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REACH Ely Case Study Series: Christ Church, Cambridge Cambridge Judge Business School 1 REACH Ely Case Study Series Reimagining Churches as Community Assets for the Common Good CHRIST CHURCH CAMBRIDGE Text, design and photography REACH Ely (Reimagining Churches as 2 Dr Timur Alexandrov Community Assets for the Common Good) Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation is a multi-partner research project that Cambridge Judge Business School aims to help communities make fuller use of their churches. Editorial board The project is implemented by Dr Helen Haugh Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation Cambridge Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School and the Diocese of Ely Geoffrey Hunter with the generous support of Allchurches Trust Diocese of Ely and Historic England www.reachely.org The challenges facing church communities and their buildings have been extensively studied in the light of declining church attendance in the United Kingdom over several decades. REACH Ely aims to address the less-well-understood opportunities for churches to engage and reconnect with the 97.7 per cent of the local communities in the Diocese of Ely who do not attend their parish churches. With the absence of universal determinants of success and failure of churches in the community engagement context, the REACH Ely project will provide an understanding of the relationship between communities and wider use of church buildings as well as the contribution that churches make to the common good. The project will determine community values, needs and opportunities that can be used in the most effective way to ensure a win-win outcome for communities and a sustainable future of church buildings. The case study series is based on in-depth interviews and observations about church building use with informants from a subset of deaneries and parishes in the Diocese of Ely, supplemented with secondary information about the communities they represent. The purpose of the case study is to unearth various church experiences in renovating and envisioning their buildings as missional and social spaces, engaging with local and wider communities, addressing current challenges, and learning from their practice. The Glossary is a separate document that accompanies the case study series. It is available as a download from the project’s website www.reachely.org On the cover: North front of Christ Church Cambridge viewed from Newmarket Road. Copyright © 2021 University of Cambridge. All rights reserved. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from The Ely Diocesan Board of Finance under research grant ref RG95970. REACH Ely | www.reachely.org 1 CHRIST CHURCH CAMBRIDGE Church Category: Urban Deanery: Cambridge North Address: Christchurch St, Cambridge CB1 1HT Website: www.christchurchcambridge.org.uk Summary Buildings and Artefacts: Grade II listed building; Modern glass entrance porch; Flexible seating and fixed side pews; Perpendicular style windows; Big aisle galleries; Downstairs hall; Upstairs auditorium; WC facilities; Kitchen; Lift; Car parking and bike railings; also responsible for semi-derelict St Andrew the Less church which is moving towards formal closure Congregation to Population Ratio: 450 / 4,489 Fundraising: Fundraising not used in financial planning; twice- yearly provision of information about church finances and giving Income Generation: Parish giving (95%), other income (4%), rental income (1%) Communications: Website; TV monitors in foyer serve as ‘notice boards’; Weekly newsletter; Email subscription; Monthly e-bulletin; Church welcome packs; Facebook; Instagram; YouTube; Spotify; Soundcloud; Flickr; Mobile apps; Flyers Community Engagement: The Embassy (Free weekly English as additional language teaching sessions); The Barn (international hospitality run by Friends International); Christianity Explored courses run regularly; community workgroups in collaboration with The Besom; Hosting for Cambridge Churches Homeless Project; Craft groups; Baby Steps (group for new parents); First Steps (twice-weekly parents & toddlers group); Sunday creche and children’s groups for up to age 14; Midweek youth groups for 11–14s and 14–18s; Midweek young adults groups (meal and group meetings); Daddy & Me (monthly dads and under-5s meeting); Monthly Lunch and Weekly exercise group for over-50s. 2 REACH Ely Case Study | Part 1: Roots ROOTS Profile Christ Church stands within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England. The parish church is located in the Market ward of Cambridge, a central area of the city that includes the Grafton Centre shopping development and a mix of older residential properties and more modern apartments, some of which have been built specifically for the student population. The Market ward has the largest proportion of residents assessed as ‘settled’ in the city of Cambridge, with 20–30% identified as ‘transient’. However, a large proportion of properties are rented from private landlords. The population of the parish is 4,489 people (2016 census). The