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ST. ANN’S CHURCH DAWSON STREET Annual Civic Carol Service Sunday 18th December 7.00 p.m. Readers will include the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop, The Chief Justice and other leading citizens. REFRESHMENTS AFTERWARDS IN THE PARISH CENTRE ALL WELCOME ST. ANN’S CLERGY ANNUAL SIT-OUT 4 CHARITY BLACK SANTA will sit outside the church on Dawson Street from FRIDAY 16th to CHRISTMAS EVE 24th December (excluding Sunday 18th) 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. daily OFFICIAL LAUNCH BY THE LORD MAYOR & THE ARCHBISHOP on FRIDAY 16th at 2.00 p.m. with Taney Parish Junior Choir 2 CHURCH REVIEW CHURCH OF IRELAND UNITED DIOCESES CHURCH REVIEW OF DUBLIN AND GLENDALOUGH ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly and Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2012 AD. 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Material Christmas is a time of year when many of us finally can make some time for doing things which should be sent by Email or Word we have delayed and postponed throughout the year: meeting our families and our friends, even attachment. making a little time for ourselves. We can ease the pace of life just a little, we can discover days in the week which we had stopped noticing, so hurried is our timetable and so impatient are we VIIEWS EXPRESSED generally to get to the end of another week and another month. With Christmas on top of us, we can let ourselves discover once again that there is, in fact, more time than we had thought or Views expressed in the Church Review are imagined and that we can use that time – for others and for ourselves. those of the contributor and are not The child in the manger is the image of Christmas which is the most powerful and at the same necessarily those of the Editor or Church time the most fragile. 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F: 048-90551812. cake), Rev Ted Woods (Rector) and E: [email protected] Joyce Perdue (Principal). ChurCh review 3 SUMMER VISITS TO THREE LONDON PALACES AND A CATHEDRAL OR TWO Patrick Comerford The two best-known palaces in London are probably Saint James’s Palace, which was the main London royal residence from 1702 until 1837, and Buckingham Palace, the main London royal residence since 1837. But during the past few months I have visited three other, oft-forgotten palaces in London: the Palace of Westminster, now the seat of parliamentary government; the Palace of Whitehall, most of which was destroyed by Above: The Palace of Westminster, seen fire over 300 years ago; and Lambeth Palace, from Lambeth Palace... this was the main the official London residence of the London residence of English kings for Archbishop of Canterbury. almost 500 years. My first visit, at the invitation of two dear Right: The Palace of Westminster has friends, was to the Palace of Westminster, on been the centre of government from the the north bank of the Thames, close to 13th century. Westminster Abbey and to government buildings in Whitehall and Downing Street. The first royal palace was built here in the 11th century, and this was the main London residence of English kings from 1049 to 1530. By the 13th century, Westminster had become the centre of government, and today it is home to both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. My visit began in Westminster Hall, the oldest remaining part of the palace. Built in 1097, it later became the home of Parliament, which met there from the 13th century. The hall saw the trials of Sir Thomas More, Cardinal John Fisher, Guy Fawkes and Warren Hastings; here Sir Winston Churchill lay in state; and here Nelson Mandela, Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama addressed both Left: The Clock Tower or ‘Big Ben’... one of the most visited tourist sights in London. houses of parliament. Centre: The statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Houses of Parliament. Right: When the monarchs moved from Westminster Abbey served briefly as the cathedral for the short-lived Diocese of Westminster in 1530, Westminster remained Westminster in the 16th century. the seat of government. When fire destroyed most of the Old Palace in 1834, only Westminster Hall, the Cloisters of Saint Stephen’s, the Chapel of Saint Mary Undercroft and the Jewel Tower were left standing. The architect Charles Barry won the competition to build the New Palace and drew up plans in the Perpendicular Gothic style, incorporating the remains of the Old Palace, apart from the Jewel Tower. Barry was assisted by AWN Pugin, then the leading authority on The Dean’s Yard is a hidden haven beside Westminster Abbey. Gothic architecture, who designed the decoration and furnishings. Building began in all the intervening doors are open, you can see and only Bishop of Westminster. Although most 1840 and lasted for 30 years, with interior both the Royal Throne in the Lords and the of the property of Westminster Abbey was to decoration continuing until well into the 20th Speaker’s Chair in the Commons. endow the new cathedral chapter; much of it century. Major conservation work continued The Palace of Westminster officially remains was leased or sold off by the first dean, and the too, with extensive repairs after World War II, a royal residence for ceremonial purposes. But bishop impoverished the new see by granting including rebuilding the Commons Chamber “Westminster” is now a byword for the British long leases of its property. after it was bombed in 1941. parliament and we speak too of the Thirlby was often absent on diplomatic The Palace of Westminster has over 1,100 “Westminster system of government.” The missions on behalf of Henry VIII, and when he rooms, arranged symmetrically around two Clock Tower or “Big Ben” is a popular tourist became Bishop of Norwich in 1550 the new series of courtyards, 100 staircases and almost attraction and the world’s best-known clock. diocese was merged back into the Diocese of 5 km of corridors and passageways spread over London, while the cathedral became a four floors.