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The Eighty-Eighth Annual Report

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Contents

4 Officers and Members of the Executive Council 5 The 7 The Acting Dean 9 The New Dean 12 The Chairman 17 The Cathedral Architect 22 The Director of Music 24 Clerk of Works 28 Archivist and Librarian 32 Salisbury Cathedral in the Twelfth Century 46 William Osmond 48 Musical Memories 52 A Brief History of the Friends 56 A Tonal Spire in Sound 58 The Friends Holiday in Cornwall 60 Hon Treasurer’s Report 61 Report of the Executive Council and Accounts 64 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2016 68 Obituary

The Editor records grateful thanks to all our contributors, regular and occasional; we would like to thank and credit the photographers: Ash Mills; Izaak Hudson; Gary Price; Katharine Shearing; Emily Naish; Tricia Glass; Michael Lazarus.

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OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL as at 31 MARCH 2018 Patrons: The Rt Revd the Lord Bishop of Salisbury HM Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset HM Lord-Lieutenant of President: The Very Revd the Dean of Salisbury Vice-Presidents: The Very Revd Hugh Dickinson The Very Revd The Mayor of Salisbury The Leader of Salisbury City Council Lt Col H Keatinge OBE

Members of the Executive Council: Elected Members: Mrs P Brown (appointed September 2017) Mr C Colston Mr D Heather Mr K Millman (appointed September 2017) Mr N Salisbury (retired September 2017) Mrs K Shearing (retired September 2017) Dr V Shrubb Mr P Williams Chapter’s Representative: Revd Canon R Titley

Archdeaconry Wilts: Mrs K Shearing Representatives: Sarum: Capt D Glass OBE MNM Dorset: Mr M Joseph : Mrs U Pomeroy Honorary Chairman: Capt D Glass OBE MNM Honorary Treasurer: Mr C Dragonetti Membership Secretary: Mr D Heather Principal Officer: Mrs K Beckett Address & Contact: 33a The Close, Salisbury SP1 1EJ tel: (01722) 335161/55190 Email: [email protected] website: www.salisburycathedralfriends.co.uk Bankers: Lloyds Bank plc, 38 Blue Boar Row, Salisbury CAF Bank ltd, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, West Malling Solicitors: Parker Bullen, 45 Castle Street, Salisbury Auditors: Fletcher & Partners, Crown Chambers, Bridge Street, Salisbury Investment Managers: CBF Church of Funds, Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria St, London M&G Charities, PO Box 9038, Chelmsford Registered Charity Number: 243439

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The Bishop of Salisbury

the place in our society to make solemn vows and pray for God’s blessing on all that lies ahead for the couple. Every wedding makes us remember our own. Inside the cathedral Les Colombes, the 2,500 white paper doves by Michael Pendry, were a beautiful and inspiring addition above the . This art installation by a German was originally to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War but the doves took off as a response to the poisoning of the Skripals. They have brought Salisbury together. The paper doves, many made by members of the cathedral’s congregations, visitors and even some prisoners in HMP Erlestoke, are all over the city. They are a sign of our determination to make peace in response to a reckless attack and violation of the city. In the early evening 41 people came to athedrals have the power to convene the cathedral from across the diocese to people. For Salisbury, this was never be Confirmed. They were supported by a C congregation of over 300. The doves more striking than at Pentecost, the were a beautiful representation of the weekend of 19/20 May. gift of the Holy Spirit, divine energy come On the Saturday it was the Royal down among us, a gift of communication Wedding. As the preacher said, “Two between very different people who in our people fell in love and we all showed up”. world speak different languages and The BBC put up a big screen on the west want different things. Never has the lawn and 3,000 people came. Lots world more needed such God-given unity. brought picnics and became part of BBC On Sunday the Friends of the Cathedral Radio Wiltshire’s morning broadcast. ran Open Gardens in The Close. 1400 There was a great atmosphere. Some of people came to explore places not the Stewards commented that opening normally open to the public. An army of the cathedral’s west doors made a people baked cakes and came to The connection between the inside and the South Canonry to sell teas, cakes and outside. The crowd cheered the ice creams and second-hand books to preacher. On other Saturdays even the raise money for medicines in South couples who get married at a civil Sudan. ceremony in the Medieval Hall come to be photographed in front of the As well as the usual Sunday services for cathedral. and churches are Pentecost, in the evening the cathedral 5 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 6

was nearly full for ‘Thy Kingdom Come’, with the energy and life at the heart of the culmination of nine days of prayer creation. In Salisbury the cathedral is initiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury the building around which the city lives. to mark the period from Ascension Day More than any other body in the city it to Pentecost. It was organised by has the capacity to form partnerships Salisbury Churches Together but and celebrate our common life in ways particularly by St Paul’s. It was an that will help recovery from what took ecumenical event, as Pentecost should place on 4th March. The cathedral be. People came from 80 churches. witnesses to the creative life-giving love A cathedral has a unique power to of God and gives hope to the world convene people in our society. It gathers around. people for good and puts us in touch +Nicholas Sarum

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The Acting Dean

team of clergy and senior lay staff who have between us not only kept the wheels from falling off but also moved forward steadily. I’ll pick out some obvious points during this past year, but the thing to bear in mind is that one of this organisation’s great qualities is to adapt and innovate, to assimilate new people and to say farewell to past members, in an almost seamless way which might seem to imply that nothing ever changes! Last summer of course we had our grand farewells to June as she moved to her new responsibilities in south Wales. Considerable numbers (a testament to her major contribution here over the s you may know, I have kept bees for years) from Salisbury journeyed to nearly 25 years. There is an A Brecon and Llandaff for her ordination unfortunate state into which colonies of and enthronement in a new country (the honeybees can sometimes get, by land of my fathers, as it happens). accident or ill-management, of being queenless. This means that there is no I became Acting Dean, which in practice functioning queen in the colony, and the has meant chairing major meetings problem is twofold: the queen’s steady (Chapter, and so on) and attending quite supply of new eggs should mean the a lot of additional outside meetings (e.g. continuing strength of the colony; and Bishop’s Council); I’ve also had to act the pheromones exuded by the queen much more as spokesman for or general are what keep the colony together. lead of the Cathedral. None of my own Without the queen for an extended work has gone away meanwhile, so period, the colony becomes a major inevitably this has been an extremely problem to the beekeeper, and will time-constrained year for me. But one of ultimately die out. its real pleasures has been working Well, to apply the obvious analogy, one much more directly with Jackie Molnar, could suggest that Salisbury Cathedral the Chapter Clerk; we meet frequently has been queenless for nearly a year at and have found it quite easy and fruitful the point when I write this. But in at least to work together. I have also made a one respect the Cathedral is better point of emphasising that the Cathedral constituted even than the timeless is led by a team and not just by an natural order of social bees. Important individual, and have been keen to as a dean is to the organisational depend upon our very able colleagues. structure, that structure also has a time- Comings and goings: at June’s honoured arrangement for keeping suggestion, we brought The Very Revd things running, and we have a strong Charles Taylor into that team for a year 7 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 8

from August, and it has proved a superb into the forefront of the world’s news suggestion; Charles and Catherine have and an international crisis. It would be made a distinctive and invaluable part of fair to say that the Cathedral has been our clergy and Executive team. Sarah playing a key part in the recovery of Rickett left (also to the Welsh borders) Salisbury, a process that may go on for after 13 years in what has become a key quite some time yet. This also has made part of the Cathedral’s life, what we now major demands on the time, focus, and call Learning and Outreach. She leaves a energies of several key staff, and is major gap, but I look forward to Ariane again a testimony to the strength and Crampton’s imminent arrival and her quality of this organisation and its many fresh insights. parts. I’m delighted that Nick Papadopulos is Nick will take the reins in early returning here as our dean. He is an old September, and among the many friend, and will bring his own many reasons why I keenly await his arrival is insights and gifts. Once again, the that June’s leaving meant I had to process of that appointment placed sacrifice a long-arranged period of study tangential pressures on our leave in the autumn of last year. So I’m organisation, which it handled smoothly hoping to reclaim some of that time and and well. the opportunity for study and to be more reflective than has been remotely Like every other institution and business possible during the busyness of this past in Salisbury, we’ve had to handle the year. utterly unforeseen circumstances of the attack in early March, which vaulted us Edward Probert

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The New Dean, Canon Nicholas Papadopulos -

The Friends’ ask a few questions (Installation as Dean of Salisbury 9th September 2018)

(seen here with Bishop Nicholas Holtam in Salisbury Cathedral on the occasion of his appointment)

The Friends are absolutely delighted to What inspired you to change from law welcome you into the fold of Salisbury to Church? Cathedral – the Friends are supporters My degree was in History (my first and fans of this great building, and are passion, which I still read for pleasure). very happy to contribute towards its After completing it I studied for a Diploma preservation and enhancement and in Law and was called to the Bar. I support its life, worship and ministry. practised for seven years, defending and prosecuting cases across the south-east. What are your thoughts on returning But as my 30th birthday approached I and adjusting to life in Salisbury? found myself wondering whether I was I’m aware that a lot has changed in the using such gifts as I thought I might have twelve years since I left. I used to spend in the best way that I possibly could. a lot of Sunday afternoons with my What I had discovered was that I was children in Queen Elizabeth Gardens, more interested in my clients’ stories and would often end up carrying my than in their cases – who they were, why daughter (and her toy pram) home they had got themselves into the mess afterwards. She’ll begin her A-Level they were in, what might make a real courses when we return so I don’t difference to them. Those questions just imagine those afternoons will be quite aren’t a lawyer’s questions. They are the same. I served then as Bishop David about the meaning of life, not about the Stancliffe’s Chaplain. When I return weight of the evidence. Then one evening Bishop Nicholas will be in his eighth I was sitting in the parish church of St year, of course, and I will be in an Thomas’s Finsbury Park when I was quite entirely new role. So although there is sure I heard God telling me, gently, but much that is very familiar and very firmly, to be a priest in the Church. That’s welcome – I love the Cathedral and love how it all started – I went and spoke to the Close – I am aware that there will be my vicar, and the Church’s discernment many differences, too. process got underway. I don’t regret a 9 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 10

minute of my time at the Bar. It’s where I What is your favourite sport, and what met my wife Heather! It gave me an team do you support? invaluable intellectual formation and I’m afraid I’m not a very sporty person. some unforgettable experiences which I Sorry - no sponsored Marathons or bike still draw upon. rides for the Cathedral’s restoration! I enjoy the gym and long walks, but that’s We are intrigued by your surname! Can about it. The sole exception is that while you tell us about your ancestry, and I’ve been in Canterbury I’ve rediscovered your family? a love of watching county cricket, and My father came to England from Cyprus have seen a few games every season. It’s in 1958 and brought his surname with usually Kent being put to the sword by him! ‘Papadopulos’ is Greek for ‘the son whoever they are playing, but somehow of the priest’. My grandfather adopted it that doesn’t diminish the enjoyment. I’d because his father was a priest of the like to learn to fish and to sail; I long to Orthodox Church who served in the keep pigs; and I enjoy The Archers, Alan village of Neo Khorio in south-western Bennett, and a pint of beer or a glass of Cyprus. Dad did not return to Cyprus to Gewurztraminer. I imagine that some of live – while at university in Birmingham those probably don’t count as sports… he met my mother, an English girl from the Midlands. They married and settled How do you like to relax? in Kent, where my sister and I grew up Heather is a wonderful cook but I am let and went to school. We have had many loose on the kitchen at weekends. The holidays in Greece and Cyprus over the pattern seems to be that I’m given a years, and I have huge respect and gorgeous recipe book every Christmas and affection for my family’s Orthodox roots. spend the year working my way through it – curry, Greek, and Middle Eastern dishes What are your thoughts about your role all feature in the repertoire. We have a as Dean of Salisbury, and what are your well-stocked vegetable garden in aspirations? Canterbury and I’ve discovered I can make I am absolutely thrilled to have been jam and chutney too (rhubarb with ginger appointed. As I said when the and apricot is my speciality). I enjoy the announcement was made, if there was a theatre and the cinema, and the Richter scale for jobs you dream of doing occasional evening out with friends, and but don’t believe you ever will, this would am refreshed by reading (novels, poetry, be off it - by a mile. Salisbury was served biography) - and by study, too. exceptionally well by its last Dean, June Are you a keen gardener?! We hold an Osborne. The condition of the fabric, the annual open garden event to raise thoroughness of the plans, and the funds for the Friends and we are highly quality of the team are all part of her likely to try to persuade you to include legacy, and no incoming Dean could the Deanery garden! hope for a better one. Our staff and volunteers are the Cathedral’s greatest I am sure we will be willing to open the asset, a huge repository of skill and Deanery garden – we have always wisdom motivated by devotion to the opened our garden in Canterbury - but it place. I have enjoyed meeting some of will require some serious attention from them already, but my absolute priority on someone whose gardening skills are far arrival will be getting to know them. better developed than are mine! 10 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 11

What are your tastes in music? amazing privilege to pray and work here. They are eclectic. At St Peter’s Eaton But I am returning to Salisbury, to Square (where I was Vicar 2007-2013) another beautiful building, and to we were fortunate in our superb another fantastic community. I am professional choir, so I value the choral looking forward immensely to meeting tradition and look forward to you. worshipping daily with the choir of As with the Friends of Canterbury, we Salisbury as I have with Canterbury. But have been around since the early 1930s at home or in the car I might listen to jazz – our members have many and varied (Sarah Vaughan is a favourite) or Bob connections with Salisbury Cathedral, Dylan. My pub quiz special subject would and as a group of like-minded people be the life and music of the Beatles who wish to preserve it for the future, (indeed it has been suggested that they how do you see our role in this future? are my real religion)…but I have a ticket Friends are among the Cathedral’s most to see the Rolling Stones in June and I’m effective ambassadors. You are united looking forward to going! by a love of the place. There is something about it that you prize: What will you miss most about architecture, music, history, personal Canterbury? connection. This is emphatically good The people – of course. We have had news, or ‘gospel’. You are the best wonderful colleagues, wonderful placed people to tell it. So that is what I neighbours and wonderful friends. And – encourage Friends to do. Go and tell, so the building. It has been the most that others may come and see!

