Dean's Welcome

Dean’s Welcome as Director of the Cathedral Foundation. They have both been great servants of the Cathedral as well as friends to many of you, and we thank them for all their sterling work over this time for St Paul’s. Appreciations have been extended to both of them at receptions held towards the end of last year. Patrick continues to be in charge of the Cathedral Wandsmen; Nigel has moved to a similar position at St George’s Windsor and we wish them both well. Another face familiar to many of you, Roger Walkinton, will now be attempting to bring together these two strands of the Cathedral’s life, as Deputy Director The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles of the Foundation and as Secretary to Dean, St Paul’s Cathedral the Friends. In this process, our aim is to Dear Supporters and Friends of St Paul’s, provide you with greater consistency and indeed economy, rather than continue to A New Year always brings new things and this look after you separately and in parallel. year is no exception! This particular Epistle is One obvious example is to find a regular being sent to a rather larger readership than means of communication with you all which usual, not just to those donors who support upholds the quality we have come to expect St Paul’s through the Cathedral Foundation, of the Friends’ Dome magazine, but which but to those many thousands who are is perhaps less time and cost-consuming to Friends of St Paul’s. In a very real sense, you assemble. This Dome is only a ”stopgap” and are all friends of St Paul’s. And that has in essence been at the heart of our recent we are currently considering what is the best steps towards a degree of “convergence” longer-term solution. between the Friends and those who support 2011 will therefore be something of a us in other ways. transitional year in this regard but please At the end bear with us! We shall look forward to of 2010, Patrick seeing you as often as you can visit St Paul’s Wilkins stepped and extending the hand of friendship to down after nine you, thanking you for the many and varied years as Secretary ways in which you all help to maintain and of the Friends, develop the mission and outreach of this magnificent Cathedral. We simply could not Nigel Kirkup and Nigel Kirkup after five years do it without you! DOME FROM ST PAUL’S – FEBRUARY 2011 A Word from Roger New Arrivals… Calke Abbey, countryside such as the Peak District, and appeals such as the Neptune Dr Peter McCullough joins us as ower newest Lay Canon. Coastline Campaign, from commercial As Lay Canon, Peter has special responsibility for input on sponsors and latterly from legacies. I also historical matters. This includes the Interpretation Project – sang in many other choirs enabling me to a long term project concerned with bringing St Paul’s to life sing in St Paul’s, Wells, Salisbury, and Ripon. for all its visitors. Other memorable choral highlights have Peter is a leading expert and widely published writer on the been the quarter of a century of concerts religious history of early modern England. He is also General and tours I have sung with the Academy Editor of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. of St Martin in the Fields Chorus at home This 16-volume edition, funded by the Arts and Humanities and abroad under Laszlo Heltay and Sir Research Council, reassesses the greatest prose works of St Neville Marriner (another Lincoln boy!). I am Paul’s Cathedral’s most famous Dean. Peter is currently writing a new biography of Lancelot Andrewes for Oxford University a trustee of a London chamber choir, the Press. He has also published on religion and the early modern Purcell Singers, and also a liveryman of the Dr Peter McCullough Lay Canon – History book trade that was centred in St Paul’s Churchyard. Grocers’ Company. Married for 30 “glorious” (she put Roger Walkinton that in) years to Jill, who is a teacher and The Reverend Canon Michael Hampel will Reverend Canon Michael Hampel said: “It is Acting Director & Secretary to the Friends children’s author – and also a singer - we live be installed as Canon Precentor of St Paul’s a privilege to minister on the public platform in Sussex and have two grown-up children, Cathedral at the end of March. which St Paul’s Cathedral provides and to Cathedrals have, I now realise, always been Rosie and William. I joined the Friends of As Precentor, Canon work alongside the excellent part of my life. My first school years were St Paul’s myself some five years ago, when Hampel will fulfil the role community of clergy and lay spent next to Lincoln Cathedral (almost next I first