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Church Newsletter No 10 Holy Week and Easter 2021 The Temple Church, London 020 7353 8559 www.templechurch.com Church Newsletter No 10 Holy Week and Easter 2021 Life after Lockdown he days are getting longer, the Master’s magnolia While we continue in lockdown, our services in Holy Tare in flower and Spring is in the air. Following Week and at Easter will be available to view on our the lifting of London’s Major Incident Status, we YouTube channel from the times stated below and are looking forward to the easing of lockdown for 5 days afterwards. Please join us when you can. restrictions and to being able to welcome everyone Access via the home page of our website, www. back into the Church, and to resume public worship templechurch.com. We wish you all a very Happy after what feels like a long period of hibernation. This Easter and look forward to seeing you in the new is, of course, subject to the Government’s measures term. for dealing with the pandemic, the ongoing advice of the Church of England and the permission of the Holy Week and Easter at the Temple Church Inns. Thursday 1 April 6.30pm We continue to pray for all those who have lost their (Pre-recorded and streamed) lives (and livelihoods) to this terrible virus, for those Choral Communion: Maundy Thursday who mourn for the loss of loved ones and for those The Last Supper living in anxiety or fear. We give thanks for all who Music to include 4 Part Mass (Byrd), Ave Verum (Byrd), are working tirelessly in hospitals and laboratories to Drop, drop, slow Tears (Gibbons) care for us and to make our lives safe, as well as for Friday 2 April 11.15am all those who are trying to re-build their lives during (Pre-recorded and streamed) this period of national crisis. Choral Mattins: Good Friday All our services of worship are continuing online The Crucifixion with details for Holy Week and Easter opposite. For To include music by King John IV of Portugal, Stainer further information, please visit our website: www. and Victoria, templechurch.com which is regularly updated. The Saturday 3 April 8.00pm Church remains closed to visitors but is open for (Live-streamed) private prayer from Monday to Friday from 12pm to Easter Vigil and Service of Light 2pm for those living or working within the Inns. To The Easter Fire arrange access for this purpose, please contact the Music to include the Exultet Verger ([email protected]). This Newsletter comes with very best wishes for Sunday 4 April 11.15am Easter from: (Pre-recorded and streamed) Choral Communion: Easter Day Robin and Mark, Cath, Charlie, Matt, Roger, Susan Rise Heart, Thy Lord is Risen and Tom Music to include Little Organ Mass (Haydn), This joyful Eastertide (Woodward), Hallelujah Chorus Catherine: 020 7 353 8559 (Handel) [email protected] Wednesday 7 April 6.00pm Easter Carol Service (Pre-recorded and streamed) Music to include Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams) Live-streaming Project Underway We shall record the progress of this project. The The AFTC has been set up with the encouragement The project, which has been summarised in previous ork has started to replace the audio visual/ archaeological potential of the works to the floor and support of Inner and Middle Temple whose newsletters, is described in more detail here. Wlive-streaming equipment that we have been is considered to be low but if the bones of William representatives at this meeting were: RIBA Stage 2 is the ‘Concept Design’ stage when hiring over the past few months. The purpose of this Marshall (1st Earl of Pembroke, hero of Magna • Michael Bowsher QC (Chair, Middle Temple the client receives the first visualisations or drawings project is to improve the sound and visual quality of Carta and the ‘greatest knight that ever lived’) International Committee) of the design ideas developed from the project brief. our liturgical services and the non-liturgical activity are discovered, the Master of the Temple will be • Kieron Beal QC (Vice-Chair, Inner Temple Most of the work in conceiving and developing the in the Church such as concerts, lectures, discussions overjoyed. International Committee; in the absence of master plan in this stage has now been undertaken. and Call ceremonies. Although there will be some If all goes according to plan, we expect the the Chair, Sir Julian Flaux) We have benefited greatly from a series of pre- temporary disturbance to these activities, this is livestreaming project to be completed by the end of • Guy Beringer QC (Bencher, Inner Temple) consultation meetings with a number of statutory a heritage and public benefit which will allow our May. • Jeff Golden (Bencher, Middle Temple; former consultees (Church Buildings Council, Corporation of grade I listed Temple Church to be appreciated by This important project could not be undertaken Chair ABA International) the City of London, Diocese of London and Historic much wider national and international audiences without the generous support of the Inner and • Greg Dorey CVO (Sub-Treasurer, Inner England). Work is continuing