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The Chairman

elcome to the 88th Annual Report Wand Accounts of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral for the year April 2017 to March 2018. It has been another good year for our charity and we have achieved our aims in supporting our wonderful Cathedral in accordance with our constitution and your wishes. Thank you to all our members for your continued support and thank you to our trustees, staff and volunteers for working hard to make our endeavours James Mogford working in his St Ann such a success. Street workshops The detail of our activities throughout the 2017/18 year are well recorded in Haydn and Mozart – wondering how this report and so I am taking this their music would have sounded on opportunity to finally provide the whole original instruments of the time. Such story about the ’Mogford / Ogg’ model, instruments were not common – hardly which has returned to its original any new ones were made and those position in the west end of the North antiques still in existence were museum Nave Aisle, following the excellent pieces. refurbishment that the Friends At the age of 17, James visited a cousin sponsored and the Cathedral Works who supplied timber to the Dolmetsch Department achieved. family. They were leading figures in In 1984/5 James Mogford and John Ogg revival of early instruments in Britain built a replica of Salisbury Cathedral as during the early part of the 20th century. it would have looked in about the year This visit coincided with encouragement 1240. It was then halfway through its 38- from a woodwork teacher at school to year construction period, and the model pursue his interest in woodwork and cleverly portrays the great building in a early musical instruments. He asked his half-finished stage. The model, mounted cousin to help him obtain a blueprint of on a six-foot-long wooden base, was a clavichord and showed it to his constructed among harpsichord teachers and with their encouragement, paraphernalia in Mr Mogford’s set about bringing those plans to life. workshops in St Ann Street, Salisbury. James admitted his first attempt was not James Mogford was a pianist, very good, but undaunted he continued specialising in crafting harpsichords, to hone his skills and went on to make virginals and clavichords, of which he instruments for the next 50 years. created more than 50 during his Outside of music he studied lifetime. Born in London in 1927, James anthropology at university before going was taught to play the piano by his to work for British Petroleum, rising to mother and as a young man listened to become the company’s manpower classical composers such as Bach, manager before retiring and moving to 12 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 13

Salisbury upon the death of his second John had many interests, being a keen wife. He was a committee member, news radio ham, a member of the Magic editor and former chairman of Sarum Circle, and a skilled carpenter and joiner, U3A. James also passed on his musical who designed and made miniature dolls knowledge by giving classes in early houses and automata. In retirement he music. found great satisfaction in drawing and Many thousands of visitors to Salisbury painting. His great love, however, was Cathedral have appreciated his skills as the restoration of the near derelict croft a craftsman when viewing the model on on the Hebridean island of Coll that he display there, in which he, and John Ogg and Doreen bought in the 1960s. It show the cathedral construction in formed the focus of many family holidays about 1240. James died at home in and John published House in the Salisbury on 5th November 2015 and is Hebrides in 2004 about the croft’s survived by his daughter Vivian and restoration and associated adventures. partner of 30 years Anne-Marie Archibald John Ogg Seacroft. was the son of John Ogg was a former consultant Professor David Ogg, ophthalmic surgeon at Salisbury regius professor of Infirmary and Odstock Hospital, he was history at born on 19th November 1921; and University. He first qualified at Oxford University and the came to Salisbury as London Hospital in 1946, being: DO, locum consultant FRCS, FRCOpth. After house jobs at The when his predecessor died suddenly and London and service in the Royal Navy, he was then appointed to the definitive post held ophthalmic posts in Oxford and at later the same year. Most of the time he Moorfields Hospital, where he became worked in Salisbury he was senior registrar and met his wife, singlehanded and furthermore he was Doreen, then a theatre sister there. He ophthalmologist to a considerably larger was appointed to Salisbury in 1955, population than the hospital as a whole where he remained for the rest of his served. career. He was much loved by his many patients because of his style, which was direct, understanding and kind. He was most popular with his staff who helped and supported him, altogether making up a most loyal and effective unit. When John came to Salisbury the eye department was under-resourced and under-equipped but over the years he steadily improved matters so that finally an independent outpatient department ward and theatre were established. His major contribution was to raise £60,000 The Mogford/Ogg model of the to buy laser equipment; he also construction of Salisbury Cathedral built introduced specialised fundus in 1985, prior to refurbishment in 2018 photography and eventually a 13 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 14

appreciated. A comprehensive series of photographs and sketches of the real thing were compiled and the Clerk of Works, Roy Spring, lent them drawings and elevation plans. James Mogford’s principle role was in creating the architecture itself, starting with wooden masters, from which rubber moulds were prepared and finally stone plaster casting. Every joist was painstakingly made and fitted, every stained glass window installed and the accuracy is breath-taking. John Ogg’s hobby as a miniaturist was vital, he made ten wooden thatched workshops, which surround the cathedral, each of which is cleverly lit to reveal the intricate detail within. comprehensive service was established in Salisbury. These workshops portray the various building functions involved, such as the Away from work, John was a man of carpenter’s hut, a mason’s workshop many enthusiasms, skills, and ideas. As and even the wages hut and a tavern. Mr well as a member of the Magic Circle Ogg also constructed more than 300 tiny and a radio ham, he was a Rotarian in figures. They were bought as his earlier years. He was a keen accessories for a miniature railway set- gardener with a fine collection of up and he modified each one to fit the orchids. He brewed beer and made wine. scene, sometimes performing micro- He was very clever with his hands, surgery to modify limbs and dressing making a number of dolls’ houses. them in period overalls! The model is As above, the scale model of Salisbury built on a one-in 72 scale and is not ‘a Cathedral, which he made with Jim snapshot in time’ as it would not have Mogford, showing its construction, is to been exactly like the model as be seen in the cathedral to this day. He constructed, but this cleverly shows was a great collector, of cork-screws, several sections under construction to keys, and early wireless sets in give a better picture. particular. John Ogg died on 19th The task proved more complex and time- February 2005 and is survived by his consuming than was ever contemplated, wife Doreen, four children, and six but both the expert makers agreed that grandchildren. it heightened their sense of wonder and The newly completed model was respect for the medieval craftsmen who presented to the Cathedral in 1985 and built the real cathedral with only became the spectacular centrepiece to primitive tools and facilities. Mr the Spire Appeal Exhibition in the Mogfords father, William, sponsored the Cathedral’s North Transept. The sheer cost of materials, almost £1,000 (in detail of their work has to be seen to be 1985!) as his personal contribution to 14 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:07 Page 15

the Spire Appeal. Both men spent around 1,000 hours on the project. Refurbishment in 2017/18 Having sponsored a small refurbishment about the turn of the century, the Friends Council proposed to the Dean and Chapter that the Friends could undertake a major refurbishment as a project if they agreed. Support was immediate and the Friends Trustees concurred that this was thoroughly worthwhile and set a budget. With the help of the Canon Chancellor, Head Guide and other experts we reviewed the narrative text around the model and designed new panels with interactive buttons so that the reader can identify features in the model by lighting them up. A detailed specification was prepared and, in due course, when Cathedral Artisans Richard Pike and time allowed in the early winter of 2018, Phil Court the Cathedral Clerk of Works, Gary Price saw an opportunity for the Works This was perfect and the preferred Department artisans to undertake the solution. The model was carefully refurbishment. relocated to the Works Department in early January 2018, and three craftsmen with an eye for detail, painstakingly worked on it, namely Richard Pike ecclesiastical Joiner, Phil Court; electrician and Brendan Seller; plumber. All three work in the maintenance department in the cathedral works yard, plus other staff members when available. Once the Perspex cover was removed the true genius of the makers; James Mogford and John Ogg, could be fully appreciated and when years of dust was carefully cleared the model looked considerably finer. New and improved lighting was fitted using the latest LED fittings, as well as interactive buttons around the ‘desk’ where an expanded descriptive text of Ecclesiastical Joiner Richard Pike the model was fitted. 15 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 16

The old Perspex was renewed and a Grateful thanks to the Friends Charity beautiful base cabinet made in oak, and all who contributed toward this which together with a restored and project. The model will be viewed my carpeted step for children, brought the many hundreds of thousands of visitors wonderful model of the Cathedral under to Salisbury Cathedral for years to come. construction to life as never before. Duncan Glass

The Mogford / Ogg Model newly refurbished

Gary Price, the Clerk of Works, Friends Chairman and Richard Pike at the re- dedication on completion of the refurbishment of the Mogford / Ogg model. 16 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 17

The Cathedral Architect

am now at the end of my third year as Ithe cathedral architect for Salisbury Cathedral. It has been a bit of a quieter year than the first two hectic years, but my annual report to the Friends provides a good opportunity to reflect on the previous year. The bulk of my work over the last year has been taken-up by the Major Repair Project (MRP), as it will be for the next few years as we head to completion of the MRP. There have been a few repair and maintenance projects around the The SPAB Scholars with the head cathedral which I have been involved mason, Lee, in the banker shop with, such as the renewal of the external heating riser above the Plumbery. I have The SPAB Scholars at the Cathedral also been advising on several post-MRP In June 2017 the cathedral hosted the development projects in and outside the three Society for the Protection of cathedral, which are still at an early or Ancient Building (SPAB) Lethaby conceptual stage. Looking at one or two scholars for a week of intense hands-on properties in the Close in detail has also experience in the works yard. I was an been very interesting, and has helped SPAB Lethaby scholar in 2001, and me see the cathedral in its wider fondly recall the intensity of the nine- medieval context. month road trip around sites across the UK and beyond, which forms a key part in the training of many conservation professionals at the outset of their careers. In 2017, Salisbury welcomed architects Kristian Foster and Lilian Tuohy Main, and structural engineer Aoife Murphy to the cathedral for their ‘cathedral week’, funded by the Cathedral Architects Association. The Canon Treasurer, Robert Titley, very kindly provided accommodation in Loders for the week, and the works department assisted in spending time talking to the scholars and helping with their training. In addition to an active week the scholars managed to cadge bicycles and make it up to Stonehenge to see out the Summer Solstice – an The cathedral lit up for the Darkness to impressive feat of stamina during an Light advent celebration intense week of hot weather. 17 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 18

MRA 5 In 2017 the masonry repairs were completed to Major Repair Area 5 (the angle of the South Minor Transept and Presbytery). The last phase of repair and isothermal glazing to the medieval window s11 was also completed over the

MRA 5 mortar repairs

MRA 5 string course and buttress gablets

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course of the year and the reinstalled window was re-dedicated in November. The scaffold needs to stay in place until 2020 as it is used to access MRAs 4 and 5, particularly the hoist. As expected, the completed repairs are superb quality, and are a credit to the skills of the works department and the emeritus architect Michael Drury and his team, who developed the project and oversaw the lion’s share of the work on site. Moses window secondary glazing frame MRA 4 insitu Work to MRA 4 (the Presbytery gable) However, progress has been made with has largely been put on the back-burner stone hood moulds above the Moses so that the grant for MRA 6 from the window, and with the secondary glazing World War I Centenary Cathedral Repair frame to the Moses window itself. The Fund could be spent by the grant latter is a glass and Iroko protective deadline. This has meant that most of glazing system that will prolong the life the masons’ resources were used on of the beautiful, but fragile, 1781 Moses MRA6. A lot of the more critical work window by James Pearson, as described therefore hasn’t been started yet. in my 2017 report to the Friends. The cathedral was awarded a grant by the Headley Trust in 2017, and this meant that the cathedral carpenter was tasked with fabrication of the window frame. The Iroko frames have now been fitted ready to complete the protective glazing once the stone repairs above are completely over the next year. MRA 6 In 2016 the £1.5m repairs to the Trinity MRA 4 hood moulds Chapel (MRA 6) were awarded a substantial grant of £500,000 from the World War One Centenary Cathedral Repair Fund. This funding had to spent by the end of the 2017/18 financial year, which meant that the works department has had to devote most of their staff time to MRA 6 over the last year. As explained in last year’s report to the Friends, the eastern gable of the Trinity Chapel is a very important part of the cathedral liturgically, and is also the oldest part of the cathedral, dating from Detail of Moses window frame 1220-22. 19 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 20

A hive of activity in the banker shop

Over the winter it has been too cold to fix stone on the scaffold, as lime mortar will not carbonate below 5°C, so many of the masons have been tasked with carving replacement decorative elements for the eastern gable of the Trinity Chapel. I am involved in agreeing the maquettes, and suggesting where they may be altered for the final carving. It is very important to let the masons have free-reign to express themselves in their carvings, and I have been very impressed with the standard of what is essentially three-dimensional sculpture. Masons do not usually get much opportunity to sculpt, spending most of the time working architectural stone. New carvings start with a clay maquette, which can be discussed and agreed before the masons copy the maquette in stone. Working in clay is quite different to working in stone; the former is an Clay maquettes in the workshop awaiting additive process whereas carving stone comment and approval works in the opposite way, so mistakes or improvements are very hard to rectify these would very quickly lead to carvings in stone. Clay can very easily be added failing with frost. or changed to improve the design. An When decorative stone on the cathedral important consideration in the carvings is replaced it is always because the is the need to avoid water-traps, so that original stone has weathered or decayed there are no back-falls or recesses on beyond the point of being readable, so carvings where water could collect; new carvings almost always involve an 20 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 21

element of interpretation or imagination from the masons. Inspiration is often taken from other stones on the cathedral, or even wider Thirteenth Century work in the UK, combined with the masons’ own artistic creativity. A good example is mason Alan Spittle’s wyvern carving, depicted below. The maquette allowed Alan to experiment with his carving before committing it to stone. The ferocious looking wyvern was very impressive; the only suggestion being to make the claws a little more sinuous and sinister. I look forward to seeing the completed carving insitu. Over the next year I will continue to liaise with the works department on MRA 6, and work will start in earnest to MRA 4. I also hope that some of the development

Some of the carvings shown as maquettes in last year’s report now committed to stone

projects in the cathedral and wider environment will develop towards fruition over the course of the next year. I also look forward to welcoming the new Mason Alan Spittle’s clay maquette for Dean this year, and helping develop events for the octocentenary in 2020. a label stop, featuring a vegetarian wyvern… Izaak Hudson

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The Director of Music

Cathedral Youth Choir and Chamber Choir went from strength to strength. The choir sang a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast to great acclaim in November 2017, featuring music for All Saints by Ernest Bullock and Basil Harwood. Still fresh in the memory as I write this, the Cathedral choristers took part in the Salisbury Musical Society’s moving performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. The annual recording of Christmas carols for Jackie Lawson E-Cards was made during the Summer Term of 2017, an event which always feel strange with the sun beating through the Cathedral’s windows, and a CD of settings of George Herbert texts was completed in February ur Cathedral Choir enjoyed a year of 2018 for release later in the year. Ovaried and interesting music- The Southern Cathedrals Festival in July making. Under the leadership of Canon 2017 took place in Winchester and Dr Tom Clammer, the Cathedral’s showcased its usual variety of high musicians worked hard to deliver a quality liturgical music. The Saturday dynamic and exciting music programme. concert was a most memorable affair Back in July 2017 we said farewell to our with all five choirs from the three Organ Scholar, Claudia Grinnell, who left Cathedrals on duty for a performance of us following a year of excellent service Monteverdi’s magnificent 1610 Vespers. both to the choir and Cathedral School, Our choir returned to Salisbury for the where she was highly valued. Claudia is Sunday services, where we said goodbye now Assistant Organist at Winchester to the Year 8 Choristers and Claudia Cathedral. In September of the same Grinnell. year, we welcomed Dan Mathieson as Later in the year we said goodbye to a our Organ Scholar. great friend of the Cathedral’s Music, Ian The choir continued to give regular Wicks, who left us to take up the position concerts at parish churches in the of Head Master at the Chorister School diocese, recently performing at in Durham. His and his wife Elizabeth’s Damerham, Mere, Codford, Shroton, contribution to the life of Salisbury Bradford on Avon and Sutton Veny. Cathedral School and Salisbury Salisbury Cathedral Junior Choir Cathedral was very impressive. The continued to sing strongly, meeting every RSCM Young Voices Service in March Saturday morning in term time, and 2018 was once again a huge success, appearing at the Christmas Carol Service directed by Susie Lamb, Ian Wicks’ for BBC Radio Wiltshire, among popular successor as Director of Music numerous other events. The Salisbury at Salisbury Cathedral School. 22 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 23

