FRIENDS OF BRISTOL CATHEDRAL (Dedicated to the Holy & Undivided Trinity)

REPORT & NOTES

2013 £2.50 Suggested Donation

Friends of the Cathedral of the

Holy and Undivided Trinity

The objects shall be: a. To cooperate with the Dean and Chapter in: i. Preserving and restoring the fabric, fittings, ornaments, vestments and other contents of and in the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Bristol and Precincts thereof (excluding houses of residence); ii. Furthering any scheme to maintain, to protect and set forward their utility; iii. Enhancing the quality of worship through music and the arts; iv. Supporting the educational work of the Cathedral. b. To pray and work for the Cathedral and its work. c. Through subscriptions and other giving to achieve these objects. d. To arrange activities which further the above objects or promote fellowship among members of the Friends.

ii FRIENDS OF BRISTOL CATHEDRAL (Dedicated to the Holy & Undivided Trinity) REPORT & NOTES 2013

PRESIDENT The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bristol

CHAIRMAN The Very Reverend the Dean of Bristol

HONORARY TREASURER Mr Keith Norton

HONORARY SECRETARY Canon Richard Outhwaite

COUNCIL

Canon Residentiary: Canon Richard Outhwaite Elected Members: Mr Martin Christie (to AGM 2013) Mr Douglas Gunary (to AGM 2013) Mrs Jeannie Whatmough (to AGM 2015) Mrs Sue Leighton (to AGM 2015) Mr Andy McNab (to AGM 2016) Mr Bob Latham (to AGM 2016) Ex-officio Architect: Ms Louise Bainbridge

Editor of the Report: Mrs Patricia Morris

Registered Charity number 274399

iii The Chapter of Bristol Cathedral

The Dean ...... The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle City Canon ...... Revd Canon Tim Higgins ...... (from January 2006) Canon Precentor ...... Revd Canon Wendy Wilby ...... (January 2007—July 2013) Canon Pastor ...... Revd Canon Robert Bull ...... (from May 2011) Capitular Canon ...... Canon Richard Outhwaite (Treasurer) ...... (from October 2007) Capitular Canon ...... Canon Sue Topalian (Visitor Experience) ...... (from December 2008) Capitular Canon ...... Canon Tim Harle (HR) ...... (from December 2008) Capitular Canon ...... Canon Jon Cannon (Fabric) ...... (from June 2011)

iv Times of Services Sundays: 7.40am Morning Prayer 8.00am Holy Communion (B.C.P.) 10.00am Cathedral Eucharist 3.30pm Choral Evensong (and sermon) Weekdays: 8.30am Morning Prayer 12.30pm Eucharist 5.15pm Evensong (3.30pm on Saturdays) During term time, Evensong is usually sung by the Cathedral Choir. The service on Wednesdays is with boys’ voices and on Friday is with men’s voices. On Thursday the service is usually said. Major festivals are observed with a Choral Eucharist. Cathedral Staff Chapter Clerk Wendy Matthews (from October 2012) Andrew Phillips (retired October 2012) Master of the Choristers and Organist Mark Lee, FRCO MA Assistant Organist Paul Walton, FRCO M.Mus Head Verger and Sub-Sacrist Glynn Usher Vergers Roger Dubois Louisa Pittman Assistant Vergers Nigel Nash Alistair Campbell Executive Assistant and PA to the Dean Sarah Morris Music Administrator Tim Popple Education Officer Amy White Secretary, Bristol Cathedral Trust Chris Harries Administrative Assistant Wendy Pradalie Finance Manager Matthew Hall Finance Assistant Chrissie Gill Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TJ Telephone 0117 926 4879 Fax 0117 925 3678 Office email: [email protected] www.bristol-cathedral.co.uk

v Contents

The Chapter of Bristol Cathedral ...... iv Times of Services ...... v Cathedral Staff ...... v From the Dean ...... 1 REPORTS ...... 5 The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Bristol Cathedral 2013 held on Sunday, 23rd June 2013 at 2.00pm in the Chapter House ...... 5 The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Bristol Cathedral 2012 held on Sunday, 24th June 2012 at 2.00pm in the Chapter House ...... 8 Ann Louise Helleman ...... 13 Friends January 2012 – August 2013 ...... 14 John Miskin ...... 14 Social Group Activities ...... 15 The Choir of Bristol Cathedral ...... 16 Happy Hippos Children’s Church ...... 17 The Friends’ Annual Outing 2012 ...... 19 2013 Lecture to the Friends ...... 21 The Reverend Canon Precentor Wendy Wilby ...... 24 Farewell to Andrew Phillips, Chapter Clerk ...... 25 Welcome to Wendy Matthews, Chapter Clerk ...... 27 Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee ...... 28 Harvest Festival 2012 ...... 32 The Lay Clerk’s Tale ...... 35 2013 National Conference of Friends of Cathedrals ...... 37 A History of the Music of Bristol Cathedral in 100 Objects – A Review ...... 42 Financial Report for 2011 and 2012 ...... 43

vi From the Dean There is a postcard propped up on my desk, The Dean and Chapter, Bristol Cathedral 1929. This venerable group is seated outside the ‘garden’ door of the Chapter House. The Dean is Henry de Candole, who came to us from St John’s Smith Square and died, in office, in 1933. When I have a moment, I will identify the others; at least one of whom appears to be reluctant to retire. There they are, in the year of the ‘Flapper’ election (women under 30 had the vote for the first time) and the year John Logie Baird was testing his new television equipment, perched on the edge of a brave new world, blithely unaware of what is coming. My life is full of these little glimpses of our long past. The liturgy, the building, the memories visitors bring, are all daily reminders of the continuities of life in our Cathedral. I relish them and rely on them because this is a year when the discontinuities are also apparent. People In that postcard, it would seem that long service and permanence were part of cathedral life. In Bristol today, we all live life differently and there is a good deal of coming and going. After serving six years as our Precentor and our first female canon (none of those in that postcard), Canon Wilby retired. In what she had to say, as she left, Wendy picked out the friendships and relationships she had enjoyed. Her formal responsibilities, of course, were for music and liturgy and she was devoted to that task. Even so, it is perhaps for the contribution she made to our wider life, encouraging a sense of cathedral community that she will be best remembered. That said, the work she did in securing the future of the Cathedral Choir School and in encouraging wider engagement in our music will be an important part of her legacy. As she left, her delightful book on cathedral music was published and the Friends were able to see what their generous support for that project had achieved. At the time of writing we are busy in a search for a new Precentor. An advertisement and interview process did not lead to an appointment, so it is head-hunting now. I am optimistic that we will be making an announcement fairly soon and can look to a new colleague joining us round about Christmas. Andrew Phillips, the Chapter Clerk, left us for a new life in Devonshire not very long after the last newsletter appeared. His work here brought us a new financial security together with a new energy and ambition. He

1 was also a key figure in all the conversations and concerns around Occupy and in the negotiations over the new Cathedral School. He was a man who made a real impact; we are much stronger than we were. He was succeeded by Wendy Matthews who came to us after a number of years working for the RDA. Her enthusiasm, her commitment to the task and optimism allow us to build on the foundation Andrew laid and you will read, later in the report, of the work she has begun. Our Finance Manager, Matthew Hall, who works both for us and for the Diocese of Bristol has been promoted in his other role and is now Diocesan Director of Finance. We are delighted for him (and not the least bit surprised). He will sustain an interest in what we do, but a good deal of the work he has done will need to be given to someone else and we are busy recruiting for that post. Amy White, our Education Officer has been offered full time employment in her own church and leaves us before Christmas. She has been both a cheerful colleague and the prop and stay of our burgeoning engagement with schools. We wish her every happiness in the future and she will go with our thanks and admiration. We are committed to developing the work she has done and we need to debate, the next step, in Chapter. You will all know already, I think, that Ann Louise Helleman lost her battle with cancer and died in November 2012. Ann Louise had worked in the Gatehouse for a number of years and occupied a number of roles. In most recent times, she had been our receptionist and our shop manager. She cared deeply about her work and was a welcome presence amongst the volunteers. Her funeral service took place in her own, Roman Catholic, church in Bath. May light perpetual shine upon her. The School For the past year and more the Head and Governors have been engaged in a complex and demanding process as they have explored the possibility of adding primary provision in the Cathedral School. A new Free School, the Cathedral Primary, opened at the beginning of September (for a Reception class) and was greatly over-subscribed. In the first year it will be housed within the existing school, but the search is on for bigger premises (you may have seen some of the press interest). The Cathedral Primary will be a relatively small school providing much needed primary places in the heart of the city. In due

2 course some of our choristers will be there, but we envisage that we will continue to recruit more widely. The School has had another fine year, full of all sorts of achievement. In the Cathedral we have again admired the musical gifts of students and watched our own choir develop in confidence and skill. We have also enjoyed the company of the BCCS Gromit. Fabric This letter is already getting long and this section could easily make it burdensome, so much has been done. New signage has been debated, agreed, designed and now installed and there is more to come in the shape of the important notices that greet us at the West End. The shop which is such an important part of our life, but was a financial burden to us that we could not continue to sustain, has been saved through an agreement with Aslan Christian Books. It is being refitted over the summer thanks to the generosity of the Friends (we are very grateful). At the time of writing I am still waiting to see the work finished, but I know it will be so very much better and will do wonders for the appearance of the entrance to the Cathedral. All the changes that have taken place have not been easy for the faithful volunteers who have worked in the shop and we are grateful too for their patience and good will. The Friends have also kindly agreed to fund a new Advent Candle stand. Currently our Advent candle is lit solemnly at the beginning of the service, but invisibly. We are working with a local master blacksmith on a plan to have something more visible and more beautiful. The aim is that it should be here for the coming Advent. There is work pending on some monuments – you will no doubt have noticed a military memorial in the north transept that looks rather sad and is a little bit of a worry. You will see very soon that it is being made safe prior to a proper renovation. We will also be working on the paving in the Eastern Lady Chapel and on the metalwork of the rose window in the West End. Very soon a new chamber organ will arrive, courtesy of a very generous anonymous bequest. There will be more and more talk of a major organ restoration and you will hear possible plans for work on our heating system and to improve our toilet facilities. Better sound equipment will arrive in the Chapter House (and that is again thanks to the generosity of the Friends). A new website was launched in July to

