Issue 16 Winter 2014

Inside this issue ~ Remembering WWI Coverage from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit Your 2015 events Funding awarded for urgent boiler repairs 2~ ~3 The Chairman’s We Have Our Lives Welcome remembering WWI

The autumn of 2014 friends beyond the City. This Through-out the centenary of the First World War, Bristol Cathedral will be is an ambitious aspiration for has seen the profile of the Bristol Cathedral Trust and providing a space where memories of the fallen are gathered from the local Bristol Cathedral grow it will cost some millions to community and honoured through shared remembrance. achieve but with your help it locally and nationally. Stephen Parsons can be done. Already we are For each month of the war, “In this year of Chairman, Bristol Cathedral Trust We hosted the Archbishop of successfully bidding for funding the Cathedral will mark the life commemoration, the Canterbury in September and support for our work and and death of a different fallen Cathedral is delighted Buttress will report with pictures important legacies are being soldier or civilian from the to put remembrance on a very successful visit. received. Diocese of Bristol; from Private and prayer at In 2015, we also have the to Majors, those who were the heart of the A grant of £184,000 has been Our exceptional choir is busy aspiration to double our awarded the Victoria Cross anniversary. As a awarded by the CFCE to begin providing Choral music to membership and welcome and those who were executed focal point for the our heating project. This fund support our worship. They many new friends to the Fitz. If for desertion. Stories come city and diocese, is financed by a Government have also been marvellous you could each undertake to from south Gloucestershire, we provide a space fund to ensure that Cathedrals ambassadors for the Cathedral find at least one new member, Bristol, Swindon and north where memories form a “focal point” for local and the City undertaking a this challenge can be achieved Wiltshire and are shared of the fallen are and national remembrance of very successful singing tour to with ease! in an electronic Book of gathered and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig World War 1. Add to that new Remembrance, available to honoured through money to help with the West to the Redemptorist Church These are exciting times for us view in the Cathedral or via shared remembrance. End redevelopment and I am in Krakow and the St Kinga all and each and every one of the website. Stories include Bristol has fascinating sure you will get a sense that Chapel in the Wieliczka you has a part to play on the that of Clifton College Cricket stories to tell about the our project is on the move. Salt Mine. journey. I am very grateful to all legend Arthur Collins, Major war, and this will be a the Trustees who give of their Douglas Reynolds who was moving and thought- The Fitzhardinge Society will There are times when it seems time and talent to direct and awarded the Victoria Cross and provoking project” also play its part in this work that the stars are favourably support our work. Many thanks Benjamin Brooks, an assistant throughout 2015 and beyond The Very Revd Dr David aligned for a significant new to our Development Director storekeeper who died during your friends have stories, by arranging compelling Hoyle, Dean of Bristol initiative and this seems to Naomi Miller for her energy the devastating sinking of photos or simply a name that historical talks about our be just such a time. This very and capability as a fundraiser. HMT Royal Edward. There will you’d like to be remembered, Cathedral and also social A central part of the project, is moment has therefore been She is always keen to talk with also be changing displays of please get in touch with occasions that you will not wish public participation – and the seized to begin work to you and to share our news. artefacts illustrating different Naomi. Memorabilia, photos achieve the transformation for to miss. This means you will aspects of the war. A Garden of Cathedral would love to hear or artefacts would also be have the chance to be briefed from you. As well as creating our Cathedral into a warm, Do please keep in touch. Peace, designed by Fitzhardinge welcome. There will be a host safe place fit for the twenty- as the journey continues and member Kathy Clark, will grow a Book of Remembrance, a of special events, services to actively engage and help us Requiem Eucharist will be first century and beyond. A Stephen Parsons throughout the memorial and talks throughout this if you so wish. held each month, during which Cathedral that can be used Chairman, months, providing a quiet and period – please visit www. these names are spoken aloud for worship and reflection by Bristol Cathedral Trust safe space for people to pray, bristol-cathedral.co.uk/wwi- the people of Bristol and our reflect and share their thoughts and remembered. If you, your remembrance for more details. and memories. family, your club, your Church, 4~ ~5 Archbishop Justin Welby’s visit to our Cathedral and Diocese

We were thrilled that, despite their incredibly I was hugely encouraged by my It has been a huge privilege to busy schedules, both weekend in the Diocese of Bristol host the Archbishop and his wife Archbishop Justin and Caroline were able - I saw God at work, people learning Caroline. We have been encouraged, to share breakfast to love and follow Jesus Christ, and uplifted and challenged.

with members of the loving their communities – doing The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Bristol Fitzhardinge Society the things Christian communities before the morning’s Eucharist service. do, that are the glue that holds this country together. The Archbishop delivered an inspiring sermon, which you can The Most Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury watch at www.bristol-cathedral. co/uk/faith-worship/special- services

