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Christ Church Cathedral Annual Report 6 Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 Annual Report August 2013 - July 2014 Introduction Christ Church Cathedral enjoyed a year full of variety, one of its many highlights being the launch of the Cathedral Music Trust at St James’ Palace in the presence of our Visitor, Her Majesty the Queen, and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. The year was also marked by a large number of major services and by some significant building work, including the repair of our most famous architectural feature, the chancel vault. Preparations began for the retirement of Christopher Lewis, Dean for the past eleven years, at the end of September 2014. Sorry as we were to be losing him, we were delighted to be able to announce the election of Martyn Percy, well known to many around the diocese as Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, who was installed on 4 October 2014. His appointment was the fruit of a very positive collaboration between the academic and cathedral sides of Christ Church – a real opportunity for College and Cathedral to appreciate each other’s distinct but complementary priorities. Worship There are between three and six regular Cathedral services every day of the year. Our congregations are varied: they include a core of regular worshippers, notably at Sunday Matins and the Thursday Sung Eucharist, as well as people attending special services and civic events and a significant number of tourists visiting Christ Church from around the world. Attendance at the daily Eucharist and at weekday Evensongs, especially over the summer period, has increased in the past year. The Cathedral’s informal Sunday evening service, After Eight, continued through the Michaelmas and Hilary terms and covered a wide range of topics, including ‘Conversations with Islam’ and ‘Poetry, Place and Faith’, a series of dialogues with leading British poets. A new initiative on Good Friday was an all-age Journey to the Cross. Aimed particularly at families with young children, this was a development of the Christmas Journey to Bethlehem, which was itself a great success in its second year. There were many special events and services during the year among them the following: Our old friends, the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, were in residence for a week during August On 14 December we celebrated both the feast of Saint Lucy and our ongoing link with the Diocese of Växjo in Sweden with a concert sung by a young people’s choir from Växjo Cathedral Page 2 of 20 On 21 December there was a free performance of Olivier Messiaen’s spectacular meditation on the birth of Christ, La Nativité du Seigneur The new Chancellor of the Diocese of Oxford, the Revd Alexander McGregor, an alumnus of Christ Church, was welcomed at Evensong on 11 January The installation of four new Honorary Canons took place on 25 January: Michael Beasley, Diocesan Director of Mission, Mark Dearnley, Rector and Area Dean of Wendover, Linda Green, Rector of Banbury and Edmund Newell, Principal of Cumberland Lodge The new Archdeacon of Berkshire, the Venerable Olivia Graham, was collated at Evensong on 11 October The Venerable Judy French, Archdeacon of the newly-created Archdeaconry of Dorchester, was collated at Evensong on 19 June Christ Church was pleased to support the Diocesan Conference in March The Twentieth Anniversary of the Ordination of Women was celebrated in the company of the Right Reverend Pushpa Lalitha, Bishop of Nandiyal in the Church of South India, on 7 June We bid farewell to our Dean of the last eleven years, the Very Revd Christopher Lewis, with a dinner in hall on 4 July. The Dean’s last Sunday in the Cathedral was 6 July, when he preached at both Matins and the Sung Eucharist, and a drinks reception was held in the Cathedral Garden for Christopher and his wife, Rhona Two memorial services merit special mention: the Funeral Service of Mama Josephine Otunnu on 11 January and the Memorial Service for Martin Mays- Smith on 30 June. Josephine Otunnu was a friend of the Archbishop of Uganda, Janani Luwum, who was martyred under the regime of Idi Amin, and her funeral filled the cathedral with the spirit of the East African Revival; Martin Mays-Smith was for many years a servant of the diocese in numerous capacities, notably as Chair of the Board of Finance Page 3 of 20 Education Stained glass from the Cathedral formed part of an important exhibition at Tate Britain. Thanks are due to the Dean’s Verger, Matthew Power, and to Dr Sarah Mortimer, Official Student in History, for their work on this project. The Biennial Conference for Incumbents of Christ Church’s livings took place in September. Over sixty clergy from all over the country spent a fruitful three days exploring reconciliation on the local, national and global scale. Speakers included Jonathan Aitken, Oliver McTernan