started working for the Cathedral of Residentiary Canon, with people who work there. We door to where Dean Buckler now lives!) Foundation. Although I know a number of primary responsibility for are in a unique position to where I also had a holiday job in my gap Friends already, many of whom I already come the liturgical and musical life talk positively about faith in year, as a guide and shop assistant. Lincoln’s across as Music Patrons, Working Friends, and of the Cathedral. Canon God — to London and to was also the first and only Cathedral organ I Guides, I am looking Hampel will play a full part in the wider world.” have ever played when, in the Oundle School forward very much the life of the Cathedral and Michael Hampel studied Choir, we sang Evensong there, as we did also to meeting more of will contribute to its overall at the University of Durham in Peterborough, Ely, Coventry, and Lichfield. you as time goes by. mission as a place of prayer, before being ordained in the After being a choral scholar at the Please bear with us – pilgrimage, and debate. Diocese of Durham in 1993. University of Sussex under John Birch Heidi Le Grange and The Dean of St Paul’s After ordination he took up Cathedral, Rt Rev’d Graeme the role of Assistant Curate (whose own organ teacher was Sir John Patrick Wilkins me – as we pick up The Reverend Canon Dykes Bower), and graduating in French, the reins from Patrick, Knowles said: “We are Michael Hampel at Whitworth with St Paul’s my first job was helping to run the annual to whom I am most grateful for his unfailing delighted that Michael is Spennymor and St John’s Festivities arts festival in Chichester Cathedral support and for his magnificently thorough joining the Chapter here at St Paul’s as Kirk Merrington in Durham (1993 -1997). in 1983 and 1984. During this time I also handover notes! St Paul’s needs all our Canon Precentor. He comes to us with a He served as Minor Canon, Precentor, occasionally deputised as a Lay Clerk for continued support as much as ever and we wealth of Cathedral experience, having and Sacrist, at Durham Cathedral (1997- Alan Thurlow and we lived in Vicars Close. shall work hard to make you feel part of the been not only a Minor Canon at Durham, 2002) and was Senior Tutor and Director Fundraising for the NationalTrust followed Cathedral family and its circle of friends. For but also a Residentiary Canon at Bury St of Development at St Chad’s College, for the next 21 years, for houses such as what is a Cathedral without friendship? Edmunds, and latterly, Acting Dean.” The University of Durham (2002-2004). 2 DOME FROM ST PAUL’S – FEBRUARY 2011 DOME FROM ST PAUL’S – FEBRUARY 2011 3 Hitting the Right Note ROYAL GALA CONCERT The Music Foundation of St Paul’s is the largest and busiest of The Choristers’ Charity any of the UK’s forty three Anglican Cathedrals. Music forms In the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales a core part of many hundreds of services including timeless In aid of St Paul’s Cathedral St Paul’s Cathedral, choral evensongs, state and other special occasions and the mother church of concerts, every year. The music at St Paul’s is performed to the London diocese, the highest standards of excellence. It is regularly heard and has a long-standing appreciated by thousands at the Cathedral, and by further John Rutter – conductor tradition of music- millions across the country and with soloists including making: there has been worldwide through regular a choir of boy choristers and gentlemen singers radio and occasional television Dame Felicity Lott – soprano (Vicars Choral) at St broadcasts, recordings, and tours. Thursday 3 March 2011, 7pm Paul’s for over nine The Dean & Chapter make a centuries. Handel and unique commitment to cover in Mendelssohn both full the costs of up to thirty four played its organ, and boy choristers’ tuition fees at the Handel Zadok the Priest Jeremiah Clarke and Sir adjoining Cathedral School, in John Stainer are just two Mozart Laudate Dominum from ‘Solemn Vespers’ return for the boys’ and their Widor Toccata in F of its most illustrious Haydn The heavens are telling from ‘Creation’ former Organists. families’ commitment to fulfil the particularly demanding musical Mendelssohn O for the wings of a dove programme at St Paul’s. Haydn ‘Nelson’ Mass The boys gain vital life skills as they spend up to six of their formative years being trained to perform to professional Catherine Wyn-Rogers – mezzo-soprano standards of music, to work as a team and to lead the Andrew Carwood – tenor Cathedral’s worship.

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