The annual Remembrance-tide concert for transmission on Christmas Eve and for the Choral Foundation took place in Christmas Day and we hosted numerous November and was followed (what charities and schools for their carol seemed like very shortly after) by a services. The choir delivered a hectic wonderful performance of Handel’s sequence of services over Christmas ‘Messiah’ with the City of London itself, and the Cathedral welcomed Sinfonia providing the faultless thousands through its doors. accompaniment. Plan are now well advanced for this The Christmas season once again saw year’s Southern Cathedrals Festival in the choir delivering liturgical music in a Salisbury. We cherish the friendship huge variety of services and events. between Chichester, Salisbury and December began with the Advent Winchester Cathedrals, a family to which Procession – From Darkness to Light – our musicians, patrons, worshippers and which, as usual ran for three audience members belong. consecutive evenings. The BBC Wiltshire Service referred to earlier was recorded David Halls

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Clerk of Works

t’s always a great pleasure for me to be Iasked to write a little something for the Friends’ magazine, they reach out to so many people far and wide and I’m very happy to say that the Works Department will soon be doing the same, as we have recently opened our doors to the public by offering stone masonry workshop tours carried out by a handful of our specially trained guides, you may even get to talk to some of our stone masons. These tours started in April and run every Thursday afternoon at 2pm, and they are proving to be extremely popular. daunting for my stone masons and me, We have always enjoyed being able to but the feedback the inmates gave was share what we do with people outside of rewarding and everyone really got a the Cathedral and this year we are sense of achievement after they’d all putting on an extra two-day stone carving made their Celtic knots like the one in workshop, so we will be running five in the picture above. total (the first three and final dates have Another way we reach people farther already sold out so do be quick if you afield is through the Cathedrals’ would like to come along) , also new for Workshops’ Fellowship (CWF) in which 2018 are “Meet the Masons” sessions craftsmen and women from each of the that are held in the Cloisters every nine English cathedrals with their own Tuesday between April and October, Works Departments have the these are free of charge and gives you opportunity to enrol on a two-year the opportunity to watch them working at Foundation degree course validated by close hand and to have a chat with them the University of Gloucester. I was lucky if you would like, they don`t bite!! enough to be approached by the CWF in Last year we also ran a short series of this, their 11th year, to become a workshops for the men in Erlestoke Module Leader and I taught my first Prison. In all honesty it was slightly class in October in “Principles of Stone Construction”, I’m also second marker for the “Wood Construction” module and had my first taste of that in December. Any teachers reading will already know this, but it really made me think about how important both teaching and marking are and what an impact the outcomes will have on the students’ lives. Three of my masons have already passed the Foundation Degree course, all of whom started as apprentices here 24 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 25

at Salisbury, one of whom is now my Head Mason, Lee Andrews, so it really is a ‘big deal’ and our latest candidate Luke Kingston is already knuckling down. They are also starting to open the course to other trades, so far there has been an Electrician, a Bricklayer and this year there is a Carpenter on the course.

fitted in seamlessly, is a good worker and says she thoroughly enjoys the college blocks she attends with Weymouth College. She had a baptism of fire as our craft fair was at the end of her first week and to her absolute credit she got out there and joined in the Contemporary Stone Challenge where all the masons were challenged to carve something contemporary (quite far removed from what they do on a day-to- Previous apprentice, Christian Sullivan, day basis), carving in front of all the and mason Luke Kingston, this year’s visitors who came along – nice one, Ella! CWF course candidate that I mention I mentioned last year that the peregrines above, both received Duke of Gloucester had laid an unusually high number of awards from the Worshipful Company of eggs for urban birds, well unfortunately Masons (Christian’s was commended only one survived. Obviously we were and Luke’s highly commended) and hugely disappointed, but it turned out to Christian also received his Journeyman be fortunate in a way as we were able to Certificate from the Worshipful Company adopt! Our surviving chick, Dene, named of Constructors at a ceremony in London. in honour of Dene Turner a long serving Talking of achievements, another in my member of staff who some of you will team was that Phil Court passed his City remember, was as welcoming as his & Guilds Level Three Diploma in Electrical namesake would have been to fellow Installations. Phil really impressed me chick Wylye, one of three chicks who had with his commitment to the course, which been orphaned following the poisoning was reflected in him passing one of the modules with a merit. Fitting in all the necessary study around his full-time job here took real dedication. As I’ve mentioned my masons continue to move up the ladder as it were (no pun intended), which in turn of course leaves room for an apprentice and we took on Ella-Louise Baldwin this year. Ella has 25 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 26

of their parents in Shropshire. Our sculpture, these doves have been on an parent birds took him in and both chicks exciting journey from Munich to fledged successfully. Burghausen, from Hamburg to Vienna, One of our previous birds, Peter, who from Jerusalem now to Salisbury and hatched here in 2014 was (we think then on to San Francisco. It is currently accidentally) shot and later found and in place until the end of July. brought in for treatment to the Hawk Although we didn’t win Twitter’s Conservancy at Andover. He recuperated #cathedralwars, a lively and fun-filled there for two and a half months and I campaign that pitted England’s finest in went along to the release in May. We all stages of public voting to find a thought he would fly away immediately, favourite, we have made it on to the but actually sat in the grass for some small screen with a programme titled time before finally heading off. “Britain’s Great Cathedrals”. It is hosted We always have various temporary Art by Tony Robinson on Channel Five and exhibitions in the Cathedral, and this the crew filmed in and around the year is no exception, one of my building at the start of January, this mini- favourites has been Les Colombes (The series focusing on five Cathedrals was white Doves), created by Artist Michael first aired in April. Pendry and is a symbol of the holy spirit We also had an Australian film crew in as and of peace, it consists of hanging part of their “Guardians of our Times” 2,500 origami Doves from a net programme that is scheduled to be installed nearly 8 metres up and running shown soon. It concentrates on life in the entire length of the Nave, they general in cathedrals and they were here appear to float in space and are filming in the Works department to composed in to a huge and impressive highlight the fact that we are the only one in the country in which stone can be taken from quarry block to finished and fixed article on the building after undergoing all the necessary processes here on site. Talking of the processes in stonemasonry leads me onto fabric repairs and their progress. We are currently working on two projects both located at the east end of the Cathedral, the first is Major Repair Area 4 which encompasses two pinnacles and the high eastern gable around the Moses window, the second area is MRA6, the Trinity Chapel this is where building work began in 1220, therefore the oldest part, even though it only took 38 years to build the main of the building so not a huge difference in masonry terms, but certainly the part in the worst condition, over 1,000 stone replacements are needed here, and 26 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 27

So, another packed year for us all in the Works Department and very exciting times ahead, as ever my thanks go to my team for doing what they do so well and to the Friends for generously making so much of that possible. Gary Price

eleven of those are carved label stops, see one of them above carved by Alan Spittle, you may even be able to make out a dragon on the left. Window s11 a medieval stained glass window located on the South East Transept, just outside the Vestry, has been lovingly restored by our Glazing department led by Head Glazier Sam Kelly, and once back in its rightful position in the Cathedral a blessing ceremony took place after evensong to mark the special occasion, see photo opposite;

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Archivist and Librarian

ince my report in last year’s Spire as academic community) now need a Susual a lot has happened for the catalogue they can easily access archive and library collections. One of remotely and search rigorously i.e. an the most important is the start of the electronic catalogue in the form of a Beyond the Library Door – Sharing database. This is at the heart of our Books and Bindings project. Following project – to create an online searchable an application to the Heritage Lottery catalogue database. Straightaway the Fund last spring we were delighted to funding enabled us to recruit an discover that we had been successful! assistant librarian with extensive rare So, together with generous matched books cataloguing experience, Anne funding from the Pilgrim Trust, Sackler Dutton, and an assistant archivist, Trust as well as the Friends and other Hannah Tinkler. Anne and Hannah both charitable trusts, we were able to get started at the beginning of November. started in the autumn. Anne’s expertise is particularly I cannot overestimate what a important to ensure that the books are transformative effect Beyond the Library catalogued according to the professional Door project will have on the care of, and standards (I’m an archivist – not a access to, both the library and the librarian - we do some things very archive. Until now all our catalogues differently!). The key cataloguing have been in hardcopy form - starting standard for books is Marc and for with the earliest surviving library archives ISAD(G) - it is how the ‘stuff’ is catalogue of manuscript books compiled catalogued that is the main difference by Patrick Young in 1622 to the excellent between libraries and archives and also card catalogue compiled by my museums and traditionally archivists, predecessor as librarian Suzanne librarians and museum curators don’t Eward. Times, technology and cross paths much. This is a great shame expectations have moved on and our as despite the different approaches to users (both the interested public and the cataloguing we have much in common and indeed have much to learn from each other and experiences to share. To try to understand each other better, myself and other professional colleagues working in some of the different museums and libraries in the Close have started meeting informally, both to act as a support network for each other but also to discuss common ways of working and to share ideas. Beyond the Library Door is a three year project at the end of which we expect to have both the library and archive catalogues available via the Cathedral’s website. For the library books our new Attaching tapes on a damaged book database will enable us not only to 28 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 29

as Library Preservation Volunteers. Following training from a conservator and binding expert they will be cleaning all the library’s printed books – a task that has probably not been done in a systematic fashion since the early 1980s. As well as cleaning the books the volunteers will be grading and recording the condition of each book - vital information which will enable us to develop a future book repair programme. Until we start in June we won’t know exactly how long the cleaning will take but I have warned the volunteers to prepare to get a bit dirty! Using the conversation mini vacuum The project is also about making catalogue the basic information about connections and building relationships each book eg the title, author, date of with others and for this reason we are publication, but also what is called ‘copy working with Sarum College Library and specific’ information i.e. what is it about members of the parish St Mary’s the copies of books in our library that Gillingham to clean and improve the make them different from copies in cataloguing and condition of their own other libraries. This means recording the rare book collections. In addition over binding style, bookplates, annotations by the next few years we will be running a previous owners and also the condition series of talks, open afternoons and of each book. The database will make library and archive discovery days to the collection more accessible not only show off the books and documents we by having the information online but also have ‘rediscovered’ including because we will be learning and opportunities to see the book cleaning in recording much more detail about each progress. Our first discovery day will be book that has been the case in the past. on Saturday 20th October - further Recording this additional information is information will be on the Cathedral’s obviously time-consuming so although website in due course. my colleague Anne will be cataloguing as Often the most interesting aspects of a much as she can, it is unlikely that she book are the people who have owned will be able to catalogue all 10,000 and handled it in the past. Likewise it is books in three years – so this is likely to the people whose lives are recorded in be an ongoing task, but crucially we will the archives which make the documents have started the work, made good so fascinating to us today. This focus on progress, and have a clear way forward people is not only what brings the to completion. collections and the past alive but is also We also want to improve the condition essential in ensuring the relevance of and long term survival of each book, so the collections to the Cathedral today. I with this in mind we have developed a strongly believe that the collections volunteer book cleaning programme should support the Cathedral in any way alongside the detailed cataloguing. We they can with current and ongoing have recruited 17 keen men and women needs: whether that is working with the 29 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 30

Cathedral’s development team to raise the staff extracted plenty of memories, awareness of the major repair opinions and humour from the table of programme, or thinking of imaginative Alzheimer sufferers. Other groups ways in which the collections can be involved included art students from used by the Cathedral’s schools and Wiltshire, who held an exhibition of their community outreach programmes. Last work inspired by the collections in the year I wrote about the project in library, and a group of young carers – partnership with the Salisbury who knew that glass plate negatives International Arts Festival. For this we from the 1920s could be such a source worked with a group of people with of inspiration for modern computer dementia and their carers spending a generated animation? Do visit joyful afternoon in the Cathedral library www.animatingthearchives.co.uk to find perusing old scrapbooks of newspaper out more. cuttings, invoices by seventeenth So for the next few years my colleagues century ironmongers and photos and I will be very busy with Beyond the showing how the city and close have Library Door but we will be continuing changed as well as talking about with our regular series of library and parchment, and even having a go at archive spotlight talks as well as work calligraphy. The feedback following this with schools and library tours. Overall, session was so positive and shows how use of the collections in so many ways - much our collections have to offer to traditionally and non-traditionally - is everyone. One participant told us that increasing and will continue to do so as the afternoon took us right out of we learn more about what we have and ourselves to something completely share it via our online catalogue. As they different and another participant that say – watch this space! I’ve never known my husband to concentrate for so hard for so long as Emily Naish

THE FRIENDS’ PRAYER God our Father, by whose inspiration our ancestors were given the faith and vision to build our Cathedral Church of Sarum and in succeeding ages to care for its maintenance and adornment; give us grace as Friends to serve you with the same faith and vision, so that our Cathedral may speak to every generation of beauty and holiness and be a witness to your abiding presence in our land and in our lives, Through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen

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Salisbury Cathedral in the Twelfth Century: Architecture, Ritual and Music John Harper A lecture given in Sarum College, 15 May 2017