Afterwards, the Archbishop attended a forum discussion around education and aspiration with representatives from across the city’s educational organisations. The whole weekend provided a fantastic opportunity for the Cathedral to be a central part of the special celebrations and a wonderful time was had by all. 6~ ~7 Forthcoming Events 2015 dates for your diary

We are delighted to offer a host of events for 2014/5

The last event of 2014 will be Christmas at the The annual High Sheriff’s Concert will take place Cathedral on Friday 12th December 2014. on Thursday 11th June. As ever, we are pleased Join us for a special Evensong at 5.15pm, followed to offer Fitzhardinge members priority booking. by a festive reception in the Chapter House. A More details to follow in due course. wonderful opportunity to wish one another a Merry Christmas and celebrate the work of Bristol On Sunday 5 July we are invited to Berkeley Cathedral Trust in 2014. Friends and guests most Castle for a private tour and afternoon tea welcome. with members of the Berkeley family. Join us as we discover more about the family behind the We start 2015 with a Choral Evensong and founding of Bristol’s Augustinian Abbey, as ‘twas. Information Evening on Friday 27th February This event is for members only. More details to at which we talk further about the project work follow in due course. currently being done at the Cathedral and ‘A Glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven’ – our The 2015 Annual Fitzhardinge Dinner will ambitious plan of projects for the next five years. take place at the Cathedral on Friday 18th This is a great opportunity to hear more about September. This is a wonderful chance for us to the difference you’re making, learn more about the gather together and celebrate the work of Bristol Cathedral and get involved with our future plans. Cathedral Trust. Friends and guests most welcome. This event is for members only. More details to follow in due course.

We are delighted to offer a tour of the We end 2015 with Christmas at the Cathedral Cathedral on Sunday 17th May with Keeper on Friday 11th December 2015. of the Fabric, Jon Cannon. Jon’s enthusiastic and highly-knowledgeable tours are a real treat, Please add these dates to your diary. For more whether you’re new to Bristol Cathedral or have details about any of these events, please contact been visiting for years. This event is for members Wendy Pradalie, 0117 946 8184, only. [email protected] 8~ ~9 Fabric Chapter Clerk Update Wendy Matthews

Wendy Matthews, Chapter Clerk, gives an update on other We were delighted learn that we have been awarded funding for urgent projects which Bristol Cathedral Trust is supporting. repairs to our boilers. Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has announced £8.3 million worth of grants to 31 English cathedrals, of which Bristol Cathedral will receive £184,000. The money has come from a government-sponsored fund set up to support vital repairs to some of England’s most important historic buildings.

The First World War and engage with our thought Centenary Cathedral Repairs provoking WWI project, We Fund provides £20 million Have Our Lives, which runs worth of grant money for for the full four years of the urgent repairs to English conflict.” Cathedrals, in order that they The Very Revd David Hoyle, can remain open to mark the Dean of Bristol centenary of the First World Imagine yourself back in 1140, disabled toilet. We will refurbish

War. For Bristol Cathedral, at the time when Robert the existing ladies toilets (by the Sir Paul Ruddock, Chair of the our award of £184,000 Fitzhardinge established his café) and we will create a new We will be holding an Expert Panel, First World War provides the foundation for monastery on College Green. separate toilet for the choristers information evening on Friday Centenary Cathedral Repairs our ambitious project, ‘Warmly You might think of the glories which will only be accessible 27 February at 6pm, at which Fund and Chairman of the Welcome’ which, over the next of the Chapter House and from the Song School. In an age we talk further about the Victoria & Albert Museum, said: five years, will see a complete but also depend upon, the the Gatehouse, but not much of gender equality the men will project work currently being upgrade of our current communities around them. perhaps about the all important equally benefit – we will re- done at the Cathedral and “The appeal of cathedrals heating system to one which Church of England cathedrals issue of plumbing. In those days configure the gents so that the ‘A Glimpse of the Kingdom is vast and enduring. Every is more effective, efficient and also contribute at least £350 the toilet facilities would have facilities can be accessed from of Heaven’ – our ambitious part of English history can be sustainable. million annually to the national been communal – or as the inside the building (opposite plan of projects for the next seen somewhere within their economy. These grants will infamous Edmund Blackadder the Cloister entrance). As part five years. This is a great walls, and I am delighted that “We are thrilled by the news help them to complete works would describe it “the latest of related work on the heating opportunity to hear more this second round of grants is that we are to be awarded this which are urgently needed for in front wall fresh air orifices we will also improve the hot about the difference you’re providing vital support to keep funding from the First World them to stay safe, open and combined with a wide capacity water system. We will complete making, learn more about the War Centenary Cathedral them open for all to enjoy.” welcoming, and to continue to gutter installation below” (aka the work in stages to make Cathedral and get involved Repairs Fund. It will allow make this contribution to their a window). Some might say sure that some facilities are still with our future plans. us to install new boilers and The Church of England’s 42 communities. that the Cathedral toilets had accessible when needed. draught exclusion measures cathedrals welcome over not come on that far in the which will provide visitors 11 million visitors a year, Bristol Cathedral is centuries since, but now, thanks We will be supporting Tearfund’s and congregations with a employ over 6,000 staff especially delighted that to the Trust they are going to be toilet twinning scheme once warmer welcome here and and are supported by over Clifton Cathedral was also transformed in the early part of it is all finished – by making a will help everyone to enter 15,000 dedicated volunteers; successful in this funding 2015. We will install not 1, not donation we can twin our toilets into the life of the cathedral. It demonstrating how much bid, receiving money for 2, but 3 new ladies cubicles in and help improve sanitation in will also help people to enjoy cathedrals contribute to, much-needed roof repairs. the store room area next to the Africa. 10~ ~11 The Dean Writes... Trustee Vacancies

