 2012 who stepped down last autumn, she Olympics, alongside Westminster becomes head of music and liturgy Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral. at the Cathedral. She said: “I am thrilled and Currently priest-in-charge of St Philip, delighted to be taking on this role Camberwell in South East London, she and joining in the tradition of acted as precentor at Southwark liturgical excellence that exists at Cathedral from 2010 to 2012. Salisbury. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 19

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“I feel passionate about the ability of music and liturgy to draw all kinds of people into the life and worship of God, and it will be a privilege to work with musicians, clergy, Cathedral staff and congregation to develop such a special heritage into the next phase of its life.” Dean Nicholas Papadopulos said: “I am thrilled that Anna Macham will be joining us. Her previous experience in parish, Cathedral, and chaplaincy settings has equipped her really well for what I hope will be an exciting time in the Cathedral’s The Revd Anna Macham who is to be the Cathedral’s new canon precentor. history, and she will bring huge gifts to our chapter’s life in music, ’s succentor liturgy, theology and teaching.” (deputy precentor) and chaplain at Anna started singing in her church King’s College, London medical and choir aged 14 and became a choral dental schools. scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, A pianist and flautist, she became a where she studied English. trustee of the Royal School of Church She was a youth worker in France Music in 2018. before training for ordination at Her partner, Rachel is an associate Ridley Hall, Cambridge. For six years professor of early modern history at she undertook a dual role of the University of Reading.

Installation of Bishop of College of Canons was attended by Ramsbury Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire Lt any Friends attended the Gen Sir Roddy Cordy-Simpson, High Minstallation of the 17th Bishop of Sheriff of Wiltshire Mrs Nicky Alberry Ramsbury, the Rt Revd Dr Andrew and Bishop Francis Loyo of the Rumsey at Salisbury Cathedral at the Diocese of Rokon in South Sudan, end of January. The day before, he one of the ’s link had been ordained and consecrated partnerships. by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Very Revd Southwark Cathedral. The service to Nicholas Papadopulos explained at admit him to Salisbury Cathedral’s the beginning of the service that due FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 20

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Bishop Andrew took this as the theme of his sermon. “Best foot forward, my mother used to say and maybe yours did too, when there was still some way to go,” he began. “No-one can step ahead, however, without another good foot behind - to bear your weight and launch you forward. Faith in the future, in what comes next, is powered by the past. “To Jacob, returning to Bethel was deeply significant. He had faked, fled and fought his way, and the one time he truly came to himself was the time when he encountered the living God. The new , the Rt Revd Andrew Rumsey. “And when crisis once again overran him, he is called to return - back to to the planned restoration of the Bethel, back to where God was. Cathedral’s Father Willis organ, the Quire was out of bounds and “Do we not need this too - as therefore when Bishop Andrew was people and communities, in our led to his canonical stall, he would sundered, unholy nation? Are we not temporarily ‘disappear from view’. recalled this night? Not for retreat into nostalgia, but for renewing Unplanned had been the ‘dreaded hope.” lurgy’ which had swept through Salisbury Cathedral School, forcing Bishop Andrew, who will have its closure and requiring the office responsibility for the Wiltshire to be sung by the lay vicars and parishes included in the Diocese of others. Salisbury, continued: “What a gift we inherit in Salisbury Diocese: that the He said the collection from the ancient heart of our communities is service would be given towards the so often a Christian church - each $42,000 needed for the completion one a little Bethel, bearing the of Rokon Cathedral in South Sudan. promise that God is in this place - The Old Testament reading told of and that, however wayward we God’s call to Jacob to go to Bethel might be, he will prove to be the and settle there. opposite. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 21

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“We are all known and chosen Bishop Nicholas also welcomed people - it’s all Promised Land! The Bishop Francis, saying that his risen Christ might meet you in presence “reminds us of the people Marlborough or Melbury Abbas, in on earth who live in conflict, Compton Bassett or Winterbourne poverty and displacement”. Gunner. “He might meet you, washed up on the Dorset shore, even along the A303. “So, best foot forward. As T S Eliot wrote: ‘we shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time’.” At the reception after the service, Bishop of Salisbury the Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam introduced to the congregation Bishop Andrew, his wife Rebecca and children Grace, Jonah and Talitha, who have come to Wiltshire from Oxted in Surrey.

Bishop Andrew said: “It has been a Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Nicholas warm welcome and it is so lovely to Holtam introduces Bishop Andrew following be here. We feel very blessed.” the installation service at the Cathedral.