020 will mark the 800th anniversary treasurer, took place after Osmund’s 2of the laying of the foundation stone death, and was a gradual process during of the new cathedral at Salisbury on 28 the 12th century. Over recent years there April 1220. But, of course, this was the has been comparable revision of the second cathedral. The first cathedral, history of the liturgy in Salisbury, which consecrated in 1092, had been standing challenges the assumption that Richard for almost 130 years by then. That first Poore was its principal architect. cathedral at Old Salisbury (Old Sarum) is The Use of Salisbury belonged to the our subject; for it was there that I believe wider family of Western Latin liturgy, the celebrated and influential ritual Use whose roots go back to Rome in the 6th of Salisbury was shaped and refined. As and 7th centuries, and which was they moved into the new cathedral, the reformed and promulgated within the canons and vicars could make use of a Frankish empire during the 8th and 9th fully formed liturgical Use from the outset, centuries. Thus, the Western Latin liturgy only needing to adapt it to the layout of was well formed by the time Salisbury the new building. Indeed, it seems to Cathedral was founded in the late 11th have taken them another 100 years century. The Use of Salisbury concerns before they prepared a revised written both the way in which the Latin liturgy was record of how things were done in the performed at Salisbury – taking account new cathedral. of the building and the people, and also However, the Use of Salisbury has the local nuances that were adopted and traditionally been associated with the became distinctive to Salisbury. new cathedral; and the compilation of I: The Evidence that Use is generally ascribed to Richard In studying the first Salisbury Cathedral, Poore – dean of the cathedral from 1197 the problem facing both the to 1215, and bishop from 1217 to 1228. constitutional and the liturgical historian Osmund is regarded as the founder of the is the paucity of written evidence before first cathedral, and the bishop who 1200. The earliest surviving sources of established its constitution; and Richard the foundation charter and constitution Poore is regarded as the founder of the date from around 1220; as does the second cathedral, and the bishop who earliest description of liturgical practice. codified its ritual Use. The liturgical historian has an even It is some years since Professor Diana greater challenge. Although there are Greenway argued that while Osmund numerous liturgical books from the 13th oversaw the building of the first cathedral to the 16th century that are identified as and the endowment of the canons, the being ‘of the Use of Salisbury’, scarcely shaping of the community with prebendal any come from either the cathedral or canons and their vicars serving under . The 16th-century dean, precentor, chancellor and reformers may have preserved the 32 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 33

medieval theological library in the care of are a long way from being able to the cathedral chancellor, but the books of present a full picture of the architecture, the Latin liturgy in the care of the liturgy and music at Salisbury’s first precentor – the Missals, Breviaries, cathedral. However, during the past five Graduals, Antiphoners and Processionals years, there have been discoveries of – were redundant and disposed of. new sources, rediscovery of neglected Similarly, all parishes in the diocese were sources, and re-evaluation of well-known expected to surrender their Latin liturgical sources. These sources are all closely books to the cathedral for disposal. As for associated with the cathedral and physical evidence, the first cathedral at diocese of Salisbury and date from Old Sarum reveals the footprint of its between about 1170 and 1250. Taken foundations. The major archaeological together they enable us to go some way excavation of the site that began in 1909 to reconstruct and reimagine the ritual was interrupted by the First World War. It and music of the liturgy within the space ceased after the season of 1915, and of the first cathedral in the later 12th was never completed. There was no full century. and final report. The ruins remain In 2013 I was contacted out of the blue relatively neglected and scantily by Graham Bathe. He was working on interpreted by English Heritage. 16th- and 17th-century estate papers of It is from this somewhat bleak starting the Savernake Forest in the Wiltshire point that we begin this exploration. We and Swindon History Centre. Some of

Fig 1. Antiphonal, 13th century, Fig 2. Gradual, 13th century, beginning beginning of Matins on Christmas Day, of Mass for the Annunciation of the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Blessed Virgin Mary, Cambridge 283/2b University Library, Add. MS 8333, fo. 130r 33 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 34

these were wrapped in parchment with complete Gradual. The library of Latin texts and, in some cases, musical Tottenham House was gradually notation. In all there were 24 leaves. dispersed from around 1900, and Examining them closely, it was possible especially just after the Second World to establish that these represented War. A number of medieval liturgical fragments of at least five different books had been kept in the library, and medieval books. Of these five, at least indexed in the early 18th century. Among three dated from the 13th century, and these was a Gradual of the 13th century came from the diocese of Salisbury – that had belonged to Great Bedwyn fragments of an Antiphonal, a church. It was bought by Cambridge Lectionary, and a noted Missal. The University Library in 1982, but has been surviving leaves were wrapped around little studied. The decoration of both the papers from the Seymour family estates. Antiphonal and the Gradual are The Seymours were, of course, a very comparable, and both may originate from significant English family: Jane Seymour the same scriptorium. (See figures 1 and was wife to Henry VIII, and died giving 2.) What is so important is that they birth to their son who became Edward VI; provide a substantial body of texts and and during the minority of Edward VI, chant for both the Office and the Mass. To Jane’s eldest brother, Edward Seymour, these can be added readings from the became Lord Protector until his fall and Office and further chants for Mass. Here execution in 1549. Their Wiltshire house then we have four significant new pieces was Wolf Hall, on the edge of the Savernake Forest south-west of Marlborough, and then Tottenham Lodge nearby (later rebuilt as Tottenham House). The family burials took place at Easton Priory, until its dissolution; and then Great Bedwyn church. The Calendar at the beginning of the Antiphonal includes the names of Bedwyn families; and most likely it, the Lectionary and the noted Missal came from Great Bedwyn church at the Reformation. With no further use, the parchment leaves provided strong binders for the estate papers in the later 16th and early 17th centuries. Great Bedwyn church was closely associated with the cathedral: it was a prebendal church overseen by (and funding) one of the canons. It was also a substantial church in its own right, at which other clergy gathered to celebrate the greater feast days; and it had a substantial Fig 3. Gradual, 12th century, including collection of liturgical books. the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin To the fragments of these three early Mary, Salisbury Cathedral Library, MS liturgical books can be added a fourth: a 149, fo. 17r 34 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 35

of evidence for liturgy within the diocese stage dates from around 1220; and the of Salisbury – 13th-century liturgical second from about 1225 to 1230; books which almost certainly accorded further entries were inserted later in the with the liturgy in the cathedral. They form 13th century. This manuscript started a group of sources that may even have life as a compilation of copies of been copied from cathedral exemplars, or important documents relating to the even started life in the cathedral before lands the cathedral possessed, the being handed on to Great Bedwyn. cathedral’s goods, the regulation of That of course does not get us back to cathedral life, and the regulation of the 12th century, and the first cathedral. liturgical practices and customs. It was However, in the cathedral library is an made as a reference book, and for unassuming manuscript that has been centuries was part of the bishop’s largely overlooked – MS 149. (See figure registry; only in 2014 did it become part 3.) It was first catalogued in the of the cathedral archive. It is only the cathedral library in 1622, where it was first stage of the manuscript that described as a Missal. In fact, it consists concerns us here. We need to consider of two slim books bound together. The the reason for its existence, and then to first is a Gradual, and the second is an examine two specific sections – the Epistolary. The Gradual includes the Customary with which it begins (figure texts sung by the choir at the Mass; the 4); and the Inventory of the contents of Epistolary includes the texts of the first the cathedral which is found towards the reading at the Mass. It has always been end of the manuscript (figure 5). regarded as mid-12th century. However, Dr Tessa Webber has recently examined the hands of the scribes who wrote each of these texts, and suggests a date in the second half of the 12th century. This is an exceptionally important book. It is the only liturgical source of the Use of Salisbury dating from the 12th century; and therefore, it is the only liturgical source that originated at the first cathedral. Furthermore, additions to the Epistolary confirm that it was still in use in the 13th century. So, in the manuscripts associated with Great Bedwyn, we have four 13th-century liturgical sources from the diocese of Salisbury; and in the Gradual and Epistolary we have one neglected 12th- century source from the cathedral itself. The sixth source is very well known: the Fig 4. Register of St Osmund, Old Register, or Register of St Osmund. It Customary, blessing of water, aspersion has been available in a printed edition and beginning of the Sunday since 1884. This substantial manuscript procession, Salisbury Cathedral was compiled in several stages. The first Archive, FG/1/2, p. 23 35 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 36

Picture: L-R Susan Branch (Flowers administrator), Richard Bee (Engagement Director A Rocha UK), Steve Marshall (Caretaker), Bishop Nicholas, Canon Dr Robert Titley and Detail of the lighting of the newly Gary Price (Clerk of the Works) refurbished Mogford Model On Sunday 18 March Canon Treasurer Dr. Robert Titley received a Silver Eco Church Award on behalf of the Cathedral. The presentation was made during the 10.30 Choral Eucharist at which the Bishop Nicholas, the ’s lead bishop for the Environment, presided.

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Revd John Tarrant blessing chair plaques which were sponsored recently – do get in touch with the office if you would like to sponsor a chair plaque in memory of a loved one

Friends enjoying one of our evening talks in the Refectory – this one about Millicent Fawcett given by Elizabeth Crawford in March 2018

Friend of Salisbury Cathedral, Bishop Stephen Conway, with members of countrywide Friends’ Associations at their biennial Bishop June was delighted with her National Conference at his farewell gift from staff and Trustees of cathedral, Ely, Oct 2017, which the Friends – a silk scarf by designer Kate attended Georgina Von Eztdorf 37 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 38

practice of the Use of Salisbury in the first cathedral. II: The Context Our first task is to make connections between the newly discovered and re- evaluated liturgical books, and to place them in the wider context of other manuscripts of the Use of Salisbury. Central to this is the 12th-century Gradual and Epistolary. The Gradual can be related most directly to the 13th- century Bedwyn Gradual, and to three well-known early Missals, edited in 1916 by John Wickham Legg. The Epistolary can also be compared with the same three Missals. This is a detailed process; but the main outcome of these comparisons is how close the texts are in both the 12th- and 13th-century texts – the texts of the Use of Salisbury were already well-established and stable. The Fig 5. Register of St Osmund, Inventory, close correspondence between the opening, Salisbury Cathedral Archive, 12th-century Gradual and Epistolary and FG/1/2, p. 167 13th-century sources enables us to propose, albeit very cautiously, that the This brings us to the last principal source same correspondences would be found of evidence: the physical remains of the in manuscripts of the Office and of first cathedral at Old Sarum; and some Processions. of the documentation of the The liturgical manuscripts suggest that archaeological excavations undertaken the texts and chants found in 13th- between 1909 and 1915 – especially century books were much the same as the detailed plans drawn by one of the they had been in the 12th-century. But archaeological team, Duncan these books do not give details of the Montgomerie, and now kept in the ritual – who did what where, when and Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. how – on Sundays, weekdays and feast These drawings record much of the days. We learn most about the ritual detail of what was uncovered in the practice of the cathedral from the excavation but is now hidden below the contents of the Register of St Osmund. grass and topsoil. Before we look at these details, we need There, then, is the primary evidence. It is to understand something of the larger incomplete, even fragmentary; but it context which influenced its compilation. gives us a far better starting point than Both the Church and the country at large was possible five years ago. And putting were in crisis from 1207 to 1215 – the together the evidence can go some way years of the power struggles between to establish the relationship of the the king, the Church and the nobility. The architecture, ritual and music which national crisis came to a head with represented the distinctive liturgical Magna Carta in 1215. The crisis in the 38 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 39

Church ran from 1206 to 1214. It copy, probably begun around 1220. centred on the succession to the However, the earliest contents tell a archbishopric of Canterbury. different story: they respond to the issues facing the cathedral after a Following the death of Archbishop significant period of closure during the in 1205, King John Interdict. opposed the pope’s nomination of Stephen Langton as archbishop of 1. The duties of the cathedral officers Canterbury. Negotiations broke down, needed to be affirmed, and the and the pope consecrated Langton as a established ritual practices needed to bishop. The king did not accept this. So, be brought together. The Customary in 1208, Pope Innocent III placed an which begins the Register of St Interdict on all churches in England and Osmund fulfils these purposes. It is a Wales. All churches were closed: there record of the ritual practice of the were no daily services and no Mass. later 12th century in the first Baptism, marriage, and anointing of the cathedral. sick were allowed; but not funeral rites 2. The charters of the cathedral, which and burial. The king confiscated the recorded the entitlement to lands and lands and income of all who obeyed the income, were kept in a chest at the Interdict; but most were returned on high in the cathedral. Bringing payment of fines. Finally, in 1213, King together these charters by copying John conceded, and Stephen Langton them into a single manuscript meant entered England as archbishop. The that any future challenge to the Papal Interdict was lifted in 1213, but cathedral’s rights could be answered the pope did not allow services to without disturbing the original resume until September 1214. documents. The impact of the Interdict at Salisbury 3. The failure of canons to keep was considerable. The cathedral was residence was already a problem closed; lands and income which funded before the Interdict. When the chapter the bishop, dean and chapter, were resumed their meetings in January confiscated by the agents of the Crown; 1214, this was an opportunity to set and the bishop and the dean lived in out new regulations – ’s exile for four years. While many lands so-called new constitution. and endowments may have been restored, collegiate life remained 4. After six years without use, the new suspended. No choristers or vicars were Treasurer, Abraham of Winchester, recruited, and canonries remained needed to make an inventory of what vacant. Only in 1213 did bishop and was in the treasury and at the dean return, and then began the process in the cathedral. This was completed of rebuilding collegiate life from January on Easter Day, 31 March 1214. 1214, and the restoration of the daily Later sections of the Register had liturgy in September 1214. different agenda; but the earliest sections seem to represent a response The earliest sections of the Register of St to the impact of the Interdict. Osmund have often been presented as preparation for the removal of the After severe disruption of cathedral life, cathedral community to the new site. the principal challenge facing Richard And that may account for the surviving Poore as dean was to re-establish what 39 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 40

had been totally familiar through daily comparable. The eastern end of Romsey practice. There is no doubt in my mind, can at least give us some indication of that what is found in the Customary the scale, space and architectural style records what had been practised in the of the enlarged cathedral at Salisbury, cathedral in the later 12th century. As and its principal areas from east to west with the texts and chants, the ritual – presbytery, choir and nave. At practice was not significantly changed in Salisbury, Osmund’s original nave was the earlier 13th century. Yes, new feasts never rebuilt, and it remained a narrower were added, such as St Thomas of space than the nave at Romsey. One of Canterbury; but the core of the ritual was the consequences of the partial already well grounded during the 12th rebuilding project at Salisbury was the century. Similarly, the inventory records lack of flow for processions: east and new gifts, but there is a substantial west aisles were not aligned, and there number of vestments that had been was the obstruction of the great piers gifted by or previously belonged to supporting the crossing. At Romsey there bishops and canons dating back to is an unbroken processional route down Osmund and Roger of Salisbury. the aisles from east to west; and the III: The Experience same is true of the second cathedral at Salisbury. What was it like to worship in the first cathedral in the later 12th-century? How Travel further, and it is possible to gain did the building, the ritual, the texts and an even stronger indication of what the the chant work together? Even with first cathedral at Salisbury was like. limitations of evidence, we can consider What is now St Patrick’s Cathedral, issues of space, light, movement and Dublin, was deliberately modelled on the soundscape. Salisbury. The founder of this 13th- century took the First, space. The cathedral completed by footprint of Salisbury. Though the Osmund was quite modest in scale. The architectural detail may be more up-to- excavations uncovered foundations of a date, the general layout, scale and mass church with nave, apsidal east end, and of St Patrick’s gives a good impression four side chapels extending from small of Salisbury’s first cathedral (figure 6).1 transepts. The eastern end was What is more, a copy of the Salisbury substantially enlarged during the Customary is found in a 14th-century episcopacy of Roger of Salisbury in the manuscript of Irish provenance – the so- first half of the 12th century; and further called Dublin Troper. works were undertaken by his successor Jocelin after 1240. It may be hard to It is hard for us to get an impression of envisage quite what the space of this the detail of the interior. The floor must cathedral might have been like. However, have been striking, with the patterns of not twenty miles away from here is green and white stone, whose imprint another major church substantially was left in the mortar, and recorded by completed in the 12th century – Romsey Duncan Montgomerie on his plan. Above Abbey. Though the proportions differ, the eye level, the fragmentary remains overall floor area of the two churches is suggest a range of sculptural detail and

