Record 2019 Number 88

Friends of 2 The Close, Winchester, SO23 9LS 01962 857 245 [email protected] www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk Registered Charity No. 220218 Friends of Winchester Cathedral 2019

Royal Patron Her Majesty the Queen Patron The Right Reverend , of Winchester President The Very Reverend , of Winchester Ex Officio Vice-Presidents Atkinson Esq, HM Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire Cllr Eleanor , The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Winchester Ms Jean Ritchie QC, Cathedral Council Chairman Honorary Vice-President Mo Hearn

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bruce Parker, Chairman Anne Newsome, Vice-Chairman Fellowes, Treasurer Tom Watson, Geoff Howard Natalie Shaw, Nigel Spicer Ex Officio Chapter Trustees The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Annabelle Boyes, Receiver General STAFF Lucy Hutchin, Director Lesley Mead Leisl Porter

Friends’ Prayer Most glorious Lord of life, Who gave to your disciples the precious name of friends: accept our thanks for this Cathedral Church, built and adorned to your glory and alive with prayer and grant that its company of Friends may so serve and honour you in this life that they come to enjoy the fullness of your promises within the eternal fellowship of your grace; and this we ask for your name’s sake. Amen. Welcome Another momentous year in so many respects.

The opening of the fabulous new exhibition and all its associated works in the south was nothing short of mind-blowing. The special service of celebration planned for October this year will have been a most fitting tribute to all those who have worked so hard on the project over the past few years. The commissioning and performance by the choir of Queen Elizabeth’s Winchester Carol was a moment of intense pride for us all and the 20th anniversary celebration of the Girl Choristers was a hugely enjoyable occasion. We have a membership and a remarkable band of volunteers who help us support every aspect of the Cathedral and its community. In the office, Lucy, Lesley and Leisl (the three ‘elles’ ?) have as their work motto, ‘Roll up sleeves and get on with it’. Who would not want to be a Friend of Winchester Cathedral?

Bruce Parker Chairman of the Friends

Joint Editors – Bruce Parker and Lucy Hutchin Photos by kind permission of Simon Newman, John Crook, Jim Pascoe, Richard Jacobs and others Design and print – talkdesignandprint.com

Winchester cathedral record 2019 3 Contents message from the dean 5 extraordinary period in cathedral life 6 Nick Cox, Architect beneath and behind kings and scribes 10 Dr John Crook, Archaeologist kings and scribes exhibition 16 Reg Stevenson, Senior Volunteer public events 17 cathedral music 20 crossing boundaries The Dean 24 foundation of the cage 28 Dr Cindy Wood, architecture all in one 31 events 2018–19 32 year in figures 34 ins and outs of europe 36 Roy Weller and Simon Newman, Cathedral Guides office news 42 peregrines Keith Betton, Hants Ornithological Society 44 the record and world war II Dr Tom Watson 46 ninetieth anniversary 48 festival sermon 50 agm minutes 52 finance 54 record extra 58 cards 60 who do you think we are? 62 membership 64

4 Winchester cathedral record 2019 TheA message Deafrom n Catherine Ogle

The recent opening of the wonderful exhibition ‘Kings and Scribes: the Birth of a Nation’ is a great milestone in the life of our cathedral.

Huge achievements have been made in recent years, with the loyal and lively support of the Friends, of which the opening of the newly conserved south transept is a particularly joyful milestone. This marks the culmination of the Cathedral Appeal and several years of work to the roof, the presbytery vault, the high clerestory medieval windows and other projects. It’s good to see the Cathedral looking in such fine form as our wonderful stewards, guides and welcomers rise to the challenge of greater numbers of visitors. Chapter has recently published ‘Calling We experienced the service together, and Vision’ articulating cathedral sang the hymns and joined in the priorities and values for the next phase prayers. This was a fine example of the of our life together. (Friends are invited Cathedral being for everyone. to collect a copy from the cathedral This year marks a personal land-mark office). This sets out the desire to be for me, as the 25th anniversary of a place of welcome and Christian the first ordinations of women to the worship for all people. An example of priesthood. It’s a great joy to be Dean this last year was our desire to screen of Winchester and I’m glad to share the royal wedding of Prince Harry and some of my story later in the pages of Meghan Markle. A grant from The The Record. Friends enabled us to buy screens Thank you to the Friends of the for the nave. The event attracted Cathedral and for all that you do to people of all ages and many who support the on-going life and work of might not normally come to church. Winchester Cathedral.

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Nick Cox, Cathedral Architect

The first round application to the Nation. The project has been heroic in Heritage Lottery Fund was submitted its ambition and a challenge on many just a few weeks after I was appointed fronts. It has also been remarkable in the as Cathedral Architect in 2011. This last collective effort brought to bear from year has marked the final stage of an all involved and in the support it has extraordinary period in the life of the benefited from in many ways; support Cathedral involving a huge quantity from volunteers, from donations and of work culminating in the opening from the spirit that the project has of Kings and Scribes: The Birth of a inspired in people to give of their best.

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Display cases installation

During this last year, prior to the Rare moment installation of the display cases and One notable week in the year was contents, the final items of work in after completion of the building work the south transept were completed. and prior to the installation of the This involved completion of the stairs display cases. This was a rare moment rising from the Morley Library lobby when it was possible to see all that up to the triforium and the fixing of had been created, with protections the many lights and other electrical removed, in readiness to receive the and data points. Fabrication of the exhibition. It was a time to reflect on new railings around the triforium and what superficially were new floors new gates to The display area belying the complexity of the structural required a number of sessions with the work and services running beneath – blacksmith; the Cathedral is far from the new lift perhaps being the most being plumb, square or level and so all conspicuous feature of the intervention elements have to be bespoke to suit into the Cathedral. their particular place and purpose. This has been a common theme throughout With the spaces ready, the exhibition the project. It has been a constant contractor moved in to install the pleasure to see the skill and attitude cases and displays. This activity of the craftsmen involved, rising to the had been anticipated with cable challenge and delivering a wonderful routes and access points all carefully standard of finish. contrived, some years beforehand, to

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Lift work in progress Lift at ground level facilitate the installation. Seeing the glaring lacunae. The end result is a spaces transformed into the finished treat to see with the important early exhibition was a special moment. As C16th glass in the heads of the north the Cathedral Architect, to inhabit the presbytery aisle window (instigated by reality of what until then had only ever Bishop Fox and executed by Flemish fully existed in one’s mind’s eye was a glaziers) conserved and furnished memorable experience. with protective glazing. In the north transept east aisle, the combination Other projects of decorative leading in the north The work to the stone and glass of window, collections of rare Carolean the north presbytery aisle and north glass as well as the colourful and transept east aisle has been completed distinctive work of Christopher Whall since the last report. That the stone can now be better appreciated. had been split by the ferramenta was known: with the glass removed, the This last year has also seen the true extent of the damage could be production of the latest quinquennial assessed and the cathedral masons inspection report. This included a skilfully worked new stones to replace review of works carried out. It was those that were beyond repair. good to be able to note so many areas of work completed – the presbytery In parallel with the stone repairs, roof, high vault and clerestory the was taken to the windows; the north presbytery aisle workshops of the specialist glazier and north transept east aisle windows, where the delightful designs could be the south transept internal and external studied more closely and the decayed works, and the new sound and lighting and deteriorated pieces could be installations. Winchester Cathedral is, cared for. Part of the policy on the nevertheless, a very large building and glazing conservation was to replace there will always be the ‘next project’ poor, clear, mid C20th glass with new but just now we can delight in and glass of more appropriate hue and celebrate the remarkable work that has transparency so as to reduce the bright been achieved in the last few years.

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Installation of interactive glass window – see front cover

Winchester cathedral record 2019 9 Beneath and behind Kings and Scribes

Dr John Crook, Cathedral Archaeologist

The opening of the exhibition ‘Kings to model makers, and above all, & Scribes: The Birth of a Nation’ undertaking the full ‘post-excavation’ marked the end of a building and analysis and report: a time-consuming conservation project worthy to be but essential task as there’s no point compared with the great preservation in spending several years recording a works of 1905–12. As the works project if it is not written up for future evolved from construction to fitting researchers. With that in mind, this is out, the demands on the cathedral an appropriate time to take stock and archaeologist moved from practical to consider what historical discoveries investigations and watching briefs to have been made since the idea of a providing information about display new exhibition was first mooted, as objects, supplying measured drawings long ago as 2011.