population of the ward was estimated to be 8,900 in April 2011 in 1,600 households.1 The population of the city as a whole was 123,900, including 24,506 students, according to the 2011 census. The river Cam runs through the western to the northern corner of the ward, with university boathouses and residential barges strung along the riverbank. The ward is bisected by a number of busy roads, including the Newmarket Road. A large common, Midsummer Common, is on its western edge, which hosts many fairs and events and is used predominantly for recreational purposes. Cambridge is well connected to both the motorway network (M11, A14) and to the rail network to London and to the north. This part of Cambridge is also home to other religious organisations: The Anglican All Saints church (now closed for worship), Wesley Methodist Church, Eden Baptist Church, Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue, and Westcott House, a Church of England theological college. The surviving chapel of the Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene is a short walk down the Newmarket Road. The area suffers from problems with homelessness and crime figures are relatively high in relation to national norms. However, educational and employment levels are above average. ______________________________________________________ 1 https://cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Cambridge-City- District-Report-2011.pdf See estimate for 2018 at https://cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/quick-profile/?geographyId=31 f769d8c0ab435dad958d942dec31bb&featureId=E05002709 REACH Ely Case Study | Part 1: Roots 3 Top: Church facade with the glass foyer entry viewed from Newmarket Road. Bottom: View of Christ Church from south-east (Photo by Richard Humphrey, www.geograph.org.uk) 4 Building The current church building, Christ Church, traces its history from 1825 when the existing parish church, which is officially St Andrew the Less, but commonly known as The Abbey Church, became too small for the growing population of the parish. Plans were made to build a new church building, with some of the funds raised by subscription. The present red brick church building which was opened in 1839 is constructed in the classic East Anglian style. The church’s aisled hall is built of brick, with neither tower nor chancel. One of the rare distinctions of the church is that the building is orientated north and south. The north front is an architectural echo of King’s College Chapel with four distinctive turrets on the corners and a great ‘west’ window (north window in fact). Christ Church is another of the Cambridge churches designed by Ambrose Poynter, who was also responsible for St Paul’s on Hills Road and St Andrew the Great in the town centre. There is a separate building at the rear of the church which originally functioned as a choir vestry but is now mostly used for youth work. The interior comprises a flat timber roof, but the shape of the arcades and the clerestory windows are Perpendicular in style. In the early 1970s a hall owned by the church was compulsorily purchased when the Grafton Centre was being developed. This left the church with a sum of money but no church hall. At that point a plan was conceived to install a floor at the level of the galleries to create an upstairs auditorium (where Sunday services would take place) and a downstairs hall and kitchen. In 2004 through a collaboration with St Andrew the Great, about 90 people joined Christ Church as part of a church ‘graft’. This created a momentum which led to a major refurbishment of the church building and injection of people and giving. 5 Over a five-year period, a range of work was undertaken including the installation of a new lift, a new heating system and the creation of several new rooms both on the ground floor and first floor. A new industrial standard kitchen was installed alongside a new kitchen servery. Five WCs were installed. A play area was created in the churchyard accessed from the church hall by a new doorway. In the upstairs auditorium the central pews were removed and replaced with flexible seating. The font was relocated, and a new raised stage area created at the front. A new sound system, new TV screens and new lighting were all installed. The final phase of the refurbishment was the replacement of a derelict front porch with a new foyer and front offices. This also involved relocating a section of the front railings in order that the former narrow gate could be replaced by a broad open entrance continuous with the pavement. A small car park was formed to be available for those with restricted mobility. Further parking is available in nearby public car parks. A member of the church was employed to manage the refurbishment, which cost in the region of £1 million. The church is open all week except Saturday. On weekdays, the church is open from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and on Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. On some Sunday evenings the church runs an online seminar at 7.30 p.m.
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