When Graeme Knowles formerly This year, we said goodbye to three wonderful trustees; Nick Cryer, Dean of St Paul’s came to speak at Andrew Nisbet and Sir David Wills – and we thank them for their support and our Fitzhardinge dinner he had done service. Would you like to work more closely with the Trust at this exciting time? his homework. He had our literature and knew that I have said that Bristol As a Trustee of Bristol Cathedral Trust, you’ll be an In addition to having a Cathedral should provide us with ‘a advocate for Bristol Cathedral at the forefront of passion for Bristol’s glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven’. a renewed period of fundraising. You’ll help spread Cathedral, we are the word among private individuals, trustees especially keen He took me gently to task. ‘I do so look of charitable foundations and Bristol’s business to hear from forward to heaven’, he told us, ‘I look The Very Reverend Dr. David Hoyle community about the wealth of opportunities applicants with forward to it being like Bristol, I shall be greeted Dean, Bristol Cathedral Trust for them to support the Bristol’s culture and one or more heritage. You will be given fantastic opportunities of the following at the Clifton Suspension Bridge’. to gain a fruitful and knowledgeable relationship attributes: with this extraordinary building and the work which happens within it. With some of the • Professional Picturing heaven is one of the hardest tasks of When I worked in Gloucester my Bishop used to most exceptional medieval architecture in the expertise in areas all. We are strangely, and disturbingly, good at talk about church worship as ‘playing at heaven’. A UK, a choral tradition reaching back 800 years, such as marketing, images of hell: Giotto and the damned writing in Tudor visitor to Durham Cathedral said that the engagement with a wide range of schools and fundraising, project and event agony; Bosch and Breughel and their monsters of building was ‘a map of Sion’, and simply meant that organisations, major prospective building projects management or tourism the inferno. We can picture Hell vividly; but, as a it showed him heaven. Church, any church, but and a focus on improving our visitor experience, • Experience of the heritage, cultural, education historian friend of mine once remarked, images of especially one of our cathedrals, should be a map there’s something for everyone. or charitable sectors (professional or voluntary) paradise are uniformly weak and always make the of Sion, a glimpse of the Kingdom of God. They blessed look ‘as though they have been stuffed’. should be places where we are made welcome; At Board meetings one of your roles will be to • Strong networking skills combined with a Sidney Smith thought that heaven was eating places where we are serious about the things make decisions on how donations and funds willingness to develop relationships to help pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets; Blake that matter but still hopeful; places of forgiveness; are allocated to projects and activities of Bristol secure funding from private individuals, trusts, thought you could see it in a wild flower and Irving and places that in music, worship, glass, stone Cathedral. This grant-making role will give you and companies. Berlin believed we might all come close as soon as and relationship help us to begin the business of great insight into how the Cathedral is cared • An understanding of how local/national policy- next weekend, when we are out together dancing imaging what God’s future might make of us. They for and how the programmes of engagement making affects Bristol’s heritage and culture cheek-to-cheek. should be places where we start to become the opportunities, education, music and events are people we should be. devised. You will work closely with members of The truth is we get rather fanciful and romantic the Cathedral Chapter and staff maximise its For more information about the Trust, the trustee about heaven; we push it away, or we wrap it in And I would be very pleased indeed if Clifton potential as Bristol’s foremost heritage and cultural positions and how to submit your expression of pink tissue paper. In scripture images of heaven Suspension Bridge was there too. institution. The time commitment is four Board interest, please contact Naomi are remarkably prosaic. The Kingdom of heaven meetings a year, plus attendance at exclusive [email protected] is like ‘a mustard seed’, like ‘a net’, like ‘a merchant The Very Reverend Dr. David Hoyle, events such as trips with the Fitzhardinge Society, 0117 946 8184. searching for pearls’. We are being told there and Dean, Bristol Cathedral corporate receptions and occasional VIP visits. The told again and again, that heaven comes close. role is voluntary, with reasonable travel expenses Heaven, in truth, is much more familiar than we paid. We will consider candidates for whom this usually assume. would be their first trustee position.

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