in the search for a than hitherto. Middle Temple, the Temple Music Foundation and Temple) design solution for improving access to the Triforium. One hundred and fifty seven paving stones will the Temple Music Trust. • Colin Davidson (for the Under Treasurer, We are now approaching RIBA Stage 3 - ‘Spatial Middle Temple) Co-ordination’. It is at this stage that a co-ordinated be lifted from the chancel floor to allow the audio- American Friends of the Temple Church visual equipment and cabling to be installed in design begins to take form from the settled shallow ducts below the floor level. The paving he Planning Committee of the American Sir Stephen Tomlinson, Chair of the Church concept design and it becomes possible to assess stones will then be reinstated in their original TFriends of Temple Church (AFTC) has had its Committee, with the Master and Reader, joined the the project’s costs. These are currently estimated location. The associated hardware will be completely inaugural meeting, by Zoom, to discuss ways in meeting which focused on developing a programme at between £5-7m (and subject to our Quantity inconspicuous and everything above ground will be which the Inner and Middle Temple, the American of seminars and events on matters of mutual interest Surveyors’ refinement). removable. Bar Association (ABA) and the Temple Church can and concern. The current pavings were laid following the bomb work together to broaden and deepen our links It was agreed that the Temple Church, (‘cradle of the damage sustained by the Church during the Second and to expand understanding of the Rule of Law common law’) provided the natural hub for future World War. They replaced the earlier floor which and its advancement through international public conversations as well as opportunities for less formal had been introduced in the 1840s during Smirke discussion. interactions (such as a standing invitation to the and Burton’s Gothic refurbishment which in its turn Three former senior officers of the ABA (and Magna Friends to Choral Evensong, drinks in the Master’s replaced the black and white chequered marble Carta veterans from 2015), Robert Brown, William garden and a social programme in the heart of legal floor which was laid in the mid-17th century Hubbard and Steve Zack have been extremely London). when Christopher Wren carried out his classical helpful in enabling us to bring this initiative together. The meeting resolved to set up a smaller, sub- transformation of the Church. Participants in the inaugural meeting from the United group to plan topics for discussion beginning in the States included twelve Presidents of the ABA, past, Autumn and to expand the network of Friends. present and pending: We were delighted when William Hubbard • R. William Ide, II (1994–1995) Georgia, announced that the ABA were asking for financial Akerman contributions not only to support the programme • N. Lee Cooper (1996–1997) Alabama, but also to assist us in the renewal and restoration Maynard Cooper of the Temple Church (see further below). A link for • William H. Neukom (2007–2008) California, making tax-efficient donations through the Charities K&L Gates Aid Foundation America can be accessed by clicking • H. Thomas (Tommy) Wells Jr. (2008–2009) here. Alabama, Maynard Cooper Under the RIBA Plan of Work, submission for • Carolyn B. Lamm (2009–2010) District of Resoration and Renewal Project: Update Work in progress on the church floor planning consent may vary between the stages but Columbia, White & Case e continue to work with Purcell on the Having taken the advice of our architects Purcell it usually occurs during or at the end of Stage 3. • Stephen N. Zack (2010–2011) Florida, Boies remaining design development work involved and consulted the Diocesan Registrar, the Church W Before we could get to that stage, and after having Schiller & Flexner in RIBA Stage 2 for this project. The project has Committee has determined that the proposed works consulted the Church Committee (to whom we have • James R. Silkenat (2013–2014) New York, three main elements: would not have a significant permanent impact on been reporting regularly), the members of both Former Chair ABA International the Church building. Inns will need to have been consulted about the • William C. Hubbard (2014–2015) South • Restoration of the Norman Doorway (so that, proposals and their approval to proceed is obtained. To enable the work to begin as soon as possible Carolina, University of South Carolina School once again, it becomes the principal entrance In the meantime we have had some very useful and avoid disruption to planned services, including of Law Dean to the Church) and related improvements to discussions with Fiona Healey-Hutchinson and several weddings in late June and early July, we • Linda Klein (2016–2017) Georgia, Baker access the Church James Rogerson from Middle Temple’s Development sought and obtained confirmation from the Diocese Donelson • Improvement of ‘backstage’ facilities to Office to develop a funding strategy and plan.
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