3 much acclaim. As we build on the resource that it offers us, we will hope to make a significant saving in postage costs and improve our ability to get news out quickly by using e-communication much more. Meanwhile, outside, a large Gromit (part of the city wide initiative raising money for our hospitals) watches over College Green and is mobbed, daily. It has become so vulnerable that it now has a kennel within our porch each night. I suspect that Chapter Group from 1929 would be left a touch breathless by all this activity, though there would have been other demands then and a deep seriousness of purpose. Some things do not change; it is still the round of worship that is the heart of our life and, whatever our worries in these days of financial hardship in which so many in this city are living in deepening anxiety, we still have hope for the future. Look out next year for our engagement in the national commemoration of the outbreak of the Great War, the completion of our signage project, work on a new guide book and much more. It is your support and the energy and wisdom of the Friends Committee that make much of this possible. Thank you. Dean David Hoyle

4 REPORTS

Because the Report is now published in the autumn, this year it contains the minutes and accounts for the Annual General Meetings of both 2012 and 2013. The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Bristol Cathedral 2013 held on Sunday, 23rd June 2013 at 2.00pm in the Chapter House 1. The meeting opened with a prayer from the Dean Those members who have died since the last AGM were remembered. Those members joining since the last AGM were welcomed. 2. Apologies for absence: Joyce Lewis, Jon Thorne, Susan Hampton, Katharine Jewell, Maureen Clark, Julia Trevett. 3. Those present: John and Nicolette Vincent, David and Rita Banfield, Alan Dowsett, Gwen and Robin Sykes, Lionel Reeves, Ian Millard, Peter Scrase, Aileen Moon, Canon Wendy Wilby, Steve Wood, Doug and Alison Gunary, Robert Radwell, Robin Wild, Peter Clark, Fleur Luce, Hermione Gulland, Les Barker, Sue and Keith Norton, Peter Leppard, Sue and Jeremy Leighton, Frank Clarke, Mick Leary, Martin and Phoebe Christie, Ann Plaister, Caroline Hanks, Simon Cuthill, Andy McNab, Edna Knill, Barbara Kimber, Richard Outhwaite. 4. Election of Officers and new Council Members The Dean thanked both Mr Douglas Gunary and Mr Martin Christie for the work that they had carried out through their terms of office on the committee. Nominations for the vacancies created had been received for Mr Andy McNab and Mr Bob Latham and were proposed by Mr Richard Outhwaite and seconded by Mrs Phoebe Christie. With no other nominations from the floor these were unanimously elected. The Dean gave a brief description as to the Cathedral’s various funding bodies and the pressure to rationalize them. Because of this uncertainty since Revd Canon Neville Boundy had retired no one had been appointed as Secretary. Whilst the meeting felt a Secretary should be appointed there was no immediate volunteer. Mr Richard Outhwaite offered to be Secretary until the next

5 AGM. This solution was proposed by Mrs Alison Gunary and seconded by Mrs Rita Banfield 5. Subscription Rates It was agreed that current subscription rates will remain the same for this coming year. 6. Dean’s Report The Dean reported that Canon Wendy Wilby will be greatly missed when she leaves in July. The process to appoint her successor had already started. Interviews had been planned for July 15th. Our part time accountant Mr Matthew Hall who works within the Diocesan Office has just been made Diocesan Leader of Finance and so shortly will no longer be available to the Cathedral. The Bristol Cathedral Choir School is opening a primary school in September. Following the death of our Shop Manager Miss Ann Louise Hellman after a serious illness the Cathedral has allowed ASLAN books to take over the running of the shop which is to be closed in the near future for refitting and restocking. The turning circle in the cloisters and the purchasing of new staging have been completed. A new website and new signage within the Cathedral are in their final phases of preparation before being installed. The next major challenge is to improve the Cathedral facilities and in particular the heating of the Cathedral. 7. Precentor’s Review Canon Wendy Wilby opened by saying how grateful she had been for the many contributions the Friends had made to the life of the Cathedral during her time as Precentor. She described the book she has written and which will be published on July 14th and went on to say how successful the Consort Choir tour to Toulouse had been. The funds given by the Friends for the Bristol Voices outreach had assisted in enabling over 1000 children to visit the Cathedral within a year. 8. Treasurer’s Report The Treasurer Mr Keith Norton presented the accounts. It was proposed by Mr Robin Wilde and seconded by Prof Mick Leary that these accounts should be accepted and this was unanimously agreed by the meeting.

6 9. Funding by the Friends Discussion then took place surrounding the current funding by Friends. It was proposed by Mrs Alison Gunary that the Friends should pay for: . The new radio microphones that were installed prior to the meeting and which have greatly improved the sound pick up and amplification. ( £13,500) . The new sound system for the Chapter House ( £6,500) . A new Advent Candle holder to replace the Advent Ring (£2,500) . The shop refit The meeting unanimously adopted Mrs Gunary’s proposal. 10. Annual Report The Dean advised the meeting that the Annual Report of the Friends will be published in September. This report will include the financial reports for both 2011 and for 2012 and as agreed at the last AGM. This will allow the report in future years to include the financial report of the previous year and will therefore be more up-to-date than in the past. 11. Friends Outing Mr Peter Clark gave details of the next Friends Outing arranged for 7th September when the Friends will visit Great Malvern Priory and Worcester Cathedral. Details have been finalized and application forms are to be returned to Mr Clark before August 19th. (a report of the outing is on page 7) 12. Date of the next AGM 15th June 2014 at 2.00pm in the Chapter House.

7 The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Bristol Cathedral 2012 held on Sunday, 24th June 2012 at 2.00pm in the Chapter House 1. The Opening Prayer was said by the Dean. 2. We remembered the Members who have died since our last meeting. 3. Apologies for Absence Richard & Jane Wildash, Mick Leary, Ann Plaister, Brenda Williams, Robin Wild, Hermione & Andrew Gulland, Norman Small, Julia Trevitt, Robert Radwell, Maureen Clark, Frances Harries, Edna Knill, Susan Hampton, Lionel Reeves. 4. Present The Dean, Katharine Jewell, Keith & Sue Norton, Douglas & Alison Gunary, Peter Clark, Martin & Phoebe Christie, Carmel & Richard Outhwaite, The Venerable David & Mrs Rita Banfield, Patricia Morris, Barbara Kimber, Susan & Geoffrey Stevens, Pauline Cannock, Ian Cannock, Andy McNab, A. W. Anderson, Joy & Michael Mattock, Frank Clarke, Aileen Moon, Barbara Graham, Jeannie Whatmough, Canon Robert Bull, Canon Wendy Wilby, Jon Thorne, Fleur Luce, Canon Neville Boundy. 5. The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 19th June, 2011 were approved; the Council had already done so in their October 2011Meeting. 6. Election of Officers & New Council Members The Council proposed that Richard Outhwaite (due to retire from the Council, and already a Member of Chapter) fill the vacant Canon Residentiary place, and that Patricia Morris, also due to retire, be co-opted as Editor of the Friends’ Report; this was carried unanimously. Richard Outhwaite proposed, and Doug Gunary seconded that Mrs Sue Leighton and Mrs Jeannie Whatmough be elected to serve until the AGM in 2015; this also was carried unanimously. 7. Items brought forward The Dean spoke of recent changes to the Cathedral Staff in the Gatehouse; Ann Louise Hellman has moved to a full-time position running the Cathedral Shop; her place at Reception has been taken by Tim Popple, who combines this with Music Administration.

8 Sarah Morris is Personal Assistant to the Dean and Executive Assistant to the Chapter Clerk; and Louisa Pittman has joined the Vergers. The Dean expressed great gratitude to all the Staff and the Volunteers for their extraordinarily high standards of work, exemplified in the hugely appreciated Diamond Jubilee Celebration the previous weekend. And he thanked the Friends’ Council for their support and hard work. 8. Annual Subscriptions Keith Norton, noting that these have not been raised for a decade, after comparison with some other Friends, proposed that this year’s AGM raise the Subscriptions, for implementation in 2013, as follows: Annual to £25 (from £20), Concessions to £10 (from £7.50), Life to £200 (from £150), Joint Life to £300 (from £250); seconded by Richard Outhwaite, this was passed unanimously. Frank Clarke asked why Subscriptions were down £700 from 2010; the Honorary Treasurer said that new Life Members accounted for the discrepancy (and also pointed out that Life Members, once subscribed, paid no more!). 9. The Precentor’s Report Canon Wendy informed us that she is making slow progress on her book – being back in full harness leaves not much time for uninterrupted work, but she hopes that in a year’s time she may be ready to accept the promised offer of assistance with the cost of publication. 10. The Honorary Treasurer’s Report and Presentation of the Accounts for 2011. “We have had another quiet year financially; the interest rates remain low - and so our income from investments remains low, and this is our main source of income. Our Membership Income is down also. We do have many Life Members. The Secretary has brought us right up to date (to December 2011) on Tax Refunds on Gift Aid, and this will be reflected in next year’s figures. Grant wise we paid the promised £7,000 to the Bristol Voices project ear-marked in 2010, and have paid for the archive of Cathedral photographs to be available on disc, which is a great asset and available for any wanting to give illustrated lectures about the Cathedral. We are working closely with the Dean & Chapter to see how we can support the Cathedral’s long-term plans, and continue to explore the way the Friends operate to ensure we are effective.” He added that at present

9 the Friends do little fund raising, but are grateful to Peter Clark for running the Annual Outing at a profit. 11. Adoption of Accounts Peter Clark proposed and Ian Cannock seconded that they be adopted, and this was carried unanimously. The Dean thanked the Honorary Treasurer for all his hard work. 12. Vice-Chairman’s Remarks “Mr. Chairman and fellow Friends, could I echo the Chairman’s welcome to any new Friends and encourage you all to recruit new members. They would be very welcome! I will start with a brief account of the year's activities. After the AGM last year an Extraordinary Meeting of the Council took place. Unfortunately the Dean could not be present but there was a discussion on the role of the Friends and how they should be of help to the Cathedral. The use of the capital we hold and whether it should be conserved to provide income or spent on current desirable projects was considered in the light of the Chapter plans, as explained to us by Canon Richard Outhwaite. In September, the Friends of Llandaff Cathedral visited Bristol. They had coffee and delicious home-made cakes with a number of the Friends and then went on a tour of the Cathedral with a number of Friends who were also Guides. It was a delight to meet them and they included a number of Bristol exiles who were astonished at all the changes in the Anchor Road area. On October 1st, the Annual Outing took place, visiting first the beautiful little Norman Church at Elkestone and then the wonderful Cathedral at Gloucester. We were made very welcome by the Gloucester Friends at a magnificent tea before Evensong, sung by the superb Choir. Again we have to thank Peter and Maureen Clark for all the hard work and planning that goes into giving us such a rewarding and enjoyable day. On February 28th the Annual Lecture was given by Trevor Fry who does the Sunday programme on Radio Bristol. It was held in the Nave and besides the Friends there were a number of his fans who were delighted to meet him in the flesh at the tea afterwards. Perhaps, this is a good time to thank all the members who so cheerfully have kept us fed and watered at our functions and the Cathedral Staff, both in the Abbey Gatehouse and in the Cathedral

