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March / April 2014 £1.50 Holy Week and Easter Magna Carta 2015 Plans News and Events Services and Music Contents / Foreword Contents Acting Dean Foreword: Acting Dean 2 – 3 Magna Carta 2015 4 – 6 News 7 – 8 Cathedral Services and Music I – VI Music Highlights XI Concerts and Recitals XI - XII Events Titles have never been important to me – Events 21 for example I have never put my academic Fun for Families this Easter 22 qualifications after my name on letterheads or The Cathedral’s Lent Programme 23 church noticeboards. So during the past month, Holy Week and Easter 24 whilst the Dean has been on sabbatical, I have Events 25 - 26 rarely used the temporary title which now applies. This has not stopped others applying it - often, I Staff Focus 27 suspect, in a somewhat satirical manner. News 28 - 29 Since I have been acting cathedral archivist and librarian for the last 3 years I have been used to Amnesty International 30 work commitments pulling in several directions Friends’ Update 30 and against limited time, so in some ways the present position with three jobs to cover is not Contact 31 a radical change. One simply has to concentrate Organ Recital Series 31 on the most important or pressing things and defer, deflect, or deny the rest. And I am in the Events Back cover happy position of having the assiduous help of the Dean’s PA, Pam Barton, which feels like luxury! Front Cover: Our newly refurbished Refectory Restaurant opened mid February 2014 Nonetheless my time is pretty completely filled. I (see page 7). am in the chair for the main Cathedral meetings, my views are required on all significant matters, Photo: Ash Mills I am the Cathedral’s point of connection with the Bishop and the Diocesan organisation, and I seem to have made rather more appearances in the media than usual. 2 March/April 2014 saLISBURY CATheDRAL News Foreword tenure has coincided with some important Acting Dean developments. The Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded late last year, and a further award from The Sackler Trust, have given us the means to press ahead with plans relating to Magna Carta and its display, the celebrations of the 2015 anniversary, and the proper care and development of our library and archive collections. These different fields have occupied a lot of my time, and my colleagues’ time, and we are now appointing new staff with appropriate expertise who will enable us to make much-accelerated progress. I confidently expect that the 800th I must point out that I am not the Dean, and that anniversary for which we are so energetically June will of course be back in post relatively preparing, and of which you will hear much more, soon, and therefore I have not assumed by will be both exciting and fascinating, and also any means all of her roles. She undertakes that it will have been the spur to an enduring many things both here and in the wider Church and important enhancement of our wider which are naturally hers, rather than necessary documentary heritage. functions of her role as Dean. And some, such as her chairing the governors of the Cathedral Edward Probert School, devolve naturally to others rather Canon chanceLLOR than me, as I am not a governor there already. Having said that, the relationship between the Prayer Suggestion Cathedral and its school is a vital one, and so I will be spending much more time developing that This Collect, from the Prayer Book relationship than I would normally, with regular for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, is meetings with Clive, its Head, and more frequent the one to which I revert at all times familiarisation visits. – for example for use at the start of meetings. Briefly and simply, it says And that takes me to what I am particularly and asks all that matters. enjoying about this brief phase – not a workaholic’s delight in a full diary, nor the slaking O GOD, of a lust for power or status, but the chance to for as much as without thee engage in fresh ways with old connections, and we are not able to please thee; to open new ones. This has always been one of Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit the delights for the clergy, and it applies as much may to an Acting Dean (and I suspect to a Dean) as it in all things direct and rule our does to an Assistant Curate. hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. I have also been very fortunate that my brief Amen. saLISBURY CATheDRAL News March/April 2014 3 Magna Carta 2015 As part of the Magna Carta’s 800th Anniversary celebrations the Cathedral hosts a Flower Festival in 2015. Magna Carta Project Wins HLF Support We are delighted to have been awarded initial founding of the old Cathedral – so it’s possible support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) something else might be discovered! to help prepare Magna Carta for its 800th anniversary celebrations in 2015. In