Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Number 89
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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 Joint Editors – Bruce Parker and Lucy Hutchin Photos: Nick Kane, Natasha Longhurst, Simon Newman, Jim Pascoe Cartoon: Clive Hamblin Design and print – talkdesignandprint.com 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 6 Winchester Cathedral Record 2020 Twelve Years as Receiver General 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.