Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Number 89

Friends of Winchester Cathedral 2 The Close, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9LS 01962 857 245 [email protected] www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk Registered Charity No. 220218 Friends of Winchester Cathedral 2020 Royal Patron Her Majesty the Queen Patron The Right Reverend Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester President The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester Ex Officio Vice-Presidents Nigel Atkinson Esq, HM Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire Cllr Patrick Cunningham, The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Winchester Ms Jean Ritchie QC, Cathedral Council Chairman Honorary Vice-President Mo Hearn

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bruce Parker, Chairman Tom Watson, Vice-Chairman David Fellowes, Treasurer Jenny Hilton, Natalie Shaw Nigel Spicer, Cindy Wood Ex Officio Chapter Trustees The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester The Reverend Canon Andy Trenier, Precentor and Sacrist

STAFF Lucy Hutchin, Director Lesley Mead Leisl Porter

Friends’ Prayer Most glorious Lord of life, Who gave to your disciples the precious name of friends: accept our thanks for this Cathedral Church, built and adorned to your glory and alive with prayer and grant that its company of Friends may so serve and honour you in this life that they come to enjoy the fullness of your promises within the eternal fellowship of your grace; and this we ask for your name’s sake. Amen. Welcome What we have all missed most during this dreadfully long pandemic is human contact with others.

Our own organisation is what it says in the official title it was given in 1931, an Association of Friends. We enjoy a shared purpose of supporting the Cathedral, in as many ways as we can, but at Winchester we are also very much a community whose members enjoy the company of each other. It’s one of the reasons why our many talks and trips and other events are so often over-subscribed. The cancellation of our events, along with the closing of the Cathedral doors, knocked us all sideways – as articulated in the later pages of this edition of The Record. Nevertheless, our Director, Lucy Hutchin, zoomed into action and re-established a series of talks and get-togethers online. It is no exaggeration to say this was a Anne Newsome has been a great Friend and lifeline to many: Lucy’s efforts were rightly a superb Trustee over nine years, heading acknowledged by Hampshire’s Lord- up the efficient team which laid on so many Lieutenant, Nigel Atkinson (see page 33). of our events for a decade. She has now retired as a Trustee but will remain a familiar We are particularly proud to have funded face in the Cathedral as she continues her the video-streaming equipment which was volunteering as guide and holy duster. Thank installed during the summer and went ‘live’ you, Anne. in August. At a stroke, Cathedral services have become instantly available, not only to We are now looking forward more than ever regular worshippers at home but to a world- to The Friends’ 90th anniversary next year wide audience. Although we were not able when we hope to put this distressing year to hold our usual Festival Evensong alongside behind us. the AGM in July, the spirited approach by Andy Trenier, who devised a video-recorded service, was much appreciated by all of us.

Indeed, we all owe a great deal to those who Bruce Parker have looked after us in so many different Chairman of The Friends ways during 2020. If nothing else, this pandemic has shown up those who really are friends, not just by name but by deed.

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 3 Contents The Dean 5 Twelve Years as Receiver General 6 Annabelle Boyes, Receiver General My White-Knuckle Ride 10 Canon Andy Trenier Cathedral Music 13 Andy Lumsden, Director of Music The Broderers 15 Lucy Hutchin Court in the Cathedral 18 Dr Andrew Thomson Wavell Remembered 22 David Fellowes Two Cathedral Diarists 26 David Rymill, Cathedral Archivist A World of Difference – The Covid Effect 30 Festival Evensong 2020 40 Fleury Pilgrimage 42 Lynne Sharpe Office News 44 Events 46 The Year in Figures 48 Ninety Years On – 2021 50 Dr Tom Watson Finance 52 Record Extra 56 Christmas Cards 58 Membership 60

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4 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 The Dean Catherine Ogle

In recent months, we have lived through the life-changing and world-changing effects of a world pandemic. Some of the foundations of society have been shaken.

While there is nothing good about the Coronavirus, some positive things have come from this long and painful experience. We have learnt afresh to value the dedication, skill and self-sacrifice of healthcare workers, care givers and those who run essential services. We have realised how the old ‘normal’ impacted on the environment and creation. We have learnt new skills, gained their own homes. At that point of need, The new insights and experienced the precious Friends of Winchester Cathedral stepped in value of simple human contact. with funds to buy excellent equipment to Here at the Cathedral, the new and world- enable worship to be live-streamed. class exhibitions had been building increasing I am profoundly grateful to The Friends numbers of visitors, and exciting plans were for their role in supporting the Cathedral coming to life, enabling wider engagement community and living out the Cathedral with Holy Week and Easter. We were having values of openness, kindness and excellence a strong year in terms of growing ministry during the crisis and our steps to recovery. and growing finances. It was all going so well. Thank you to The Friends of the Cathedral Then, the whole world moved into pandemic and for all that you do to support the and the Cathedral, along with the nation, on-going life and work of Winchester went into lockdown. For three months, the Cathedral. As we seek recovery from Cathedral buildings were silent and empty. lockdown and the financial hardship that But that was not the whole story, because this has created, your support is even more the Cathedral community including, notably, significant. After isolation it’s more vital than The Friends remained alive and active. ever to have Friends. Necessity is the mother of invention. With I do hope that you enjoy this edition of The ingenuity and the willingness to learn new Record, reminding us again of the vibrant skills, mutual care and communication history of the Cathedral, and its hope for continued with online worship; filmed the future. reflections and services; online lectures; messages, telephone calls and a great deal of mutual concern. The clergy discovered a potential world-wide audience for Winchester Cathedral worship The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle and a new ambition for reaching people in Dean of Winchester

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 5 Twelve Years as Receiver General ‘an enormous privilege’

Annabelle Boyes looks back on ‘the business administration, stewardship, guardianship and custodianship of the Cathedral and Estates’ she took on in 2008. Annabelle retires this year.

Led by Dean James, the then Chapter team set out to articulate our future vision to discover and live out the Beauty of Holiness. This was about building an organisation fit for the 21st Century, rooted in our faith, mission and ministry. After a thorough review, Chapter set about introducing over 39 new terms and conditions and benefits for our employees. We created a comprehensive apprenticeship scheme and encouraged a staff self-development environment which has flourished and introduced NVQs. We also introduced a Annabelle Boyes accompanied by Dean performance development process. James Atwell and Prince Edward

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Annabelle Boyes, flanked by The Friends’ Chairman, Bruce Parker, and Cathedral Trust Trustee, Michael Campbell, during an inspection of the north transept works.

The fabric was another huge challenge, the pipes underneath the Mercure Hotel and quinquennial 2012 recognising there was put a new boiler and heating system into over £24.5 million required to be spent on the Fleury building along with loos and conservation and essential repair in the next disabled/baby changing facilities. The flower five to ten years. team took possession of a purpose-built It was time to review and move on from the flower room, a pastoral room was created 2005 Close Plan. and much needed storage space was celebrated by Custos and the virgers. Fleury Building Kings and Scribes First up was the development and delivery of the Fleury building which was needed The success of this project propelled us to replace the outhouse built in the 1800s, forward into the creation of a virtual circle attached to the side of the north transept and a paradigm shift in our approach to which was being used by the flower team. fundraising and tackling the enormity After raising £1.8 million, largely supported of the quinquennial task ahead. Kings by The Friends, we set to work and the and Scribes – the Birth of a Nation was Fleury building, which is an enormous created. A focal point for acknowledging asset, was built. This was a brave and new all the urgent roof repairs desperately venture for all concerned and I remember needed, which were causing damage to the fondly, Martin Reid, treasurer at the time, medieval timber frame underneath. The acting as an observer on the newly created presbytery high vaults were in danger of project board, another first. We stopped collapse and slowly rotting because of the heating the paddock with our heating continuing water ingress.

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 7 Twelve Years as Receiver General Colten Care enables residents to Medieval 14th century glass, priceless but covered in blanket corrosion, falling out from continue to stay safe and enjoy a the windows and being destroyed forever, damaged lead cames and weather-beaten, happy and ful lled lifestyle. damaged stone mullions and huge amounts of tracery repairs required: the list was Our two stunning care homes in extensive. Our application to the Heritage Lottery fund was successful and a capital Winchester, Abbotts Barton appeal was launched. Again, The Friends and St Catherines View added their support, joined forces with the Winchester Cathedral Trust, and generously remain reassuring havens, supported an appeal to help match fund where our residents continue the work on the glass and supporting stone work. The work has been recorded in the to enjoy excellent care, in-house publication Illumination which has companionship, stimulating covered the project from the start. The new Wessex Centre activities, quality homemade However, the project was not just about place, it was also about people. It allowed circa 1532, on the bosses and the magnificent food, luxurious interiors and us to create a paradigm shift in our east windows. Once more, it was time for charming gardens. culture and created an opportunity to Chapter to reset its thinking, which has align our strategic goals and aims. Positive manifested in Renew, Inspire and Unite. participation, innovative storytelling, Encouraged with this, we have developed enhanced learning and the creation of a our calling and Vision and Values, setting cultural hub, putting the Cathedral at the out our strategic direction for developing heart of the community. mission and ministry in the years ahead. My thanks to all our wonderful volunteers The continual evolution of our mission who formed many of the supporting and ministry over the centuries and the groups driving the project forward, in celebration of the organic nature of the particular the storytellers who helped tease Cathedral building has inspired me over my tenure here. out the content for the exhibition and our story maps. It has been a wonderful and rewarding vocation and been a wonderful conclusion Wessex Centre to a very happy and fruitful executive career. While all this wonderful work was in progress, we built the Wessex learning centre, a near carbon neutral building, and Now that the current round of major completely refurbished the existing learning repair and renovation works at the centre, a £3.2 million project. Then, as Dean Cathedral is complete, work goes on to ensure that all parts of the Cathedral James retired, it was time to sort out the estate are maintained and improved. The Deanery, another £2 million project. Friends have committed to funding the Dean Catherine arrived in time to see the refurbishment of certain aspects of the work commence on building the exhibition visitor centre : the work is scheduled to Residential and Dedicated and the five-storey scaffolding come down begin early in 2022. Nursing Care Dementia Care to reveal the glory of the original paintwork, * Call 01962 626800 Call 01962 892200 * AbbottsBarton StCatherinesView 8 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 * Correct at time of print. .co.uk * Correct at time of print. .co.uk

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Our two stunning care homes in Winchester, Abbotts Barton and St Catherines View remain reassuring havens, where our residents continue to enjoy excellent care, companionship, stimulating activities, quality homemade food, luxurious interiors and charming gardens.