10 for their help and support. Perhaps you would like to join me in thanking them. At the Autumn Council Meeting, it was decided that the Friends leaflet was out-of-date and Doug Gunary and Richard Outhwaite undertook to produce a new one. I think we should thank them for all their efforts and congratulate them on the very attractive and relevant leaflet which they have produced. Trish Morris has taken over the Editing of the Annual Report and we are all very grateful to her and her team for undertaking this difficult task. Canon Neville Boundy was always going to be a hard act to follow but she has produced a publication full of interest and variety, reflecting the year's events--from the Dean's reflections on 'Occupy' to Canon Jon Cannon's article on the Berkeley tombs - with excellent illustrations. I am sure that we all enjoyed it. After Easter, I told the Dean that, after four years, I had decided to resign as Lay Vice Chairman. There have been three Chairmen in that time and I felt that it was time for me to go. It has been a privilege to be Lay Vice Chair. I have enjoyed the opportunity and wish the members and the new Council well for the future.” 13. The Friends’ Annual Outing this year is to Hereford Cathedral on Saturday 13th October; the full itinerary will be available shortly; the tour will include the chance to see the Mappa Mundi and the Chained Library; the Dean strongly recommended the choice. (There is a report of the Outing on page 19.) 14. The Friends’ Lecture in 2013 will be given by Canon John Cannon, author and Art Historian, television presenter, superb communicator (and, of course, a member of our Chapter); the date is now fixed for Saturday 2nd March. 15. The Dean’s Report: The Dean began by speaking of, “Good things to report…” “It has been a busy and fruitful year - it is reported that there is a ten per cent growth in the congregation over the past year. The finances are in good health, in part thanks to the efforts of the Chapter Clerk and the Canon Treasurer. There have been major works on the building, (some delayed fabric projects have been completed) and the Cathedral School is growing apace and there are hopes it will become an All-Age Academy. We shall know if the bid is successful in July; if it is, there will soon be a Primary School on the site.

11 The Chapter has reviewed the benefits and support it gives to the Cathedral Staff this year. We have been able to increase some salaries, we are now more generous in the support we give to those who are ill, and we have addressed some issues relating to safety and security. And the Chapter has a clear list of its priorities. But there are challenges ahead; the Cathedral Trust, anticipating the current climate, decided not to fund raise two years ago. Two years on, that decision is having a serious impact on the Cathedral. Chapter can manage the day-to-day budget, but major items are beyond its reach and we know that there are planned projects ahead and that the Organ will soon need a major refit (around/at least £500,000). The need to reconfigure the work of the Cathedral Trust, provides an opportunity to review and develop the relationship between the Fitzhardinge Society and the Friends. In a time of re-imagining our roles it seems wise not to invite someone to take on the role of the Vice Chairman of the Friends, but wait for a year by which time the role could become much more specific. The Dean thanked Katharine Jewell most warmly for her advice, guidance and direction from the moment he arrived in Bristol, “she has been a most gracious friend, a loyal servant, whose close attention to detail and commitment to the life of the Cathedral was hugely reassuring when I became Dean”. The Dean took great pleasure in presenting Katharine with Encounters with God by Sister Wendy Beckett, as a token of his gratitude and that of the Friends for all she has done for us. The Dean gave a brief outline of the differences historically and currently between the Cathedral Trust and the Fitzhardinge Society, their particular functions and their present and potential members. The Trust is responsible for administering a significant part of the Cathedral assets, it has a separate Chair with some independent Trustees; it funds major repairs and projects in the cathedral – recently it paid for half the work on the North Cloister roof, the Night Stairs and the Chapter House floor (with help from the Temple Trustees). The Fitzhardinge Society is a membership society raising income through an annual fee and building up a sizeable investment, currently ring-fenced.

12 The Friends tend to include a higher proportion of more active members and make gifts for items often used in worship or important for our daily life. 16. Ratification needing the A.G.M’s approval for Future Projects a) NB. Any plans to move the Font will not happen before 2013 b) the Council would like general approval of the AGM to renew the Garden Seating c) likewise the Advent Ring – rather splendid, but largely invisible – maybe we have something on a stand (as in Gloucester Cathedral) d) in the future the Council would like to contribute to the refitting of the Cathedral Shop No specific sums of money were given; it was proposed by Richard Outhwaite, and seconded by Doug Gunary that in principle these projects be approved by the Meeting; it was carried unanimously. 17. Any Other Business: i. Aileen Moon asked if a member of the Friends’ Council still attended the Trust Meetings. The Dean said that Richard Outhwaite attended. ii. Jon Thorne asked again if the small framed notice on the North Gates when locked giving details of the weekday services might be restored. The Dean said that the Chapter and Canon Cannon were undertaking an extensive review of all the signage in the Cathedral; this request would be noted. 18. Meeting ended shortly after three o’clock.

Ann Louise Helleman The Cathedral community was saddened at the death early last November of Ann Louise Helleman, who joined us as Cathedral Secretary in the autumn of 2006 and went on to become Shop Manager as well. Once so much the telephone voice of the Cathedral, she had suffered from illness for many months. She will be remembered for her pleasantness of manner and her gentle sense of humour. We remember her with affection and mourn her loss. Chris Harries

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Friends January 2012 – August 2013

We welcome the following new members: Mr C Dean Mr G Lough Mrs S Fernandes Mr B Mason Mr G Hardyman Mr M O'Connor Mrs A Haynes Mr & Mrs J G Stevens Mr P Lawrence Mr S Wood Mr & Mrs J Leighton We record with sympathy and remembrance those who have died during the past year: Miss P Adams Mr & Mrs L Mason Miss RE Bennett Mr J Miskin Miss J M Colliver Canon PK Preston Mrs C Hudson Lady Jane Verdon Smith Mrs E M Kingcome Mr D Walkerdine Miss EG Martin

John Miskin It is with much sadness we report the death of John Miskin, aged 92, after a short illness in October 2012. John spent most of his working life in the aviation industry; in Coventry he won the title “Best apprentice aircraft fitter of the year” and became a freeman of that city. He then moved to work for Rolls Royce in Bristol. John was a stalwart of Bristol Cathedral for over forty years and his service and dedication covered so many aspects of Cathedral life. John’s stewardship over the years included tending the Cathedral garden, cutting the grass, and enjoying a good garden bonfire, which in those days was permitted. He was a Steward, a Cathedral Guide, a Welcomer and a Server, and was always available for voluntary duties whenever needed. For many years John was also involved in charity work for under-privileged young people in Bristol. A true Christian, he was an example to all who were privileged to know him. May he Rest in Peace. Norman Sage

14 Social Group Activities Gathered together by Canon Wendy, the Social Group has responded to many requests for hospitality. A great variety of occasions has included a Dean's farewell and a Dean's welcome and the greeting of Canons residential, lay and diocesan. We serve drinks on special occasions like the Legal Service, and the teas provided on Benefactors' Sunday have been much appreciated. We have also organised pancake parties, Easter breakfasts and meals for visiting choirs in the summer; we were pleased to cater for the cast of Canon Nev's “Five Sides of a Circle” when they appeared in the Cathedral. The marvellous service for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last year and the farewell to Canon Wendy in July were great occasions in which the group played a big part. The monthly Sunday lunch has become a major highlight. Prepared, cooked and served by Shirley Anne Bell with a team of helpers, sometimes including Maureen Dickens, there has been a growing appreciation of the fine food provided. Conversation during the meal is specially enjoyed by all and some even get around to dissecting the sermon! There has been a big boost to the fellowship of the Congregation as people come to know each other so much better. We also have Shirley Anne to thank for the many special occasions when one of her wonderful cakes has surprised us by serving so many people. The generosity of those present at the monthly Sunday lunches and the Weekly Lent lunches has made it possible to send a donation of over £1000 last year and £1000 this year to Christian Aid and £1350 to Crisis Centre Ministries. We have also supported other charities at home and overseas, the latest being Changing Tunes. At Christmas time we visit members of the congregation who are ill or housebound to deliver a colourful plant or a box containing food and to wish them well. We also try to keep the Clergy informed throughout the year if we notice anyone missing from the congregation for a while or if we get to know about anyone being ill or in hospital. The Social Group is a very happy band of people who enjoy working together in fellowship and fun. If you would like to join us do have a word with Canon Robert. We are grateful for the number of people already helping and would like others to join us, as the number of events we cover grows. Rita Banfield

15 The Choir of Bristol Cathedral This has been a very good year for the Cathedral Choirs, and an exceptionally able team of singers has provided music at the highest level for the liturgy of our magnificent Cathedral. Our choristers have enjoyed a very good year with both teams (boys and girls) performing extremely well. We are currently running with 24 girls and 21 boys (including probationers). We continue to be firmly committed to our two top lines and take huge pleasure and pride in what they are achieving. We have also enjoyed the services of a team of very good men. We welcomed a new Lay Clerk this year in the form of Tom Castle; and Choral Scholar Barney Kirk, with Rob Jeffrey returning from his language year abroad to resume as alto choral scholar. The Choir continues to be very busy, without even including the singing of some 240 services! Since the last report we had a hugely successful tour to Italy, giving concerts in Venice, Montecatini Terme and Florence. Highlights were mass in St Mark’s Basilica and a concert in the wonderful old Roman town of Lucca. You can read details of the tour, together with our day at St Paul’s singing for the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy on the Cathedral web site. We appreciate so much the services of Jeremy Kirk as our Tour Manager, and all our choir parents for their huge fund-raising efforts. Later this term the choristers are performing in Britten’s War Requiem in the Colston Hall. The main body of the choir consists of the combined might of Bristol and Gloucester Choral Societies, with the choristers singing the children’s choir part. Adrian Partington will conduct. The Cathedral Choir continues to be heavily involved with Bristol Voices, our singing outreach project, and the Choristers have been into a number of different primary schools in Bristol over the year, showing what they do and offering support and encouragement. We have been delighted to continue to welcome those schools back to join us for a concert. Our Cathedral Consort (youth choir), which caters mainly for former choristers and other talented singing youngsters continues to develop under the direction of Paul Walton, our Assistant Organist, and we look forward to great things from them over the year. Mark Lee

16 Happy Hippos Children’s Church I am delighted to be able to share with you some of the highlights of the past year in the Happy Hippos Children’s Church. Our numbers continue to grow and in the past year we have welcomed new families and a new group of Year 5 probationers who enjoy the chance to stretch their legs and raise their voices (other than singing!) away from the formalities of the Eucharist. Our regular Sunday morning pattern has become well established now, and the children really enjoy their procession from the Nave to the activity rooms upstairs, taking with them symbols from the main service: the Cross, Bible and candle. I am particularly indebted to a very willing and able team of parents and grandparents who lead the activity sessions each Sunday, without whom the Happy Hippos would be a sad group indeed! We have started using a new resource in the past year or so – Roots for Churches – to which we subscribe on an annual basis; this gives us a magazine of resources and teaching ideas every two months, which follows exactly the lectionary used in the main service, and also access to online resources, including activity sheets, stories, role plays, songs and prayers. We have a team of people who share the responsibilities of drawing up the rota of leaders, selecting children to carry the symbols in procession, distributing the resources to the leaders via email and overseeing our stationery supplies (pens always seem to lose their tops and dry out!) We have also been joined during the year by volunteers from the congregation and my thanks go to these people for their time and expertise in sharing their interests with the children and taking a part in this important area of the cathedral’s ministry. The children have had opportunities to take a leading part in services during the year. Notable among these must be the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee service when the coronation was re-enacted with three of our children involved in bringing items such as orb, sceptre and crown to dress the new Queen. The splendid photo says it all! The costume and crown made by Helen Wardle are works of art!