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embedded from daily and yearly use in a way we find hard to conceive. One of the longest services was that of Matins in the night, followed by Lauds at dawn. Coming to the cathedral by night, only the minimum of light was provided on ordinary weekdays. From the Customary we know that the Treasurer was directed to maintain one light near the altar of St Martin each night until after Matins; Fig 6. St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, almost certainly this was near the south 13th century, from the north east – a door, the main entrance to the cathedral. The Treasurer kept another building modelled on the first cathedral light at the west choir door; and a single at Salisbury candle was to be lit at the choir step – carving. From the Treasurer’s inventory the place where the prayers were recited of 1214, we know that there were and solo portions of the responds to the hangings on some of the walls. Four lessons at Matins were sung. On great great tapestries (thapeta magna) hung feast days there were many more around the high altar, together with a candles of substantial proportions, hanging (dossellum) on each side of the weighing not less than a pound. So, on choir.2 There were other hangings in the Christmas Day at the principal services, north and south transepts, and in the there were eight candles on and around nave. The subjects of three of them are the high altar; two before the statue of listed in the Inventory: Abraham by the the Virgin Mary near the altar; and six by new door (probably that in the south the cross, relics and images. Five transept), Noah’s ark near the vestry (in candles were lit in the corona hanging the north transept), and Job at the door before the altar step; and five on the wall nearest to the dean’s house (perhaps behind the place of the readings on the either the west door, or that in the south pulpitum. aisle of the nave). There were also palls In considering how the space was used, to cover the tombs of Bishops Osmund, we need to begin with the choir, the very Roger and Jocelin. We can imagine heart of the cathedral’s worshipping life, something of the richness of the fabrics set under the crossing. (See figure 7.) in which the cathedral was clothed; and The choir was bounded on the north and the inventory also gives very detailed south by the great piers of the crossing, accounts of the rich altar hangings and and at the west by the pulpitum. The vestments, the best of which were choir step defines the eastern extremity. studded with jewels. Through it passed a processional way. How was the cathedral lit? Sparingly, it And the floor patterns show the central seems: candles were expensive. We area, about 15 feet wide, that was need to remember that the psalms, probably kept clear. The canons, vicars hymns, Ordinary of the Mass, and much and boys sat on either side, where the of the more elaborate chant were sung floor pattern changes – a space about from memory. The texts and chants were seven feet deep on each side. The

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Fig 7. Plan of the first Salisbury Cathedral at the end of the 12th century, with indications of steps and provisional positions of altars, lecterns and other furnishings Customary sets out the disposition. In We know nothing of the physical nature the front are the boys – the boys on the of the seating provided: in practice, foundation nearest the dean and those present sat for scarcely anything precentor, and then the others. The duty except the readings at Matins, and the boys for the week sat at the end nearest Epistle, Gradual and Alleluya in the the altar. In the second row were the Mass. It would seem that the first form, clerks of the second form – the junior and perhaps the second form were just canons, the deacons, subdeacons and that – backless benches; for the any other clergy. On the upper step were Customary directs that in crossing from the seniors. The four dignitaries, then as one side of the choir to the other no one now, were placed at the four corners: is to clamber over the benches (formae). dean and chancellor on the south side; Little is known about the provision on precentor and treasurer on the north the upper step; however, stallum is used side. Next to each of them was one of the ten times, including the installation of a four Archdeacons; and then third from canon in his stall, and his removal for the dean was the subdean, and third bad behaviour. Quite what kind of stall from the precentor was the succentor. they were we cannot be sure, since the The remaining canons, priests and the earliest surviving stalls, at Rochester, most senior deacons were placed in are 13th-century – only a little earlier order, with the most senior nearest the than the stalls in the new cathedral at dean and precentor on each side. Salisbury. 42 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 43

There are other significant locations. The set out by the masons for the stone duty priest for the week sat at the arches of this part of the cathedral. eastern end, where he could easily move Though we know what was located in the out to say prayers in the centre at the presbytery, their positions are tentative. choir step. Above the choir, in the centre The floor markings suggest the location of the screen was the (pulpitum) of the high altar, with space to pass for reciting lessons at Matins and the behind it. Three steps are specified in Epistle at Mass, as well as chanting the the Customary for priest, deacon and solo sections of the Gradual and Alleluya subdeacon at the Mass. Ritual at Mass on Sunday and feastdays. To the directions suggest that the statue of the north of this, and facing north, was the Virgin Mary was to the left of the high eagle lectern where the Gospel was altar, and the relics, kept in an iron- recited on Sunday and feastdays. Finally, bound chest, may have stood behind, the rulers stood in the middle of the suitably covered in rich fabric. There was choir, directing: on Sundays and lesser a lectern used to recite the Gospel on feasts, two – one on each side; on weekdays and lesser feasts: it will have greater feasts, four – two on each side. been on the north side of the presbytery. The first cathedral had many more We have considered the two principal changes of floor level than its successor. liturgical spaces of the cathedral – the Those steps that could still be found in choir and presbytery where the the excavation were recorded by cathedral canons, vicars and boys spent Montgomerie. The steps of the high altar most of their time reciting the daily had been ploughed away, but they are Office and Mass. Now we can turn to the described in the Customary. At the east aisles, transepts, and nave, to see how end of the nave, below the great , the cathedral body moved round the there was a rise of two steps up to the cathedral. Unusually, after the nave altars, pulpitum and choir. Then enlargement of the cathedral, the south came the choir step with access to the doorway became the principal entrance. north and south choir doorways, and It was closest to both castle and town. after that the presbytery step. Finally, Here the bishop and princes were there were three steps up to the high greeted, often led into church by the altar. Beyond the high altar, the cathedral body singing Te Deum ambulatory, was a step up into the laudamus solemnly; from here the eastern chapel, and then two steps up to penitents were expelled on Ash the eastern altar, dedicated to All Saints. Wednesday; and through this door they And so to the presbytery, east of the were re-admitted on Maundy Thursday. choir, and the most spacious part of the All liturgical processions began and extended cathedral. Three features were ended in the choir and presbytery. The evident in the excavation. First, the most frequent was the weekly Sunday presbytery step, sited directly over the procession to purify the altars of the eastern extremity of Osmund’s church, church. The priest blessed the salt and and over the slab which may have been water, and then sprinkled the holy water the base of the bishop’s cathedra. on the high altar, the ministers with him, Second, a stone-clad socket, perhaps for and then all in choir. Then the the Easter candlestick. And third, procession set off through the north instead of the altar steps which are lost, choir door, where the priest could templates below the original floor level sprinkle the altars of St Nicholas and St 43 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 44

Mary Magdalene in the north transept; the Mass. Chant dominated what was then eastward and round the sung; and if there was polyphonic ambulatory, where the altars of the elaboration it will have been sung only by Martyrs, All Saints and the Apostles were selected singers for solo sections, and sprinkled; then down into the south only on significant feasts and at special transept, to sprinkle the altars of St observances. Martin and St Katherine. The procession While the great majority of the chant was moved down the south aisle, and round sung in choir, there were spatial aspects: into the nave, halting before the great at its simplest, the antiphonal exchange cross on the rood at the eastern end of from one side of the choir to the other. the nave. After that station, singing an Most prayers were sung at the choir antiphon in honour of the Virgin Mary, step, facing east; readings might be the procession passed back into the heard from the pulpitum above at the choir. As he passed, the priest could west end of the choir; and according to sprinkle the altar of Holy Cross, and the the rank of the day, different persons other altar in front of the pulpitum were allocated to begin chants or sing (possibly St Laurence). After the solo sections. In the Mass, there was the conclusion of the procession, the separation of the chanting of the priest principal Mass followed. at the altar in the presbytery, the singing In the Office, the Mass, the additional of Epistle, Gradual, Alleluya and Gospel observances and the processions, the from the pulpitum, and the choral soundscape was principally that of sung singing in choir. All this contributed to chant. Pitched utterance was the way the spatial experience of the the cathedral community articulated soundscape with changes of voices, words in church. The range of that locations and modes of exchange. utterance was considerable: prayers and In the campaign to raise money for the readings intoned by a single voice on a development of New Salisbury in the single note, with punctuation marked by water meadows, and the building of the inflection; psalms and canticles – new cathedral and the canons’ houses around 30 every day – chanted from on this site, the first cathedral had to be side to side by the whole cathedral body denigrated. Its shortcomings, and those verse by verse, using a small group of of the whole of Old Salisbury, were set psalm tones; hymns and sequences with out in a poem attributed to Henry of largely syllabic melodies, also sung in Avranches (d. 1262/3). The opening of alternation from side to side, stanza by his Latin text can be paraphrased. stanza. Then more melodic chants, particular to season and feast: Old Salisbury was like Mount Gilboa antiphons to the psalms and canticles in the Old Testament – a cursed sung by all; melismatic responds to the mountain (mons maledictus), which lessons at Matins, with sections for lacked rain or dew; a place where soloists; and a comparable diversity of nothing grew except wormwood; a chants for the Ordinary and the Proper of place of wind and arid chalk, lacking

3 ‘De Translatione Veteris Ecclesie Saresberiensis et Constructione Nove’, Shorter Latin Poems of Master Henry of Avranches relating to England, ed. J. C. Russell and J. P. Heironimus (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1935), 109–116. English summary here adapted from Paul Binski, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170–1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 65–6. 44 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 45

birdsong and the solace of nature. but indisputably significant 12th-century The castle, the city and the cathedral witness to liturgy in the first cathedral. were jostled together within the Manuscripts from the 12th to the 14th fortified hill: God and Caesar were century referred to in the text confused; Caesar preyed on the rights of God, plundering the clergy. 1. Fragments of medieval books used as The Ark of the Covenant was wrappers for Seymour Estate Papers in imprisoned within the Temple of the Wiltshire and Swindon History Baal; Jerusalem was captive in Centre. The sequences of call numbers Babylon.3 represent their relative order in the original book. Notwithstanding the hyperbole, the allusions to the conflict between God Antiphonal: 283/6, 9/8/144, 9/8/147, and Mammon can be understood locally: 9/9/370, 283/2b, 283/4b, 9/15/338d, the tension between the royal castle and 9/15/338e, 9/15/338f, 9/15/338g, the increasingly independent cathedral 9/24/460, 9/25/57, 9/2/369 within the ramparts of Old Sarum. But Lectionary: 9/21/44, 9/9/363, 283/2a, there is a wider reading. The tension 283/4a, 283/5a, 283/5b, 9/15/338a, between Church and State – both 9/15/338b nationally and internationally – was Noted Missal: 9/15/338c much to the fore in the first quarter of Bible: 283/1 the 13th century. Only with that context Commentary on the Psalms: 9/1/122 in mind do we understand the contents 2. Other sources of the Register of St Osmund, and the retrospective nature of much of its Cambridge University Library, Additional earliest contents. After up to six years of MS 710, Dublin Troper closure and suspension of cathedral life Additional MS 8333, Gradual (Great and the confiscation of cathedral lands, Bedwyn) what was lost had to be restored and put Salisbury Cathedral Archive, FG/1/2, in order. That, and the ensuing move Register of St Osmund (formerly down the hill, represented the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, achievement of Richard Poore as dean D1/1/1) and then as bishop. But for the Salisbury Cathedral Library, MS 149, formation of the Use of Salisbury, we Gradual and Epistolary need to look to the 12th century; to regard with affection the sadly neglected remains of the cathedral up at Old Figures 1–3 were photographed by Sarum, and value anew MS 149 in the Graham Bathe. Figure 7 has been drawn cathedral library – the Gradual and by Allan Adams from materials prepared Epistolary that forms our sole, modest, by John Harper.

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William Osmond (1790-1875)

hether you are an painter who was commissioned by William Winhabitant or a to paint his father Thomas, aged 80 in visitor to Salisbury, you 1832. Gray may have also done a portrait may have seen the of William in 1830 because Gray’s son restored stone-carving Alexander recalled that on one occasion ‘Osmond, statuary and his father accompanied William up the Mason’ above the spire and while William did some work, doorway to the King’s John painted William’s likeness. Was this Arms in St John’s the original picture shown in this article? Street. Besides being described as a ‘stone and At the age of 16, William Osmond was marble mason’, William developed into a apprenticed for seven years to William monumental sculptor. His monuments can Croome a stonemason of Fisherton Anger be found in many Wiltshire churches (as with whom he received a premium well as further afield) and six of them are apprenticeship. This may well be reflected in the Cathedral, one of which is the tomb in the fact that he was appointed of Bishop Burgess (1835) and is stonemason to Salisbury Cathedral in considered to be his most ambitious, being 1818 when only aged 28. a copy of a fifteenth century altar-tomb. Work designed and carved by William William married Charity Marsh (from himself can be identified by the inscription: Exeter) at Salisbury Cathedral on 5th ‘Osmond inf.et scupt’. William was a friend January 1820. They were to have no less of the famous architect Augustus Welby than 17 children, the first four of whom Pugin with whom he was in regular were born at St John’s Street. By January correspondence and was certainly 1826, the enlarged family had moved to influenced by him, such that William’s ‘The Priory’ in Brown Street (near the monuments swung violently from the corner of St Ann’s Street) where the family Classical to the Gothic. lived for nearly 50 years while the business continued at No.13. As stonemason to the William was still actively working with his Cathedral, William’s home workshop was eldest son William when over 70 and ideally situated being practically opposite employed 12 men and a boy at the time. St Ann’s Gate to the Cathedral Close. He died at William junior’s home (113 Exeter Street) aged 84 and was buried It may be of interest to mention two family next to his wife Charity in the Cloister incidents related to the spire. The first Green, together with five of their children. recounts how William’s younger brother A memorial tablet to the seven of them can George, who was very daring as a younger be seen in the cloisters by the door leading man, not only climbed up to the top of the into the South Transept. William junior spire but sat astride the weather-vane and continued the business until he sold it to turned himself round. William was walking Millward & Co. Ltd in 1890. through the Close at the time and said to a man who was watching: “What fool is that Stephen Osmond up there?” not realising it was his brother. The second refers to a painting by his Editor: we are grateful to Stephen who friend John Westcott Gray, a local portrait wrote this article for Spire. 46 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 47

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Musical Memories ...

n June 2018 I retired from the Freddie Haggis. I went to concerts by ISalisbury Musical Society after 50 myself, from age 12, and soon learnt the years, and 74 years of choral singing difference between a recitative and an altogether. The SMS has presented aria! My father who once had singing almost all of its concerts in Salisbury lessons with Dr Malcolm Sargent, was Cathedral for the last 95 years, and I was still singing solos, composing and in well over half of them. My unbroken conducting at 88, less than a year before association with church music began in he died in 2000. 1944 and has not ceased yet; I still play My own musical life would probably have the organ in several south Wiltshire got started earlier if it had not been for churches. I have been invited to write the war; for 6 years the Sturgesses were this article by way of a tribute to the rather like one of the lost tribes of Israel, many individuals and institutions, and wandering in the wildernesses of Kent, the whole era, which have nurtured this Middlesex, Lancashire, Hampshire and life in music. Surrey. Then from 1944 onwards I had a I was lucky to have been born into a succession of memorable school musical family; many singers, pianists teachers and choirmasters, and this and organists, amateur composers and article is written in profound gratitude to conductors; a cellist; and appreciative them all. church and concert goers. None Many of our teachers during the war achieved national fame, but many were were either invalids or very old people well known and much respected in their brought out of retirement as their own areas. We had family musical contribution to the war effort. I can recall gatherings which, a generation before, two in particular who must have been might have qualified as musical soirees, born in the 1870s; one of them was Mrs and they were so varied. One Westcott at Brookwood Primary School, grandmother loved operetta, music hall Surrey, whose birthday coincided with and parlour songs. We always sang such mine. Mrs Westcott did country dancing gems as Excelsior when we went to see and I spent my 10th birthday taking part her; and she had a gramophone on in a country dancing display on her lawn. which we played everything from She also did singing. She stood on the Chaliapin to The Laughing Postman. stage at school dressed in a long black There was no volume control on the dress like a Giles cartoon, and did gramophone but one could open the singing. She taught us, ‘and to hear the doors on the front and put a cushion in it fond tale of the sweet nightingale as it to lessen the noise. The other sings in the valley below-ho-ho, low-ho- grandmother was into church music; she ho, low-ho-ho’ as her vast body swung to had a harmonium on which I played and fro in rhythm. Then came Woking hymns from an early age. Grammar School, and my first Messiah My parents were both good singers and at the age of 10, accompanied by piano pianists and played piano duets. After duet including the geography teacher Mr the war they were members of The Minney on the piano, and conducted by Goldsmiths’ Choral Union, once Norman Askew, who was shortly to leave conducted by Richard Godfrey’s uncle to become County Advisor. 48 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 49