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CCL Winchester Record A5 v5 AW.indd 1 06/08/2020 10:07 “Hurtling downhill at great speed, hands are clinging, knuckles translucently gripping to the seat so as not to fall off …”

Canon Andy Trenier on his first year as Cathedral Precentor

For most of the first half of this year the that Sunday were that the building felt so Liturgy and Music Department carried large and so full of people and bustle. on without a precentor at the helm, the Chapter and congregations having bid a Pity the fool, I thought, whose job might be warm farewell to Canon Sue Wallace, who to organise all that… moved onto a new role elsewhere. An encouraging chat with some Cathedral I began my own tenure here with a very Friends and council members in the nearby warm and gratefully received welcome on stalls put me at ease but nothing could quite the 15th September. My first impressions of shake off the sense of scale.

10 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Canon Andy Trenier

Barely weeks later, the Cathedral celebrated new emergency services carol service was with joy the completion of a very significant very well received, (the nave filled with round of development and the opening the flashing lights of a police response of the Kings and Scribes Exhibition with motorbike) and some theatrics at the a special service attended by the Earl of Christmas market carol services helped those Wessex. The service, with its centrepiece services really take-off. More sublime were processions, sumptuous order of service, the main carol services, Britten performance, and raising of a spectacular decorated hoop, and Christmas Eucharists, all of which were showed me what our department, when terrifically well sung. The singing of Sir John working creatively with others, was capable Tavener’s Christmas Proclamation, from of. The music and liturgy didn’t just lift the beneath the great tree at the candlelit west spirits but catapulted them skywards. end, was one of the best moments of my life so far. I should have known – but now I really And that was a month. do – our Choral Foundation is something The round of autumn services continued very special indeed. apace with an excellent joint evensong on And that was three months. the obit of William of Wykeham featuring massed combined choirs from New College And then, just as things were getting Oxford, Winchester College, and ourselves. comfortable … we said goodbye to Rhian A Harvest Sunday special service focussed Bufton, as Choirs Administrator, whilst on climate change was innovative and more thanking her and Sue Armstrong for hard-hitting than usual, and welcomed for remaining around to see us through the it. Law Sunday went off without a hitch, vacancy. Also departing this year was Richard for which I offered great sacrifices of praise Pratt, as Liturgy Administrator, like Rhian, and thanksgiving, and delivered another after many years of service. Richard will hard-hitting sermon from the Revd Jonathan continue as a lay clerk however. Lastly, also Aitken. A more engaging Lantern Parade was departing was bass, Jack Comerford, who envisaged and delivered and Remembrance- moved back to London. Each goes with our tide and All Souls tide went very well. thanks and congratulations. So far, so good. As recruitment in the New Year began and concluded successfully, with some brilliant The experience of those first weeks is hard young people filling newly configured posts, to explain. There was no standing start. so the world began to wake up to the You are delivered onto a moving vehicle, Covid19 pandemic. that seems to be hurtling downhill at great speed. There is a sense that you should be In February and March, the possibility of directing and curating the ride for fellow cancelling our two planned choir tours passengers but your hands are clinging, became an inevitability. Just as new staff knuckles translucently gripping to the seat arrived, so the peril to our corporate life so as not to fall off and make all the other began to dawn upon us. First, the Cathedral consummate professionals look silly. Slowly, closed to the public, and then to all of us. very slowly, the grip loosens and you get I had to self-isolate two weeks beforehand used to the constant peril and it begins to be due to my sons, and then my wife and I, (dare I say it?) thrilling and rewarding. falling ill. Christmas at Winchester is a sight to behold We just about fitted in one of a number of and an experience not to be forgotten. A long-planned, large-scale military memorial

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Video camera shots for streaming services but the inevitable overcame us of the new live-streaming technology, which like a storm we couldn’t outrun. We were we are grateful to The Friends for financing. overtaken and lockdown began. Today we had College of Canons and And that was five months. evening prayer via Zoom. That all of these things are simultaneously hard to believe is The more recent history is within the grasp hard to believe itself! of our memories. Just. And I think I’d need some distance in time to properly reflect And that has been ten months. and evaluate this time. There certainly Pity the fool, I think to myself, whose job wasn’t any space for reflection in the might be to organise all that. midst of it all. We had a school to run, with three boys at home, and the life of a cathedral to reimagine and reinterpret for an unimaginable new era. New camera, IT, and editing skills to learn. Rules to break. Unimaginable thoughts to articulate. New discoveries to happen upon. It would be fifteen weeks until we could go back to worship in anything like normality. Today is the Feast of St Swithun, Bishop of Winchester. Today we sung from the organ loft at the Eucharist. Today we sat down as Chapter in the same room and talked with one another. Today we had a successful trial

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Lockdown and make-up – the choir

Andy Lumsden, Director of Music

The academic year started with great enthusiasm and festive spirit as we welcomed our new Precentor, Canon Andy Trenier, and joined forces with the choirs of Winchester College Chapel and New College, Oxford, to celebrate William of Wykeham’s obit, with the whole of the Win Coll in attendance. We welcomed the Earl of Wessex to a service marking the opening of the new Kings and Scribes exhibition and had the Director of Music at Pilgrims’, to stitch a wonderful run of Advent and Christmas together the music for more online services, services and concerts, including a lunchtime which were put together by our new liturgy concert in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, and team. We have been able to hold some the boy choristers singing two concerts on events online – the end of year prize-giving Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth. The boys also and a concert given by the girls to name but took part in the filming of ‘The Crown’ in two. It has been very hard on the choir not the Cathedral in mid-January (the only time to be able to get together because singing they will see make-up being applied to their is, of course, so much more than just making Director of Music’s visage!) … a noise – the sociability, the working as a … then the clouds started to gather. Rumours team, the strong musical discipline and the were going around about the virus and fun! Sadly it meant that those leaving the thoughts turned to how we were going Choral Foundation could not enjoy the usual to handle it. The Pilgrims’ School closed trappings of the end of the year, which this in mid-March and services were then sung year would have included a home Southern by the lay clerks. We had a practice run of Cathedrals Festival. Whilst we will definitely live-streaming (sound only) and managed to be inviting them back to ‘see them off’ broadcast three services before lockdown properly, it leaves them with a very bitter came and the Cathedral was forced to taste in the mouth. One of the leaving boys close. With much of the music staff being was the last of three from the same family in furloughed, it fell to Hilary Jones, our singing the choir and, with other siblings, it was the teacher, to rehearse once a week with the end of the family’s 15-year association with boys on Zoom, and to Russell du Plessis, Pilgrims’. Not a great way to finish.

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As to the future…who knows? As I am writing aware of social distancing but we also have this (late-July), the singing world is awaiting to bear in mind any ‘bubbling’ being done by two reports about the potential dangers of schools and how we can (or maybe cannot) choral singing. It is known that a couple of fit into this. Whilst the waiting is worrying, choirs (one in Holland and the other in the it does give us the opportunity to think of USA) did rehearse together before any sense new ways of working. More services will be of lockdown happened and, sadly, most of online for everyone to enjoy, perhaps a new the choirs caught the virus and there were approach to our special services and to the several fatalities. Until we get the findings of way we work. The clouds may be dark at these reports, we are in a state of limbo as to the moment, but there might yet be a silver how to proceed. Not only do we have to be lining …we shall just have to wait and see.

Winchester Cathedral organ appeal

Just as lockdown began, the Cathedral, together with The Friends, was ready to launch an appeal to fund essential works to the Cathedral organ. This project is now due to start towards the end of 2022 and we will keep members informed of our own fundraising plans to support the appeal.

14 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 From Quire cushions to Quire cushions – full circle in nine decades

The formation of the Cathedral Broderers is closely linked to the creation of The Friends in 1931. Lucy Hutchin highlights how the work of our broderers has come full circle in ninety years.