Excavating the lift pit

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Discovery The re-excavation of a service trench in the Chapel of St Alphege provided another discovery; the remains of the original south entrance to the , matching that on the north side which A late Saxon stylus now on display in is concealed beneath a trapdoor next the Kings and Scribes exhibition to the modern entrance. A shaft and a capital were briefly exposed for the first First, the below-ground works. The time in several hundred years. excavation of the lift pit was done by hand (mostly single-handed): a volume of 9.5 cubic metres of deposits, weighing an estimated 26 tonnes. It was worth the effort, for the new insights it provided into the way the Norman cathedral was constructed. At the bottom of the trench, just over six feet below the tile pavement, a hard lime plaster surface was discovered, at exactly the same level as the crypt floor. It became apparent that, in preparation for building the Cathedral, the had excavated the entire site to the same level. They then laid a temporary plaster floor on which the plan of walls and piers could be marked out. These areas were excavated slightly deeper, and oak Romanesque capital and shaft piles were driven down through the subsoil, to support sleeper walls and Over on the other side of the transept, foundation blocks of flint and mortar. A the removal of the timber floor of the visitor in the 1080s would have walked virgers’ vestry revealed the stone-lined on the temporary floor amongst a pits which, in a previous edition of labyrinth of foundations, soon (apart this Record (1991) I argued were an from the crypt) to be submerged in integral part of ’ treasury, back-fill, bringing the floor up to its final intended for the safe storage of money level. One of these visitors must have (ingots and coins). The decoration dropped his stylus, which rattled down of the massively thick walls inserted a gap next to a foundation block: this into the transept’s west aisle links the was the best archaeological ‘find’ of the structure with that supremely rich whole operation, and is perhaps the bishop — and he may have felt that his earliest artefact to have been excavated cathedral would offer more protection from the present Cathedral. It is now for his wealth than his palace at displayed in the new exhibition. Wolvesey. Also briefly revealed was a

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More obvious to those who walk through the Inner Close were the excavations for the foul water drain provided to serve new WCs for choir members in their new vestries in the south transept. This ran all the way from the angle of the transept and nave to the Judges’ Lodgings, and thus provided an amazing north-south section of the east side of the two cloisters, the main cloister and the smaller infirmary cloister to the south. The excavation provided a glimpse of the inner wall of each cloister, and of the north and south walls of the monastic refectory. The plan of the priory precincts is evolving fast. The stripping out of the former WCs at the east end of the calefactory (the Henry of Blois' bullion vaults south aisle of the transept) allowed the development of successive wonderful group of reused thirteenth- altar steps there to be traced, and century decorated floor tiles, laid provided a glimpse of what must have perhaps in the seventeenth century in been a wonderful thirteenth-century the south-east corner of the room. decorative scheme. The wall-painting of St Benedict on the south side is well-known, but a new discovery on the east wall was the painted figure of what appears to be a desert being tempted by a small demon. This seems to be part of a series of painted figures of along the entire east wall of the transept, but tragically in the calefactory the stripping of medieval wall plaster when the WCs were created means that all except this one figure were destroyed. It has been conserved, and is now safely protected behind the light excluding chains. Up at triforium level, the piercing of the lift shaft provided a unique section of an eleventh-century vault, albeit one that had been severely compromised Tiles below floor of virgers' vestry by the subsidence that is clearly

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form a more or less level surface above the dome. The section also allowed the history of construction at this level to be ‘read’: above the levelling material was a thin layer of organic material, suggesting that construction had paused at this level for a year or two, allowing blown leaves and other debris to accumulate, probably while the 1080s builders attempted to deal with the subsidence problem by vaulting over the slype. The other main area of work involved the roof and vault of the presbytery. Here, the main historical interest was working out the date of the various phase of works. The main fabric of this part of the cathedral is fourteenth- century, but the project was evidently prolonged, perhaps delayed by the Black Death of 1348. Thus, the Wall-painting of a saint tempted by a clerestory window arches have details small demon consistent with the period 1330–40, but their window tracery seems to apparent in the south transept. The have been designed in the early vault had been formed of roughly- 1350s under Bishop Edington, but tooled Quarr stone voussoirs (wedge- was probably not inserted for a couple shaped blocks), and the pockets at the of decades after that, and the actual corners backfilled with loose rubble to glass seems to be of the 1390s at the

Section through the Romanesque vault

Winchester cathedral record 2019 13 Beneath and behind Kings and Scribes very earliest. Extraordinary as it may seem, the presbytery may have been a building site for about 80 years but Winchester folk must have been used to such delays, given the length of time it took for the nave to be completed. This chronology is provisional, and will I hope be refined by further analysis, still on-going. We may be surer of the date of Bishop Fox’s work. The reconstructing of the aisles came first and the insertion of his flying buttresses to support the clerestory elevations, and contemporary with this was his reconstruction of the clerestory of the eastern bay of the presbytery, beyond the Great Screen, by then Heart-shaped lead plaque dated 1838 already in place. Then came the new roof, designed to accommodate the vault beneath—wisely Fox decided to refurbishment in the first decades of the build a wooden copy of Wykeham’s nineteenth century, and one workman, vault of a century earlier, rather than D. Bedford, left a heart-shaped design risk using stone. The roof has now with the date 1838 showing that the been tree-ring dated to 1507–8, and easternmost bays of lead had survived the presbytery vault is contemporary an astonishing 180 years. It featured a but cannot have been installed until fictitious coat of arms and the initials VR the roof was built, because during for Queen Victoria who had acceded constructing it was temporarily the previous year. suspended from the roof timbers. The The vault had been conserved at carving of the vault’s decorative bosses a slightly earlier date and during must have proceeded apace in those our recent works, the conservators years, with its central celebration of discovered a folded sheet of lead King Henry VII, his son Prince Henry, with various scratched inscriptions, and Fox’s aspirations for a conclusion enclosing a sheet of paper. The of the engagement of the younger chronology proved to be complex. Henry and Catharine of Aragon – The earliest inscription comprised the despite the king’s reluctance. The vault initials PTTS and the date 23 October was certainly complete by early 1509 1808. Two years later (3 October given that the future Henry VIII still 1810) the owner of those initials, Peter features as . Thomas Twynham Stubington added More recent interventions may be a more lengthy inscription relating dated through more obvious means, in how he and his brothers, ‘Church the form of ‘time capsules’ and graffiti. Carpenters’, had repaired the south- The roof and vault underwent a major east vaulting bay in English oak.

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the hollowed upper surface of the boss of the Veronica near the east window. It comprised two elements: a set of photographs of the Cathedral and city taken by Dean Selwyn and with his own annotations, and a tin formerly containing Zubes throat pastilles, containing a list of the carpenters and painters from the local building firm Moreton & Sons, who had ‘decorated and repaired’ the vaulting.

The 1810 'time capsule' and its contents

For good measure he wrote a similar account on a sheet of paper which was enclosed within the folded lead, together with a George III halfpenny of 1806. It seems likely that this was a replacement for a paper deposited in 1808. Then on 30 June 1819, two later workmen, James Jepp and Alexander McKenzie scratched another inscription explaining how they had found the List of workmen dated 1950 found in a capsule left by the Stubingtons. Zubes tube

The next major intervention on the And what of the new exhibitions vault was in 1949, and this time a more themselves? I am particularly pleased official time capsule was deposited in that the hypothetical drawing of the Norman cathedral that I made years ago has been skilfully turned into a scale model. This work certainly focused the mind, and a particular challenge was to work out the appearance of the Romanesque west front for which we have little more evidence than the excavated ground plan. It was broadly based on two contemporary Normandy churches whose western structures match what little we know of our own: Saint-Etienne and Sainte-Trinité, Caen.

Winchester cathedral record 2019 15 Kings and Scribes a volunteer's view

Reg Stevenson, Senior Volunteer

“Stunning”; “brilliant”; “wonderful“; “so much to see”; “such a high standard”. These are typical comments that we, as stewards, hear from visitors who have been really impressed as they go around the exhibition, now open in the Cathedral’s south transept. the 1680s. An excellent addition is that about a dozen early printed books Although publicised as an exhibition have been scanned and reveal the entitled “Kings and Scribes”, there are, wonderful illustrations of books from in reality, several exhibitions, spread as early as the 1500s. On that floor, over three floors. All are conveniently there is also a great deal of information accessible to everyone by either the about monastic life including where splendid lift that goes through the food and other items came from. Norman vault or via the high quality wooden staircase. On the ground floor, The triforium houses two wonderful all four volumes of the Winchester Bible exhibitions. On the east side is the are on display. There are also electronic history of the Anglo-Saxons and the exhibits to see many other pages and a contents of the mortuary chests. There great deal of information regarding how is even a 3D-printer copy of the only it was made and the materials used. female skeleton, which could well have been Queen Emma. Also, there is much On the mezzanine floor, the Morley about two young boys from Norman Library is still in the same room as from times, quite unexpected. On the west side the exhibition reveals a great deal about building the cathedral, including shapes of arches and designing stained glass windows. Throughout, there are many interactive displays to suit all sorts of visitor interests. Any visitor should beware of expecting to cover it all on a single visit – there will be a need to come back, again and again.

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Stone Festival about the ancient art of stonemasonry and see what impact this vital work has on the life of the Cathedral today. The Stone Festival returned to the Inner Prizes for the best carvings were Close with an exciting programme of donated by The Worshipful Company events and activities celebrating the art of Masons and all carvings were of stonemasonry. auctioned, a chance for visitors to Masons from around the country purchase unique pieces with proceeds carved sculptures of their own design going towards Cathedral restoration from a single block of stone inspired work. by the Kings and Scribes theme, in For centuries, stonemasonry has anticipation of the launch of the new played a crucial role in the building exhibition. and the conservation of the Cathedral. An estimated five thousand visitors The Stone Festival provided an attended the Stone Festival over its excellent opportunity to showcase three days. They had the opportunity to the importance of these traditional meet the masons themselves, discuss craft skills, displaying the talents of their individual works, learn more stonemasons from across the country.

Powerful dust extractor The Friends recently funded a new industrial dust extraction unit for the stonemasons. Ross Lovett, Head Stonemason, says it has made a really big difference to the stonemasons’ working environment. “One of the biggest health risks for masons is airborne dust, most often a problem when sweeping up in the workshop. The obvious answer is to use a vac with a special filter so that the dust doesn’t get into the air. The trouble we’ve had in the past is that because there is always a mixture of very fine particles and larger rubble, any normal vac easily becomes blocked. This one doesn’t.”

Winchester cathedral record 2019 17 Public Events Flower Festival

The Flower Festival was a stunning array of flower arrangements inspired by the magnificent Winchester Bible, the finest surviving 12th-century manuscript and one of the nation’s greatest treasures.