17 The Family Carol Service has become an annual fixture in the life of the city of Bristol and families flock into the cathedral, drawn in no doubt by the presence of a real, live donkey. Our children (and some of our adults too) lead the visiting children in a delightful Nativity story narrated by the Dean (with hand puppets)! Helen Wardle and Gill Duncan have had a very busy year at the sewing machine and created the most fantastic costumes for the occasion which will be used year after year at this event. My thanks go to both for their skill and time. We have enjoyed two summer outings: in 2012 to Puxton Park near Weston-super-Mare and in 2013 to the outdoor pool at Portishead. Both occasions were enjoyed by children and adults alike, and once again we had dry and sunny weather.

At Doors Open Day the Happy Hippos welcomed a large number of children to the cathedral. We hired a badge-maker for the day and the children all loved making a Happy Hippos badge to take home with them. The look of amazement on each child’s face when the machine turned out a lovely shiny badge was wonderful – real magic! There will be more opportunities for craft and active worship when the cathedral hosts its first ‘Messy Church’ event in October, which we hope will bring in families who have not previously worshiped at the cathedral. Finally it was a pleasure for me to have been invited to speak about the work we do at a meeting of parents and PCC members at Burrington Church in the Mendips. They are keen to start up their own Children’s Church and were interested to hear what we do, what works and what doesn’t. I wish them well in their venture because children and their families are the future for any church; we are all the richer for the presence of children in our worship, and the fresh insight they bring helps crystallise for us what it means to be a Christian in our changing world. Di Lee

18 The Friends’ Annual Outing 2012 Hereford – Saturday 13 October

Once again we are deeply indebted to Peter and Maureen Clark for organising a most interesting and enjoyable outing to Hereford. A lot of work was clearly involved not to mention considerable detailed research and planning. The weather on the day had obviously been arranged with the same efficiency but unfortunately rain in early October prevented the scheduled visit to How Capel Court and its formal gardens; they were waterlogged. Before the coach left Anchor Road at 8.45 on the dot, however, Peter had explained ‘Plan B’: coffee and biscuits would now be served at The Green Man at Fownhope, a few miles to the south east of Hereford. The Green Man, which dates from the 15th century, was easily able to accommodate our entire group of 38 in the one large room with its antler chandeliers. Its fascinating history as a petty sessional court and coaching inn on the route from Gloucester to Hereford as well as its unusual labyrinth of interconnecting rooms leading one into another, more than compensated for our inability to visit the How Capel Court gardens. On reaching Hereford at about quarter to twelve the group broke up into separate parties to visit different areas of the city. The Cathedral Close which attracted some had much to offer including a bronze lifesize statue of Sir Edward Elgar leaning on his bike gazing across towards the mass of the cathedral - he lived in Hereford between 1904 and 1911. The plinth on which he stood bore the inscription:

19 ‘This is what I hear all day, the trees are singing my music or am I singing theirs?’ Others found their way to The Old House, a timber framed three storey construction dating from the 1620s, in the High Town. All three floors contained many items of interest ranging from old oak chests and other furniture to pewter vessels and children’s cradles from the late 17th century. The furniture included a bed strung with rope which had to be tightened to support a mattress – from this originates the phrase ‘Good night – sleep tight’. In addition there were murals, representing the muses in a semi-classical style, which had been found in another old house nearby of the same period. By 2.30 we had all come together again for a most informative tour of the Cathedral including the Mappa Mundi and the Chained Library. We heard of Bishop Thomas Cantilupe, excommunicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who died near Rome before he could win his battle for reinstatement by the Pope and his later canonisation, the unpopular ‘imported’ French Bishop Aigueblanche who taxed his people on behalf of both Henry III and the Pope, and saw the tombs of many of their successors and antecedents. Another feature of particular interest was Bishop Audley’s Chantry with its inspirational modern windows. We are most grateful to June Chase, Secretary of The Friends of Hereford Cathedral, for organising our visit to the Cathedral so well and

20 to her colleagues who provided such a sumptuous tea which would definitely have merited an entry in The Good Food Guide. Some of our party then managed to fit in a short guided tour of the Cathedral gardens including that in the cloister of the Vicars Choral before our visit concluded with choral evensong also attended by the Annual Assembly of the Hereford Diocesan Readers’ Association and the Bishops of Hereford and Sodor & Man. Our skilful coach driver drove through the dark to return us safely to Anchor Road well within the scheduled time. Martin Christie

2013 Lecture to the Friends Canon Jon Cannon writes on the subject of his lecture to Friends on March 2nd. A message about death – and victory over death – lies at the heart of Christianity, and has been the motivating force behind the creation of much Christian art. This was especially true in the medieval period, when the widespread belief in Purgatory led to a special emphasis on commemorative art, the creation of which, it was hoped, would be of benefit to the soul of a specific dead individual. It is in this light that we should look more closely at the images of recumbent praying knights, ladies and churchmen which line the walls of the east end of the cathedral. They remarkable works of art are easy to take for granted. To recapture their full power and significance we have to imagine a church in which monuments are fewer and their location and scale highly organised. The floors of the then abbey may have featured many flat slabs and brasses – a few of which survive, such as the coffin lid of William the Sompter from the chapter house and the matrice for a magnificent canon’s brass that lies in the floor of the eastern Lady Chapel -- but the walls were bare of monuments, and the church contained only a select few tombs which were ‘monumentally expressed’ – that is, they were three-dimensional works of sculpture rather than flat slabs on the floor. These effigies would have stood out as among the few distractions in a building in which the altars were centre-stage. They also emphasised the most significant devotional foci by being clustered around them. All these sculptures were fundamentally alike. The individual’s rank and identity are made clear by their clothing and heraldry. Their feet rest on a

21 beast, partly symbolising the forces of evil which they hoped to conquer, and partly a suitable badge of identity – a manly lion for a knight, little toy dogs for a lady, an angel for an abbot. The face is not a portrait: it is an idealised image of ‘an abbot’, or ‘a knight’ as a youngish adult in good health. The effigy is thus a reminder that medieval society favoured rank and communal identity over individuality, but also that the core function of a tomb was to remind the viewer of the bodily resurrection promised to all who die in Christ, and thus an encouragement to pray for the soul of the person commemorated. Indeed it may be that such images are intended to depict individuals at the canonical age of 33, the age of Christ at his Crucifixion; the age at which a man (at this era) may be priested; the age to which we would all, their creators knew, be returned at the Last Judgement. Lying in their recesses or on the floor of a church, vividly painted, these remarkable works of art were thus a vivid evocation of an event which was just around the corner. The clustered and ordered effect that resulted, gatherings of souls in significant places awaiting resurrection, can vividly be recaptured when we examine the evidence for the location and form of medieval tombs in the abbey. Almost every monumental tomb in the building was either to an abbot or to a lord Berkeley: all bar one of the latter between 1170 and 1368 was buried in the church. A visitor at the time of the Dissolution, would have seen seven such tombs beneath the crossing, by the Rood altar; six in or near the Elder Lady Chapel (three of which lay before the image of St Mary which stood just outside the chapel entrance), and six more in or adjacent to the choir, focused on the High Altar. Not all were effigies – some were floor slabs - but all were impressive. A further six filled most of the unique sequence of starburst (and, in the north choir aisle, arched) tomb recesses which had been designed into the east end of 1298, and which effectively turned the entire building into a kind of architectural mausoleum.

22 There was also a tomb in the Newton chapel and three further tombs, location unknown, including a possible chantry chapel to Thomas V Lord Berkeley (d. 1533). There may have been no other monumentally expressed burials. The fifteenth-century abbots in the eastern Lady chapel were joined in 1553 by Paul Bush, first bishop of Bristol; these, as well as the thirteenth-century tomb of Abbot David, the fourteenth- century effigies of three lords and one lady Berkeley, and the late tomb in the Newton chapel, survive. The process by which these clusters of tombs developed can be followed in some detail, raising many fascinating questions. Some appear to relate to the history of the fabric; others relate to the design or original location of the tombs themselves. Much has disappeared or been moved. Perhaps the two most interesting to survive are the tombs of Maurice III Lord Berkeley (d. 1326) in the south choir aisle, and the Bush tomb near the eastern Lady chapel. The latter, with its Classical detailing and cadaver effigy, sits on the cusp of the medieval and Renaissance eras; the accompanying tomb of the bishop’s wife Edith Ashley, has disappeared. The former may be the work of the lodge of the famous Bristol Master, designer of the east end, and much about it is unique: its eyes are closed rather than open; its toes separately visible beneath its chain mail; its feet are on a mutilated praying figure whose surcoat was once visibly painted with a coat of arms: his identity remains a tantalising mystery. Such images are a testimony to a lost culture and a reminder of an eternal message. Jon Cannon