Salisbury Cathedral events hip-music-our-organ/pulling-out- stops Pulling Out The Stops | Running Salisbury Musical Society Choral until November Concert - Mozart and Bach | Free (included in your donation to Saturday 13th April, 19:30 - 22:00 the Cathedral) Tickets: £10.00 - £25.00. Under 19s Discover more about the history of free unreserved seats at the door. our treasured Father Willis Organ Salisbury Musical Society will be and the extensive restoration returning to the Cathedral to project in this special interactive perform Mozart Mass in C minor exhibition. K427 and Bach Cantata 182: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/wors Himmelskonig, sei willkommen, FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 22

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accompanied by Chelsea Opera Florilegium for a performance of JS Group and conducted by David Halls. Bach’s St Matthew Passion (sung in www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/even English). ts/salisbury-musical-society-choral- www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/events concert-mozart-and-bach /choral-foundation-concert-st-matthew -passion-j-s-bach St Matthew Passion | Wednesday 17th April, 19:00 - 21:00 Hospice Midnight Walk 2019 | Tickets £10.00 - £30.00 Saturday 27th April, 00:00 J S Bach’s St Matthew Passion is the The walk takes walkers on a scenic crowning achievement of one of the route around Salisbury, beginning and greatest composers of all time and ending at Five Rivers Leisure Centre. the culmination of a tradition of You will pass through the Cathedral musical passion settings performed grounds, where those walking in during Holy Week, the week before memory of someone can dedicate a Easter. It is written for two star on the memories board. For choruses, two orchestras and six further details and to register, see soloists. The first performance was www.midnight-walk.co.uk in 1727 at the Good Friday Vespers Ghostly Stuff: Elgar’s Chamber in Leipzig’s Saint Thomas’s Church. Works | Wednesday 1 May Salisbury's Cathedral Choir is joined 19:30 – 20:30 by soloists James Oxley (Evangelist) Tickets £12.50; wheelchair tickets and Henry Waddington (Christus) include one free companion. Series and the period instrument ensemble programmes available for £2.50

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Join us for a special lecture recital featuring performances from the Violin Sonata and Piano Quintet, as part of the South Transept Recital Series. The recital will be followed by a drinks reception, with an opportunity to meet the speaker and performers afterwards.

Salisbury Cathedral Choir will perform J S www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/even Bach’s St Matthew Passion during Holy Week. ts/south-transept-recital-series-2019

isitors to the Cathedral between VFebruary and early April were able to tour Ladders of Light, an installation by Mary Branson. The artist, who is well known for her large-scale conceptual light sculptures, said her installation was inspired by ideas of social mobility, equality and generosity. It was accompanied by poet and playwright Lemm Sissay’s poem Magniloquent Cartilage, which, he says, focuses on our individual responsibilities to one another. The Ladders of Light installation in the Cathedral.

The Friends of Salisbury Cathedral Registered Office: 33a The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EJ Open Tues - Fri 9.30am — 1.00 pm Telephone: (01722) 335161 or 555190 Email: [email protected] www.salisburycathedralfriends.co.uk The Association is registered with the Charity Commission No. 243439 President: The Very Revd Nicholas Papadopulos; Chairman: Captain Duncan Glass; Treasurer: Chris Dragonetti; Executive Secretary: Julia Lever; Newsletter Editor: Katharine Shearing. Printed by Sarum Colourview Ltd Tel: 01722 343600 Fax: 01722 343614 Email [email protected] Artwork by Firefly Graphics Tel: 01980 863315 Email: [email protected] Photos by permission of: Salisbury Cathedral (Ash Mills copyright), Katharine Shearing (copyright), Tricia Glass, Gary Price and Alys Tomlinson. Copyright The Friends of Salisbury Cathedral 2019. FOSC Newsletter Spring 2019 2_Layout 1 29/03/2019 10:37 Page 24

PALM SUNDAY 14 APRIL Holy Week The Eucharist with procession 10:30 of palms from Choristers’ Green and Easter Choral Evensong 16:30 and Easter MONDAY 15 APRIL Confessions 16:30 at Salisbury Choral Evensong 17:30 Cathedral Service of Reconciliation 19:30 TUESDAY 16 APRIL Choral Evensong 17:30 Tenebrae: A Service of Shadows 19:30

WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL Choral Foundation Concert: 19:00 JJ SS Bach’sBach’s StSt MatthewMatthew PassionPassion

MAUNDY THURSDAY 18 APRIL Eucharist of the Chrism and Re-affirmation of Vows 11:00 Confessions 16:30 Choral Evensong 17:30 Eucharist of the Last Supper 19:30 Watch of the Passion 21:00

GOOD FRIDAY 19 APRIL The Good Friday Devotion 12:00 The Liturgy of Good Friday 13:15

EASTER EVE 20 APRIL Meditation 10:00 Evening Prayer 16:30

EASTER DAY 21 APRIL The Easter Vigil Readings 04:00 The Easter Liturgy 05:00 Holy Communion 08:00 The Eucharist with blessing of 10:30 thethe EasterEaster GardenGarden Festal Evensong 15:00

Further details online at salisburycathedral.org.uk