Over 350 volunteers from the Wessex and Jersey Area of The National Association of Flower Arranging Societies helped to make Angela’s vision a reality.

Thousands of visitors travelled from far and wide to immerse themselves in a riot of colour as the Cathedral was transformed by striking and fragrant floral displays evoking the Winchester Bible's exquisite illuminated initials and elaborate decorative schemes. The Festival was opened by Alan The breath-taking flower displays were Titchmarsh. Highlights included designed by the creative director, a spectacular poppy drop in the Angela Turner, who previously led Cathedral nave and a stunning the team for the Cathedral’s Flower display of red roses in the presbytery. Festival in 2013. Angela is a regular Visitors also enjoyed flower arranging exhibitor at RHS Chelsea Flower Show demonstrations, themed afternoon and has won many of their highly- teas and the opportunity to meet local coveted RHS medals. traders in the Flower Festival Marquee.

18 Winchester cathedral record 2019 Public Events Christmas Market and Ice Rink

The Christmas market and ice rink has become an essential experience in many people’s Christmas calendars and it was once again recognised as one of the best in the UK, and recommended as one of the best in Europe by the New York Post. There were over 25 new traders in 2018 and 112 chalets to explore, all bedecked with new, fabulously festive Skaters also enjoyed new silent disco decorations. Later opening hours sessions and the opportunity to relax in were also introduced, giving shoppers the Ice Cafe. the opportunity to enjoy late night The Christmas market returns from shopping. 21 November – 22 December 2019 The ice rink now has a covered roof and the Ice Rink will be open from and so guarantees a rain-free skate. 21 November 2019 – 5 January 2020.

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To have Her Majesty’s seal of approval Queen Elizabeth’s will make the first performance in our Winchester Carol concert, an even more special occasion.” So, fast forward from 2016 to December last year and the Christmas HM the Queen has been the Royal Concert at the Cathedral at which Patron of the Friends for most of her ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Winchester Carol’ (a reign and, as one of her charities, we title approved by Her Majesty) was to were invited to the Patron’s Lunch in be premièred. the Mall to celebrate her 90th birthday. Roddy Williams was present and When the event made a profit, we were explained, to a huge congregation, his among those charities who were asked choice of words (from a text by Henry to apply for funding of any appropriate VIII) and how he set them to music. project to reflect those 90th birthday celebrations. The Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, read a message from Her We are immensely proud to support Majesty wishing us all a Happy Christmas two boy choristers and also fund the and asking to be sent a recording of her cathedral’s Girl Choristers entirely. We carol (which we duly did). therefore thought it was more than appropriate to commission a new We settled back to hear an inspirational piece of music for choristers and lay piece which we confidently expect to clerks and the palace agreed. be performed by choirs up and down the land for years to come. Post-concert The Director of Music, Andy Lumsden, at the deanery, the Dean and her and the Friends’ Chairman, Bruce husband, Robin, entertained Roddy and Parker, put their heads together to his family together with others who’d find a suitable composer: Andy came taken part in the earlier performance. up with the brilliant choice of Roddy Williams, the well-known baritone and composer who has strong family connections with the Cathedral. As Andy himself said, “Roddy Williams, being a singer himself, knows how to write for voices in a most inspiring way.

If you haven't already heard the Carol being performed you can listen to it on our website www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/friends

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Andy Lumsden, Director of Music

As ever, the choral foundation has enjoyed a busy year. On top of the Opus Dei (our daily round of services), the boys and men took part in a concert to mark the 50th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester . The work was commissioned as mentioned elsewhere, have had by the then , Walter their own celebration, which has also Hussey, on behalf of the Southern included a concert in Littleton and a Festival and the anniversary broadcast of Evensong for BBC Radio concert included the SCF choirs with 3, which received enormous praise the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from around the world. If you haven’t conducted by a former pupil of bought it already, may I recommend Bernstein, Marin Alsop. The boys and the Choir’s latest CD? Called Angels girls took part in the switching on of and featuring the music of John Winchester’s Christmas lights and the Tavener, it was one of the editor of boys also appeared on BBC Breakfast Gramophone Magazine’s top 12 discs News on Christmas Eve. The Girls, for May 2019.

New

The Rev Andrew Trenier is the new Precentor and ex-officio member of the Friends’ Board of Trustees. For the last four years, Andrew has been the rector of Chingford, a North parish with a focus on families and a flourishing musical tradition. Previously, Andrew served as a minor canon of . Andrew will be moving to Winchester with his wife Emma, who is Head of Programmes at the ’s their three children, Hugo, Louis, and Foundation of Educational Leadership, Maxwell, and their puppy, Cosmo.

Winchester cathedral record 2019 21 Cathedral Music Happy Birthday Girls !

More than fifty past and present Girl this helped shape us into the women Choristers joined forces in June for a we are.” special Evensong to mark their 20th The Girls’ Choir was founded in 1999 anniversary. It was an event attended by not only the amassed choir itself by but is now under the but by dozens of parents, ex-parents joint leadership of the Director of Music, and well-wishers. Andrew Lumsden, and the Assistant Director of Music, George Castle. Sophie Burford, one of the original choristers said: “It’s rare for a 12 year The Friends are delighted to have been old girl to have such a life-changing able to fund the choir for many years. experience at such a young age. The The Chairman, Bruce Parker, joined choir changed my life both in the Dean Catherine to cut the celebratory present and for the future. We shared cake at the reception in the retrochoir laughter and tears together and I feel after Evensong.

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Crossing Boundaries a personal view of the ordination of women

Dean Catherine Ogle

This year marks the 25th anniversary During my life in ministry, I’ve crossed of the first ordinations of women as many boundaries and seen many priest in the Church of England. It has barriers fall. The first boundary to be been my privilege to be part of this challenged was of my own world-view. great change in church and society. I was among that first group of women I grew up in Comberton, a village just to be ordained and have seen, over the outside , and took myself to last 25 years, women’s ministry go from church on my own aged about eleven. being remarkable to unremarkable. It’s I joined the tiny choir. At Christmas, a great joy to me that women clergy when the organist was on holiday, the are now just normal. vicar asked me to play the organ. With

24 Winchester cathedral record 2019 Crossing Boundaries no instruction, and only Grade Two on outskirts of Leeds. Wearing a clerical the piano, I’m sure that it must have collar took some courage, though it been an atrocious experience for the reaped some lovely rewards. A little congregation. I think that I played the girl who had seen me lead her school carols very fast. I taught Sunday school, assembly saw me in the street and was confirmed and grew in faith. The said, ‘Mummy! That lady is !’ In city of Cambridge was a great place to my first year of curacy, some friends be a young Christian. introduced me to Robin and I found It was later, when graduating in Textile the man willing to share my adventure. Design at the that We married in 1990. I felt God’s call. I didn’t understand Our son, Thomas, was born when we and couldn’t imagine what it meant. were living in Headingley and I was My aspirations were restricted by what on secondment to the BBC in Leeds. I knew and I only knew priesthood The secondment was a neat solution as male. But the sense of call didn’t to a challenge. As I wasn’t yet a priest, go away and eventually I plucked up I couldn’t progress to leading my own courage to tell a friend: ‘I think that parish. The secondment at BBC Leeds perhaps God wants me to work in the turned out to be a great opportunity church.’ Her horrified response was, to learn new skills in media, news and ‘You’d be throwing your life away!’ communication. Eventually, I found a priest to talk to On the day when the General Synod and he encouraged me and opened debated the ordination of women, I my eyes to the possibility that women gave live commentary all day for BBC would one day be priests. Radio Leeds. The vote that had such Leap of faith implications for my life, and the life of I continued to study at the University the church, passed with a two thirds of Leeds and became very involved majority in all three houses of Synod: in a local church. The church gave lay, clergy and . When I went me confidence to offer myself for home that evening on the bus, wearing selection for ministry in the Church of my clerical collar, strangers came up to England. This meant a leap of faith. I congratulate me. It was extraordinary to was recommended for training and be part of great change that touched went to Westcott House in Cambridge many people. but it was unclear what I was training Ordination for. The men I studied alongside were My ordination to the priesthood took training to be priests. After identical place in , in May study, women served as deaconesses. 1994, and I became Vicar of Woolley But during my three years at College, with West Bretton, with three villages legislative change meant that I between Wakefield and Barnsley (see emerged as a deacon, and therefore in photo on facing page). I also wrote and holy orders. produced the diocesan newspaper. At the age of 27, I was ordained Our vicarage stood next to a medieval deacon at Ripon Cathedral and served church, looking exactly like the fictional a curacy at St Mary’s Middleton, on the village of Dibley. Actually, the TV ‘Vicar

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Certainly, change has involved some difficult experiences and some sticky moments. In the early days, one of my friends, a young priest in Leeds, went to visit a bereaved family in the city to help them prepare for a funeral. She knocked on the door and the man who opened it said, ‘Aye lass, did we get you because we ordered the cheap coffin?’ Priests learn to negotiate lots of boundaries, including not letting ourselves be put off helping people through difficult personal events. Happy Huddersfield Later on in 2001, when I was appointed Vicar of Huddersfield it was still front page news in the local paper: ‘Woman becomes Vicar of Huddersfield’. Ordination to the priesthood, 1994 of Dibley’ was very helpful. As a parish priest, I learnt that a lot of people can feel awkward around clergy. Often, shared jokes around the Vicar of Dibley, whom everyone knew, not only broke the ice but also broke down barriers. Women were ordained but of course there was still work to do, to reassure those with doubts, that this was a good thing. Some of the concerns were about change, and they could often be easily overcome. Some concerns were more significant. For example, the concern that at the , only a man could stand behind the altar and say the holy words and handle the holy things. This is a significant boundary worth challenging because Christianity makes no distinction between male and female at baptism. Women and men are called, without distinction, to By the time I left, in 2010, more than be Christ in the world. We are all called half the clergy in the deanery were and the church needs the gifts of all women. We had become perfectly God’s people. normal, and that was just what we