23 The Reverend Canon Precentor Wendy Wilby Canon Wendy came to us in 2007 from Halifax Minster. Her significant ministry as Incumbent there was well attested by the large number of her parishoners who made the journey to Bristol in her support. We were soon to share the same appreciation of her many gifts as well as those of her husband Philip. We were not surprised by the Bishop of Bristol's decision when a vacancy occurred to appoint her also Dean of Women's Ministry in the Diocese of Bristol. A gifted musician, Wendy played a leading role in the Cathedral's worship week by week. She has been fully committed to the music and liturgy of our services, working closely with colleagues, organists and choir members. When she arrived, the Cathedral School was on the brink of having to close and the choir was struggling to recruit children. By the hard work and dedication of many, with Canon Wendy as a driving force, it was saved and became a specialist Music Academy – the choristers numbers have trebled. They have broadcast BBC Evensong, travelled overseas and produced recordings of their music. A memorable visit was made to Hannover which strengthened our long established link with the Marktkirche. Wendy had a great ministry to the choirs and to the choir parents. Special services and musical events will long be remembered by members of the Congregation, the Diocese and beyond. Among them have been services for Bristol Schools and Local Societies, Lenten Pilgrimages in the Cathedral, the Ministry of Healing with Prayer and the Laying on of Hands, High Sheriff Concerts and National Commemorations, including the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, with eight hundred enjoying lunch afterwards. In addition, there has been the meditative Passion preparing us for Easter composed by her husband Phil as well as his anthems for the choir and his brass band concerts. One especially memorable occasion featured a duet played by Wendy and Phil on two pianos! A great encourager, Wendy inspired us to move on in our pilgrimage of faith and service; no chance to rest on our laurels! Those who she prepared for Confirmation found themselves soon sharing in ministry as Servers, Readers or other capacities in the Fellowship. A Fellowship meeting once a month after Evensong with a shared supper gave those who came an opportunity to explore issues of faith and the study of the Bible. Sunday Lent lunches to support Christian Aid led into Monthly

24 Sunday lunches to support other people in need both locally and overseas. Some of us benefited from joining her on a visit to the Holy Land. Her pastoral heart, inspired preaching and caring friendship revealed her deep commitment to her vocation as Priest and Precentor. We give thanks for all that Canon Wendy and her husband Phil brought to the Cathedral in their faith, musical gifts, enthusiasm and friendship. The recently published, “A History of the Making of the Music of Bristol Cathedral in 100 Objects,” edited by Wendy (reviewed on page 28) is a splendid and worthy reminder of her contribution to our life. Wendy and Phil continue now in our prayers as they retire to their windmill home in Yorkshire. Rita Banfield Farewell to Andrew Phillips, Chapter Clerk The Dean writes: Andrew Phillips leaves us after more than five years in post; he has, he tells us, surprised himself; it is the longest period he has ever stayed in one job. They have been momentous years for the Cathedral and Andrew’s influence and skill have been crucial in some very significant developments. He inherited a deficit budget. Although there are all kinds of successes in his time here, it is the difference that he has made to the Cathedral finances that has been the most significant. He would be the first to explain that much of the improvement is due to the rent a successful and growing school now pays, but his own role was decisive. His ability to draft a budget and monitor it, his skills in seeing opportunities and negotiating agreements have all been decisive. We do more and we measure it better. We are more ambitious and more confident and Andrew is behind that. Our changing relationship with the School as it switched to Academy status has been a complex business and we have relied on Andrew’s grip on details and sense of the ‘big picture’. Again, he was a focused negotiator and a highly informed agent in the cathedral’s business. During the Occupy crisis his tactical ability, his calm, his care for the staff and his ability to keep a number of balls in the air and communicate effectively were a key part of the fact that this Cathedral

25 coped better than some others and enjoyed relationships within and without that were less rancorous and anxious. These have been good years for the Cathedral when the fabric has been maintained to a very high standard and significant improvements have been made in a whole host of ways. Andrew’s love of the building and enthusiasm for the task, have brought energy and drive and he and we can look back on a legacy that is literally set in stone. We wish him and his family every happiness in Devon; Andrew is not the retiring sort and there will be great achievement ahead, we have no doubt. In making the presentation to Andrew at the Sunday Eucharist on 21st October Canon Richard Outhwaite commented: “A few months after Andrew was made Chapter Clerk I became a member of Chapter. That was around five years ago. During these five years there have been some momentous events affecting the life of the Cathedral community and include the negotiations over the lease with the Cathedral Choir School, the Occupy experience and the Diamond Jubilee Service. In all this work Andrew has had a decisive and effective role in ensuring a successful outcome on top of his day to day business and so for all this we are indebted to him. I personally will miss the innumerable cups of coffee we have drunk together discussing the problems, issues, challenges and opportunities which surround the Cathedral and the wealth of people who visit, worship and work within its walls. And so it gives me pleasure on behalf of the congregation and the volunteers who come here to wish the very best for your future, wherever it may lie, and to give you this token of our appreciation for the work you have done and the time you have spent here.” Besides a cheque Andrew was presented with an A4 sized recent photograph of the Cathedral taken in early morning autumnal sunshine and framed with the trees in partial leaf.

26 Welcome to Wendy Matthews, Chapter Clerk At the time of writing I have been with the Cathedral a grand total of 291 days and counting. So far it’s been an amazing experience and every day I seem to learn something more about the building, and our visitors, volunteers and staff. When I started people talked to me about ‘Cathedral time’, implying it was something slow, but in my experience it’s the exact opposite - usually we move from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again several times a day. In recent weeks I have judged a Gromit painting competition, watered a passing police horse, finally got a stop-cock for the Cathedral, filled a skip with the old shop units, put in an order for ‘Autumn gold’ coloured asphalt (very tasteful), and consulted a group of expert pupils from the school about how to avoid getting skateboarders on our turning circle in the Cloister. I have also fixed some very wobbly monuments in the garden and nave, rebranded the café, learnt how to get a website up and running (see www.bristol-cathedral.co.uk), and hosted a conference of fabric experts who talked a lot about the negative impact of human beings on ancient buildings. I’ve also had a lot of fun going to a dinner on the SS Great Britain and standing with colleagues on the tower roof to watch the Red Arrows fly overhead. Alongside the buzz of this busy and often entertaining daily round, are the more sublime moments: the sound of Choral Evensong filling the nave, singing with a visiting choir, and joining in the daily round of worship and prayer. There is much to look forward to in the coming year. I am particularly grateful to the Friends who have been so generous in the past year. They have paid for our new radio microphones, and are paying for the refit of the shop. At the time of writing we are just finalising the new products for the shop with our partners (Aslan Christian Books) and will be installing the new fittings in the next couple of weeks. If all goes well the Dean will dedicate the new shop and cut a ribbon after the Eucharist on Sunday 8 September. I do hope you will be there and will enjoy our new range of gifts, souvenirs, books and devotional products.

27 Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee The Dean’s Sermon The code words were “Hyde Park Corner”. At 8.45 in the morning, on 6th February 1952, the King’s principal private secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, picked up the telephone in Sandringham to speak to his assistant in London: “Hyde Park Corner. Go and tell Mr Churchill and Queen Mary”. It was some hours later, about noon our time, at Sagana Lodge in Kenya that the Princess Elizabeth heard that the King, her father, had died and that she had succeeded to the throne. By 2:00 pm our time, she had composed telegrams cancelling the remaining engagements of her Commonwealth tour and was boarding a plane. On her way to the airport Kenyans lined the road and chanted (and here, please forgive my poor Kenyan): “Shauri mbaya kabisa” (“The very worst has happened”). That is how it began and that is where I begin, because it reminds us of what we ask of our Queen. We require our monarch to step before us at precisely the point the rest of us would turn aside and ask for privacy. In our self-conscious world of managed expectations and clear priorities, where we balance the demands that are private against those that are public we ask The Queen for something else. The formal announcement followed WE… do now hereby with one voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and proclaim that the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now, by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of all Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith Which is how it all began, in truth just a little more than 60 years ago. There will be many, many people here today who remember that day, that extraordinary week. For them, sixty years probably does not seem such a very long time ago. But, with my sincere apologies if I make one or two of you feel the years hang heavy upon you, let’s remind ourselves that 1952 was, in truth, another age. Sixty years takes us back to a time when sweets, sugar and meat were still rationed. You could buy two pints of milk for sixpence (and sixpence, remember was a little silver coin), but you might not have put them in your fridge, because only one house in twenty had a fridge. You could have a Ford saloon for £470 or, if you really wanted to cut a dash, a Sunbeam Talbot for a little over

28 £1,000. In 1952 we were still living with bomb damage; this was the year Marks and Spencer opened in the new Broadmead Development. It was also the year the Council House was completed. 1952 was the year the US tested the first hydrogen bomb. Churchill (as we heard) was Prime Minister, Pius XII was Pope, Stalin was still in office. 1952 was the year Nkrumah was made President of the Gold Coast, Harry S Truman announced he would stand for re-election and Pandit Nehru formed his first government in India. This was the year The Mousetrap opened, you queued at the cinema to watch High Noon, or the Snows of Kilimanjaro and a thirteen year old Jimmy Boyd sold 3 million copies of I saw Mommy kissing Santa. And so much of that world has gone. No sixpences any more. Churchill, Stalin, and Pius XII left us long ago and so did Sunbeam Talbots. In 1952 there were reigning monarchs in Greece, Egypt, Nepal, Rumania and Zanzibar, but not one of them is left. Nkrumah and Truman both died in 1972, forty years ago, Nehru died eight year earlier than that. The Gold Coast disappeared from our maps, becoming Ghana in 1957. Only The Mousetrap survives, even little Jimmy Boyd has died. So, part of what we are celebrating is Her Majesty’s the Queen’s extraordinary grace and strength – she has survived where others have not, lived through these changes with us and negotiated them. Her integrity, her dignity has seen our monarchy weather storms that have ended other regimes and even overwhelmed whole nations. Elsewhere, politics have shifted and maps have been redrawn. This is not a simple feat of physical survival, good health. It is a breath-taking achievement to command respect for sixty years. Our celebrities and movers and shakers fall from favour, we find them out, find them disappointing. Think of the wrecked careers and reputations of our recent history, the gurus and the politicians who failed us –but, not our Queen. For sixty years, through turbulence and change, she has sustained the values we admire, she has been the values we respect. Remarkable as that is, there something else to say. Not sixty years, but fifty-nine years ago, on 2nd June 1953, The Queen was in Westminster Abbey, for her coronation. Coronations are polite affairs; it is all done with exquisite courtesy, so there came a moment when the Archbishop said to the Queen: Madam, is your Majesty willing to take the Oath?