In the late 1920s, two ladies in the Cathedral Broderers was formed under Miss Winchester area, Miss Louisa Pesel, a Pesel’s leadership. Miss Blunt drew the designs, talented embroiderer, and her great friend, basing them on 1300 years of Cathedral Miss Sybil Blunt, an expert in pictorial design history and incorporating details from the and local history, formed a remarkable Cathedral roof bosses and woodcarvings. A partnership that recently became the meeting to consider how the project might central backcloth of a best-selling novel be funded was held at the Guildhall on by Tracy Chevalier. St Swithun’s Day, 1931. Thus, The Friends of Winchester Cathedral was formed with the Miss Pesel, a friend of Bishop Woods, had Duke of Connaught as Patron, the Lord Bishop offered to make cushions and kneelers for as President and the Dean as Chairman. the private chapel at Wolvesey. On seeing them, Dean Selwyn suggested that similar This year sees the 10th anniversary of the embroideries might be produced for the founding of the modern broderers group Cathedral Quire and in 1931 the Winchester which consists of eleven ladies (Lizzie Aston,

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Margaret Bingham, Anna Diamond, Teresa Fuest, Catherine Glenday, Sandy Kellow, Janet Roche, Arlene Shawcross, Chris Smith, Gerry Sollom and Lorraine Taylor) who sew together every Monday morning in the Cathedral conference room. Anna Diamond, the head broderer, had been working on commissions for the Cathedral, restoring firstly the Festival Front from her home and then the Transfiguration Frontal, in the Guardian Angels Chapel one day a week. Next, Dean James invited Anna to form a group of volunteers who would work once Gold Victorian Frontal a week and this was when the Winchester Cathedral Guild of Broderers was formed in October, 2010. An article in the Winchester This frontal was discovered in the calefactory Cathedral Record of 2015 shows their when it was being cleared for building work. projects in the first five years and you can It took a long time to restore, about 450 view this on wincathrecord.org. The second hours, with at least two people permanently five years have been equally busy and here working on it. All the background brocade are some of their notable projects. had rotted so the first task was to make a tracing of the entire frontal so that they had the exact position of all the motifs. Then, Wedding Kneelers each motif was cut away from the brocade and repaired. A new frame was made and new brocade stretched on to it. Then, as The Cathedral did not have special kneelers the stitched motifs were repaired they for bride and groom to kneel on so Anna could be stitched onto the new brocade designed some. Most of the materials and surrounded by a couched line of thread. were donated by the broderers: they were The gold lines were carefully placed in worked on by two of them and completed their correct positions and couched down. in about five years. Recently, when the new Conservation net was applied over the whole precentor, Andy Trenier, was rehearsing for frontal and stitched down. The same work his ordination service, it was noticed that he was done on the super frontal and new had been given a wedding kneeler to kneel fringes were also added. on. When Anna later asked him if this was the case, he said, “Yes, and I nearly said to the bishop, ‘I do’ ”. The Broderers Quire Cushions

The quire cushions that were created by original broderers are now in need of repair and restoration. Forty-four have already been completed. The backs are removed and thrown away, then the horsehair stuffing is removed and both the stuffing and the canvas work are gently vacuumed. Repairs are carried out where needed and then the cushion is reupholstered.

Last year, it was agreed with Chapter Banner for St Swithun that The Friends would support the costs of the broderers to both refurbish the quire cushions and The Cathedral only has three banners that finance their general running costs. We Anna knows of so the broderers are hoping are proud to support the work of this to be able to stitch a new set and have important group in the Cathedral. begun with St Swithun. It was decided to depict St Swithun as he appears in an old During the pandemic, I visited Anna manuscript which can been seen in the Kings to take some ‘in situ’ photos. She was and Scribes Exhibition. The broderers are working with just one other broderer, working on red brocade and are applying the a stark contrast to when I last took stone arch and St Swithun. pictures of a full room. Anna has delivered needlework to her team of broderers around Winchester for them to work safely on pieces in their own homes. This activity has provided some sense of community and activity to the team of broderers but they will certainly welcome the time when they can all return to No 9 for their Monday mornings together. Court in the Cathedral

Who today can imagine being summoned to a court of law in the Cathedral for failing to attend evensong? Or for working, playing – or shopping – on Sundays? Dr Andrew Thomson reveals some of the cases dealt with four hundred years ago by a consistory court, the ecclesiastical body for the diocese, which met inside the Cathedral.

Entering the Cathedral by the north-west Among the accused, two days before door we are usually met by a bustle of Christmas in 1623, would have been a greeters, tourists, and officials of one kind or clergyman, Thomas Charlock, and a couple another. It would have been much the same called Richard North and Nichola Sweete. in the seventeenth century but, in addition The charge against Charlock was ‘clandestine to clergy, pilgrims, and visitors, there would marriage’. This usually meant a ceremony have been another group of people, much without banns or licence; but could mean, at a loss, in that north-west corner. They for example, that the parties were too would have been summoned to answer closely related or one of them was under charges in the consistory court. Most of age. The specific allegation was that Charlock them, just ‘up from the country’, would have had solemnised the marriage of North and been bemused by the scale of Wykeham’s Sweete in the porch at Newport chapel and vaulting stretching into the distance and by another, of Peter Frampton and Sarah Vox, the chanting of the choir in the background. in the belfry at Brading church, both on the If they were there on time, they might have Isle of Wight, both at six in the morning, and had to fall back to let the procession of both without licence. officials pass through the door and up the spiral staircase to the chamber, the court Charlock confessed and the judge room, above the entrance to the Cathedral. pronounced his suspension from office for Among them would have been the judge three years. The judge then proceeded to (often one of the Cathedral canons), a notary challenge Charlock’s credentials as minister public, scribes, and apparitors (messengers). and schoolmaster. Charlock claimed deacon status and said he had a teaching licence Discipline which the judge at once revoked. This could happen any day of the week. Most Saturdays, the court would hear private Sunday Activity disputes between individuals such as wills, People were often summoned for working libel, and matrimony. Its key work, however, or playing on Sundays. We can detect was discipline. The church had its rules – a number of feelings – pride, irritation, rubrics and canons – and could regulate conscientiousness – in the defence of the lives of its flock in minute detail and Thomas Andrewes and his son of Newport prosecute offenders. that they had been grinding corn on the

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Sabbath ‘upon a necessitie for the King’s Shippes’. It must have been tempting, moreover, for Edward Symonds and James Watt to try to gather in more of the harvest from their fields at Shalfleete after evening prayer before the weather broke; but why the three bon viveurs of Fordingbridge could not wait to hold their drinking session until after divine service is less explicable. The drinkers failed to get to Winchester and their cases remained adjourned at the end of Michaelmas Term. The workers all confessed. Andrewes, father and son, perhaps because of their excuse, escaped with a warning; but the harvesters (Watts and Symonds) had to perform penance one Sunday, in the presence of the congregation, ‘according to the schedule’. Yet another session began with twenty nine people from Romsey in trouble with the court over money. The church had powers to impose a rate (in addition to the poor rate The just legible, consistory court book of 1623

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Toleration in 1689 brought an end to religious prosecutions and this was soon followed by new social freedoms – if conscience reigned with religion, why not with morals? The disciplinary business of the church courts shrank to nothing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Crimes (e.g. incest) went to the secular courts and other issues, (e.g. adultery or attendance at church) were seen as sins, not crimes, and left to conscience. Clergymen could still appear before a consistory court until recently. The last hearing of that kind, before a consistory court, occurred in 1995 when the Dean of Lincoln was charged with, and acquitted of, adultery. Such discipline is now exercised in private by the bishop and, though consistory courts still exist, including Winchester’s, their work is largely confined now to fabric and fittings of church buildings. The interior of the gallery, previously used as the consistory court, in 1968

– now the council tax) on inhabitants to pay for repairs and improvements to its buildings. This selection, a tiny proportion drawn from proceedings of the consistory court at Winchester during Michaelmas Term, 1623, tells us a great deal about activity in the Cathedral and the relations of church and people in early modern times. Its intrusion into everyday life is quite striking. The church sought to regulate – ‘police’ – the lives of the people in detail, theoretically at least, and matters we now leave to conscience or treat humanely were the subjects of prosecution – church prosecution – under bishops such as Lancelot Andrewes (1619-26) and George Morley (1662-84). Sex before marriage and adultery were sins; church attendance, communion, work and play on the Sabbath were seen as tests of loyalty to church and king; and church rate as an essential obligation to maintain the physical plant of The gallery was converted into an exhibition the church. room in the 1960s

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Admiration for a great, yet unassuming, man, scholar, soldier and statesman, is shared here by David Fellowes, our Treasurer. David had led a private tour to India in 2015, the catalyst for which was to follow in at least some of Field Marshal Wavell’s footsteps as Viceroy, including visits to Delhi, Bharatpur and Simla. Memorial plaques for both Wavell and his son occupy a prominent place in the north aisle of the Cathedral.

I first became aware of Archibald Wavell as a young boy at Winchester, walking through the college’s Old Cloister and noticing his memorial plaque with his many honours,

titles and appointments. All very impressive but, as I discovered as I learned more and more about the great man, it is the simplest of gravestones imaginable that lies over the body of one of the most successful military commanders of the Second World War. Completely in line with his character. Not far from where Jane Austen lies buried in the Cathedral, you will come across Winchester City’s own memorial plaque in honour of Lord Wavell, the Dedication

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from the Tower of London (where, as its Constable, he had been lying in state) to Westminster Pier, the first state river-cortège since Nelson’s funeral in 1805; then drawn solemnly through the streets, lined with people, to Westminster Abbey to the sound of the pipes and drums of The Black Watch. After the service and all along the route to Winchester, on a hot June afternoon, people stood in little groups and raised their hats as the hearse drove by. A lone Black Watch piper, aloft on the College Chapel roof, played After the Battle, Lochaber No More and Flowers of the Forest.

Service for which took place on 22nd May 1955. Beatrice Forder is known for her work on the Winchester Bible but she also spent many hours painting the coat of arms on the Wavell memorial. When he was made a peer and had to select suitable arms, he chose as his supporters a Black Watch soldier and a Wykehamist scholar, these two institutions being the two great loyalties in his life. When Wavell died, the family was offered a burial at Westminster Abbey, but they chose Winchester instead. The Field Marshal’s coffin took an unusual route, leaving

Wavell at Winchester College

Wavell had written of Winchester that it was a corner of the world which ‘delights me more than any other’. The association of Wavell’s family with the city, Cathedral and College of Winchester goes back centuries. Three Wavells between them were nine times mayor of the city.