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where sixty-six previous Deans and Priors have lived. With Chapter, I am entrusted with the care and well- being of this place and its heritage, its congregations, communities and visitors. We have a great past and, I believe, a great future. I remain excited, and not a little surprised, by God’s faithful and generous calling and where it has taken me. Over the last 25 years, I’ve ministered in contexts both rural and urban, in towns, cities and outer estates. It’s Inauguration as wonderful for me to think that many people have grown up knowing nothing different and thinking women wanted. My time in Huddersfield was priests are simply normal. When our very happy. The Parish Church needed son was little, he once said to me, a lot of repair so I became used to ‘Mum, can men be vicars?’ scaffolding and dust and fund-raising, and we raised the profile of the But I recognise that a woman priest can church and its ministry to the whole still be a shocking sight. A few years community. This was good training ago, walking through the streets of for me and I began to nurture the Rome in my clerical collar, a woman in aspiration to take on cathedral ministry. a café was so astonished to see me that In 2010, I became Dean of she fell off her chair. Birmingham, at that stage the third My story is one of crossing boundaries woman to be a Dean in the Church and of following faith and finding of England, after Viv Faull, Dean fulfilment. My friend said that I would of Leicester and June Osbourne, be ‘throwing my life away’, but in truth, . During my time in I’ve gained my life. I’d certainly do it all Birmingham, it was my great pleasure again. to oversee the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the cathedral: Throughout this time the prayer of St ‘The church that became a cathedral Teresa of Avila, has been an inspiration. in the town that became a city’. Three It’s a prayer for everyone: “Christ has hundred years was old for the city of no body now but yours. No hands, Birmingham. no feet on earth but yours. Yours So, the privilege of coming to be Dean are the eyes through which he looks of Winchester, in 2017, was to enter compassion on this world. Yours are into a different time-frame altogether. the feet with which he walks to do well. I’m now Dean of one of the great Yours are the hands through which he and ancient English cathedrals and blesses all the world…Christ has no live in one of the oldest deaneries, body now on earth but yours.”

Winchester cathedral record 2019 27 foundation of the Cage Chantries

Dr Cindy Wood, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Winchester

Winchester Cathedral is famous for its beautiful chapels, where daily masses were said for the souls of the powerful bishops who built them. No cathedral in this country has as many chantries of such into their foundation suggests that beauty, reflecting Winchester’s chantry masses, while of primary great power, wealth and royal benefit to their illustrious founders, connections in this period. As were also of benefit to lesser mortals. Cindy Wood explains, the chapels (Cage chantries were small chapels were built by the dying who, with wholly within their mother houses, prayers offered within them by the mostly built between pillars.) living, were hoping to smooth their Chantries were, in essence, prayers that own journey to heaven. were commissioned and paid for by founders in a variety of ways. Perpetual Chantries were the most popular and chantries needed a permanent income numerous religious foundation of the normally from the transfer of land/ Late . The idea that the property from the founder (or their actions of the living could assist the executors) to the church, to provide an soul’s suffering in purgatory, the place income for the priest, vestments, , between death and the Day of Final candles etc. Other, temporary chantries Judgement, was not new by the 1300s normally only occurred in wills and but grew in popularity and influence were limited by a period of time or especially after ravages of famine and amount of money. These took place at plague. Masses performed in chantry existing altars and have left no other chapels were considered the most historical record. efficacious way of relieving some of When considering the ‘normal’ way this suffering and it was believed that of founding a perpetual chantry, God was pleased by the increase in this group in the cathedral is more divine service. interesting than most. Firstly, they are The six ‘cage’ chantries in the Cathedral all monastic foundations, little studied are typical of this belief, but research in chantry terms as they virtually all

28 Winchester cathedral record 2019 disappeared with their mother houses The foundation of the Bishop between 1536-40 and did not survive Wykeham chantry is unique in the Dissolution of the Chantries in surviving chantry records. The bishop 1545/1547. Secondly, an examination had used his own income to complete of their beginnings indicates that the the rebuilding of the nave and he ‘normal’ process of transferring land placed his chantry chapel in the centre to support a perpetual chantry didn’t of his new creation, completed before happen. his death, Likewise, his agreement The Bishop Edington chantry has no with the priory completed only documentation to support any chantry months before his death in 1404, is function in itself and his will only asked a remarkable document offering an for his tomb to be placed opposite alternative way of founding a chantry. the night entrance of the monks, thus This agreement shows that in grateful ensuring he was included in their thanks for the bishop’s temporal work prayers. How the chapel came to be on the cathedral, the prior and convent made or how the masses within it were offered him three daily masses by the to be celebrated is not clear. Some monks in perpetuity. This arrangement income was identified for this chantry may reflect other, now lost, gifts of in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1534, but masses by monasteries in return for not land donated by the bishop. buildings rather than transfer of land or

Winchester cathedral record 2019 29 foundation of the Cage Chantries assets. This may also explain the three monks at the foot of Wykeham’s effigy. Cardinal Beaufort left money in his will for his chantry chapel to be built along with a new shrine for the relics of St and the Great Screen. This ensured his perpetual closeness to this spiritually important monument. But this document did not detail any land to support the daily masses he expected two monks to celebrate in this chapel. Perhaps he expected these in return for his temporal work in the same way as Wykeham, but no records survive. Bishop Wayneflete was responsible for the building of Beaufort’s chapel, his own and the shrine, but again there are no records to determine who the bishop expected to celebrate his soul masses, or how it was to be funded. However, the Valor lists a farm and three cottages allocated to this chantry ever celebrated for the bishop’s soul is with an income of £7 8s 10d. not known. Bishop Fox did endow his chantry, As a group of monastic chantries, also built in his lifetime, with land in they offer an alternative view of how Downton. He expected two masses these perpetual foundations were set a day for his soul, but rather than up. Only Bishop Fox can be seen to use existing monks of the priory, transfer land to provide an income, he decreed that two new monks be others expected the community of recruited specially to act as his chantry monks to celebrate their masses. priests. One of these, William Basing How onerous these services were for became the last prior of St Swithun’s the community is not known, but if in and the first dean of the secular 1524 there were only thirty monks, cathedral. a minimum of ten were needed to provide their daily, single mass in the Bishop Gardiner’s chantry was five chantry chapels established at founded in the will of the bishop in that point. This was a considerable a period in which the 1547 Chantry responsibility, especially as there were Act had not been repealed by Queen also other chantries in the cathedral. Mary. The bishop left £400 to build the chapel but left no instructions for who This group, while physically would celebrate the masses. This was impressive, appear to have been a complete by 1560 in its current form. responsibility rather than a source of Whether any chantry masses were income for the cathedral.

30 Winchester cathedral record 2019 Cathedral Architecture All in One The sheer beauty of Winchester age-old features. We are extremely Cathedral is a heaven-sent opportunity grateful to Simon for the numerous for photographers to produce stunning photographs he has allowed us to images. One of the most prolific use in the Record over the years. photographers in the Cathedral Interestingly, he managed this year community is Simon Newman who, to capture all the main styles of week after week, seems able to architecture in a single image. We discover eye-catching new angles on thought we’d share it with you.

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Winchester cathedral record 2019 31 Events 2018–19

32 Winchester cathedral record 2019 Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Christmas coffee morning; the Christmas tree in the nave – donated by the Friends; Mary Callé at our Flower Festival stand; choristers sponsored by the Friends; on the House of Commons terrace, enjoying the view with Steve Brine MP; Alastair Bruce delivering the annual lecture. This page, clockwise from top left: Dean Catherine prepares to welcome legacy tea guests; girls’ choir 20th anniversary cake; samples at cheese and wine event; David Fellowes and Nigel Spicer act as waiters at supper after the première of Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol; war cloister lecture; lighting up the Christmas tree. Winchester cathedral record 2019 33 2400 hours worked by the staff in the Friends Office 193 new members

£7,670 for trees in public areas over 100 volunteers helped out

The Year in Figures

7800 envelopes stuffed £5,200 raised from sale of publications and £5,220 Christmas cards for cathedral flowers

34 Winchester cathedral record 2019 24 talks and other Friends’ events £9,600 raised from Friends’ events

£400 for Cathedral 480 Christmas tree visitors to the Friends’ Office 330 cups of tea and coffee

£15,220 for the Girls’ Choir

7,000 Christmas cards sold

£30,440 two chorister bursaries 416 miles travelled by Friends to and

95 from outings volunteers delivered 3600 mailings

Winchester cathedral record 2019 35 Ins and outs of Europe Cathedral’s Relationship across 900 years

Roy Weller and Simon Newman, Cathedral Guides

How the Cathedral’s monuments, artwork, but mostly its people, illustrate our changing relationship with Europe.