29 And the Queen answered, I am willing. The coronation oath fell into three parts. The Queen promised to govern the peoples of the Commonwealth “according to their respective laws and customs” and then she promised to execute Law and Justice in Mercy, and finally she promised to “maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel”–“All this I promise to do”, she said. That is what our monarchy gives us, that is, what the Queen does for us is to place at the heart of our national life a person who has promised to defend principles and values. And that is a very significant and unusual thing to do. You see, when we think about queens and kings, when we think about nations, what we do is to think of places, the people who live in those places and their top person, their boss. We think of status, power and division. A King is King of Spain, or Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories. When we think of queens we think of these people with their queen and we know we do not mean those people who are different and live somewhere else. When we talk about Great Britain and Northern Ireland we are usually pretty clear we do not mean the French, who are foreign and make Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou, but do not know how to queue. We mean people like us who eat marmalade and understand cricket and drive on the sensible side of the street. Queens and kings belong to a world that has nations and governments and rules, where you do things your way and I do things properly. Queens belong to a world of division and difference. We cope with complicated reality by believing in this not that. We separate one from another, we set apart. And then our division and our differences come back and bite us. Each news bulletin from Syria, the flights bringing coffins home from Afghanistan, the burnt and scarred villages of Libya are witness to what we have done. Our fascination with bosses and boundaries has been our undoing again and again and, remember, it is at the heart of the offence we took with God himself. As the gospel came to a climax, soldiers dressed Christ in robes of state and made a cruel crown for his head. We need to notice what Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the King of the Jews?”, and notice too what was written over him on the cross. “This is the King of the Jews.” Jesus was mocked

30 and then condemned as if he were one of those kings with particular people, with a border to guard, and with possessions and territories to keep safe. Jesus was put to death precisely because of our fascination with all those things. Jesus died amidst a crowd shouting about kingship. When Jesus talked about the “Kingdom”, and he talked about the Kingdom a lot: in all those parables where the kingdom was compared to a mustard seed, or a net, or a vineyard, he was not talking about the King of Spain or Queen Elizabeth of this Realm and of all Her other Realms and Territories. Kingdom and King is actually a pretty poor trade for the language Jesus spoke. He was talking about the abiding authority of justice, mercy and faith. He was using, in fact, the language we gave our Queen to speak at her coronation. He was talking about the Kingdom of God, the place where God has the rule and the authority and the right. Do you see the difference? The Kingdom of God is not one of the nations, a place where you have property, a place where some people belong and others do not, a place of taxes and national anthems. It is not a bit of land between Wales and Watford. It is not a place at all, it is our common future, it is the reign of God, and our salvation. Confronted by the kingdoms of this world Christ did not summon an army and fight. He did not trade or negotiate, he did not compromise. No politics as the art of the possible, no playing to his strengths, no exploiting another’s weakness. That is how the kingdoms work, how you separate this from that, it is the way we too often build our communities, leaving some on the outside so that we on in the inside can know that we are special. Kings speak of our divisions and kings are representative of the power that keeps things that way. Christ died resisting the terrible temptation to trade love for power. It is one of the great temptations that we must all learn to resist. And, I suggest, that in Her Majesty the Queen, we have set at the heart of our national life precisely a person who has devoted her life to principle, not power; to Law, to Justice in Mercy, to faith. It is not, in the end, the Conservative party that defines us, or the Eurozone, or Mayor this or Prime Minister that. It is not the Socialist Workers Party or a Green Agenda, or the tribal loyalties of City or Rovers; it is not Stockwood, Southmead or Stoke Bishop. It is not the Last Night of the Proms, flags, scarves or uniforms.

31 Nor, I suggest, will personality deliver us. We are rather hung up on that thought at the moment, rather struck with the idea that charisma, celebrity, force of character will overcome. We parade our differences, indeed our differences are usually exactly what make up our parades and then we try to find our unity in Facebook and following Lady Gaga on twitter. No harm in that so long as we know it is just what it says it is, a virtual community. Fame makes us into admirers or into critics it does not and never will unite us. In Her Majesty the Queen our national life revolves around someone who has taken vows and sets principle before us all and we are confronted with someone who has resolutely refused to make monarchy a matter of personality. In a quiet act of witness to another way of doing things our Queen has never set out to be another celebrity. If you and I are to have any hope we have to look to Christ whose kingdom is in the future and has no boundaries and knows only the government of love. It is the Prince of Peace who saves, not politics, not power, not personality. That of course is the great truth we celebrate even when we also celebrate this Diamond Jubilee. It is the truth that the Queen herself defends. But this is a good moment to pause and remind ourselves that in this Year of Jubilee we thank God for a Queen who puts at the centre of our national life principles and indeed a personality that we can admire. My loyalty is utterly to Christ, but this afternoon I can say with conviction and delight “God save the Queen” David Hoyle Harvest Festival 2012 Canon Wilby’s Sermon on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity God just occasionally gets hold of us by the scruff of our necks and holds a megaphone to our ears! This week some of us just can’t avoid hearing what he has to say to us. On Thursday a few of us joined in a healing prayer group where we actively listened to this same ‘look at the birds of the air’ passage from Matthew that we have heard today in the Gospel. Ditto yesterday, some of us were in Cotham at a Mindfulness workshop and there those words were again, and now surprisingly, we hear the same passage…. Oh not again! What is God trying to say on this Harvest Thanksgiving? It’s ‘a thanksgiving’ for goodness sake. Let’s consider what is the opposite of thankfulness, of gratitude? Would you say, ingratitude? a sense of entitlement? a spirit of criticism?

32 However the gospel today is all about worry. ‘Therefore, I tell you’, says Jesus, ‘do not worry about your life, saying “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?”… “Which of you, by worrying, can add a single hour to your life?” In other words, the very fact that we are counselled against worry on this day, of all days – this Harvest Festival – perhaps encourages us to see worry as an opposite of thankfulness. And maybe there is something in that. For what does give rise to worry? I would say it is either not having enough, or the threat of not having sufficient. What if the rain doesn’t come? What if natural gas stays low? What if I lose my job? What if I don’t get my A levels? What if my pension isn’t big enough? What if I’m burgled? What if there isn’t water or food enough for all? In other words, “What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?”. In this rather fragile economic state that we find ourselves, I dare say that most of us have flirted, and some of us have downright courted, a spirit of worry and fear. Now a person who didn’t seem to worry was a residentiary canon at this cathedral whom you more mature members of the congregation might well remember. He rejoiced in the name of Canon C. Shells. Charles Shells, a true friend and really generous colleague of mine over 15 or so years whose ashes I buried in Glastonbury Abbey less than a year ago. I want to share with you the story of Canon Shells and the burglar.

But before that, let’s have a look at worry for a moment. Worry has a way of working itself out in our daily lives. Does this all sound familiar to you? Pastoral theologians call this ‘a theology of scarcity’. When we operate from a theology of scarcity, we tend to protect our assets, to live mean little lives, hoarding whatever goods have come our way, for fear that even though we need them now, we might need them more later. A theology of scarcity is risk averse – it can never dare to invest in a dream say. It lives all of life like the man who wrapped his only talent in a handkerchief, and buried it for safekeeping. It goes without saying that

33 those who live from an attitude of scarcity aren’t going to be giving anything away. You’ll all recognize the PCC, when faced with a deficit working budget, puts a veto on charitable giving.

Of course an attitude of scarcity is not the sole preserve of hard times. Many of us, even at the peak of well being and prosperity, will behave as if we actually needed to put walls around our time, our favours, our money, our energy, even our good reputations. This is not so much wisdom as fearful, self-interested miserliness. Vicars have long come to recognize that in the leafy well-heeled parishes, the money doesn’t always flow in quite like it does in the urban priority area.

Now, set this next to what has been called a ‘theology of abundance’ – a profoundly ‘unworried’ approach to life. Now here is the lynchpin in this whole comparison. For, just as one can live from a posture of scarcity in a time of prosperity, so can one live ‘abundantly’ in a time of scarcity – even when the going is rough, that is.

So what do I mean by “a theology of abundance”?

Jesus says, Do not worry (that is, do not live from an attitude of scarcity): Look! Look at the lilies of the field. Look at the birds of the air. Look around you, people. Just for once. It’s about counting your blessings, it’s about how the glass is half full rather than half empty. It’s true, you know. It is what is in the glass, the fullness, not what is not in the glass (the emptiness) that matters. A theology of abundance will take root only once we are aware of just how giving the earth, our friends, and our God really are.

Canon Wendy Wilby Photographs by Caroline Hanks

34 The Lay Clerk’s Tale Maggie, my wife, is a member of the Cathedral congregation. She meets a number of visitors many of whom seem surprised when she tells them that her husband is the grey haired lay clerk as if the much-admired music has been produced by automata rather than human beings! So what is a Lay Clerk and what do they do in the real world? When the church on College Green was made a Cathedral in 1542 by Henry VIII he established a choir with six “singing men” whose names we know. They were considered to be learned and therefore “clerks”, but were not ordained, hence “lay”. Those original singers led a colourful life which would put any exploits of their twenty first century successors into deep shade and it is clear that the history of music in Bristol Cathedral over the years, recorded elsewhere by others far more erudite, has been something of a roller-coaster. It is, perhaps, ironical that at a time when the arts have never been under greater pressure, the standard of the music in Bristol Cathedral is perhaps higher than at any time in its history. The first thing which surprises is that Lay Clerks sing every day. That is a slight exaggeration since there is no participation at Evensong on Wednesday or Thursday. However, the second surprise is that most services are preceded by a mere fifteen minutes of full rehearsal so that it is necessary for singers to arrive knowing the music that they are about to sing; “dumb” days are often occupied in learning new music. In addition, it is inevitable that Lay Clerks participate in music making elsewhere, so that days when there is no requirement to be in the Cathedral are often filled with rehearsals or performances in other places. Those who ask “Are you doing anything nice at Christmas/Easter?” are often surprised by the reply which details quite how much time such Festivals occupy, but most of those Lay Clerks that you ask will have devoted the amount of time that is necessary very happily, often much preferring the dramatic lead up of Holy week to Easter to the sometimes sentimental approach to Christmas. “What else do you do?” is also a common question. Well, there’s a lawyer, a financial advisor, an administrator or two and the ranks are swelled by teachers, accountants and students; which brings us to the Choral Scholars. The original foundation of the six Lay Clerks still sing