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first success of World War II and paved the way for later victories. Adrian Fort, in his authoritative biography: Archibald Wavell – The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant, wrote that the Italian surrender “brought to a conclusion a series of glorious victories which cheered a country that since the beginning of the Second World War had suffered only reverses, the threat of invasion and fears that the war might be lost.” In September 1943, Wavell was appointed Governor General and Viceroy in India, effectively ending his military command duties. He arrived in New Delhi that October, charged with the unenviable task of keeping India within the Empire while being genuinely sympathetic to Indian nationalism. Sadly, there isn’t the space here to do justice to this highly complex and even toxic issue, but suffice it to say that Wavell worked tirelessly to manage the situation, quite often in spite ‘Wavell of the Middle East’. October 1940

Two others, father and son, spent over half a century as rectors of the old Winchester church of St Maurice. The Field Marshal himself was given the honorary freedom of Winchester in 1943. A scholar of Winchester College, he had passed fourth into Sandhurst and top out of it before his eighteenth birthday. Perhaps his headmaster had a point when writing to his father, himself a general, that ‘there is no need for your son to go into the army: he is really quite intelligent’! As Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson, the eminent military historian, wrote: ‘… but thank God he did’. Fergusson, who was one of Wavell’s ADCs, also described Wavell as a commander who “never lost heart, never blamed anybody else for his failures, never ‘passed the buck’ and Lord Wavell greets his successor as Viceroy, never ‘belly-ached’. Lord Mountbatten, March 1947. General Wavell’s victory over Mussolini He described the appointment of and his vastly superior forces was Britain’s Mountbatten as 'unexpected and clever'.

24 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Wavell Remembered of his masters in Whitehall. Whatever the this all right if we took fifty years, which is verdict on the outcome, the leader of the just a blink in the history of time, but not in nationalist movement, Mahatma Gandhi, less.’ told him, ‘you have taken the blame on your Wavell was also a great lover of poetry, shoulders. But the world will think otherwise. somehow managing to compile his still widely India certainly does.’ ‘A gallant effort’, King acclaimed anthology Other Men’s Flowers George described it, sure that everyone during the war years, published in 1944. thought so, and certainly the ‘great majority Appropriate, then, to end with what TS Eliot of sensible people all over the world’. had to say about him: ‘He was a great man. Perhaps Wavell expressed his true feelings This is not a term I use easily; there are very when, dining one evening with brother few great men whom I have met in all my officers of the Black Watch (nearing the end years in two continents … but about Wavell I of his time in office), he said, ‘We could do feel no doubt whatsoever.’

2nd Earl Wavell MC

The Wavell story and its strong link to the Cathedral is further illustrated by the memorial to the Field Marshal’s son, Major Archibald Wavell, MC (the 2nd Earl).

Fighting the Japanese in Burma, he lost his left hand and was subsequently awarded the MC for bravery. He joined his father’s staff in India and went on to serve in Kenya where, on Christmas Eve in 1953, he was killed leading a patrol of his regiment, the Black Watch, against a group of Mau Mau terrorists. Lord Wavell was thirty-seven.

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Two Cathedral Diarists When David Rymill an archivist at the Hampshire Record Office, delivered our first ‘Zoom lecture’, he showed us diaries which are a fascinating insight into Cathedral life down through the centuries. He has provided more details of diary entries for The Record.

to as the diary of John Young, Dean of the Cathedral from 1616 to 1645. A selection of entries edited by Florence Remington Goodman, The Diary of John Young STP, was published in 1928 (the excerpts below are taken from this edition). I thought it would be interesting to compare a few of the entries in Dean Young’s diary with a few from the diaries of Edith Robinson whose husband Albert was appointed Archdeacon of Surrey in 1908 and also a Canon of the Cathedral (Surrey Archdeaconry being then still in Winchester Diocese). He retired as Archdeacon in 1922, but remained a Canon until 1933. HRO holds a substantial Robinson family archive (ref 83M93), including detailed diaries kept by Mrs Robinson for nine of their years in Winchester, and also some engagement diaries. Dean Young gives insights into debates Archdeacon Robinson about the liturgy in the difficult days of the 17th century; sermons too could be Diaries can be a source of vivid detail about controversial: on 11th January 1637 ‘Mr Hill, the day-to-day lives of those associated a kinsman of Mr Wardenns [John Harris, with a particular place or institution. The Prebendary of the Cathedral and Warden Winchester Cathedral Archive, held in of Winchester College] preached, Ps. 6. 2-6. Hampshire Record Office, on the corner of He concludet, pray God to have mercie Sussex Street and Station Hill, includes an upon England for the sine of Idolatrie and unusual survival: a small volume referred breache of Sabathe, etc. The warden came

26 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Two Cathedral Diarists to me efter sermon, protesting that he knew nothing of his preaching.’ Mrs Robinson also gives information about the services and sermons, sometimes mentioning the preacher and the text, at both regular and special services. A service on 25th March 1922 must have been a memorable occasion: ‘Helped B. Alexander to get ready for the M[others’] Union Festival – she lunched here – service at 2.30 – 500 mothers from the country branches – Cathedral crowded.’

Chapter Members Both diarists give interesting details about other members of the Chapter and their families. Dean Young mentions, on 10th November 1617, the funeral of the wife of Prebendary Nicholas Darell, noting that Dr (Robert) Moore, another of the Canons, preached on Acts chapter 9, concerning Tabitha (Dorcas). The death in 1922 of Canon John Vaughan, author of The Music of Wild Flowers, prompted several entries by Archdeacon, Mrs Robinson and their children Mrs Robinson: on Sunday 9th July ‘Canon Vaughan was taken ill in Cathedral & is dying. the garden – part of which is now occupied He preached at 11... Peg [her daughter] & I by the refectory – recording the planting of went round.’ Canon Vaughan died the next bulbs, work on a gravel walk, and hatching of day, and on the Tuesday she ‘went to see chickens. She also records, on 12th May 1922, Mrs Vaughan… Everyone getting wild flowers ‘Saw Rifle statue put up’ and on the 24th at his request.’ The next day she spoke ‘Unveiling of Rifle War Memorial – Princess of ‘Wild flower wreaths pouring in at the Beatrice, Duke of Connaught, Princess Marie Vaughans… Peg & I went together to the Louise & Prince Henry… Lovely view from funeral. All beautiful, no sadness or gloom.’ our window.’ Beyond the Close, Wolvesey appears in both Chapter Meetings diaries. Dean Young records that on 21st June Many interesting details about the Cathedral 1622 he summoned a Chapter meeting and fabric and the Close are found. Dean Young ‘Concerning the want of water at Woulsey includes several references to the vaulting the companie complained of Mr Philips of the tower, recording a Chapter meeting [who appears to have managed the water on 3rd December 1633 in which alternative supply from the conduit head], that he made approaches were discussed and the Dean waste of the water their; and we resolved, concluded one option would be ‘stronger, if there were anie fault in the spring head, steapper, lesse timber, doune easier, but to see it healped.’ One trusts that there was that the moir bewtiful’. The Robinsons no lack of water at Wolvesey on 3rd June moved from Dome Alley to no 11 The Close 1920, described by Mrs Robinson as a lovely in 1920 and Mrs Robinson often mentions day; this was the date of a missionary fête

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The Cathedral and No 11, the Close from the back garden

– preparations for which had featured in prayer because of the plague]; Mr Wardenn numerous earlier entries. ‘Down at Wolvesey is to preach.’ Mrs Robinson’s diary for 1918 all the morning arranging stall – opened at 2… includes an entry for Sunday 6th January Sold up nearly everything. Stayed to the end 1918 describing the All-night Vigil and Day of at 9. A[lbert] bought copper coloured pot Intercession: ‘Went in at 12.30 to Cathedral. for me.’ She added the following day ‘We got Vast numbers there. Canon Vaughan & Albert over £1,000.’ took the midnight Celebration. A celebrated at 1 a.m. We came home just before 2. Christmas Numbers all night.’ Christmas is mentioned by both diarists. The Civil War looms large in the later years Dean Young noted on 2nd December 1641 of Dean Young’s diary: he mentions £20 that the Canons had suggested that the allocated ‘to the Commander Carmichael to Mayor ‘might have a sugar loafe sent him, guarde us’ in December 1642, and 5s paid for as it wes the custome’, and he was ‘verie torches at the funeral of Colonel Boles, killed readie’ for the custom to be reinstated. Mrs in 1643 at the Battle of Alton. He did not live Robinson describes a Carol service on 5th to see the restoration of the monarchy, and January 1922: ‘Cathedral packed – stood at of cathedral life, in 1660, but Mrs Robinson the W. end of the nave – perfectly beautiful.’ could record the end of the First World War, Both diarists refer to special services writing on 10th November 1918: ‘Watched all prompted by national emergencies: on 21st day for news of Armistice to come in… no November 1640 Dean Young recorded ‘We news yet’, and the next day: ‘Armistice. At 11 tooke order for the fast [a day of fasting and the bells began, News in at 10.45 – went out

28 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Two Cathedral Diarists in the town. Everyone with flags. Put up ours. inspired to visit the Record Office to explore Peggie & 5 girls cheered from the Tower. the diaries further; all are welcome. Under Service at 4. Cathedral packed – Choir & all – normal circumstances you do not need an All could join in the service…’ appointment, but currently all visits must be These are just a few of the fascinating details booked, and documents ordered in advance given by both diarists: I hope you will be so we can quarantine them.