and Canon Professor Nigel Biggar. An important lecture series, marking the impending centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, took place at Christ Church during January and February. Organised by Canon Professor Nigel Biggar and the McDonald Centre for Theology and Public Life in collaboration with the Cathedral, Oh what a Lovely war? attracted large audiences to hear a range of speakers including Jeremy Paxman and Margaret MacMillan. The Cathedral continued to develop its ministry of hospitality on small and large scales, hosting more than a hundred clergy from the Diocese of Llandaff for their clergy conference in September and welcoming the Deanery Chapters of Cowley and Oxford for quiet days. Significant numbers of Schools and Parishes took advantage of our programme of tours and visits. Ministry to Visitors This year Christ Church welcomed a record number of 425, 000 visitors through Meadow Gate, in addition to the usual large number of worshippers, pilgrims and diocesan visitors. Every other year Christ Church holds an Open Day as part of the Open Doors weekend sponsored by the Oxford Preservation Trust. Several thousand people took advantage of this opportunity to visit the college and cathedral on 14 September. We were pleased to host the annual conference of the Cathedral and Church Shops Association from 25-27 September. On 28 November we enjoyed the rare sight of a horse in Tom Quad: it was ridden by William Reddaway nearing the end of a pilgrimage on horseback around the English Cathedrals, raising funds for The Family Holiday Association and Wormwood Scrubs Pony Club. Page 4 of 20 Music Her Majesty the Queen’s decision to attend the formal launch of the Cathedral Music Trust at St James’s Palace was a powerful reminder of the extent to which the choir is valued beyond the confines of Christ Church. Later in March it was announced that the Director of Music, Dr Stephen Darlington, had been awarded a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his outstanding contribution to church music over several decades. The choir’s recording of a second volume of Eton Choirbook music entitled Choirs of Angels (AV2184) was short-listed for a Gramophone Award, a citation describing it as ‘glorious in its sound and effects’. A third volume entitled Courts of Heaven was recorded in March for release later in the year. The choir’s broadcast of Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 took place the day after the death of the composer John Tavener and included some of his music. There were concert performances in the Sheldonian Theatre (Britten anniversary celebrations), St John’s Smith Square in London, and in the Cathedral. In the field of new music, the choir performed Harry Bramma’s fine setting of the Benedicite, Francis Grier’s Missa Aedes Christi, and Harrison Birtwistle’s Pange Lingua as part of the celebrations of his Honorary DMus from the University of Oxford. In the spring the Cathedral Choir undertook an extensive and popular tour to North America and Canada, visiting Los Angeles, Charlotte and Toronto. The choir’s outreach to local schools continued in collaboration with the Oxfordshire County Music Service. The Cathedral Singers (our voluntary choir) have had a busy and productive year. Membership continues to grow and reflect the diverse nature of the Choir. As well as the usual pattern of services, the Cathedral Singers have been out and about singing in Cathedrals and venturing as far as Lund in Sweden for a mini tour. The choral and organ scholarship scheme kindly supported by the Friends, has four sixth form students and has resulted in our last organ scholar Bertie Baigent gaining a place at Cambridge and his successor, Josh Ridley the offer of the organ scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge. Page 5 of 20 College Activities The Cathedral is also the College Chapel and continued to be used by members of the college, with weekly College Communion services at which college musicians played, and termly Corporate Communion services for the whole college community. Members of the Cathedral staff and congregation also attended on some of these occasions. The Advent Carol Service for the college once again attracted a capacity congregation, with around nine hundred people attending, primarily undergraduates and graduate students and their families and friends, as well as staff from across the Foundation. The College Choir sang Evensong on Mondays each term, and on a couple of occasions did so jointly with the Cathedral Singers, as well as holding two concerts, and singing in other cathedrals too. In addition, there were concerts organised by the Christ Church Music Society and Orchestra. One undergraduate was baptised and confirmed at Easter, several other baptisms were held for the children of old members and staff, and a dozen old members were married during the year.
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