35 at Evensong on Tuesdays and Fridays but partly because of the demands of the music but also to offer the experience on a broader basis, many Cathedrals, including Bristol, now offer scholarships to students in a gap year or at university. It would, indeed, be hard to envisage the range of music and the volume at which it is sometimes sung without them. The life of a Lay Clerk is not confined to the Cathedral walls. A much valued activity is the visit of the Lay Clerks to parishes in the Diocese where it has become the practice to sing Evensong and follow it with a short and informal concert and it is clear from comments received that this is greatly valued. It also gives an opportunity to raise funds for tours by the whole Cathedral Choir. In recent years I have been privileged to accompany the choir to Hannover, Florence and Venice and it has previously travelled to Rome, Bordeaux and the USA. On such occasions it is valuable to have recordings of the choir which people often want to purchase having heard the choir in the flesh. Next time you pick up your cellophane wrapped treasure remember that is has taken many hours of recording, sometimes late into the night, and it is sometimes difficult to get the full meaning into a Carol when outside it has been one of the hottest days of the year! Concerts also provide an opportunity to hear the Choir outside the stalls and these have become a valued feature of the Cathedral calendar. However, in recent years, the choir has also sung with the choirs of Wells and Exeter Cathedrals and in the past with Truro as well. Whilst musically such occasions keep you on your toes, they also provide a valuable opportunity for an exchange of information and gossip. It is sometimes forgotten that we don’t often meet other Cathedral choirs because they are always singing when we are! Another memorable occasion when this opportunity has arisen has been the choir’s participation in the Festival of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy which is held annually in St Paul’s Cathedral. The Corporation supports clergy who are in difficulties, and their annual service always includes choirs from Cathedrals around the country. On the most recent occasion Bristol sang with Southwell and St Paul’s choirs but for the Corporation’s centenary the choir was made up of representatives from every Cathedral in the land and was an event which those of us who participated will never forget. Another recent feature for the Bristol choir has been its participation with the Black Dyke Band. We have sung with them in Manchester and

36 they have performed with us in the Cathedral but the association reached its crescendo in the recording made with them a few years ago. Sometimes, a combination of professionalism and adrenaline works wonders and, on this occasion, the tight schedules of both band and choir did not allow the luxury of long recording sessions so the CD was made in one afternoon! Re-reading this article I realise that it is factual and mechanical but those who are privileged to share Friday Evensong with us will know that our approach to what we do is far from that. We will have met in the Chapter House, just as the Augustinian Priors who founded the Cathedral did, and during Advent, when the six Lay Clerks sing in the darkened Eastern Lady Chapel, it is not difficult to feel an affinity with the original Singing Men appointed in 1542 especially when we are offering the music with which they would undoubtedly have been familiar. I consider it a great privilege to have worked with my five colleagues in this endeavour and express my gratitude to them and the Cathedral organists in enabling us all to sustain this wonderful tradition. Keith Donoghue

2013 National Conference of Friends of Cathedrals Canon Neville Boundy, for many years the Secretary of the Friends, reports on the Bi-Annual National Conference of (Friends of) Cathedrals, Greater Churches, Abbeys (and Minsters), held in Worcester Cathedral 19th - 21st October, 2012 This was the fourth time I’ve been privileged to attend this Conference on behalf of the Friends of Bristol Cathedral; I attended Wimborne Minster in 2006, Lincoln in 2008, Blackburn in 2010, and now Worcester. They do vary, but the warmth, the sharing, the feeling that others are on the same journey and the worship all remain a constant. The numbers attending are also fairly constant, as are those thoughtful enough to send apologies; I’m still no wiser as to what constitutes or qualifies as a ‘Greater Church’. In passing, earlier this year our Friends’ Council took the decision on economic grounds not to send our Annual Report to other Cathedrals. It struck me that one way of maintaining contact with the Friends who do attend would be to send the Report, selectively – just an idea. I found Worcester somewhat lower key, but the two ‘outside’ presentations were really worthwhile. These came after

37 the Welcomes & Introductions from Gerald Harris, the Chairman of Worcester Friends, the Dean and the Bishop – cheerfully stating some obvious cathedralic truths, and giving encouragement at the same time – “The Friends’ activities are indispensable and vital” was one welcome/unexpected quote, less surprising was something about, “our precious, cultural, spiritual, national heritage, allowing for an experience of the numinous…”. . The Dean mentioned increasing congregations in Cathedrals, reflecting recent correspondence in the CHURCH TIMES, but there wasn’t time to ask the (for some) pertinent question as to why the numbers are growing and from what source. Sarah King, the Administrator of the Association of English Cathedrals, addressed us. The AEC represents 42 English Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey and St George’s Chapel, Windsor. It was founded in 1990 as a vehicle for collective action, but is unable (unwilling?) to commit to cathedrals individually; Sarah nevertheless made it sound important. AEC liaises with the Government and its agencies, talks to National Church Institutions, represents the cathedrals, is a forum for issues affecting cathedrals, and encourages the sharing of information and best practice. It has been a charity and company since 2008, has sub groups for Liturgy & Music and Partners in Adult Learning, with a carefully balanced Executive Committee. The Co-coordinator was appointed in 2005; has a representative and negotiator’s role externally, and internally shares best practice, produces briefing papers and runs conferences. Sarah’s presentation reminded me very much of Broad Based Organizing, which attempted in the early 1990s in Bristol to get communities (in fact worshipping congregations to work together on issues often affecting our neighbours, not our own worshipping communities). It was called Communities Organized for Greater Bristol. Simply, basically, BBO works on the premise that an individual working in isolation cannot achieve very much. Just one example: AEC collectively submitted written evidence in September 2010 to the Government when it was considering cutting the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme; better one united voice than many smaller appeals, especially given its detailed assessment of the consequences. After tea the Annual Conference looked inwards. At Blackburn we had definitely decided to form a National Association of Friends of Cathedrals (etc). In the light of Sarah King’s positive presentation I thought we’d all be delighted at the prospect of working effectively together upon chosen issues of a common concern, namely

38 1. to gather, analyze and distribute relevant information to members 2. to facilitate the sharing of experience and to promote good practice 3. to organize regular conferences and seminars 4. to liaise, and exchange information with external organizations 5. to promote the work and contribution of Cathedrals Friends’ organizations 6. to represent the interests of its members by acting as a pressure and lobby group. But that was not to be. Some hadn’t been at Blackburn, so had no idea what was being suggested; others, well informed, had consulted their members, and were uneasy. One was horrified at the idea that we might do anything as politically threatening and socially unsuitable as lobbying; this reminded me of Thomas’s line in Five Sides of a Circle: “I don’t mind coming along, but I’m not doing anything.” We didn’t get heated, but it was obvious we were going to get nowhere. Jeremy Duerden (Chairman of Blackburn Friends) advised us to take a step back; the Proposers would meet and come up with suggestions for the next morning. Choral Evensong in Worcester Cathedral is always sung without the organ on Friday evenings; like ours it was beautiful to listen to, and inspirational. It was followed by a cheerful and generous reception in the Deanery, and a superb supper served in the Chapter House; I confess I began to feel less than well, and took (more) early retirement, so missed what I’m told was more inspiration back in the Cathedral, with a candlelit procession and prayers led by the Dean. Next morning we didn’t exactly start where we left off; after yesterday’s fracas the Proposers suggested that a small group be elected by this Conference, and report back with considered and circulated proposals in two years’ time. Instead of any more frustration we turned our attention to Financial Performance, and were given quite a lot of statistics. Not having much of a head for figures, I nevertheless gleaned that those who have much already are the most likely to gain more through legacies (and the small group I was in took a somewhat humorous approach towards tactful suggestions to the still alive). And not for the first time the question arose, “How do we turn visitors into Friends?” One Cathedral mastered an effective approach, only to find that the drop-off when it came to renewal after a year was somewhat discouraging. And amongst several

39 good suggestions was one that aroused a lot of interest; the Friends of one Cathedral offer/encourage Life membership that lasts (only) ten years, otherwise we really do lose out! After coffee we heard from Judith Muskett, a third year PhD student in Theology and Religious Studies in York St. John University, who spoke about her research project, 2009 – 2012, “Cathedrals making Friends.” Since ‘friends’ is what we call ourselves, it might be a help, or salutary, to quote her opening paragraph:. What it means to be a friend… friendship begins in attraction; friends enjoy spending time together; friends help each other to grow, and be more fully what they are called to be; friends are benevolent; friends share information/confidences, friends reciprocate. Judith conducted a postal survey of six typical cathedrals (with varying sizes of membership, good geographical spread, mix of ancient and modern) and a further two online. 5,059 were invited to participate, 1,637 completed the questionnaire. And Bristol was amongst those who were invited to, and did, respond. The implications of her research, particularly as regards Recruitment, should be of interest to all and any Friends, and well worth careful study. (I cannot help thinking that the late David Cannock would have seized upon her work for his own – and our – edification). She gave us a detailed breakdown in percentages of the overall profile, including sex, age, education, occupations, where we live, how religious (varied between ‘not-at-all’, ‘slightly’, ‘moderately’, ‘rather’ and ‘very’ – I wonder where we would put ourselves?), prayers, cathedral attendance. She asked for information about motivation, and length of membership, gifts (sub-divided into money, prayer and time), involvement (participation, networks, attachment and cultural interests; in short, a detailed undertaking and exploration. Judith was/is understandably anxious that her/the findings are not “wrenched out of context”; they will be published in 2013 in the Journal of Beliefs and Values, under the title of ‘Friends’ of Anglican Cathedrals: norms and values. One quote I particularly liked: “The more Friends thought they benefited from belonging to the Friends’ association, the more likely they were to pay more that the minimum subscription. Her report underscores the importance of information and learning opportunities. And information compensates for a lack of involvement. Her report spells out the implications, and gives clear suggestions for

40 future action. Having heard her speak enthusiastically and entertainingly, I can strongly recommend her article, and dare to hope that copies might be purchased for the Cathedral, and our own Council Thereafter I have, sadly, to confess that my participation slipped, and my enthusiasm diminished; I began to feel awful, fell asleep in my car and so missed nearly all of Jeremy Deurden’s presentation on Organizational Structure. He invited those awake to consider (1) who are our Members and potential members? (2) What do we offer? (3) What will encourage people to join? (4) What provision of information do we offer? (5) How can we maximize financial support? To judge by the noise from the separate groups, I can only surmise that the discussion was lively, and in the Report Back we again discussed the difference between Friends where the Dean is the Chair and Friends where the Dean isn’t: never having experienced the latter I had to keep silent and listen. Full Choral Evensong followed – beautifully. There was a long gap between that and the Reception and the Conference Dinner, followed by the Revd. Roly Bain, the Vicar who doubles as a proper clown, walking along a slack rope, amongst many other amazing achievements. Sadly, I decided I ought to get home as fast as was safe, gave my sad apologies and did so. In two years’ time there will be another such Conference; I can recommend that our Friends be represented, and whoever goes enjoys the cheerful company of committed Friends amongst some of the other Cathedrals. I’ve enjoyed meeting the huge variety – some Friends do as much/little as we do (with a similar number of Friends – under 400), some “greater” (one hopes – see Mark 13: 1–2 – they’re never smug about their size) receive that number of new members in a good month: these are likely to run an astonishing number of events, eats, lectures and visits; some even ‘boast’ a full time secretary. But we do learn from each other, knowing (especially as regards Divine Worship) that we have the essentials in common, and that is always a cause of much rejoicing. Neville Boundy