I was at those schools for a total of 3 experienced my atmospheric camp fires years. During the third I started piano with unaccompanied singing, lessons, and throughout all 3 years I was sometimes in parts, led by one of the in the choir at St Saviour’s Church, original pioneer Scouts, the Revd Chris Brookwood, my introduction to 74 years Heath. of church and choral music. Our The church choir was not particularly choirmaster was Mr Horswell, a master good but there were many incidental mason. As a younger man he had benefits to my membership of it. There worked on Epstein’s Christ in Majesty at were three of us whose voices were Llandaff; when I knew him he was changing at the same time; we used to Master Mason in the Brookwood stand together and nudge each other to Necropolis, that wonderful cemetery the swap parts, S-A-T-B and back, almost bar other side of the railway where, one day, by bar, marvellous sight reading my ashes will be spread, because it was practice! I also taught myself a lot of at Brookwood that my musical life really harmony by studying the hymn book got going. One highlight was carol during the sermon. We sang in a singing round the village, in total memorial service to Sir Sydney blacked-out darkness; we sang all sorts Nicholson who died in 1947; and the of interesting carols you never hear now. choirmaster Harry Jessop was the first In 1947 we moved to Beckenham, Kent. person ever to let me try playing a pipe I went to St Paul’s Church, West organ – that is how many organists of my Kensington, and joined St Paul’s generation began. Beckenham church choir (no In 1952 we moved again and I was able connection). As at previous schools, I to join the choir at Holy Trinity Church recall virtually nothing of class music Roehampton, which Douglas Guest in lessons, apart from when we were the guise of an RSCM inspector, once invited to the Director of Music’s flat called the best parish church choir he (Ivor Davies) to listen to recordings of had ever heard. It was run for nearly 60 Haydn symphonies, while allegedly years by Donald Emery (1901-85) who following miniature scores – except that took it on during WW1 at the age of 14. we were given no instruction how to do During three well attended services a that. It was the extra-curricular music week we sang hundreds of different that counted. hymns, anthems and settings. We sang We did have memorable hymn practices. whole movements of Bach, One speciality was Ring out, ye crystal Mendelssohn and Brahms as anthems spheres, with words by John Milton. during Communion. After choir practice Milton himself, an old boy of the school, until about half an hour before the pubs was looking down on us as we sang, closed we explored other oratorios and from the stained glass windows. Again I anthems we had never done before. was in the choir, another Messiah, and In 1961 my musical apprenticeship also a performance of Constant came to an end as I swapped careers lambert’s Rio Grande, written just 20 and prepared to be in charge myself. years previously. We also had concerts by invited artists; probably the most From 1962-4 as a mature student at memorable was RVW’s 1938 Serenade Bognor Regis Teachers’ Training College to Music, with all the original cast. At I was in the college choir and madrigal school I was also in the Scouts and group, which were run by two totally 49 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 50

contrasting people, Dr Idris Thomas and Midnight Communion before the boys Mrs Betty Gordon. I learned the cello (a started singing that service. There were bit) and took singing lessons using as my my first War Requiem and first Berlioz Te audition piece an aria from Deum (following hearing it at the Proms Mendelssohn’s Elijah which I had with Colin Davies and sitting alongside learned at Roehampton. Dr Thomas had the organ pipes – what a thrilling noise!). an eye for the exotic. Who could forget a I persuaded Richard to let us do pianist called Neil Van Allen rebounding Puccini’s Missa di Gloria, which Dr off the piano stool in Liszt’s Hungarian Thomas had conducted at Bognor in only Rhapsody, or a Red Indian soloist in the its 9th ever performance. There were Easter Hymn from Cavalleriano also several chances to sing my favourite Rusticana? A fellow student called Helen work of all, Brahms’ German Requiem Mynett with a voice like Emma Kirkby, with its emphasis on comfort, alongside without vibrato, sang the solo in two of the most exciting passages in all Stanford’s exquisite Bluebird. I was choral music. introduced to all sorts of music which even Don Emery could not give us. All those were under Richard Seal. Then College certainly opened my eyes and David Halls took over the SMS and soon broadened my horizons. afterwards came the Millennium exchange with the Berlin Philharmonie, So from 1964 to 1989 I was a teacher another highlight. It has been a real and went on learning; you learn by pleasure to work with David in so many teaching and by doing. I did lots of ways. I am going to presume to use his research and learnt a great deal both own expression and call him my about music and about, and from, colleague and friend. He was so kind children. In all three of my schools the when my father died when I was SMS pupils achieved standards well beyond Librarian (as was anything that might have been expected. incidentally) and 17 years later when I Apart from the music, they learned co- had heart surgery. One day I hope David operation, responsibility, order and will complete his contribution to my life by punctuality, and all the other benefits of playing the organ for my funeral! He is 28 belonging to choirs and orchestras. I was years younger than me so that should be particularly proud of my success in alright! What’s more it will take us back to getting boys to take part on at least an 1944 to the very earliest days in Mr equal basis with the girls. One of them, Horsewell’s Brookwood choir. At the age John Blake, has been playing in the of 9 I soon realised that Regent Square is Salisbury Symphony Orchestra for years, a good tune to sing – the words might be while I sang, right up to my last concert. a bit beyond me but looking at those In April 1981 some of my boys from a ageing grandmothers I was intrigued by council estate in Romsey took part in the the idea of bodily renewal in heaven (I SMS performance of Bach’s St Matthew really did think like that when I was 9). Passion. That was under Richard Seal Anyway, ‘religion is something children who had admitted me to SMS in 1968 – should grow into, not out of’ (Dean John I think I was his first auditionee when he Arnold of Durham) and I suppose I have took up the post of SMS Conductor. gradually understood a bit more over the Highlights of my 50 year membership subsequent 74 years. So my last ever are too many to mention, though one hymn will be Light’s Abode, celestial early one was Sweelinck’s Hodie at Salem. Something to look forward to!! 50 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 51

As a relic of all this, including nearly 20 sure it will be skipped when I go, so if years’ membership of The Hymn Society anybody has any ideas, do get in touch of Great Britain and Ireland, I have a with me via the Friends’ office! roomful of music, some of it a hundred Malcolm Sturgess or more years old, maybe valuable, certainly rare and irreplaceable – I’m

View of a Cathedral from my window, Salisbury, March 1978 and October 2016 Those masons up the spire pause and confer in fixed positions on cradle. They gently sway, or, gaining the stone-face, cling. One of them starts to crawl. He approaches the other, and arms flail busily. Have they detected a crack in the second band of the three? Their antics appear haphazard. The crawler performs: his mate perhaps, instructs. But they’ve mastered the moves for this mission of aid in the sky. They are expected. Firm handles direct their ascent. but even in clearest light we barely make out what we owe to those insect men. Ruth Marden Editor’s note: Ruth write an earlier version of this poem which Canon Edward Brooks published in the 1978 issue of Spire, and has amended the ending to reflect what the masons are doing, following her observation of the ascension of Gary Price and Richard Pike to change the bulb at the top of the spire.

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A Brief History of the Friends Part two: 1956 - 1967 Based on an article originally written by Lt Col G F Woolnough, MC

uring the 1950s the membership of Queen Mother and by 60 Bishops, Dthe Friends increased steadily, aided representing most of the Anglican by a letter from the Dean to each Churches. The Friends’ contribution was member seeking their help in recruiting firstly a commemorative annual report new Friends, and the Council set a target containing many outstanding articles on of 2,000 by the end of the decade. The the 1258 event; secondly a Christmas increase in membership produced a card depicting the 1258 Consecration, corresponding increase in income, and a and thirdly sponsoring a play in the peak of £3,188 was attained in 1959. gardens of the Bishop’s Palace ‘Change Subsequently Grants were made over a and the Unchanging’ specially written for wider range. Those for the fabric the anniversary by Miss E Hart. included repairs to the north porch, to Advantage was taken of the publicity to the roof, to the pinnacles and windows, approach the business houses of the and for widening the entrance gates to City, and 30 became Corporate the Chapter House. Over £1,000 was members. The Council offered the Dean given to the appeal for the amplifying & Chapter to ‘undertake a really worthy system; £100 to the Broiderers Guild; a and outstanding work of enrichment and new press was bought for the Muniment beautification in the Cathedral to mark Room, grants were made towards the the 7th Century Anniversary’. After long purpose of oaks from the Radnor Estate, consultation with the Dean & Chapter, for lead and scaffolding, and for the the Friends provided the new marble maintenance of the Library and the floor of the Sanctuary, the new fittings Chapter house boiler. The masons’ and furniture, and contributed towards wages were £300. The Friends paid the new lighting in the Choir and Trinity £175 for the return of the Codex Chapel. Augustinus, one of St Osmund’s manuscripts abstracted from the Sir Arthur Bryant gave the 1958 Friends’ Cathedral Library in 1622. Day (Festival) address on ‘Our National Heritage’. The 1959 address was given In 1955 a party from the Friends of St by Sir Own Morshead on Bishop John Pauls visited the Cathedral, and a return Fisher, and the Sneltzer organ, recently visit was made by 30 Salisbury Friends acquired (and re-conditioned by the in October 1957, the first annual outing. Friends) was played for the first time at The 700th Anniversary of the the concert after the Friends’ Festival. Consecration of the Cathedral was a The decade closed with the redecoration major event for the Cathedral, and the and refurnishing of the Friends’ office in programme lasted from Easter to Church House. Michaelmas in 1958. The principal The Association entered the 1960s service was held on June 28th, just under new leadership. The Dean, Bishop before the opening of the Lambeth Moberly, retired in February 1960 and Conference, and was attended by the Prebendary K W Haworth who 52 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 53

succeeded him, was installed during Evensong during the Friends’ Festival in July. Then Colonel Peal resigned as Chairman of the Executive Council in July 1961, and General Sir John Whiteley was appointed in his place. The Secretary went to India for six months between 1960 and 1961, and Mr W S C Leech acted in his absence. On his return, Mr Leech became Editorial Secretary, responsible for the Annual Report and other publications; and mainly on his own initiative, began organising a Youth Membership section of the Friends. There were 120 Young Friends by the spring of 1962 and the Dean enrolled 132 in the Cathedral in the September, mostly girls from the Salisbury schools. The adult membership in contrast was almost static. required for another use. After receiving The target of 2000 set by the Council in notice in 1961, the Dean began looking 1953 was reached in 1961, and for an alternative place and in 1964 the thereafter increased slowly. In 1957 a Friends moved into number 52 The proposal to employ a paid General Close, leased from the Dean & Chapter. Secretary who would have the time to The new site, internal layout and organise recruiting was considered by the facilities were a great improvement, and Council, but rejected. When Mr Faulkner compared very favourably with the resigned in 1962, after 10 years as offices of other cathedral Friends. The Secretary, he revived the proposal and additional space enabled Lady Paskin, a this time Council agreed. However the Council and Executive member, to next Secretary, Mr W P C Orchard, was propose that a Pilgrims Room should be appointed in January 1963 on the same organised, where Friends and visitors, terms as his predecessors on the and especially overseas visitors, could understanding that he would become a be made welcome and offered General Secretary in 1964. In the event hospitality. A pilot scheme was approved he found that he was unable to do this. and a number of Friends in the Close Wing Commander G L Cochrane was offered to be hosts in the room, but the appointed General Secretary in 1965. scheme was postponed and was never An interesting ‘Honorary Member’ that implemented. year of 1962 was Rebel, who alongside During this period the Annual Festival his masters, the two new Close programme began with Matins, then Constables, lived in one of the two Holy Eucharist and the AGM in the adjacent houses at the High Street Gate. morning, tours of the cathedral followed In 1958 the Friends were warned that in the afternoon, then Festal Evensong their office in Church House might be after tea, and the programme concluded 53 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 54

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with a concert. The Festival Evensong expansion into an industry; the Friends, was combined with the Commemoration without realising it at the time, were of the Benefactors of the Cathedral in ready to benefit from the boom. In the 1965. Lunch was provided for the first first place, the office was brought up to time in 1961, price 6 shillings; and a date. Mr M Burton, a professional request was made in the same year to accountant (Friends’ co-Treasurer) not hold the Festival on a Saturday. only established a modern accounting Members were asked in the annual system, but he improved and codified report for their views, and 58 out of 64 the Friends’ membership recording. replies preferred a Saturday. The 1963 Secondly the Friends were given Festival was held on a Saturday but the permission to man a new stall in the attendance dropped, the heavy weekend Cloisters during the Son et Lumiere, in traffic being one reason, and it reverted order to recruit members. Afterwards the to Thursdays thereafter. stall was moved into the North Nave The pattern of grants was little changed; Aisle, was manned by the same keen and after the completion of the band of Friends, and was ready to greet underfloor heating in the Sanctuary and the visitors. , were for more minor items. In 1967 the Dean & Chapter decided There were 13 separate grants in 1963 that the only way to finance the major and by 1964 20 memorial tablets and projects which it had been considering the Mompesson Tomb had been cleaned for some years was to launch a National and redecorated. The Dean & Chapter Appeal for £250,000. For their part, the were considering major undertakings Friends undertook to pay for the such as the heating of the nave and overhaul of the Cathedral organ, one of transepts, the repair of the nave and the major items listed. £8,000 was given cloister roofs, and an overdue overhaul to start the appeal, and the remainder, of the organ. So the Friends set up a £13,500, was promised in seven annual special deposit account for Major Works, payments of £2,000. The Friends’ funds in which surplus income was invested, were much reduced, and the Council and this amounted to £3,000 in 1964. decided to raise the annual subscription The Treasurer expressed concern that rate from 5 to 10 shillings. The Friends’ the large balance held by the Friends Constitution was also revised and might inhibit new members from joining! approved at the AGM. In 1966 there were several resignations, A telephone was installed in the Friends’ all unconnected. Council had decided Office in 1967, ready for the work of the that the Spire annual report would revert Appeal, to be recounted in the next to the 1963 format to save costs, and in instalment! 1967 Canon Brooks with unusual flair Editor: more on the History of the and imagination produced the first of his Friends will be published the next reports in the present series (and this edition – if anyone has any information has continued). they would like to be added or published, The new team arrived at a time when the or can expand on or amend any of the tourist trade was beginning the great above, please contact the Secretary.