Romans and Anglo-Saxons Britain separated from Europe at the end of the last Ice Age when the North Sea and the English Channel had formed. Although trade continued, our relationship with Europe became much closer with the arrival of the Romans in 70 AD. They built the city of Venta Belgarum, the precursor of Winchester, and left their permanent mark here. The Romans diverted the River Itchen as a canal around the eastern part of the city and built much of the city in its floodplain. Following the departure of the Romans, around 450 AD, the Anglo- Saxons arrived to establish the kingdom of West Saxony. King was converted to Christianity and baptised by the Italian monk in 635 (Figure 1). Closer ties with Rome ensued and were well established by the time of King Alfred in the 9th Century. Figure 1. St Birinus

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Figure 2. East wall of the South Transept

Normans ’s arrival in 1066 was followed by centuries of fruitful relationships and the exchange of art with France but also long periods of war and conflict. The contribution of the Normans to the architecture of the Cathedral is clearly seen in the north and south in which earlier architecture is also commemorated Figure 3. Mortuary chest bearing through the inclusion of monolithic William II’s name “RVFE REGUM” Roman columns in the upper window layer. (Figure 2). The transepts reflect the Romanesque style of architecture RICHARDI WILHELMI CONQVESTORIS in the church of St Etienne, built by FILII. The remains of William II, the Conqueror’s third son, were at one time William the Conqueror in Caen and in in a mortuary chest on the north west which he is buried. The remains of two screen of the presbytery (Figure 3). of William the Conqueror's sons lie in Winchester Cathedral. His second son, We continue our journey through Richard, is buried beneath the screen the period of Norman influence in the south presbytery aisle below by reviewing Henri de Blois, his the inscription INTVS EST CORPVS relationships with France and Rome

Winchester cathedral record 2019 37 Ins and outs of Europe and his contributions to art in the Hundred Years’ War Cathedral. He was born in Winchester As visitors mount the pilgrims’ steps in 1098, the grandson of William the from the north transept and turn right Conqueror and brother of the future to enter the presbytery, they cannot King Stephen. He was appointed fail to be impressed by the stunning in 1129. As beauty of the early 14th Century papal legate, Henri was politically very carved wooden quire stalls. There are powerful and possibly the wealthiest remarkable carvings of plants and man in England. He lived in turbulent animals together with mythological times with the war between Matilda dragons and famous figures such as and Stephen raging around Winchester the ‘green man’. Some of the figures but he also made tremendous have great significance relating to the contributions to art in the Cathedral outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War as illustrated by the font and by the and the relationships between England and France during the 14th and 15th Winchester Bible. centuries. High up on the west end Transported to Winchester from of the quire stalls are carved heads of Tournai in present-day Belgium around kings and queens of England. On the 1150, the font had been already north side are Edward I, and Edward II, exquisitely carved by local craftsmen. together with Eleanor of Castile and on The Winchester Bible is a work of the south side are Margaret of France great beauty commissioned by Henri and (Figures 4 and 5). de Blois and produced between 1150 and 1180, its four volumes are now prominently displayed in the new exhibition in the south transept. The Bible was written by one monk over a period of five years, using a goose quill pen. It is thought that the Bible’s artists were English but had probably travelled to Europe to view examples of Byzantine art. The illustrations show a development of style in the artists, ranging from the rather static figures drawn by The Master of the Genesis Initial to the flowing style of the Master of the Morgan Leaf. The fresco on the east wall of the Holy Sepulchre chapel in the north transept is thought to be by the Master of the Morgan Leaf judging from its style. This artist left Winchester around 1180 and travelled to Spain to contribute to wall paintings in the chapter house of a convent in Figure 4. Margaret of France, second Sigena, west of Barcelona. wife of Edward I

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Connections with the Hundred Years’ War continue in the retroquire in the form of the chantry chapels of Cardinal and Bishop William Wayneflete and a striking statue of . Henry Beaufort was appointed Bishop of Winchester in 1404 following the death of and appointed cardinal in 1426. He was involved in the Hundred Years’ War through his visits to France but does not appear to have taken part in the trial of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc (La Pucelle d'Orléans) was burnt at the stake in on May 30th 1431, aged 19; she was canonised in 1920 and her statue was placed in Winchester Figure 5. Isabella of France, wife of Cathedral in 1923 (Figure 6). William Edward II Wayneflete was appointed Bishop of Winchester upon the death of Cardinal The Hundred Years' War was a series Beaufort in 1447 and thus he saw the of conflicts from 1337 to 1453 (Edward conclusion of the Hundred Years’ War III to Henry VI) by the House of in 1453. Plantagenet, rulers of the , against the , rulers of the . There were five bishops of Winchester during this time: , , William of Wykeham, Henry Beaufort and William Wayneflete. The Black Death struck Winchester in 1348 and killed an estimated 50% of the population. This affected England greatly but there was only a short break in the Hundred Years’ War between 1348 and 1350; the Battle of Poitiers ensued in 1356 and the French invaded the in 1377. William of Wykeham, who was chancellor to Edward III, was responsible for raising money for Edward’s war in France. Following the death of William Edington in 1366, Wykeham was appointed Bishop of Winchester in 1367. Figure 6. Joan of Arc

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The One of the most significant breaks with Europe occurred with the Reformation when England severed its links with Roman Catholicism and established the Church of England. The break between England and Rome began in 1529 and culminated in 1534 with The Act of Supremacy that recognised Henry VIII as "The only supreme head on earth of the Church of England"; dissolution of the monasteries followed between 1536 and 1540. The break with the Church of Rome brought threats of war with Europe. One reminder of the Reformation in the Cathedral is the boss bearing the initials of Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII high on the south wall of the presbytery (Figure 7). Another reminder is the chantry chapel of in the north presbytery aisle (Figure 8). Gardiner was appointed Bishop of Winchester in 1531; he was bishop during the Reformation period Figure 8. Interior of Bishop Gardiner’s Chantry Chapel

and he officiated at the wedding of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain in Winchester Cathedral in 1554. As we leave Stephen Gardiner as one of the great survivors of the Reformation, we continue our pilgrimage to the site of the remains of St Swithun in the retroquire that did not survive the Reformation. The retroquire was built around 1200 in an early English gothic style of architecture, probably to house the pilgrims coming to pray for their health by the bones of St Swithun. The holy hole was constructed as a tunnel that Figure 7. Initials of Katherine of Aragon passed under the coffin containing and Henry VIII bones of St Swithun. As part of Cardinal

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Beaufort's legacy, a magnificent shrine who died in these wars are displayed for St Swithun was built in 1476 next to in cabinets at the west end of the Cardinal Beaufort's chantry chapel only Cathedral. to be demolished some 60 years later. In the 21st Century, long-standing Post Reformation relationships between the Cathedral The Reformation significantly changed and special places in Europe have the relations between England and flourished. The names of Fleury, Europe, leading directly or indirectly Stavanger and Florence, among other to conflicts with France and Spain. By cities, are recorded on a window at the the 19th Century, however, military entrance of the Epiphany chapel (Figure memorials in the Cathedral mainly 9). The Fleury building was financed by commemorated conflicts in Africa the Friends of Winchester Cathedral and Asia. Several record the extensive and opened by the of Fleury on loss of life from disease – deaths from March 5 2011, an event that is recorded cholera in the Crimean War in the 1850s in volume 81 of the Winchester were brought to the government’s Cathedral Record in 2012 (pages 11-12). attention by Florence Nightingale. Maintenance of such relationships with Two World Wars had a devastating Europe augurs well for the future of effect on our relations with Europe. Winchester Cathedral. Names of the very large numbers of (Acknowledgement: Anne Lovett for her advice soldiers from Winchester regiments and for reviewing the manuscript.)

Figure 9. Fleury etched into the entrance screen of the Epiphany Chapel

Winchester cathedral record 2019 41 Office News

Volunteers are vital to the life of the Members also helped us last September Friends and we are so grateful for on the Friends’ stand at the Flower all that they do. Festival.

After three splendid years as Record Extra editor, Julie Adams has stepped aside. We are delighted that Nick Thornton has offered to assist us with the sourcing and production of Record Extra articles in her place. A retired English teacher, Nick has been working for the last five years, as a volunteer, with the Cathedral’s curator and librarian, Jo Bartholomew. Wendy Draper and Stephanie Woodcock have been helping us since January, culling our out-of-date records and modernising our filing systems. Jerry Williams (right) continues to support us with work on the database. On the mailing side, we have our loyal team of envelope-stuffers (Mo Hearn, Sheila Brown, Lynne Sharpe, Charles Last but not least, our monthly coffee Lidbury and Jo Gordon-Watson) but morning team is led by Naik Whitall, we have recently recruited some new supported by Sylvia Leyton, Maureen volunteers – Suzie Duprez, Marion Miles, Stevens, Suzette McHeyzer and Maureen Stevens and Margaret Luther. Elizabeth Loader. Both Maureen and Tracy Armstrong have been sending out all our event tickets. Every year we have great pleasure ion saying ‘thank you’ to our volunteers at our October volunteer tea.

After more than 25 years of volunteering in the Friends’ office, Nan Deedes decided it was time to retire. In recognition of her outstanding service, we were pleased to appoint her an Honorary Life Member.

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Four wings and a prayer – peregrines attract huge audience

Keith Betton, Hampshire Ornithological Society

A pair of peregrine falcons has brought nearly 200,000 new followers to the Cathedral precincts this year. Perched on the north transept, a webcam audience around the world watched the nesting and spring hatching of four new chicks.

Peregrine falcons are very special gully just below the rose window on birds for two reasons. Firstly, they are the north transept. Sadly, the weather the fastest flying birds in the world, was not on their side and heavy rain reaching speeds of over two hundred flooded their nest. But, in 2018, the miles per hour when chasing their prey. Cathedral joined forces with the Also, just fifty years ago their numbers Hampshire Ornithological Society were so low that only a handful nested to install a raised nesting tray in the in southern England. Thankfully, that gully and a few weeks later we were has changed and now they are doing overjoyed at the appearance of three well – and in Winchester we have our baby peregrines. This year, the birds own pair of peregrines. nested once again and this time reared In 2017 these birds chose to nest in a four chicks.