41 A History of the Music of Bristol Cathedral in 100 Objects – A Review When it was suggested that the Friends of Bristol Cathedral might like to underwrite the publishing costs of this book, doubt was expressed that even with a sabbatical Canon Wendy could produce a book in addition to being a priest, pastor, impresario and Precentor of the Cathedral. This beautifully produced and illustrated little book has confounded those doubts by encapsulating in its 100 Objects the past 900 years in its scholarly pages. The book ranges from the days of the Abbey of St. Augustine, the foundation of the Cathedral by Henry VIII, the Reformation, and the 18th century of the Wesleys, to the religious revival of the nineteenth century that led to the building of the Nave and the reconfiguring of the Cathedral, and the problems of the present day. It shows us the medieval choir crowding round their enormous Choir Book and its successor, composed by the Cathedral's current musicians, presented to Dean Robert Grimley in 2009. Visual objects are included, with musical references in the stonework in the Elder Lady Chapel, in the stained glass – King David with his lyre in the East window and the angel with a harp in the Cloister – and in the woodwork in the choir stalls and misericords. The people of the musical community are all there: clergy, organists, choristers, hymn writers and composers and past members of the Cathedral School who have made their name as professional musicians. Their work, their loves and their quarrels all add to the picture of life through the centuries in a provincial city. The book is illustrated with outstanding photographs by Darren Bell, and the many contributions from members of the current Cathedral community also make this book a snapshot of the 21st century Bristol Cathedral, which is perhaps, the 101st Object. Katharine Jewell Published by Redcliffe Press, the book is available from the Cathedral Shop, price £10.00.

42 Financial Report for 2011 and 2012

Trustees' Report Objectives of the Friends The Friends work closely with the Dean and Chapter of Bristol and other individuals and organisations connected with the Cathedral in identifying and funding projects that are consonant with the registered objects of the Friends. Such projects have, in recent years included: . Paying for repairs to the silverware . Buying two commissioned Icons . Encouraging the work of the Education ministry . Supporting the Music of the Cathedral; This work is made possible by the receipt of annual and life subscriptions from individuals and parishes, together with legacies & donations. The assets of the Lilian Simmons Trust are used for projects consonant with the objects of the Friends, taking into account the informal indication of the testator that priority should be given, where appropriate, to supporting the music of the Cathedral. The Council has delegated authority to spend up to £6000 per annum on small projects (but no single project to exceed £2000). Activities during the period This year we have decided to start producing the Annual Report in the autumn following the Annual General Meeting, this will mean that the accounts are produced when the memory or their presentation is clearer. It does mean that we include the accounts for the years 2011 and 2012 in the next issue, the year after we shall be back to normal. We have had two quiet years with regard to grants made, having only paid for new Altar Linen, although we are awaiting a bill from the publishers for Canon Wendy’s book due out next month which was agreed at the last AGM, and similarly we agreed to pay for a new free standing Advent Wreath which will be more visible than the bell wheel currently suspended in the South Transept. We are aware of the Chapter’s plans for the future and are willing to support these where we can. Future projects We have undertaken to support the following activities that have not yet been achieved: - . Money to restore monuments at the Chapter’s discretion £1400

43 . Funding the Publication of Canon Wendy’s Book on the music of Bristol Cathedral . A new Advent Wreath for the Cathedral. . Other projects will be decided at the Annual General Meeting. Commentary on the accounts The accounts for the year ended 31/12/11 & 31/12/12 were approved at the AGM held on 24 June 2012 & 23 June 2013 respectively, and both published here. Subscriptions and donations We have been pleased to welcome a number of new annual and life members during the year. Minimum subscriptions were adjusted in 2002 to individual annual (£20), individual life (£150) and joint life (£250). Many Friends give considerably more. We encourage all who pay Income Tax to sign Gift Aid forms to increase our income by a rebate from the Government and a form is provided in the Annual Report for Friends who wish to enable us to reclaim the tax on the subscriptions paid. This form replaces the covenant form, which is now obsolete. Investment Income Investment rates have improved slightly and we have seen an increase in the value of our holdings as well as income. We have received the tax claimed back for the past two years as mentioned in last years report. General Fund Lilian Simmonds Fund Grants made in 2011 Donation to Bristol Voices £7000.00 Photographic Resource: Photographs £100.00 of the Cathedral Grants made in 2012 Altar linen £498.08

By order of the Council, Signed and dated by the Chairman 23 June 2013

44 Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2011

INCOME FUNDS 2010 General RECEIPTS Purposes Restricted Total Subscriptions 1710.25 1710.25 2451.29 Income Tax reclaimed 0 0.00 1583.17 Donations 5.00 5.00 0.00 Legacies 0.00 0.00 3000.00 Investment income 5498.63 3539.68 9038.31 8797.96 Outings 1,335.00 1335.00 1283.50 Sundry receipts 55.00 55.00 25.00 Tf from Lilian Simmonds 2,500.00 2500.00 2750.00 Total 11103.88 3539.68 14643.56 19890.92

PAYMENTS Grants 7100.00 2500.00 9600.00 9626.53 Festival/Lecture 73.80 73.80 189.63 Outings 1,039.89 1039.89 1190.85 Investments 3635.03 1250.00 4885.03 3460.23 Annual Report printing 180.00 180.00 100.00 Trustee admin costs 195.33 195.33 224.70 Other 0.00 76.69 Lilian Simmonds grants 4,900.00 4900.00 5250.00 Total 17124.05 3750.00 20874.05 20118.63

Bank balances 1 January 2011 27501.81 6574.90 34076.71 Net receipts -6020.17 -210.32 -6230.49 Bank balances 31 December 2011 21481.64 6364.58 27846.22

Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 December 2011

Restricted Total Total Assets General Fund 2010

Current Accounts 4796.05 4796.05 8179.82 Deposit Accounts 16685.59 6364.58 23050.17 25896.89 Sub Total 21481.64 6364.58 27846.22 34076.71 Debtors Dividends 999.10 651.86 1650.96 2098.13 Debtors Income tax (2yrs Est 520.00 520.00 Investments at market value 113361.63 72078.03 185439.66 186112.20 136362.37 79094.47 215456.84 222287.04

These accounts were approved by the Council at its meeting on 14 May 2012 and were adopted by the Friends in General Meeting on 24 June 2012 and are signed and dated by authority of the Council by the Chairman.

45 Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2012

INCOME FUNDS 2011 General RECEIPTS Purposes Restricted Total Subscriptions 1848.75 1848.75 1710.25 Income Tax reclaimed 578.18 578.18 0.00 Donations 586.00 586.00 5.00 Legacies 1000.00 1000.00 0.00 Investment income 5753.49 3602.59 9356.08 9038.31 Outings 1350.00 1350.00 1335.00 Sundry receipts 0.00 55.00 Tf from Lilian Simmonds 0.00 2500.00 Total 11116.42 3602.59 14719.01 14643.56

PAYMENTS Grants 498.08 498.08 9600.00 Festival/Lecture 62.10 62.10 73.80 Outings 1012.00 1012.00 1039.89 Investments 3840.87 3840.87 4885.03 Annual Report printing 729.46 729.46 180.00 Trustee admin costs 281.12 281.12 195.33 Other 354.80 354.80 0.00 Lilian Simmonds grants 350.00 350.00 4900.00 Total 7128.43 0.00 7128.43 20874.05

Bank balances 1 January 2012 21481.64 6364.58 27846.22 Net receipts 3987.99 3602.59 7590.58 Bank balances 31 December 2012 25469.63 9967.17 35436.80

Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 December 2012

Restricted Total Total Assets General Fund 2010

Current Accounts 6871.42 6871.42 4796.05 Deposit Accounts 18598.21 9967.17 28565.38 23050.17 Sub Total 25469.63 9967.17 35436.80 27846.22 Debtors Dividends 1025.90 659.47 1685.37 1650.96 Debtors Income tax (2yrs Est 550.00 550.00 520.00 Investments at market value 125567.56 77266.41 202833.97 185439.66 152613.09 87893.05 240506.14 215456.84

These accounts were approved by the Council at its meeting on 13 May 2013 and were adopted by the Friends in General Meeting on 23 June 2013 and are signed and dated by authority of the Council by the Chairman.

46 The Friends of Bristol Cathedral SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions for the current year are now due. If you have not already paid, please send a cheque as below:

Annual Subscription £25.00 Senior Citizens, Students, Unemployed £10.00 Life membership £200.00 Joint life membership £300.00 Churches, Schools etc. £10.00

Some members kindly take the opportunity of adding a donation to their subscription, and that is much appreciated.

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Would you like to Leave a Legacy or Bequest to the Friends of Bristol Cathedral?

There is no limit on bequests to Churches for Charities, which are exempt from inheritance taxes. The Friends’ Council very much hopes that you will consider the Friends of Bristol Cathedral when making or revising a Will. Your solicitor or professional advisor will ensure that your wishes are carried out to the letter, and can also advise on gifts of shares or property. If you would like to support the historic fabric of Bristol Cathedral so that future generations can enjoy its magnificence, and the current concerns with music and education, then you may like to use the following form of words:

I give the sum of £……… to:

Or devise and bequeath all my estate absolutely to:

Or I devise and bequeath a …………… share of the residue of my estate absolutely to:

The Friends of Bristol Cathedral (Registered Charity Number 274399), The Abbey Gatehouse, College Green BRISTOL BS1 5TJ, for its general purposes absolutely. The receipt of the Treasurer or other Officer of the Friends of Bristol Cathedral will discharge my Executors and Trustees. Anyone who contemplates the drawing up of a Will, or making additions to an existing Will, is strongly advised to seek appropriate professional advice. The Treasurer of the Friends or the Honorary Secretary will be happy to discuss any aspect of legacies or other giving to the Cathedral. They may be contacted through the Friends’ Office at the above address or by ’phone on 0117 9253678.

Reg. Charity No. 274399 Friends of Bristol Cathedral Report & Notes 2013