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“A Tonal Spire in Sound”

he fundraising campaign for the Trestoration of Salisbury’s Father Willis organ was launched at the first recital of the 2018 series on 18th April. It was appropriate that this was the Alcock Recital as Sir Walter Alcock’s name is synonymous with the care and dedication needed to look after our Father Willis organ. In between some wonderful pieces of music, played by Director of Music David Halls, Assistant Director of Music, John Challenger, and our Organ Scholar, Dan Mathieson, David gave a presentation on to put right what has become in need of what, why and how the work will take place repair and to do an extensive overhaul. as well as a fascinating history of the David’s presentation showed the many organ. The Father Willis organ at Salisbury different components of the organ and Cathedral is one of the Cathedral’s explained what they all do and what areas greatest treasures, and is still fulfilling its in particular need addressing. daily purpose nearly 140 years after it was installed in 1877. As well as Harrison & Harrison of Durham, who have accompanying the daily liturgy, the organ is had the care of the organ since 1978 and used for recordings, weddings, funerals, are renowned organ builders and recitals, concerts and demonstrations by restorers, will carry out the restoration. other organists. It is an irreplaceable and They will dismantle it in January 2019 and important part of the country’s musical it will be out of action for the whole of the heritage. year while the extensive work is carried out. A scaffold will be put over the full Alcock presided over the greatest changes depth of both the north and south choir to the instrument but was famously aisles and there will also be scaffolding in insistent that the musical character should the quire itself with a bridge between the not be altered. In the same way, the plan two to enable the pipes to be lowered to for the restoration is not to alter the unique the floor. In January 2020 it will be re- sound of this magnificent instrument, but installed for tuning and voicing – which will take approximately three months. There are some imaginative plans in the pipeline for when the organ will be out of use, including the use of an Allen digital organ, more use of the piano and orchestras as well as unaccompanied singing. The work of the repair itself will cost over £700,000 and the Cathedral would be grateful for help towards these costs. There are flyers in the Friends’ noticeboard 56 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 57

the Development Office at Wyndham House. You can also donate online via the Cathedral’s website – choosing ‘Organ Restoration’ from the dropdown menu on the donation page. The recital series continues monthly until October with profits from performances going to the organ fund. The next recitals will be on 13th June and 18th July. Save the date for our Organ Prom on the Saturday evening of the Bank Holiday weekend, 25th August. David, John and Dan will be playing all our classical and a collection box in the Spire crossing. favourites on the organ and taking The Cathedral would like to thank those requests. It promises to be a very special who have already given a donation towards evening. Do come and join us and wave a this vital work. If you would like to make a flag for the Father Willis! gift, cheques made payable to Salisbury Cathedral would be gratefully received by Jilly Wright, Cathedral Development

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The Friends Holiday in Cornwall

nce again the Friends’ holiday was a Ogreat success made especially so because of the glorious weather we had every day. Our holiday this year was based in Truro in a most comfortable hotel with pleasant staff and very good food. On our journey there we visited Powderham Castle, mentioned in the Domesday Book, and home of the Earls of Devon since 1391. Much of the look and feel of the castle remains but it has gone house was the home of Ida Copeland who through a assortment of periods, chopping bequeathed it with a splendid collection of and changing through the ages but always china to the National Trust. commanding wonderful views over the deer Some of our party had already been to the park which runs down to the river Exe and Lost Gardens of Heligan but were not overlooks the Estuary. disappointed to re visit this unique and We visited Trellisick House and Gardens, wonderful place. It is Europe’s largest again with beautiful vistas over to the river garden restoration, first created over a Fal and meandering paths through the 150 year period but lost until 1990’s, woodland leading to exotic plants and since when it has been so remarkably borders bursting with colour. The brought back to life as a living memorial to magnificent trees, some of enormous size, the skill and dedication of the gardeners of displayed a glorious variety of foliage. The a bygone age. It contains historic pleasure gardens, sub-tropical jungle, complete with Burmese rope bridge, a home farm and vegetable gardens. The huge kitchen garden is an inspiration and it was fascinating to learn how the pineapple bed was made and worked so as to bring on these exotic fruits so highly prized in the 19thC. It was poignant to learn of the 22 gardeners employed there, many of whom left to fight in WW1 but never returned, and encouraging to know that 22 young gardeners are employed there now. It is a very magical place. Truro itself is a delightful city and we had a very warm welcome from the Friends of Truro Cathedral, a delicious cream tea and talk followed by choral evensong. It was interesting to learn that Cornwall had its own bishop until the latter part of the 10thC but the diocese was then held in 58 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 59

farmland, 2 villages, 18 farms and over 200 cottages. We only had time to explore the fine 18thC house and wander the superb gardens containing stately trees, many of them hundreds of years old and still providing peace and serenity. Home of the Acland family, the house contains a fascinating collection of photographs and memorabilia of Sir Richard with his accomplished wife, Lady Anne. He inherited the role of country landowner with mixed feelings. He was Liberal MP and his Christian persuasion led to his launching the Common Wealth Party. These same convictions led to the estates being given to the National Trust in the 1940’s and thus enabling us to enjoy them. Our visit was Exeter from 1050 for over 800 years. In extra special as one of our party is a relative 1877 the diocese was re-established and of Sir Richard and shared her memories Edward White Benson became its first and some newspaper cuttings with our bishop. It was his vision that established guide, which made his day! Another ‘friend’ the cathedral and in 1880 he created the sat in the charming music room and played service of 9 lessons and carols, which is both the Broadwood grand and the now a much-loved tradition at Christmas. delightful chamber organ built in 1807 as a He was also responsible for the integrated wedding present for Lady Lydia Acland. scheme in the strained glass windows, which is the largest project of its kind ever All too soon we boarded the coach and made. Other treasures include the reredos were returned safely to Salisbury full of in the Jesus Chapel painted by Annie memories, having made some new friends Walke of the Newlyn School of artists, and and with our purchases of plants or a terracotta frieze, the work of George souvenirs of the happy few days spent in Tinworth, who rose from poverty to become Cornwall. one of the foremost sculptors of his day. Veronica Armstrong This large relief depicts Jesus’ walk to Golgotha and was given to the cathedral by Mr FW Bond in gratitude for the safe return of his 2 sons from the South African War. Despite a busy schedule we managed a trip to Mevagissay harbour and the sea, some went independently on a river ferry to Falmouth and others enjoyed meeting up with friends, shopping and exploring the little city of Truro. Our return journey took us to Killerton House and Gardens. A jewel in the Devon countryside, this vast agricultural estate combines parkland, woodland and 59 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 60

Hon Treasurer’s Report

his report covers the 12 months to 31 grant requests to an extent which would TMarch 2018 which is the Friend’s most not always be possible did we not receive recent year end date. Overall the year was them. a satisfactory one, in that whilst our Overall total income for the year was over income from normal recurring resources £212k compared with £238k in the reduced very slightly, as did exceptional preceding year. (and wholly unpredictable) income from legacies, we were nonetheless able to Our grants to the Cathedral totalled just meet all the grant requests that were over £98k compared with nearly £85k in made of us by the Cathedral. 2016/17 and just over £72k in 2015/16. As in the preceding three years, the single A summary statement of our finances can most significant grant was the deferred be found on page 61, but the full accounts payment of £74k for the Little Paradise are available upon request and, in due development. At the time it was completed course, will be accessible via the Charity in 2015, the Friends had met £670k of the Commission’s website. total cost and, to meet the balance, the Our income from normally recurring Cathedral borrowed against its sources was slightly reduced because the endowment funds. This borrowing has to previous year’s membership subscription be repaid and this is what the Friends are income was exceptionally high at nearly committed to doing as far as possible and £51k whilst in the year to 31 March 2018 in response to the Cathedral’s request that it was just over £47k. this be of our top grant priority. Other lesser grants were made to support the The Events Committee produced another Youth Choirs, towards new cloister lighting full programme of events through the year and digital microphones and in support of and are to be congratulated as a gross the “Behind the Library door” project. total of over £40k was raised, though there was a cost associated with this of over Other expenditure included £22k on £22k, referred to below. Nevertheless a raising funds, referred to above and nearly net £14k was raised compared with nearly £10k on producing Spire magazine and £10k in 2016/17 and just over £5k in the twice yearly newsletters. Total 2015/16. The single most successful expenditure excluding grants was just of event was the “Open Gardens” held on 21 £79k compared with nearly £82k in the May 2017 which raised just over £9k on a preceding year. lovely sunny afternoon. We are most The Friends of Salisbury Cathedral will grateful to those in the Close and just continue to be a safe haven for those who outside who so kindly opened their wish to make donations or legacies and gardens to make this possible. you can be sure that any contribution will During the year we also received legacies be used wisely for the benefit of Salisbury of £84k compared with £108k in 2016/17 Cathedral, the life of which we are all so and £47k in 2015/16. Such legacies are privileged to be a part. always most welcome as it makes possible for the Friends to support the Cathedral’s Chris Dragonetti

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THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2018

The summarised accounts set out on the to fund specific projects and purchases. following pages have been extracted from Review of Activities and Achievements the full audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2018 and are a summary During the year the membership of information relating to both the decreased to 3349 and the Association Statement of Financial Activities and the received total income of £212,452 Balance Sheet. compared with £238,415 in 2016/17. Ordinary income, excluding Legacies, was The summarised accounts may not £128,252 compared with £130,260 in contain sufficient information to allow for a 2016/17; Legacies amounted to £84,200. full understanding of the affairs of the Association. For further information During the year the Friends made Grants readers are asked to refer to the full to the Cathedral totalling £98,238 of annual accounts, and the unqualified which £74,000 was towards the Little report on those accounts by the Paradise redevelopment. After taking Association’s Auditors. Copies are account of investment losses, the funds available on request from the Friends’ increased by £32,903 to £687,380 of Office, 33a The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EJ, which £585,986 is unrestricted, and and the accounts are also filed with the £101,394 is restricted to the fabric. Charity Commission. Signed on behalf of the Executive Council Objects and Organisation Kathryn F Beckett The Objects of the Association are to help and support the Chapter of Salisbury Mrs K Beckett (Secretary) Cathedral in maintaining, preserving, improving and enhancing the fabric, fittings, ornaments, music and monuments in Salisbury Cathedral, and to support the life, worship and ministry of Capt D Glass OBE MNM (Chairman) the Cathedral. To pursue these Objects the Approved by the Executive Council Association makes grants to the Cathedral 10 May 2018

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THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2018

2017/18 2016/17 INCOMING Subscriptions 47,324 50,932 Share of Cathedral Shop profit 15,000 15,000 Donations 6,641 8,484 Activities for generating funds 40,027 37,350 Legacies 84,200 108,155 Investment income 19,260 18,494 212,452 238,415 EXPENDITURE ON: Raising funds 22,440 25,416 Grants to Salisbury Cathedral Little Paradise redevelopment 74,000 74,000 Flower arrangements 3,000 3,000 Youth choirs 6,500 - Cloister lighting 6000 - Music (restricted) - 5,000 Other 8,738 2,891 Total grants to the Cathedral 98,238 84,891 Spire Magazine & Newletters 9,991 8,482 Support costs 46,393 47,980 Total expenditure 177,608 166,769 NET INCOME 34,844 71,646 Gains and losses on investments (1,941) 62,430 32,903 134,076 TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD 654,477 520,401 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 687,380 654,477

AUDITORS’ STATEMENT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL Respective Responsibilities of Members of the Executive Council and Auditors We have examined the summarised accounts consisting of the summarised Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet, which are the responsibility of the members of the Executive Council. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summarised accounts within Spire with the full Annual Accounts and Trustees Report. We also read the financial information with ‘Spire’ and consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with the summarised accounts. Basis of opinion We have examined the summarised accounts to agree that they are consistent with the full accounts. Our report on the Association’s full annual financial statements describes the basis of our audit opinion on those financial statements. Opinion In our opinion, the summarised accounts are consistent with the full annual Report and Accounts of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral for the year ended 31 March 2018. FLETCHER & PARTNERS Salisbury, 5 June 2018 Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors 62 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 63

THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SUMMARY BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2018

2018 2017

FIXED ASSETS Tangible assets 6,504 4,008 Investments 518,650 509,661

525,154 513,669

CURRENT ASSETS Stock 2,083 1,659 Debtors 44,683 34,652 Cash at bank and in hand 153,374 148,856

200,140 185,167

CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year 13,585 16,744

NET CURRENT ASSETS 186,555 168,423

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 711,709 682,092

CREDITORS: Amounts falling due after more than one year 24,329 27,615

£687,380 £654,477

Representing:

FUNDS Restricted Funds 101,394 75,000 Unrestricted Funds 585,986 579,477

£687,380 £654,477

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES (i) Life membership subscriptions: These are taken to income over 12.5 years. (ii) Investments: These are shown at market value and gains or losses on revaluiation are included in the Statement of Financial Activities. (iii) Grants payable: These are accounted for when a legal or constructive obligation to pay the grant has come into existence. 2. RESTRICTED FUNDS These comprise of donations received and raised funds for specific purposes. A bequest received specifically for the Cathedral's fabric was received during the year.