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Thanks to a webcam close to the nest, their nesting territories throughout the we were able to watch the whole year so our adults (named Winnie and nesting process with four eggs laid in Chester by cathedral volunteers) will mid March and four baby chicks in late hopefully entertain our visitors through April – two males and two females. By the winter. The chicks will move away June, the chicks had grown to almost and find their own territories before the the same size as their parents. They new year. began exercising their wings on the The Peregrine is still regarded as Cathedral’s roof and also took forays to being of conservation concern in and from the former St Thomas Church. both a European and UK context, but Peregrines are very loyal to their nest after suffering at the hands of man for sites, and so the cathedral staff have many years, this top predator is now cleaned the tray in the hope that benefiting from our protection. At least nesting will take place once again in seventeen pairs nested in Hampshire 2020. Most adult peregrines remain in this year.

Winchester cathedral record 2019 45 The Record and World War II

Dr Tom Watson, Trustee

The 75th anniversary of D-Day prompted Tom Watson to pick out extracts from The Record to see how it reflected the Cathedral’s approach to life during the crucial war years of 1942-1944, as the Allies took the offensive against the Axis nations. Winchester city itself had suffered attacks on Bushfield Camp and on Hyde Street but had escaped the sort of mass bombing that obliterated .

1942-43 The Dean finished his report giving Dean Selwyn’s report for 1942-43 thanks “for yet another year during welcomed King George VI as the which the Cathedral has been without new patron of the Friends and the damage by enemy action”. enthronement of Mervyn Haigh as 1943-44 the Bishop of Winchester: “Despite Dean Selwyn started his report for war-time difficulties, the ceremony this crucial turn-around year of the was attended by a great concourse of war with “much thankfulness” that people both official and non-official.” the Cathedral had been unharmed Concerts and musical recitals were well by enemy action. He praised the attended, Evensong was broadcast Cathedral’s fire fighting team which twice in March 1943 and the Cathedral had promptly turned out at night was visited on Sundays “by numerous when alerts had sounded. They had parties of Canadian troops and some been supported at times by British American troops.” Of greater concern and American troops who were was settlement in the 13th century based locally. buttress in the crypt for which the However, there was an enemy (of sorts) Dean and Chapter sought government within. “Wanton damage on the north permission to allow work that “might be and north east sides of the churchyard regarded as urgently necessary”. There has been carried out by juvenile was a shortage of materials and labour delinquents of Winchester itself.” because of diversion to wartime work. There had also been graffiti scrawled The scholarly articles focused on on Cathedral walls. Although police carvings in the spandrels of the Quire, had been helpful and staff vigilant, the Chapter House arcade, and three the Dean called for more discipline at past Chapter Houses. home to safeguard against vandalism.

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There was good news on the repairs to the buttress in the crypt. A structural engineer’s report said it could not be “safely left any longer” and a contract had been agreed for underpinning work to be undertaken in summer 1944. Other work, funded by the Friends, to repair stonework around windows in the southern clerestory of the nave, was also to proceed. Cathedral services had been well attended and further groups of Canadian and American troops had been shown around. The Dean paid tribute to the virgers, especially Custos, and the ladies of the Guild of Cathedral Guides “who have been indefatigable in showing them around”. This may indicate that the North American visitors were hard work. The highlight of the scholarly work was the publication of Walter Oakeshott’s book on the Winchester Bible, “our Oakeshott gave a lantern lecture to the great 12th century ” which Friends and contributed an illustrated was then in underground storage. article to the Record.

Preservation of clear-storey window

Winchester cathedral record 2019 47 Ninetieth Anniversary 2021 “Dear Sir … yours faithfully … The Dean” How we’ve moved with The Times

Nearly ninety years ago, Dean Selwyn Cathedral, which has recently been wrote to the editor of The Times. In formed here? Few cathedrals, I think, a letter which appeared as the main can make a wider appeal, whether on item of correspondence on the letters historical or architectural grounds, or page, Dean Selwyn made an appeal have a larger body of actual friends to readers of what still is one of the in all parts of the world... so great a world’s most celebrated newspapers. structure as a cathedral inevitably calls for a constant work of repair in “Will you allow me space in your its different parts... a large response columns in which to bring before to the invitation to join the Friends will all those who love Winchester, mean so much increase in the amount the Association of Friends of the of work immediately possible”.

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He announced in the letter that the our foundation in 1931. We also hope fee for joining would be five shillings to be taking part in the Cathedral (25p) “though it is hoped many will appeal for a much-needed renovation give more as they can afford it” with life of the organ. membership at £20. The year after next, we will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of While preparing for the digitisation Dean Selwyn’s efforts. In 1942, we were project, we have audited our back offered the royal patronage of HM copies of the Record and we are George VI which was taken over by HM pleased to announce that we The Queen early in her reign. do have copies of old editions including bound editions available As part of our ninetieth celebrations, for sale in the office. Please contact our Trustee, Tom Watson, has taken on the office if you would like to a project to digitise all the editions of purchase any. The Record, published annually since

Ninetieth Anniversary 2021

Winchester cathedral record 2019 49 What it means to be a Friend Festival Sermon

At the Festival Day service, we were You can even sing the hymns “seraphic- delighted to welcome the Revd wise”. There is nothing not to like. Jeremy Fletcher, Vicar of St John at Through the year being a Friend entails Hampstead. This is an edited version supporting the life of the cathedral in of the sermon that Jeremy preached. all its aspects, particularly raising funds for music, the stonework, the cathedral I am privileged to have been invited to glass and the Cathedral Close. Even preach today in this great cathedral, and the Christmas tree is yours. You’ll know in the presence of the people whom I’m it’s deeper than that. You are the eyes sure feel equally privileged to be called and ears of this place whenever you are its Friends. I guess that, when others ask out and about, and you bring wherever you what being a Friend of Winchester you are into this place. That’s what Cathedral entails, you have something the College of Canons think they do, of a ready answer. Today, of course, it but the Friends do it even better. You means happily attending an Annual are on the Cathedral’s side, and not General Meeting and not falling asleep, everyone is, however much cathedrals eating lunch, having afternoon tea are the success story of the Church of and drinks, and coping with a visiting England at the moment. You are the preacher during the riches of Evensong. Friends of Winchester Cathedral.

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Openness, excellence and kindness small quiet places and introduce the Given that friendship is a two-way searching and the curious to them, so street, I wonder how Winchester that the God of creation might gently Cathedral is a Friend to you. Churches hold their hand. spend a lot of time these days working Along with many others, you as out what their mission and values are. Friends work hard to ensure that the This Cathedral’s way of being a Friend building can be handed on to future is rooted in openness, excellence and generations. But I want to say that kindness, as you thrive in worship, there’s a sense that the business of a witness, welcome and mission. Yes, you cathedral is not to be here for ever, as if can tell I can Google. its foundations can never be removed. I What then is it for Winchester know that one heroic diver might have Cathedral to be a Friend to this ancient something to say about that statement, city, county, diocese and region; to and I apologise to William Walker its networks and pilgrims, visitors and if he’s overhearing this. But when in staff, volunteers and strangers? And John 4 Jesus was asked about whether how will the Cathedral’s friendship God was to be found in the Temple in affect the way you, as Friends, are Jerusalem or in Samaria, Jesus said it friends to them too? wasn’t about the building or the place. It was about God in us. Cathedrals, We are used to great cathedrals being churches, temples, are only here to places of awe and majesty, places remind us that God in Christ by the which put us in context and make us Spirit is present wherever a couple of know our place. There is awe here. people share the name. This friend, this This is a place you can imagine God Cathedral, is to be a place which points entering with a triumphal shout. This is way beyond itself, which enables to be a place which people recognise visitors and worshippers to know that as the house of God, the gate of they have not left God behind when heaven. We do well to remember that they leave the building, but that God is the friendship we are offered here is of their all in all. the God of the universe. Winchester Cathedral is your friend. Intimacy and grandeur A good friend challenges and affirms. I bet you have a favourite small corner Here you will find the inspiration to be here, a little carving few others know in awe of the God of heaven, and the about, a quiet space you feel is yours. invitation to be held in God’s hand. This Cathedral is to be a place where Here you will find the command to find even the sparrow has a home, and the God outside these walls, and to enable swallow a nesting place, where the others to seek and serve him in those fragile can be held without breaking, they meet. Here you will find the whole the wounded can be cared for without world offered to God, and repentance hurting, the young can be nurtured made so that the new Kingdom of without smothering. This is to be a justice and joy can be brought near. place where flourishing takes place in intimacy as well as grandeur. A friend Thank you for being a Friend to this of this place might store up the thin place. May this place be a friend to you.

Winchester cathedral record 2019 51 Annual General Meeting Saturday 13 July 2019 The meeting was chaired by the Rt Rev Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester and Patron, who welcomed around 120 members. He opened the meeting with a prayer.