order to ‘unlock’ Heritage Lottery Fund monies, (the total amount will be over £500,000), the Plans are advanced to re-display and re-present Cathedral will need to raise nearly £200,000 in the Cathedral’s Magna Carta in the Chapter partnership funding. House alongside other documents from the Cathedral’s extensive archive, using the latest The Cathedral’s Development Department is interpretation techniques to communicate extremely grateful to Wilsons Solicitors LLP, the Magna Carta’s historic background and modern oldest legal business headquartered in Salisbury, significance to the many extra visitors expected who have already pledged £30,000 towards this in 2015 and beyond. An exhibition partner will be matched funding required for the new Magna appointed as Cathedral News goes to press. Carta exhibition. Magna Carta lay unremarked until the document Another special award recently received from became of national prominence. It is probably the The Sackler Trust, will mean that we can begin most famous document in English legal history. the painstaking work of digitally cataloguing our Its application of the rule of law to all, including medieval archive, the important first step that will the state, continues to underlie the personal and pave the way to eventually making our archives as commercial freedoms that we enjoy today. accessible to the public as this building. The Heritage Lottery Fund has also enabled Unlike repairs to the fabric, this work will largely us to employ a full time archivist so that other take place behind the scenes, but it’s as vital important manuscripts from our archives can be in helping the Cathedral preserve and open up experienced by the public for the first time. The to the public and scholars its unique medieval Cathedral’s archive is a real medieval treasure treasures as are the repairs to the building itself. trove with documents going back nearly to the 4 March/April 2014 saLISBURY CATheDRAL News Magna Carta 2015 House is developed to brief and to timetable. The Cathedral will be looking to work with a range He will also work closely with the other partners of partners to deliver its ambitious programme. who are involved in Salisbury’s Magna Carta These include The British Library, Lincoln anniversary celebrations in 2015. Cathedral, Magna Carta 800th Committee / Magna Carta Trust, the Diocese of Salisbury, the Seif says, “It is hard to think of a document with American Bar Association, the BBC, Wiltshire as much international impact as Magna Carta, Council, Visit Wiltshire, Dorset County Council, and indeed, of any document still so relevant Salisbury City Council, the AGEAS Salisbury after 800 years. Add in the fact that the Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury Museum, Magna Carta has such a strong link to the Salisbury Playhouse and Sarum College. Cathedral itself, and it's easy to see why 2015 will be an incredibly important year for Salisbury. Martin Field DeveLopmenT DIRecTOR & DepUTY chapTER CLERK I feel very privileged to be working as part of the Cathedral team to deliver an exhibition and Magna Carta Programme associated events of international significance, befitting the extraordinary importance of both the Manager Appointed document and Salisbury Cathedral. Following the successful In both Durham and in Cairo, I have been involved stage one Heritage Lottery in telling the stories of historic objects and places bid the Cathedral has of outstanding significance. I now look forward moved quickly to appoint a to telling the incredible story of how a one page Magna Carta Programme document could have made such a difference, Manager as it prepares nationally and internationally, both 800 years ago its 2015 programme of and today.” celebrations. Seif El Rashidi will join us in May from Durham where he is the World Heritage Site Co-ordinator, working with Cathedral Durham Cathedral, University, City and County Archivist Councils, amongst others. Seif studied at the London School of Economics, then working in Appointed Cairo before returning to the UK in 2008. The Cathedral is pleased to have appointed Emily Naish In his new role he will take responsibility for as its new Archivist. Having recently worked at the overall co-ordination and control of the the Centre for Scientific Archives, she is now Cathedral’s Magna Carta celebrations, developing looking forward to a very different environment and delivering the events in line with Chapter’s of ecclesiastical records. "I am really excited plans – of which more will be revealed in the next to be appointed and am committed to ensuring issue of Cathedral News. Seif will work closely that the archive, as the Cathedral's memory, is with the Heritage Lottery Fund in the development looked after to the highest standards possible of our Magna Carta Activity Plan, and ensure that and opened up to the Cathedral community and the planned Magna Carta exhibition in the Chapter beyond".