A Walk Around St John's
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
this leaflet is FREE is leaflet this a copy a Designed by Whitelight Creative www.whitelight.uk.com Creative Whitelight by Designed please take take please Ana Dobeson, Julian Greenwood, Jay Kettle-Williams and the Diocesan Archives. Archives. Diocesan the and Kettle-Williams Jay Greenwood, Julian Dobeson, Ana Network, London (baptism and wedding), Peter Harrington (young people), people), (young Harrington Peter wedding), and (baptism London Network, Engineers text by Val Fontana and Anthony Quail; photos by Catholic Communications Communications Catholic by photos Quail; Anthony and Fontana Val by text since, the Cathedral’s foundation. Cathedral’s the since, Published August 2008 © St. John’s Catholic Cathedral, Portsmouth. Credits: Credits: Portsmouth. Cathedral, Catholic John’s St. © 2008 August Published Civil of the story of the years before, and and before, years the of story the email [email protected] email Open the pages fully to find more about about more find to fully pages the Open To become a Friend phone 023 9282 6170 or or 6170 9282 023 phone Friend a become To Institute © SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE CATHEDRAL THE OF FRIENDS THE BY SPONSORED the Cathedral has marked the anniversary. anniversary. the marked has Cathedral the of Portsmouth. This leaflet is one of the ways ways the of one is leaflet This Portsmouth. of www.portsmouthcatholiccathedral.org.uk Cathedral Church for the new Catholic Diocese Diocese Catholic new the for Church Cathedral at site web cathedral the See Evangelist. It was opened in 1882 as the the as 1882 in opened was It Evangelist. [email protected] email email built in Portsmouth, dedicated to St John the the John St to dedicated Portsmouth, in built Edinburgh Road, Portsmouth PO1 3HG PO1 Portsmouth Road, Edinburgh Just over 125 years ago a new church was was church new a ago years 125 over Just 1879 in Crawley, John winner competition The Dean at Bishop’s House, House, Bishop’s at Dean The Write to to Write architectural by John’s St of drawing A celebrated a big birthday in 2007! 2007! in birthday big a celebrated 023 9287 0348 9287 023 Phone the Discovery Centre on on Centre Discovery the Phone St John’s Cathedral Cathedral John’s St 023 9282 6170 9282 023 Phone the parish office on on office parish the Phone celebrated the first mass in May 1882. 1882. May in mass first the celebrated Speak to a priest after mass mass after priest a to Speak with John Horan as its Administrator. Bishop John Virtue Virtue John Bishop Administrator. its as Horan John with opened as the new Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Evangelist, the John St of Cathedral new the as opened to book a wedding, baptism or funeral: funeral: or baptism wedding, a book to stone was laid in 1880. Two years later the partly built church church built partly the later years Two 1880. in laid was stone you seek advice in confidence by appointment; or wish wish or appointment; by confidence in advice seek you It took him another 15 years before the first foundation foundation first the before years 15 another him took It If you would like further information about St John’s, or or John’s, St about information further like would you If John Horan, appointed Mission Rector to Portsea in 1865. 1865. in Portsea to Rector Mission appointed Horan, John needed. The man who would make this happen was Father Father was happen this make would who man The needed. known as Churches Together in Central Portsmouth. Portsmouth. Central in Together Churches as known By 1850 it was clear a new and larger church was urgently urgently was church larger and new a clear was it 1850 By traditions in a variety of ways including the ecumenical group group ecumenical the including ways of variety a in traditions The second St John’s St second The St John’s, as Cathedral and Parish, works with other Christian Christian other with works Parish, and Cathedral as John’s, St As a focus for ecumenism for focus a As outside Portsmouth Dockyard. Portsmouth outside John the Evangelist in 1796, a modest chapel in Portsea, just just Portsea, in chapel modest a 1796, in Evangelist the John construction. of the most immediate results was the construction of St St of construction the was results immediate most the of new school in 1880 alongside the new church then under under then church new the alongside 1880 in school new Catholics to once again build churches and attend mass. One One mass. attend and churches build again once to Catholics tradition inspired by Father John Horan when he opened a a opened he when Horan John Father by inspired tradition