1. Apologies for Absence: Anne Newsome, new members. The Director thanked Anne Gordon Mott, Marion Putland, Margaret Newsome and her team for organising the Prout, Colin Peterson, Rowan Brockhurst, talks, Julie Adams for all her hard work on Canon Gregory Clifton-Smith, Robbie Clifton- the day trips and Naik Whittall for leading the Smith, Annabelle Boyes. coffee morning team. She also paid tribute 2. Minutes of the AGM 14 July 2018: agreed to Dodie Napier, finance officer, who has by the membership. moved on to a full time role in Southampton and welcomed Leisl Porter who joined the 3. Matters Arising from the Minutes: None team in April, adding her thanks to Lesley 4. Chairman of the Board of Trustees: Bruce Mead, Bruce Parker, all the Trustees and all Parker welcomed the Lord Lieutenant, the volunteers for their invaluable help. Nigel Atkinson, and Mrs Atkinson and also 6. The Dean’s report: The Dean reported that the Mayor of Winchester, Eleanor Bell. He at Winchester, the first task of the Cathedral is reported on two highlights of the year, the to connect people with God through prayer première of Queen Elizabeth’s Winchester and worship; the rhythm of worship through Carol at the carol concert in December and the day, week and seasons continues to the 20th anniversary Evensong of the Girls’ shape cathedral life with choral music of the Choir in June. He also read out a letter from highest standards. Many regular events have a 1931 copy of The Times in which Dean connected the Cathedral with the community Selwyn had outlined the guiding principles such as Law Sunday, school leavers’ services of the newly-formed Friends: the support for and Thy Kingdom Come. New initiatives in the Cathedral by our members remains very the past year included an AA meeting for 700 much the same as in 1931. As part of our people, the public screening of the wedding 90th anniversary project in 2021, we hope to of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (see be taking part in the forthcoming Cathedral facing page) and the second Ash Wednesday organ appeal and The Record would also be where the whole ministry team offer “Ashes to digitised. The Chairman thanked the Trustees Go” to the public in the Close. The Cathedral and staff for their valued commitment and has been active in ecumenical life locally, expressed his pride at what the Friends connecting with local churches in worship: achieve together. He thanked John Lankester chaplaincy in the city and deeper relations for his support as a Trustee and praised with members of other faith communities the key role Julian Hartwell had played have been developed. During the past over the last twelve years as Trustee and year, the published its vice-chairman, and thanked him for his Cathedral Vision and the three Cathedral commitment, courtesy, wisdom and support. values of openness, excellence and kindness 5. The Director’s Report: The Director, Lucy have been developed. Alongside this work sit Hutchin, reported on a successful year, with ‘Open Chapter’ meetings for the members of a busy programme of talks, coffee mornings, the Community Roll. The Community Roll has trips to St George’s Chapel in Windsor and been updated and work has been done on to Middle Temple and Temple Hall, the stewardship and regular giving. annual lecture by Alastair Bruce and a legacy In the past year, the first National Conference tea hosted by the Dean. Nearly 200 new for English cathedrals took place and this members had been recruited during the signified the start of more working together year and a ‘welcome’ event was held for 50 between cathedrals. The impact of proposed

52 Winchester cathedral record 2019 changes to cathedral governance and subscriptions and donations totalled £85,000 management in the working group report and the net surplus was just under £50,000. continue to be monitored by Chapter. Out of this net surplus annual grants of Safeguarding and safer recruitment £68,250 were approved. At last year’s AGM, continued to be a top priority for the it was explained that from now onwards any Cathedral and a full time safeguarding legacies would be divided into two parts, officer is shortly to be recruited to steer the the first 50% invested and the other 50% Cathedral through the audit in 2020. available to Chapter for special projects. The Dean reported her pleasure in £114,000 has been invested so far and welcoming Professor Bill Lucas as a £105,000 awaits draw down from Chapter. Professorial Visitor and the Revd Gill Sakakini, priest and artist, on placement one day a Over the last five years, the Friends have week. Canon Sue Wallace, precentor, moved contributed a total of £876,000 to the on to take up a post with the Transcendence Cathedral, through annual grants, the Charity. The Dean announced the windows appeal and the special grants appointment of Andrew Trenier, currently account. Vicar of Chingford as the new precentor. The Treasurer had two pleas. He asked Dean Catherine thanked the Friends for the membership to check that they have their hours of support, work and enthusiasm the correct gift aid status recorded with for the Cathedral. Her highlight of the year the office, especially in the case of joint was the commissioning of the new carol members. Around two thirds of the launched at the Christmas concert and the supper afterwards for guest performers, the Friends’ membership is currently gift aided composer and his family. The Dean thanked and revenue could be maximised by a Lucy Hutchin and her team and Bruce potential £7,500 if we were to increase this Parker for his chairmanship of the Friends, percentage. The membership was asked performed with good judgement and flair. to remember The Friends in their wills as 7. Architect’s Report: The substance of the legacies have funded 60% of our net surplus Architect’s Report, as delivered to the AGM, over the past 5 years. can be found on Page 6 of this edition of 9. Re-appointment of Mazars, Independent the Record. Examiners 8. The Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer Agreed by the membership. reported that due to generosity of the 10. Board of Trustees Friends, £226,000 was received from No candidates standing for election or subscriptions, donations and legacies in the re-election. past year. He outlined that The Friends had a net running cost of £39,000, down from the 11. Any Other Business previous year of £47,000. The income from None.

Winchester cathedral record 2019 53 financialFriends of Winchester Cathedral activities statement of for the year ended 31 March 2019

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Winchester cathedral record 2019 55 finance Treasurer’s Note Please Help Us To Maximise Our Income

Much of the world has been embracing We use World Pay when processing your modern technology and methods for card transactions, thereby providing you some time now. You will be pleased to with a highly accredited level of security. An know that The Friends Office is doing its added bonus for us if you use a card is that, best to keep up by taking advantage of in the event of having to cancel anything, these opportunities, but we will struggle to we can process your refund very much achieve this without your help. I appreciate more easily by reversing the card-entry than that not everyone will be able to oblige us, issuing an [expensive] cheque. but my instinct is that much of what follows is easily within your grasp. Gift Aid Why not enable your generosity to be Money transactions enhanced by 25% without it costing you a Banks charge us on a per-transaction penny? It’s called Gift Aid and it’s sponsored basis and, as you can probably imagine, by the Inland Revenue. we have to process a significant number By way of a simple illustration: and wide variety of receipts from our members, whether they be for subscriptions, • Your gift-aided subscription is, say, £25 (or donations, tickets for events or sales of £45 for a joint membership) Christmas cards and booklets. To come • The Gift Aid is 25% of £25, so £6.25 (or straight to the point, where at all possible we £11.25 for a joint membership) would prefer not to have to handle cheques, • This results in an overall gift to The as our bank charges us 65p per item. You Friends of £31.25 (or £56.25 for a joint can help us here with: membership) • Subscriptions and regular donations – • A higher-rate taxpayer (at, say, 40%) ideally paying us by direct debit can then reduce his or her tax bill by £6.25 (20%), thus reducing the cost of Whilst we have been delighted by those the subscription from £25 to a mere of you who have reacted to our regular £18.75 (or from £45 to £33.75 for a joint pleas that you should move over from membership) standing orders (or cheques, of course) to direct debits, there is still plenty of room It’s as simple as that, so may I encourage for improvement – and I’m afraid to say that any of you who are unsure as to whether or there are still far too many of our members not you have asked us to apply gift-aid to whose standing orders have remained stuck your contributions, to call the office, who will in the dim, and even distant, past. Direct then check our secure database. We have debits would enable us to ensure that your the potential to increase our income by subscriptions are kept up to date and on a further £7,500 if every single donation time, whilst also saving you the chore of is gift-aided. There can also be confusion having to re-arrange your standing-order … with joint-memberships where only one of and by the way, it is also very much easier the two members has signed the Gift Aid for us to process transactions that have declaration. This usually results in only half been generated in the office than having to of the potential Gift Aid being recoverable, handle cheques that come in the post and so again, please don’t hesitate to call the then have to be banked. office to check whether the tax advantages can be improved for both you and us. • Tickets, sales and irregular donations – ideally paying us by card, whether debit David Fellowes or credit. Hon Treasurer

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How the Reformation Came to Winchester and how Prior William Basyng became Dean William Kingsmill On the ledger stone above the grave of William Kingsmill, the dedication, now lost, read, Willimus Kingsmell prior ultimus, Decanus primus Ecclesiae. William Kingsmill last prior, first Dean. Short, simple, straightforward. Kingsmill’s life may have been short but it was neither simple nor straightforward. The manner in which he became prior, by corruption of a very high order, and the way in which the great wealth of the monastery remained largely intact as the swept through Winchester and the prior became Dean is a truly remarkable tale. William of Wykeham in 1393: The only surviving Account Roll for his Household Expenses An article, a full Medieval Latin transcript and an English translation This is an introduction to William of Wykeham's household account roll which contains detailed daily and summary expenses over a six month period in 1393. It’s the only such roll to survive in full for the household of a Bishop of Winchester and has been archived in the muniments room at Winchester College. The roll is of animal skin and comprises 21 membranes sewn neatly together, each about 35cm wide, the full roll having a total length of nearly fifteen metres. It is written on both sides and comprises upwards of 100,000 words. The article is accompanied by a full medieval Latin transcript and English translation for both sides of the roll, and these are over 100 pages of A4 each. Further articles will be published in the future based on this account roll which will look at aspects of the life of William of Wykeham and his household in 1393; such as the food and drink consumed, the guests at his table, and the working lunches held to discuss the rebuilding of the nave of Winchester Cathedral.

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Christmas Cards

Our cards this year 2019cost £4.95 for a pack of 8 cards. All profits will be used by The Friends to support the Cathedral. The order form accompanies The Record.

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Who do you think we are?

The Friends of Winchester Cathedral is a charity overseen by twelve Trustees, nine elected by the Friends themselves and three ex-officio members of Chapter. We are now looking to recruit two new Trustees to replace Julian Hartwell and John Lankester who retired at the AGM.