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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL regd 243439 HELD ON SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017 AT 10.00 am in the North Transept 1. The Acting Dean of Salisbury, Rev Canon Friends, whose wonderful symbiosis Chancellor Edward Probert, and Acting maintained a thriving cathedral, President of the Association of the Friends expressed not only through their of Salisbury Cathedral, opened the eighty- wonderful gifts, but through their prayers, seventh AGM with the Friends’ prayer. friendships with each other, and the capability, when looking across to 2. President’s Address: Ladywell, to highlight a true Friendship In his address as Acting Dean and which through thick and thin, would President of the Friends, Canon Ed Probert sustain the Cathedral in the future. paid tribute to the long and honourable history between this Association and Canon Probert concluded by saying it was Salisbury Cathedral, with a common both an honour and a pleasure to be identity focused on the Cathedral. presiding at the Friends’ AGM. Everything the Friends supported 3. Chairman’s Report: enhanced the practical, social or spiritual In the absence of Duncan Glass, Hon life of the Cathedral, whether it be Treasurer Chris Dragonetti welcomed stonework, chairs, lighting, or new toilets, members to the AGM on his behalf, and none of which would be as they were delivered the Chairman’s Report. without the commitment made. The fruits of that commitment and Friendship were 2016-17 had been another successful experienced over and over again, and year in achieving our aims and objectives, throughout his years here, Canon Probert with increased membership and all grant could feel the difference we made. requests met, and Duncan was very grateful for all the kind co-operation and In standing in as Acting Dean following support the Friends enjoyed. During the Dean June’s promotion to Bishop of year, the Council had kept a close watch Llandaff, Canon Probert said he was on matters concerning the Charity confident that during the process of Commission, with more policies adopted. appointing a new Dean over the next few Our revised Constitution had been months, the life of the Cathedral would approved at last year’s AGM, and our continue seamlessly with its blend of Governance documentation was stability and adaptability. His immediate complete and up to date. colleagues were experienced and likeable clergy who would continue to make their Our Annual Report ‘Spire’ together with distinctive contribution, and he welcomed Christmas and Easter Newsletters had the Very Rev Charles Taylor as Associate been successfully mailed out via a direct Canon to the team. The staff of the mail company, and we would be Cathedral were in good heart also, and the continuing with this efficient method of coming year would make the Cathedral an mailing to our members. interesting and rewarding place to be. The Events Sub-Committee continued to He thanked Duncan Glass, the Friends’ devise and deliver a diverse programme Chairman, and the other members of of events throughout 2016-17, attracting Council, Kate and her colleagues, and all strong support from members, which not 64 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 65

only engaged them, but also raised our generous amount of funding raised on profile and boosted our funds for grants our behalf by the Mayor, Derek Brown. to the Cathedral. The additional workload Having said farewell and thanks to the two on our staff and volunteers had been outgoing Trustees last year, Mark Bell and generously accepted; the increase in Keith Millman, we welcomed Michael membership, income and public profile Joseph as Archdeaconry Representative bore the proof that we were succeeding for Dorset to the Friends’ Council, together in the charity’s aims. This was also down with elected members, Colin Colston and to the strong support in all we do, Dudley Heather – the Friends’ governing extending to Cathedral events staff in body was now at full strength. Wyndham House, the Refectory and the generosity of its manager, Kevin Oborne, We were sorry to see Salisbury step as well as the Dean’s Verger and his down after serving three years as a team, all of whom made many of our trustee; Katharine Shearing, having also events possible. Having reviewed the first completed her three year tenure on year and half of the Events programmes, Council, continued as the Archdeaconry it was unanimously agreed by the Events Representative for Wilts – we’d like to Sub-Committee and office staff that we thank them both very much for their great should continue this successful initiative. help. In this reporting year, we had been most It was with mixed emotions that we all fortunate to be selected by the Mayor of learnt that the Friends’ President, the Very Salisbury, Councillor Derek Brown OBE, Rev June Osborne, Dean of Salisbury, was as one of his mayoral charities, and the to leave us to become Bishop of Llandaff. Friends had benefitted greatly from this She had been closely involved with the unique opportunity to work closely with Friends for more than 22 years, as Canon the Mayor, the City and its Guildhall. We Treasurer and Chapter Representative on participated in a number of events, such Friends’ Council, and later as Dean, and as the ‘Salisbury Carnival’, thanks to the President of our Charity. During this time work and help of Clerk of Works, Gary her commitment and contribution had Price, his wife Paula, and many members been considerable, and a great deal had of the works department who, along with been achieved through our grants to the a Friends’ team, built, drove and walked Cathedral – in fact in today’s money – alongside our ‘Bad King John’ float in the since 1995 the was £4,367,939! Duncan impressive procession through the City – wished June and her family every a great success! happiness in her new life. In our Easter newsletter, you read about In concluding, Duncan Glass extended the Mayor’s intrepid climb to the top of his grateful thanks to Trustees, staff, Mount Kilimanjaro, with his wife Penny volunteers and members for their and other family members, to raise funds steadfast support and generous for his chosen charities. This amazing commitment which made the Friends of feat raised over £8,000 which was Salisbury Cathedral such a success, and shared equally between his three a great pleasure to be part of. charities, together with the proceeds from the street collection during the 4. Minutes of the Annual General Carnival. We were extremely grateful for Meeting held on 17 September 2016: all the public awareness the Friends Chris Dragonetti reported that formal gained from this link, as well as the Apologies had been received from the 65 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 66

following members: Duncan & Tricia in subscriptions of £5k. Other income Glass, Paul Williams, Keith Millman, categories were broadly similar to the Henry Moule, Tony and Pat Cousins, previous year. Elizabeth Gower, Dudley Heather, Colin & Expenditure was straightforward, with Edith Colston, Ginny Lighton, Alison grants given to the Cathedral totally Pinkerton, Jack Morton, Kate & Anthony nearly £85k of which £74k was for Little Weale, Brother Patrick Moore. Paradise, the rest for flowers, Cathedral Hugh Keatinge Proposed, Seconded by music, liturgical vessels and other small Rosemary Allen, that the Minutes be items. Our main priority was still to accepted as a correct and true record of support Little Paradise. the Annual General Meeting held 17 Total expenditure was nearly £167k, so September 2016. All were in favour, and overall we showed a surplus of over £71k; the Minutes were signed by the Acting with investment gains of £62k this meant President, Canon Edward Probert. we had a net increase in funds over the year of over £134k. As a result at the year 5. Matters Arising None were raised. end, our total funds stood at £654k. 6. Election of Members to Council: 8. Appointment of Honorary Auditors Chris Dragonetti thanked Nigel Salisbury, John Beckett Proposed, Seconded by the outgoing elected Member of Council, Valerie Shrubb, the appointment of for his excellent support over the last Messrs Fletcher & Partners as Honorary three years. Two new candidates had Auditors of the Friends Accounts, and all been Proposed and Seconded, and were in favour. The Friends greatly approved for election - Mrs Penny Brown, appreciated all the help and advice and re-election, Mr Keith Millman; the received from Fletchers. meeting was all in favour and they were duly elected. They were welcomed to the 9. Secretary’s Report Friends Executive Council, and thanked Kate Beckett began by thanking all for making this generous commitment. members who continued to support the Friends. She hoped that Spire and the 7. Treasurer’s Report and Adoption of two newsletters sent out were enjoyed by the Accounts for the year ended 31st everyone, and that they kept members in March 2017 touch with all going on with the Friends, The Friends’ Hon Treasurer, Chris Cathedral and Close. Dragonetti, reported on the year ended 31st March 2017, which had been a In her 10th year as Secretary, she was successful year in that the accounts pleased to report that the charity showed quite a significant surplus arising continued to thrive, and to fulfil its grant from a legacy received just prior to the commitments to Salisbury Cathedral. She year end. The Friends remained in a had a great team in the office, a strong financial position to meet the wonderful Chairman and Council, all principal objective of providing financial working hard to achieve the Friends’ support to Salisbury Cathedral. charitable objectives on behalf of the membership. Income for the year was just over £238k, an increase of £49k on the preceding The Friends’ new database was installed year, substantially attributable to income and was working well; it had been from legacies of £61k, and an increase produced solely for Friends’ of Cathedral 66 FoSC SPIRE magazine 2018_Layout 1 21/06/2018 12:08 Page 67

Associations. Although the membership programme, both in delivering it and numbers went up and down, she urged those who had attended events. The team everyone to continue encouraging new had offered music, talks, coffee mornings, members to join. The Friends’ offices outings, a holiday, and the double chance were a lovely base to work in, and for to visit many Secret Gardens in the Close, members to visit, and improvements had the last having proved a most profitable been made in their office yard, thanks to enterprise. She was indebted to the the generosity of members donating Events Sub Committee, and to Katharine plants, pots and painting! She urged Shearing who wrote and sent out her members to come and see. excellent press releases, which were Following Duncan’s comments regarding regularly published in the Salisbury our mailings, she reported it had been Journal, and Blackmore Vale newspapers. sad not to use the wonderful people who The Salisbury Florilegium Society of had in the past hand delivered so many Botanic Art, a very happy and inspirational mailings around Salisbury, but she hoped consequence of the open gardens, that they could help in the future on other continued to thrive under the auspices of initiatives. She encouraged members to Sally Pond; Kate urged all present to see still come forward if they wanted to get some of the art, which Sally had set out involved, as help was often needed with for Friends’ Day in the St Thomas/St a variety of things. Edmund Chapel. Sets of notecards produced from some of the designs were Kate talked about the intended move for sale in the Friends’ Gazebo, outside towards making the payment of the West Front, alongside Christmas subscriptions easier, and that they were Cards. looking to move to Direct Debit. Other options would remain available, but all Kate thanked everyone who helped the subsequent new members would soon Friends, for their support year on year, the be offered DD. There was some new Trustees, Officers and staff, volunteers, legislation regarding Data Protection in and everyone who helped the Friends in the pipeline, and any changes would the Cathedral and Refectory. have to be implemented. She concluded by presenting a bouquet The Right Rev June Osborne, newly of flowers to Sue Ash, who was standing consecrated and installed as Bishop of down as the Honorary Membership Llandaff, had received a gift of a Secretary on Council, as a small token of Georgina Von Etzdorf silk scarf from appreciation for her work in this role. Sue Friends’ Council and staff, which she was would continue her voluntary help in the delighted with. office. The social events calendar, both during 10. Any Other Business the reporting year, and this time so far, No other business was raised from the had been well received, and she thanked floor. The AGM finished at 10.45 am with everyone who had supported the the Acting President saying the Grace.

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Obituary

Patricia Hellewell, died on 3 December large Diocese of Salisbury. With her 2017. interest in teaching, Pat was in her Pat was born in Salisbury District Hospital element and everyone looked forward to on 27th April 1935. She lived with her this event. She also organised an annual parents and brother Terry in College ‘thank you’ party for the Cathedral Street, Salisbury and left only when she volunteers. A large marquee was erected married. She went to St. Marks School on the lovely lawns with lots of and then South Wilts Grammar School, refreshments and barn dancing. and on leaving school trained and worked When John retired they moved to as a secretary for Knapman Estate Winterbourne Gunner where she became Agents and Auctioneers. involved in the community, as a school Pat married John Hellewell in Salisbury in governor and book-keeping for the 1955 and moved to Leatherhead, Bourne Valley WI and the church. returning to Salisbury where she worked A great passion of Pat’s was gardens and as the school secretary at Highbury junior gardening. She loved spending time school, where John also then taught in the tending her own garden and allotment, senior school. In the early 1970s Pat and visiting gardens particularly at decided to undertake teacher training at National Trust properties and on holiday. Sarum St Michael College in Salisbury. Pat also sang with the Bourne Valley Because no teaching jobs suited her after Singers for a long time, from 2007-8 she training, Pat took the opportunity of was President of the Salisbury Ladies working in Salisbury Cathedral as the first Probus group and she served on the visitor’s officer. This was the making of her committee of Harnham water meadows. career and she developed the role and Pat enjoyed her many holidays, and professionalised visitor services in the travelled extensively with John. After he Cathedral, which had a huge impact on died in 2014 Pat was on her own for the the visitor experience, and she remained first time in 59 years. She missed him in this role until her retirement in 1998. terribly but her life took a different Pat loved the job and the environment in direction and she threw herself into all which she worked, being based in the sorts of activities. She also was a regular Chapter Office, and made many, many on many Friends’ holidays and outings friends. Each year she and her team with her friend Jean Spring. organised the School’s Day, a huge event Extract from the eulogy given by her son involving over 300 junior schools in the Paul.

We greatly appreciate being remembered by the following Friends, who left a Legacy to our Charity or for those for whom we received Donations in Memoriam: Keith Woodbridge, David Cundy, Patricia Stockting, Patience Searle, J F Southey

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A Bequest to the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral ....will be appreciated every day

For everyone, making a Will or altering and inspiration of this cathedral and pass an existing Will, are very special it on securely for whatever the future opportunities to make the future more holds, alive to the Spirit, and alive to all. secure for our families and friends. If you wish to support us, all you need to At the same time, you can also pledge do is speak to your solicitor or whoever your future support for a cause you draws up your Will for you, and request already care about by making a gift to the that the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral Friends in your Will – it is a simple and (charity no: 243439) should be included cost-effective way to help preserve this either as: sacred place for the future, its treasures • a residuary beneficiary, to receive and the strong Christian faith they the whole or a percentage of your celebrate. estate after other bequests and Most charitable donations in the UK are liabilities have been met: free from inheritance tax, which benefits • a pecuniary beneficiary, to receive a your family by helping to reduce the tax specific sum: payable on your estate. • a specific beneficiary, to receive Salisbury Cathedral has inspired your life; property, stocks and shares, works of your support has already helped art or other objects: conserve many of the most inspiring • a reversionary legacy, which becomes features of our great medieval cathedral, payable after the death of another as well as keeping our wonderful choral named person, often a spouse. tradition alive, supporting cathedral life, its worship and ministry - there is hardly You can even make a simple Will for free a part of the Cathedral or area of during the month of September, thanks cathedral life that hasn’t been touched by to a generous offer from local solicitors, the Friends. Parker Bullen; should you wish to take advantage of this offer please complete May we ask you to consider making one the form ‘Planning Ahead’ and return to more special contribution. Legacies to the Friends’ office, to be passed to Parker the Friends have formed the foundation Bullen who will then contact you direct. of substantial support in recent years, and we are immensely grateful for this, We are so grateful to all our members, and to those of you who have already past and present, for remembering us in taken that step. If you can find a place for this special way – we think hard about the Friends in your Will, it will enable the projects we support – your help will more people to experience the richness be appreciated every day.

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Planning ahead - Why you should make a will

It is easy to put off making a proper Will, but the results for your family could be unexpected, leading to confusion and even litigation, as well as circumstances not dreamed of by the deceased. A well drafted Will not only puts your affairs in order as you want them, but can also reduce the level in Inheritance Tax your family has to pay on your death. You may also wish to include the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral among any charitable bequests you may make. If you have a solicitor, you should consult him or her about making a Will, but if not, the Friends have arranged with Messrs Parker Bullen, 45 Castle Street, Salisbury SP1 3BR, for members to make a simple Will for free during the month of September only; a Will which is more complicated may incur a charge. You will receive some initial guidance without charge. If you wish to take advantage of this offer, we will forward your contact details to Parker Bullen, who will get in touch with you direct. Please complete the slip below and return it to the Friends’ Office. ✁

I should like to know more about making a Will through Parker Bullen. Please ask them to contact me using the details below:

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The Friends of the Cathedral are most grateful to those listed below who by their generous contributions have assisted in the production of this Report

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The Objects of the Friends To support the Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral in maintaining, preserving, improving and enhancing the fabric, fittings, ornaments, furniture, music and monuments of the Cathedral, and to support its life, worship and ministry. The Association was formed in 1930 and has approximately 3,400 members.

Please push out your Membership Card(s) below for immediate use for the year July 2018 to 2019, irrespective of when you pay your membership subscription. Current recommended rates of membership are as follows: Individual Friend minimum £20.00 p.a. Joint Friends minimum £30.00 p.a. If you are paying less than the recommended rates perhaps you would consider increasing your gift. Application Forms, Standing Order Forms and Gift Aid Declaration Forms are all available from our registered office: 33a The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EJ tel: (01722) 335161 / 555190 email: [email protected] Or can be downloaded from www.salisburycathedralfriends.co.uk We are open Tuesday – Friday, 9.30 am to 1.00 pm (closed on Mondays)

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