Example pages from the diary of Dean Young, dated 1626-7. At the top of the right-hand page is an account of £23 16s 6d which the Dean distributed towards the end of November 1626 to a wide range of recipients, including the minor canons, lay clerks, bell-ringers, widows and poor people, and a poor French minister.

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The following pages are a selective record of how the coronavirus pandemic affected our lives as members of the Cathedral community. The anguish suffered by families over their loss of loved-ones is not reflected in this summary except to say we, of course, mourn with all those who have suffered in whatever way.

he suspension of public website and its worship and the lack of social media T channels. They visitors has seriously affected the have continued Cathedral’s finances but there was ever since the at least one positive outcome – the initial lockdown transformation of the Cathedral’s and there have communication strategy. Mark now been more than a hundred Byford, lay canon and member of individual Chapter, explains. reflections, presented by Although the building was closed for weeks members of because of the public health restrictions, the the Cathedral Cathedral has used digital technologies to clergy, the Bishops of Winchester, reach out to communities far and wide as Basingstoke and Southampton, as well as well as closer to home. lay members of Chapter and the wider As soon as public worship was suspended Cathedral community. back in March, the Cathedral set up live Also, every morning, the Chapter members streaming of its morning service and come together via Zoom video conference evensong but that had to end after less than facilities for morning prayer. The same a fortnight, when new government guidance facility is open to members of the public forced the archbishops to close all church each evening for Evening Prayer and a loyal buildings across the country. It was the first community of 30-40 people join daily – time in living memory that the Cathedral had some from as far away as Ohio in the to shut its doors indefinitely. Responding United States. to its fundamental importance to the community, the Cathedral immediately The Dean posts a weekly spiritual-based launched a number of initiatives. message on the Cathedral website and via email, aimed at staff, volunteers and A daily video reflection and prayer has been the Cathedral community, which, as well posted every morning on the Cathedral as in text, is also available as an audio file.

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Bishops, Cathedral clergy and others, including The Friends’ Chairman, recorded daily ‘reflections’ for transmission on social media

A weekly message from Dean Catherine isolated in such a lockdown – and regular has also been published in the Hampshire phone calls have been made by clergy Chronicle since the public health restrictions offering pastoral support and connection. came into force. The digital communication offers have Moreover, two Cathedral community been widely praised and welcomed by the meetings have been held via Zoom community. The Dean herself said it felt like attracting over 80 people for each event, a normal twenty-year culture change had bringing people together for reflection and happened in twenty days. It’s absolutely clear fellowship. that many of the new initiatives are here to stay including the ability to join a service The Cathedral has pioneered new online online; using video for prayer reflections worship styles with video services and and education and learning, and inspiring innovative, interactive participatory offers. more social interaction. A newly designed Special services were produced in Holy website is being planned for the future. Week and for other prominent festivals that Chapter and the new Head of Marketing and involved much creativity and ambition. Communications, Jennifer Mitchell, are taking People not connected to a computer or forward all the learning from the past few a mobile phone were never forgotten – months as they shape the strategy for the indeed, they can be the most lonely and rest of the year and beyond.

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direct result of what Dean Catherine described as a ‘twenty-year culture Achange in twenty days’ was Chapter’s urgent request for considerable funding to support internet streaming of services. A Zoom board meeting of The Friends of Winchester Cathedral in May approved a grant of £47,400 for the installation of a state-of-the-art vision and sound system. By mid-July, Daren Gibb and his team of Cathedral virgers were all being trained to use the equipment. Winchester will lead the field in the transmission of Cathedral worship and music to its followers worldwide.

Daren Gibb and Dickon Kelley lead the team of virgers on an in-house streaming course

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Zoom!

With the lockdown announced in mid-March, The Friends faced the prospect of having to cancel its whole programme of spring and summer events, including the Cathedral flowers demonstration and our monthly coffee mornings. The word ‘Zoom’ then jumped into everyday language, an internet application which allowed families to interact with each other in a much more sophisticated way than FaceTime. The Director, Lucy Hutchin, wondered if it might work for our talks. She approached David Rymill, a Hampshire archivist, who admitted that he had never used the device but he was willing to give it a go. And so it all began. In total there were seven Friends’ talks by Zoom attended by both Friends who were regulars at our events in the Paul Woodhouse suite and those who lived further away from Winchester, including some in the United States. Every two weeks around a hundred Friends have gathered around their computer or tablet screens to be delighted by beautifully illustrated talks about any number of Cathedral features – graffiti, memorials and bosses, to name but a few. Our speakers have been much praised by all who’ve ‘zoomed’ in. If nothing else, it’s all been an experience that, as a community of Friends, we won’t forget. We were honoured to receive a letter, reproduced on this page, from our Vice-President and Hampshire’s Lord-Lieutenant, Nigel Atkinson.

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ockdown during the pandemic had an effect on every single one Lof us. Common to all was the closure of the Cathedral for so many weeks. Here, four members of the Cathedral community reflect on what lockdown meant to them, followed by excerpts from Bishop Tim’s sermon at the online service for the Liturgy of Foundation.

well as their The Chaplain own fears and those of their families. Canon Nick Fennemore is a Cathedral chaplain and also the Head of The large increase in Chaplaincy, Spiritual and Pastoral Care, seriously ill for the Southern Health NHS Foundation people and Trust. He reflects here on how he and his the increase team have been working in Hampshire in deaths hospitals during the pandemic. has been something we Chaplains are very much a part of the NHS have all had and have been since its inception in 1948 to come to and I am writing this short piece on its 72nd terms with and for chaplains this has meant Birthday. Chaplains are available to the whole supporting and helping staff cope with these of the Institution, patients, families, friends situations, when, perhaps, our own particular and, most importantly, all the staff. resources have waned. These last few months have been The lockdown restrictions have caused extraordinary as the NHS has dealt with the other challenges which include supporting Covid-19 pandemic. I work in a Community those relatives who were not able to visit Trust with a small team of chaplains working dying loved ones and iPads were used to say across Hampshire. The impact of this virus goodbye. On occasions I have been dressed has made us look at new ways of working in PPE to say prayers with the dying and to with those suffering from mental ill-health, bring at least some comfort to them and whether in our units or in the community; their families. the frail elderly in our community hospitals; our community nurses working with those My lasting memory of this time will be the in their homes or our nursing homes. There skill, courage and sheer dedication of all NHS have been many challenges for the staff as employees which has been an inspiration to they have dealt with a greater workload and so many and will continue to be so in the the pain, fears and anxiety of their patients, as months that lie ahead.

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communion on Thursdays, guiding on The Guide Monday mornings, a planned special tour on stained glass, holy dusting on Fridays with, of course, coffee afterwards in the refectory Sheila Brown is a long-serving Cathedral and many more activities, all suddenly guide and staunch supporter of The ended. Friends as a member of its events committee. One quickly realises that as regular activities stop, so contact with friends and being able It is not surprising that one misses activities to help and talk with visitors stop, too. that have become part of life. From being in the Cathedral several times a week to being The cancellation of Cathedral services for shut away on one's own was a shock to the Friends Day etc have all left an empty space system. in life: Friends Day is normally such a happy occasion but, sadly, not this year. (The Standing in the Outer Close and facing streamed evensong was lovely, however.) firmly locked doors was at first unbelievable though true. Tears were very near. Closely associated are lack of Friends’ normal activities – calling in at The Friends’ Office for All the normal activities of the week a quick chat with the always cheerful three have been missed both for the activities ‘Ls’, sometimes coffee in the Undercroft, themselves and for the opportunity of being helping to plan regular talks, sticking labels on with friends. envelopes, all simple things that normally one Matins on Sunday mornings, midweek takes for granted.

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The Chorister

Verity Sawbridge, this year’s girl head chorister, reflects on her experiences during lockdown. Verity is the granddaughter of a much loved previous Bishop of Winchester, Colin James, who was also Bishop of Basingstoke for a time. In our last service of this abbreviated academic year, the girl choristers sang Lobo’s Versa Est in Luctum, an anthem written on the death of Philip II of Spain in 1598. It is a short but beautiful piece, which I think rather represents this year’s singing. Since the beginning of lockdown the girl choristers have been asked to record several hymns and anthems remotely – Ave Maria by Lindley and Stanford’s Song of Wisdom are among our favourites. Mr Lumsden kindly recorded accompaniments for each piece, which were then distributed (along with technical instructions) by Kate Downer, the new Choirs’ Officer. Kate then also skilfully mixed our separate recordings, bringing us as close to singing together as is possible at the moment. For the top-year choristers, I know that this abrupt end to their time in the choir has been unsettling and upsetting; not only did they miss the music, but they missed the people too. To try and counteract despondency and loneliness among the girls, we have been having a weekly quiz via Zoom. Each week there has been a new theme – film characters, Disney characters, Hallowe’en – and we all dress up. Sometimes being Winnie-the-Pooh for forty-five minutes can be very cheering. Although this hasn’t been the ideal end to the year, it has certainly brought us closer together. I’m so grateful to have such great friends in the choir and I would have struggled infinitely more without the Cathedral community.