The skills that our Trustees need are please contact the Friends office by fairly straightforward: a passion for the 1st November. We hope to organise welfare of Winchester Cathedral and a selection process in the late time to help fellow Trustees and the autumn, ready for co-opting onto the membership to develop and support Board early in 2020, with successful candidates standing for confirmatory the charity’s aims. If you have a special election at the next AGM. interest in membership recruitment, the staging of events or finance, so Two of our present Trustees describe much the better. Interested? If so, how they first became involved.

Geoff Howard I am not a Wintonian, nor do I live in Winchester. My first visit to the city was in 1953 to watch the Coronation on the TV set owned by friends of my parents; we had not achieved that new home entertainment resource. I returned as a student to play rugby against King Alfred’s College, but my major and formative experience of Winchester was in the years from 1979 to 1986 when I was first the fundraiser and then the general manager of the newly emerging Theatre Royal in Jewry Street. Fast forward to 2013, by which time I had spent over twenty of the intervening years providing arts and fundraising consultancy services to charities and not-for-profit organisations across the UK with occasional forays into Europe. In 2013, Geoff Howard

62 Winchester cathedral record 2019 Who do you think we are? the now Chairman of the Trustees invited me to speak to the Board of Trustees about fundraising and their possible launch of an appeal to the Friends for a sum of money very much greater than anything they had raised before (aside from legacies) – £800,000 for the Windows Appeal. I was retained to provide some professional support. It worked and I met a great group of committed and fun people – staff, Trustees and other volunteers. I was invited to turn native and stand for election to become a Trustee. I was elected. It is a pleasure to be a part of the Friends, a part of the Cathedral and a part of Winchester in this way. Natalie Shaw In my working life, I was a physiotherapist and remained a clinical practitioner throughout my career. I Natalie Shaw had thoroughly enjoyed my job and had never been very interested in chorister bursaries to cleaning the Great going through the management route Screen. I am at my most comfortable as I loved being with and helping when talking to people – fellow Trustees people, and would have missed this and other Friends, the clergy and the terribly. Similarly, I had no real interest people at the ‘nerve-centre’ of the in being on committees, and apart cathedral, not to mention the general from a couple of stints on PCCs, I had public. I have learned a huge amount largely managed to avoid this. So about how organisations like the you can imagine my surprise when I Cathedral and the Friends are run – and was asked if I’d consider becoming a more than anything I have met some Trustee of the Friends of Winchester inspiring people and my fellow Trustees Cathedral. I was already a Friend, as I and Lucy, Lesley and Leisl in the office love the cathedral and all it stands for, are great fun to work with. and had several volunteering roles, the main one being a guide. If you are interested in becoming I have now been a Trustee for a a Trustee and would like to talk to couple of years and love it – and it is one of the members of our Board, really interesting doing something please contact the Friends Office so completely different from in the first instance on 01962 physiotherapy. It is fascinating being 857244/5 and they will put you in involved with helping to support the touch with the relevant Trustee. the Cathedral in varying ways – from

Winchester cathedral record 2019 63 New members Mr D Bailey Mr G Goodman Mr & Mrs McFadden Mrs S Baker Mr & Mrs N Goymer Mrs J McKinley Mrs B Banerjee Mr & Mrs K Grand-Scrutton Dr & Mrs M Meacher Nisbet Mrs K Barritt Mr & Mrs D Griffiths Mr & Mrs R J Moore Mr & Mrs Bastable Mrs J Groves Mr & Mrs C Mullins Ms M Broderick Mr & Mrs D Haigh Mr & Mrs M Newman Mr & Mrs R Brooks Mrs J Hales Mr & Mrs V Oddie Mrs S Brown Mrs J Hands Ms C Orchard The Rev’d J Brownsell Mr & Mrs J Harding Mrs A Ormerod Mrs R Bull Mr C Harvey Mr G Pope Mr & Mrs T Byford & family Mrs A Hauser Mr P Price Mrs T Case Mrs S F S Hawkins Mr J de Pury Mr & Mrs A Cavender Mr & Mrs M Heard Mrs M Randall Mr L Childs Ms J Hinds Mrs A Richardson Mrs J Chute Mr & Mrs P Hinett Mr B Robinson Mrs C Clark Mr & Mrs N Hiscock Mr & Mrs D Clark Dr W Hollister Mrs S Rose Mr & Mrs R Clark Miss R Holmes Mrs K Ross Mrs M Coleman Maj Gen & Mrs Holmes Mr & Mrs J Russell Mr & Mrs C Collins Mr N Hortin & Miss T Armstrong Mr J Russell & Mrs E Wilkinson Mrs J Courtier Mr & Mrs J Hunt Mr G Savage Mrs S Crawford-Moody Dr & Mrs A Hutchin Mr A Seale Mr & Mrs D Criswick Mr M Hutchings Mr & Mrs M Searles Mrs P Danvers Mr & Mrs L Hynd Mr R Shepley Mr & Mrs D Davidson Mr S Ide & Mrs J Mackenzie Mr & Mrs R Sherwin Mr & Mrs A Denness Mr & Mrs S Jenkerson Mr & Mrs A Smith Mr & Mrs N Doe Mr & Rev’d J Jesty Ms J Smith Mr & Mrs M Doherty Mrs M Jex Mr & Mrs D Snoswell Mr & Mrs R Down Ms R John Miss S Stokely Mrs A Dreaper Ms L Johnn Mr & Mrs K Stone Mr J Dunn & Mrs J Berridge Mrs P Johns Mr & Mrs K Sweetland Ms S Duprez Mr L Jones & Ms C Masters Mr C Terry Mrs A Edgerley Harris Mr & Mrs N Karran-Smith Dr & Mrs J Theaker Miss K Edwards Mr C Kemp Mr B Thwaites Mr J Essex Prof S King Mr & Mrs P Tomkinson Ms J Ferguson Mr & Mrs N Kingsford Mr & Mrs I C Town Mr & Mrs M Fielding Mr T Lalonde & Mrs A Reber Mr & Hon Mrs W Tufnell Mr & Mrs C Fletcher Mr G Lawrence & Mrs J Aston Mr M Tye Mr D Forde Mrs E Leeks Mrs M Frances Mrs C Lloyd Mrs D Wass Mr A Fuller Miss L-A Lott Mr D Weaver Mr P Gagg & Ms C Holloway Mr & Mrs I C Lowe Mrs D Whitehouse Mrs M Garland Mr T Major Mr & Mrs N Whitsun-Jones Mr M Garner Mr & Mrs G Mansfield Mrs V Williams Mr & Mrs T Geddes Mrs S Marsden Mr & Mrs M Wilson Mr & Mrs M Gee Brother M Mayhew-Arnold Dr & Mrs S Wimbush Mr A Gee & Mrs J Pain Mr S McDonnell Dr C Wood

64 Winchester cathedral record 2019 In Memoriam

Mr C Badcock Miss W Hubbard Mrs F Preedy Miss E Baker Mrs S Hudson Dr T Revell Mrs R Bickerdike Mrs I Hughes Mrs C Root Mr B Botwright Lady J Innes Miss B H Rouse Col D Budd Canon Job Mr A Ruth Mrs H Bussby Miss G King Mrs P A Sambrook Lady M Butler Mrs B Kipling Mr D W Smith Canon Caesar Mrs J M Kitchin Mr M J Smith Mr S Gordon-Clark Mrs B A Large Mr R Stott Mrs H Clayton Miss S Lawson Mrs J E Stubbings Mr B Cole Mrs S Leslie Mrs P Vellacott Lt Col R Cross The Revd P Lucas Mrs S Weait Mrs I Cullen Mrs E E Marper Mrs R Wells Mr R Edmond Mr R Martin Mr A C Whitaker Mr F Edwards Dr J Massy Mrs R Whiteside Mr C J Ford Mr A P Mayne Mr H W C Wilson Mrs B Foulkes Mrs J Newcome Mr R E Wiggle Dr J Garfield Miss S M Nightingale Mrs A Willis Mr G C Grant Mr P Parker Miss M Wyman Mr J Harvey Lady B Pelly Mrs L G Yorke Mrs F Hill Dr H S Platt Mr M Hill Miss J Pope 50 year membership anniversaries

Mrs E Benton Mrs SL Nockholds The Reverend P Britton Mrs J Wright Mr D G Salter The Very Revd & Mrs M Trickey Legacies We are grateful for all the legacies we have received, most recently from:

Mrs H Bussby Mrs P Norris Mr J Harvey Mr M Reid Miss J Hill Miss B Taylor Mrs G Moss

Winchester cathedral record 2019 65 A gift for all time

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Royal Patron Her Majesty the Queen Patron The Right Reverend Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester President The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester Ex Officio Vice-Presidents Nigel Atkinson Esq, HM Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire Cllr Eleanor Bell, The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Winchester Ms Jean Ritchie QC, Cathedral Council Chairman Honorary Vice-President Mo Hearn

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bruce Parker, Chairman Anne Newsome, Vice-Chairman David Fellowes, Treasurer Tom Watson, Geoff Howard Natalie Shaw, Nigel Spicer Ex Officio Chapter Trustees The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester Annabelle Boyes, Receiver General STAFF Lucy Hutchin, Director Lesley Mead Leisl Porter

Friends’ Prayer Most glorious Lord of life, Who gave to your disciples the precious name of friends: accept our thanks for this Cathedral Church, built and adorned to your glory and alive with prayer and grant that its company of Friends may so serve and honour you in this life that they come to enjoy the fullness of your promises within the eternal fellowship of your grace; and this we ask for your name’s sake. Amen. Winchester Cathedral Record 2019 Number 88

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