This is partly why the law was changed in 1791 permitting permitting 1791 in changed was law the why partly is This St Edmund’s secondary school and in this way continues a a continues way this in and school secondary Edmund’s St and school primary John’s St supports also Parish The Many were Catholics. were Many countries across the world: every continent is represented. represented. is continent every world: the across countries port and arsenal, home to thousands of soldiers and sailors. sailors. and soldiers of thousands to home arsenal, and port visitors from within as well as beyond Portsmouth, including including Portsmouth, beyond as well as within from visitors Portsmouth had grown to become a huge and fortified naval naval fortified and huge a become to grown had Portsmouth Today, the Cathedral Parish attracts parishioners and and parishioners attracts Parish Cathedral the Today, Portsmouth Dockyard. By the late eighteenth century century eighteenth late the By Dockyard. Portsmouth As a Parish a As attracted by employment opportunities in places like like places in opportunities employment by attracted and migrants from other countries, lived in Britain’s towns towns Britain’s in lived countries, other from migrants and north and the Channel Islands to the south. south. the to Islands Channel the and north refugees often families, Catholic changes these Despite parishioners – across an area reaching to Oxford in the the in Oxford to reaching area an across – parishioners with independent powers to appoint its own bishops. own its appoint to powers independent with for the spiritual and pastoral needs of priests, religious and and religious priests, of needs pastoral and spiritual the for THE FIRST 125 YEARS! 125 FIRST THE establishing the church in England as separate, Protestant and and Protestant separate, as England in church the establishing Diocese. This is where the Bishop lives and works to care care to works and lives Bishop the where is This Diocese. Elizabeth who, on becoming Queen in 1559, passed laws laws passed 1559, in Queen becoming on who, Elizabeth St John’s is the heart of Catholic life in the Portsmouth Portsmouth the in life Catholic of heart the is John’s St Pope in 1536. This was later confirmed by his daughter daughter his by confirmed later was This 1536. in Pope As a Cathedral a As over 250 years, following King Henry VIII’s break with the the with break VIII’s Henry King following years, 250 over in which Catholic membership and practice was illegal for for illegal was practice and membership Catholic which in different ways. different The Cathedral’s story reflects Britain’s history. It is a history history a is It history. Britain’s reflects story Cathedral’s The continues to provide a focus for thousands of people in many many in people of thousands for focus a provide to continues The first St John’s St first The St John’s is much more than a beautiful church, for it it for church, beautiful a than more much is John’s St ST JOHN’S TODAY JOHN’S ST JOHN’S ST TWO OF TALE A 2 St Patrick: 3 St Edmund: 4 St Joseph: A WALK AROUND ST JOHN’S this statue is patron this statue is thought to saint of the one of the have been Portsmouth oldest in the Use this plan to take a stroll around the Cathedral. installed when Diocese. Cathedral St Patrick’s and came Each image refers to a numbered location on the floor plan. Chapel was from the completed in first St 1924. John the Evangelist in Portsea. 2 St. 5 Our Lady: this statue came to the Patrick 3 To the 4 Cathedral in 2004 from Campion Discovery Centre Chapel Our Lady House, Osterley, when the college and Shop 1 Chapel closed. 5 Statues of Our Lady St. John and St. John above 1 The Sacred Heart statue: Chapel 6 thought to have come the West doorway from Paris about 1886. 10 9 8 7 6 St John: this statue also comes from 9 The Crucifixion: Blessed Sacrament the first St John together with the Chapel the Evangelist in other Stations of Portsea. the Cross, comes from France and was installed in 1912. 10 St Peter: with the Papal symbols 7 St Michael: one of the four – the triple crown, triple cross Archangels painted by and the keys to the Kingdom of 8 The Pieta: Our Lady with the Westlake for the Cathedral’s Heaven. body of her crucified son. re-ordering in 1906. Portsmouth’s Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist: The history and life of St John’s Cathedral is closely bound up with the city’s own history and the life of the Navy and Army during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its opening in the 1880s is an example of how the Catholic Church was being re-established in the British Isles after over three hundred years absence.