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ritual of services, choir and music was all The Sidesman extremely sad. Our rehearsals for the nave choir had just One of our new Trustees, Jenny Hilton, begun when lockdown was imposed. Our joy is well known as a Cathedral sidesman, of meeting and singing was rapidly ended. one of the ever-present friendly faces In addition to this, I missed chatting to that greet our congregations. colleagues, while holy dusting, and the I was shocked, stunned and saddened opportunity to visit the Cathedral at any when the announcement was made by the time, to absorb the atmosphere and great Archbishop of Canterbury to close all places sacred space. of worship as part of the national lockdown. On a positive note the daily online I felt that if ever churches were needed, reflections have been inspiring, and online surely now was the time. services helpful and of great value. I look Loss of the commitment as a sidesman, forward to a degree of normality returning always such an important and great tradition to the Cathedral when we can once again of the Cathedral, and not taking part in the enjoy services, choir and music.

the Cathedral as the virgers prepared Nave Art for closedown, cleaning the nave and clearing it of chairs and pews.

At the end of lockdown, Cathedral visitors were greeted by a blaze of colour, a rainbow image in the form of giant ribbons flowing down from a central point of the nave (see front cover). It was the work of the Rev Gill Sakakini as part of her role as artist-priest: “It seemed fitting to mark the return to public worship after lockdown in a significant visual way and to draw our gaze to a hopeful future, through the image of the rainbow which has been so familiar and sustaining during the past months.” A watercolour, ‘Last clean before lockdown’, by the Winchester artist, Keith Bennett, captured the earlier mood in

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“One easy way of thinking about that is Bishop Tim: through five ‘Es’. We have had the shaking of the foundations in relation to Europe: The five big ‘Es’ of Britain’s relation with Europe has been radically altered and we're having to learn the epidemic a new identity for ourselves to carve out a new future. Secondly, we have realised just how serious the Ecology challenges are that The Liturgy of the Foundation service we are all now facing: significant climate in July, the congregation for which change has brought home to us the power of what we have unleashed in the way that would normally have filled the nave, was we have misused the world. Thirdly, we have inevitably a shortened affair online but all been directly affected by what might be one which, nevertheless, attracted a called the Epidemiological aspect of the significant Zoom community. Covid19 virus pandemic. We’ve seen the power of one tiny virus changing the whole In his address, Bishop Tim said that world and the way that we relate to each ‘foundation’ as a theme was particularly other. Fourthly, this has had an impact on our appropriate this year, given that our whole Economic life so that the economy foundations had been shaken. of the United Kingdom and the economies

Bishop Tim delivers his online sermon

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of the world have been affected by the the capacity to go on renewing our life … Covid pandemic. One tiny virus hasn't just needing both these things is a reminder affected our health but also the health of all of what this Cathedral’s life is all about. It our financial relationships. Lastly, Black Lives is encouraging that, as we have looked at Matter has shown us how important the how we've responded to the [Covid 19] Ethnic question is. We probably have a long challenges, particularly the challenges of way to go to exploring what it means for us how we share our worship together and to understand what white privilege means how we adapt ourselves to the digital but that's for another time for me to explore world, how well this Cathedral has done … with you all.” able both to return to the traditions but “So our foundations have been shaken and also make those traditions fresh and new. it is a disturbing set of five major changes I want to congratulate my colleagues here that we have experienced and we'll be going in the Cathedral who have done a fantastic through for quite a while. This Cathedral job in making communication accessible, so has not been unaffected by that, of course: that all of us can participate in the worship the foundations of the Cathedral, if you and the traditions that we love, also making like, have been shaken somewhat by these those same traditions relevant to our challenges and it's been a disturbing time daily lives. So, a special thank you to Dean for us all. We have relied on this place Catherine to Andy Trenier, our precentor, to represent so much of what we would and to Mark Byford who has helped recognise to be stability; foundations that enormously behind the scenes to help us will never change and, yet, we know from the story of this Cathedral that its own make those transitions.” foundations were once in question, so Finally, Bishop Tim advised his Zoom nothing is safe. Everything is fundamentally audience not to be too over-awed by the vulnerable and that's a healthy thing for changes that have come about as a result us to be reminded of. The difficulties that of the pandemic: “We have been affected, we've undergone have made all of us much we have been disturbed, our foundations more sensitive to the need we have for have been shaken and yet we have been places like this to provide opportunities to able to adapt and respond and go forward. meet together, be together in worship, how important our faith is and also what grounds The Cathedral is asked once again to reach our faith.” out to what God promises as new life from the seeds that He wants us to sow so that Bishop Tim emphasised that just as seeds we can share our faith with everybody. It’s need to be sown for new life, so foundations only in that way that we will be able to for the future need to be continually sown, face those five big ‘Es’ that I’ve mentioned: season after season. the Europe question, the Ecology question, He continued: ” We are looking for deep the Epidemiology question, the Economy security and yet we're also looking for question and the Ethnic question.”

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 39 Festival Evensong 2020

One of the casualties of pandemic lockdown was The Friends Festival Evensong in July. As Benjamin Franklin, the US Founding Father, suggested, ‘opportunity comes out of adversity’. The week before St Swithun’s Day found the precentor, Andy Trenier, and The Friends’ Chairman, Bruce Parker, besporting themselves in various parts of the Cathedral.

It was a three-hour filming stint on a Dean Catherine led the service, Lucy mobile phone operated by the new liturgy Hutchin, Director of The Friends read a administrator, Lucy Hole. The result was lesson, there was recorded music, three our first online service. Andy had chosen Friends’ trustees recorded reflections of relevant positions in the Cathedral to lockdown and a member of Salisbury highlight and illustrate sections of the Cathedral chapter, Canon Robert Titley, to Festival Thanksgiving Prayer which offers whom we are most grateful, preached the ‘our most high praise for all Christ’s faithful following sermon: servants in this city, diocese and country’ – “Greetings from your friends at – and it’s a comprehensive list of saints, monarchs, from The Friends of – Salisbury Cathedral, bishops, workers, artists, writers and wherever, whenever, however you are anybody else who has had an impact, down watching this, as we gather online over this through the centuries, on the development Friends Festival weekend. Thank you for and welfare of the Cathedral. asking me to join you. Subsequent emails from online participants Times are hard. People are anxious, some brought much appreciation for Andy’s novel are angry; and at times like this you need approach. your friends. Friendship is a lovely thing. It’s less spectacular than passion but has much more stamina – and friendship is a clue to how God sees us. The God who promises Solomon in our reading, ‘When you pray in my temple, I’ll listen,’ is the God who met Moses in the wilderness and spoke to him, as the Bible tells us, ‘as one speaks to a friend’. And Jesus, on the night of his betrayal, at that last supper with his disciples, tells them, ‘I don’t call you servants any more. I call you – friends’. There is no prouder badge to wear. What makes a friend is generosity. When you Canon Titley preaching from Salisbury are in need, a true friend is someone you can

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‘Screenshots’ from the Festival Evensong count on not to ignore you, or just do the The place you have befriended, like this minimum required, but to say ‘Anything I can place, with its generous headroom of arch do to help’ – and mean it. Now, as our health and vault, is a sign of how God sees the crisis ushers in an economic crisis, all charities people who come into it: finite, limited and good causes are looking to their friends. beings who can know the One who is And what a witness it would be if – thanks unlimited and infinite. And time spent under perhaps to your devotion – we could say your soaring arches is an invitation to see that the membership of The Friends of that moment, any moment – this moment Winchester Cathedral has held up, perhaps now – as the hour of God’s invitation. A even gone up, despite the lockdown. moment with, if you like, infinite headroom. So thank you for being Friends of such a But what is it that you are friends of? These place: a place that can help those who enter buildings are exercises in impossibility. When it – can help you and me – to know that we Solomon dedicates the temple he realises are called to be friends of God. Amen.” that: he says to God, ‘Even the heavens cannot contain you, much less this house I The Festival Evensong is still available have built’. And St Paul says, if you want to online at – www.winchester-cathedral.org. find the true temple, the place where God’s uk/an-online-liturgy-for-the-friends-of- glory dwells, look not to a building but the winchester-cathedral/ flesh and blood of faithful people. Now, people are once again bringing their Friends’ AGM flesh and blood – and their faith, or desire The 2020 AGM will now be held by for faith – into your wonderful building, Zoom on Wednesday 14th October at where they are invited to claim as their own 3.30pm. Instructions on how to join the an impossible truth: that God, whom not meeting are on the covering letter which even the universe can contain, wants to accompanies this edition of The Record. dwell in their hearts.

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 41 Fleury Pilgrimage

Winchester Cathedral is proud of its strong links with the Abbey of Fleury on the banks of the Loire. Both were Benedictine foundations and Fleury houses the relics of St Benedict who instituted western monasticism. When Fleury later led a move to return to the simple monastic life that St Benedict preached, Winchester was a central part of that reform in England. Lynne Sharpe was among those who joined Dean Catherine on last year’s pilgrimage to Fleury.

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It was Dean Stancliffe who established our At the ecumenical service, it was a joy to renewed link with the Abbey at Fleury and see Dean Catherine robed and escorted by there is now a flourishing partnership: visits the Abbot. On their way into the choir they by choir, clergy and community members passed by our candle, lit and standing by the with prayers exchanged daily between the icon of the Transfiguration. two communities. After our return home, a message from In 2011, our new (and only) extension to the Brother Joseph expressed their own joy at our visit and how much Winchester means Cathedral, the Fleury Building, was opened, to them, demonstrating exactly our feelings with Abbot Etienne Ricaud unveiling a when we say “God Bless Fleury” during stone commemorating The Friends’ gift evensong each day. to the Cathedral. On our most recent visit to Fleury in August, our group of pilgrims In 2011, when the Fleury building was opened, from the Cathedral community, led by Abbot Etienne was installed in Winchester as Dean Catherine, took part in an ecumenical an honorary canon. Dean James said at the festival service on the eve of the Feast of time: "This is a moment of history. It is very exciting for us that the Abbot of Fleury will the Transfiguration. be our first Ecumenical Canon. Following on Next morning we participated in the parish from the Pope's visit nationally, it is evidence mass. After lunch, we met the Abbot and of the respect with which we hold one monks in the shaded garden of the Abbey another and the acknowledgement of our for coffee and an exchange of gifts. Dean shared journey of faith.” Catherine presented the Abbot with a After nearly thirty years in the post, Abbot three-wicked candle, beautifully inscribed Etienne has now retired and Pere Jacques by our Custos, with the names of Fleury and has been appointed as Prior Administrator Winchester in gold and the ship of faith in for three years, giving the Fleury community blue sailing between them. time to appoint a successor.

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 43 Office News Lucy Hutchin, Director, reports Volunteers on comings and goings in our Volunteers are vital to the life of The Friends and we are so grateful for all that they do. Cathedral office. Thank you to all of you who help with stuffing envelopes, delivering mailings and Office team helping with admin in the office. We are also Leisl Porter joined the office team in April very grateful to the loyal team who organise 2019 and she has been doing a sterling job our coffee mornings with delicious coffee as our finance officer. Leisl replaced Dodie and lively chat. Napier whom we thank for her work and offer best wishes for the future. Together This year we’ve had some help from some with myself and Lesley Mead, the new three younger supporters of The Friends. Verity ‘Ls’ team really enjoy working together in Sawbridge, now head chorister of the Girls’ The Friends’ office. We’ve had a tidy-up and Choir, spent her work experience from Kings’ clear out and a gift of furniture from the School with us last summer and helped reading room next to the Cathedral’s Morley proof-read our 2019 Cathedral Record. library. Our new look was finished off when Lucy Benton (also a member of the Girls’ Sam and Jacob, from the Cathedral works Choir), Sianna Barling and Maya Gandee- department, put up a series of paintings and Morgan from St Swithun’s school spent drawings on our ‘kitchen range’ wall to create many Friday afternoons in the office as part a colourful picture gallery. When coronavirus of their Duke of Edinburgh volunteering. regulations permit, we really look forward to The girls helped us pack up Christmas cards, seeing you all again. shred old records and file new ones.

Office picture gallery

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Trustees Geoff Howard and Anne Newsome have both retired and we would like to thank them for all their dedicated work for The Friends. Anne has been a Trustee for nine years and as leader of the activities committee was the key person behind all the wonderful talks in the Paul Woodhouse suite. Geoff, a professional fundraiser, was

New Trustee – Cindy Wood

able to point us in the right direction in so many ways during his time as a Trustee. In January, we co-opted two new members of the board. Jenny Hilton is taking over Anne Newsome’s responsibility for events and Dr Cindy Wood is taking on the joint editorship of Record Extra with Tom Watson. Thank you to all of our Trustees, past and present, who New Trustee – Jenny Hilton give so much to The Friends.

invited to sit in on a trustees’ meeting at Work experience in Godwin’s solicitors and the weekly admin meeting, which opened my eyes to the The Friends’ Office complexities of running a cathedral. The task of creating an Excel spreadsheet to organise information about various After my Year 10 exams last June, I did legacies was given to me – it was, as I’ve some work experience in the Winchester never been the best at IT, a learning curve, Cathedral Friends’ Office. As soon as I but that was what I was there for. walked into the Inner Close at 9 am on an uncomfortably hot Monday, I was greeted Although my week was somewhat by the extremely friendly and smiley Lucy curtailed by the enjoyment of singing Hutchin, and I knew that I had a great at the Southern Cathedrals Festival in week to look forward to. Chichester on the Thursday and Friday, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in The I was first given the task of counting Friends’ Office. It reminded me of what the left-over Christmas cards, which a strong community there is at the was a surprisingly challenging task Cathedral, and how lucky I am to be a part (being a chorister, it is unusual for me of it. to have to count higher than four!) but also remarkably satisfying. I was next Verity Sawbridge

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 45 Events 2019-20

46 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 These images illustrate the breadth of events The Friends have either hosted or been involved with over the past year. They range from the installation of the nave Christmas tree which we fund, our Annual Lecture on the Kings and Scribes exhibition which was delivered jointly by John Crook, Roly Riem and Nick Cox and the digitisation of our archives which created its own story in the local newspapers. The portrait of Bishop Colin James is one of many which Friends saw on a visit to Wolvesey. Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 47 2400 hours worked by the staff in The Friends office 144 new members

£7,870 for trees in public areas over 100 volunteers helped out

The Year in Figures

7000 envelopes stuffed £5,600 raised from sale of publications and £5,400 Christmas cards for Cathedral flowers

48 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 24 talks and other Friends’ events £8,600 raised from Friends’ events

£420 for Cathedral 580 Christmas tree visitors to the Friends’ Office 330 cups of tea and coffee

£15,600 for the Girls’ Choir

6800 Christmas cards sold

£33,200 two chorister bursaries 240 miles travelled by Friends to and 90 from outings volunteers delivered 3375 mailings

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 49 Ninety Years On – 2021

We have already marked our forthcoming 90th anniversary with the digitisation of all previous editions of the Winchester Cathedral Record. This year, we also added the many specialised booklets which have been published by The Friends over the years. The details can be found on our website www.wincathrecord.org Tom Watson, vice-chairman of The Friends, has been delving through past copies of The Record to discover how notable anniversaries have been celebrated since 1931.

Although the first quarter century of The Friends passed without a 25th celebration in 1956, three subsequent major anniversaries have been recorded in the annual Winchester Cathedral Record – the 50th in 1981, 60th in 1991 and 75th in 2006. There was clearly a great deal of forethought, much entertainment from the events and, let it be whispered, a lot of fun had by members at the time but they were rather soberly recorded in our annual publication.

50th anniversary Much planning went into a Festival of Talents to celebrate The Friends’ first half-century. It was held over four days in July and was opened by Hampshire’s famed legal celebrity of the time, Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls. In addition to the AGM and The Friends’ Festival Evensong, there was a wide range of concerts, poetry readings and a lecture on Thomas Ken. The main events

50 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Ninety Years On – 2021 were an exhibition of “many highly prized 75th anniversary treasures” belonging to members in Priors’ For the Diamond Jubilee, The Friends Hall and a large sale of The Friends’ “culinary celebrated by giving a new St Swithun nave and other skills” under a vast marquee in altar frontal designed by Jane Lemon to the Cloister Garth. The Record’s editor noted Cathedral. It was unveiled on the day before sales were very brisk and latecomers were The Friends’ Festival and in place for the next often disappointed. He concluded that day’s Evensong. The former Dean, Trevor “there was an invigorating sense of common Beeson, gave a lecture on Festival Day and achievement, a real joy of celebration, and a special 75th anniversary cake was cut by a a notable enhancement of the morale of Friend, Anne Blakeney, who shared the same those who discovered for the first time that birthday year of 1931. the things they produced for the pleasure of it had a value in the market-place as well as their own homes.” The accounts showed that the Festival of Talents was a financial success, too.

60th anniversary In 1991, another Festival of Talents was planned and delivered for the Diamond Jubilee year, as well as concerts and other events. The Festival’s programme shows a ten- day schedule of events including concerts, exhibitions in the Cathedral, Prior’s Hall and a marquee on Cloister Garth as well as poetry readings, The Friends’ AGM and services. The Festival working party had 18 members, including one responsible for angling (lessons were given in fly tying). Graham Rogers, who had newly joined as General Secretary, reported that the weather had been kind for the Festival but that attendances “were not up to expectations but those that came enjoyed it and found something to amuse and please them.” Our Royal Patron, the Queen, was sent a message of loyal greetings to which she responded with “her warm thanks” wishing The Friends well for “a happy and successful Festival of Talents.”

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 51 Friends of Winchester Cathedral statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2020

The above is an extract from the full Financial Statements for the financial year ending 2020. The formal Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements have been independently examined and were approved by the Board of Trustees on 1st May 2020. They will be submitted to the Charity Commission as required. Copies of the full document are available on application to The Friends’ office or from the Charity Commission’s website www.charity-commission.gov.uk

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Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 53 Finance Treasurer’s Notes Brendoncare Please help us to maximise our income in Winchester

Gift aid Kindness, care, choice and community Why not enable your generosity to be enhanced by 25% without it costing you a Brendoncare Park Road Brendoncare Otterbourne Hill penny? It’s called Gift Aid and it’s sponsored by the Inland Revenue. • Nursing and respite care home • Nursing and dementia care home By way of a simple illustration: • Situated in a tranquil part of • Apartments for people living • Your gift-aided subscription is, say, £25 (or Winchester with dementia £45 for a joint membership) • Community hub for residents Brendoncare Meadway • The Gift Aid is 25% of £25, so £6.25 (or and local community £11.25 for a joint membership) • Residential and respite care home • Situated in a quiet residential area • This results in an overall gift to The Friends of £31.25 (or £56.25 for a joint membership) of Winchester Modern technology and direct debits Readers may recall my cris de coeur in last • A higher-rate taxpayer (at, say, 40%) can year’s Record when I extolled the virtues then reduce his or her tax bill by £6.25 of modern technology relating to money (20%), thus reducing the cost of the transactions. The reaction of many of you in subscription from £25 to a mere £18.75 (or changing the way you have been so kindly from £45 to £33.75 for a joint membership) supporting us from paying by cheque or cash It’s as simple as that, so may I encourage any to using direct debits has been admirable of you who are unsure as to whether or not and has seen a significant saving in our bank you have asked us to apply gift-aid to your charges. By the way, standing orders are gifts to call the office, who will then check acceptable, but less effective when they our secure database. We have the potential aren’t made out for the correct amount! to increase our income by a further £7,500 if This has also made a huge difference to every single donation is gift-aided. There can also be confusion with joint-memberships our administration throughout the difficult where only one of the two members has To find out more, please contact our teams: lockdown period, with our temporarily signed the Gift Aid declaration. This usually reduced team, who have been obliged to results in only half of the potential Gift Aid Brendoncare Park Road Brendoncare Otterbourne Hill work mainly from home, being spared much being recoverable, so again, please don’t Park Road, Winchester, Hampshire, Otterbourne, Winchester, Hampshire, of the painstaking task of having to process hesitate to call the office to check whether | | cheques and cash. On their and the Trustees’ SO23 7BE 01962 869287 SO21 2FL 01962 679649 the tax advantages can be improved for both behalf, I offer sincere thanks to those of you and us. Brendoncare Meadway you who have seen the light and given technology the opportunity to contribute to David Fellowes Mead Road, St Cross, Winchester, our cause – please keep it up! Hon Treasurer Hampshire, SO23 9RF | 01962 865784

54 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 www.brendoncare.org.uk Registered charity no: 326508 Brendoncare in Winchester Kindness, care, choice and community

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An important project in the past year has been the establishment of The Friends of Winchester Cathedral’s archive website. The project was undertaken in three stages and offers all 88 editions of Winchester Cathedral Record since 1932, 24 Friends' publications, and Record Extra, which has 40 recent historical articles about the EXTRA Cathedral, published since 2015.

The archive’s home page is www.wincathrecord.org. It can be searched as a total resource using ‘search all’ or you can rummage through editions, publications and articles, as you wish, using the ‘browse’ facility. Record Extra can still be found on the Cathedral website, under The Friends’ tab. However, it will be taken down when the website is revamped in the near future. Future articles will be added to the archive website, as will editions of Winchester Cathedral Record, including this one. The Friends’ Director, Lucy Hutchin, has learned that other cathedral friends’ organisations are viewing our archive with interest. Record Extra Record Extra has a new joint editorial team, Dr Cindy Wood and Prof Tom Watson. Cindy and Tom, both trustees of The Friends, are keen to encourage the preparation and writing of articles for it. They are well-known to Friends and guides: Cindy has presented talks on chantry chapels and Cathedral graffiti, while Tom has published pieces in Record Extra about Joan of Navarre and the lesser-known saints of the Cathedral and presented talks on saints’ cults. Cindy is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Winchester, while Tom is an emeritus professor of Bournemouth University and recently completed an MA in medieval history at Winchester. The joint-editors aim to increase the number and range of articles in Record Extra. They have prepared a style guide for authors, which can be requested through The Friends’ office.

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Rathbone Investment Management Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. New Members The Very Revd T R Barker Mr J S Green Mrs N Rule Mr & Mrs K Barrand Mr C Green & Ms J Middleton The Revd C Scott Mr & Mrs Bastable Mr & Mrs P Hamilton Mr G Seligman Mr C Bazlinton Mr & Mrs K Harding Ms K Sharpe Mrs J Bell Mr & Mrs R Harding Mr & Mrs R Sherwin Mr & Mrs M Biden Mr & Mrs B Harris Mr & Mrs B Shorter Miss S Bird Mrs L Hatt Mr N Sibley Mr & Mrs K Brundish Mr & Mrs D Higgins Miss C Simms Mr M Cahill Mrs P Holder Ms M A Smith Dr & Mrs Cameron Mr & Mrs J Horsley Miss A Smith Mr & Mrs M Carden Mr & Mrs R Howatt Mr D W Smith Ms H Carter Mrs R Howell Miss F Case Mr C Pascall & Ms H Jepsen Dr F Speyer Mr & Mrs R Clarke Miss L Keeble Miss J Sprankling Mr & Mrs R Cleal Mr & Mrs H Labram Ms J Strong Mrs P Cook Mr & Mrs G Lake Miss L Terry Mrs V Corocoran Mr & Mrs S Lambert Mr M Tolan & Ms O Grimes Mrs M Cunningham Mr M Lanari Mr & Mrs R Venne Mr G Darlaston Mr & Mrs M Lane Mr J Walker Mr & Mrs G Dawson Mrs J Lessware Mr & Mrs B Ward Mr P Dlugosz Mr & Mrs J Lloyd Mr N Weaver & Ms K Sharpe Mrs J Douglas Mr & Mrs R Masters Mr & Mrs J Whiteley Mrs E Dove-Dixon Mr & Mrs A McCauley Mrs A Whitfield Professor & Mrs C Edwards Dr C Mitchell Mr & Mrs D Wicks Mr & Mrs G Evans Dr & Mrs P A Morgan Mrs L Wild Mr & Mrs R Evans Mrs S Mottram Mr & Mrs S Williamson Mr & Mrs B Farncombe Mrs C Nicklin Dr H & Dr I Wilson Mrs A Farwell Miss E O'Mara Mr M Flavell & Mrs L Gibson Mr & Mrs Phelan Mr & Mrs N Wissett-Warner Dr & Mrs H Ford Mr & Mrs Pope Miss P Woodcock Ms B Fox Mr & Mrs S Robbins Miss W Wooff Mrs J Francis Mr & Mrs S Robinson Mr & Mrs P Worth Mrs A Fry Mr M Rose Mr & Mrs H Yelf Mr & Mrs S Grant Mrs J Ruddock Mrs P Zimmerman

60 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 In Memoriam Miss C Allen Mrs M Gerard Mr B T Pegg Mrs J T Ansell Mrs B Godden Mr V A L Powell Sir L Appleyard Sir J A N Graham Mrs V A L Powell Mr R G Archer Mrs E Haslam Mr B Relph Mr H G Ashton Dr F Haslam Mrs J Reynolds Mrs S G Balme Mr R Hoare Maj-Gen N Richards Mrs E J Bausor Mr B Holloway Mr J Bausor Mrs J Howe-Clarke Lady Rivett-Carnac Mr R Blackburn Mr M C Johnson Dr R A Sladden Mr J A Brewer Mrs R Kinnaird-Smith Mrs J Spokes Ms R Bridger Mrs I L Lauriston Mr W Tomlin Miss M F Cullen Mr P S W K Maclure Mrs J Voda Mrs D Dennis Mrs M Markham Mrs A Wadman The Rt Revd J Dennis Mr A J Maxse Mr J Wald Mr J Duckworth Ms S McHeyzer Mrs D E Wallace Mrs A P Eggar Mrs A McWilliams Mr J F Fielder Mrs J Morgan Mrs A Warne Dr J Garfield Miss E A Morse Mr H C Watson Mr D Gaulter Mrs J A Osborne Mrs E Wotton 50 Year Membership Anniversaries Mr & Mrs M Carden Lady Colman Mr P H de Rougemont Mr J D Mountford Mr F W H Phillips Mrs J M Marks Mrs J F Fielder Legacies We are grateful for all the legacies we have received, most recently from:

Mrs D Perry Miss W Hubbard Miss R H S Rouse

Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 61 A gift for all time

Friends of Winchester Cathedral gratefully acknowledge the support of The University of Winchester in producing this brochure. Throughout our history, some of our most important work in the Cathedral has been

supported by legacies.

Registered Charity No. 220218 No. Charity Registered If you do decide to leave a gift to The Friends or have already made

www.winchester-cathedral/friends a provision, we would be very pleased to hear from you, if only to [email protected] say thank you for your contribution during your lifetime.

01962 857245 01962 This year, we had planned a lunch in The Pilgrims’ Hall, followed

The Friends O ce, 2 The Close, Winchester SO23 9LS SO23 Winchester Close, The 2 ce, O Friends The by a talk in the Morley Library by the Cathedral curator, for those

please contact Lesley Bestwick in the Friends O ce. O Friends the in Bestwick Lesley contact please who have kindly indicated that provision for The Friends is included If you would like to discuss any aspect of legacies for the Friends Friends the for legacies of aspect any discuss to like would you If in their wills. This event was cancelled owing to the coronavirus restrictions, even before the invitations were sent out. We hope, however, to reschedule in 2021.

Please contact Lucy Hutchin on 01962 857244 or [email protected] if you would like to discuss leaving a gift to The Friends in your will. A giftThank foryou so much. all time

Friends of Winchester Cathedral gratefully acknowledge the support of The University of Winchester in producing this brochure.

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please contact Lesley Bestwick in the Friends O ce. O Friends the in Bestwick Lesley contact please If you would like to discuss any aspect of legacies for the Friends Friends the for legacies of aspect any discuss to like would you If Friends of Winchester Cathedral 2020 Royal Patron Her Majesty the Queen Patron The Right Reverend Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester President The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester Ex Officio Vice-Presidents Nigel Atkinson Esq, HM Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire Cllr Patrick Cunningham, The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Winchester Ms Jean Ritchie QC, Cathedral Council Chairman Honorary Vice-President Mo Hearn

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bruce Parker, Chairman Tom Watson, Vice-Chairman David Fellowes, Treasurer Jenny Hilton, Natalie Shaw Nigel Spicer, Cindy Wood Ex Officio Chapter Trustees The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester The Reverend Canon Andy Trenier, Precentor and Sacrist

STAFF Lucy Hutchin, Director Lesley Mead Leisl Porter

Friends’ Prayer Most glorious Lord of life, Who gave to your disciples the precious name of friends: accept our thanks for this Cathedral Church, built and adorned to your glory and alive with prayer and grant that its company of Friends may so serve and honour you in this life that they come to enjoy the fullness of your promises within the eternal fellowship of your grace; and this we ask for your name’s sake. Amen. Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Number 89

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