PARISH NEWS JUNE 2021 the Villages of MARTON, SIDDINGTON, EATON, HULME WALFIELD, SWETTENHAM, CAPESTHORNE
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PARISH NEWS JUNE 2021 the villages of MARTON, SIDDINGTON, EATON, HULME WALFIELD, SWETTENHAM, CAPESTHORNE 500 reasons to celebrate at All Saints All Saints Church Siddington has a 500th anniversary to celebrate. Read more on page 7 CONTACTS Vicar: The Revd Ian Arch 01260 224447 <[email protected]> Church Office: [email protected] Readers: Doug Wisener 01260 274062 Diane Wisener 01260 274062 Howard Lawton 07798 828740 Reader Emeritus: Raymond Rush Churchwardens, Marton Barrie Nolan 01260 224076 Becky Barrow 01260 280170 Churchwardens, Siddington: Janet Billington 01260 224283 Kate Hipkins 01625 618889 Churchwarden, Eaton: Lynn McHugh 07881 935306 Deputy Churchwardens: Rebecca Ellston 01260 278952 (Hulme Walfield) David Morris 01260 273154 Churchwardens, Swettenham: Geoff Leech 01477 571889 John Gregory 01260 224902 Treasurers: Marton: David Worth 01260 224 466 Siddington: John Smith 01260 224790 Eaton with Hulme Walfield: Paul Hibbert 01260 278850 Swettenham: Geoff Leech 01477 571889 Magazine: Editors: Annabelle Birtles-Brown <[email protected]> Jennifer Morris <[email protected]> Jen Urquhart <[email protected]> Swettenham Copy: Hilary Andow <[email protected]> m Hard copy may be posted to the Vicarage. Copy for the July magazine should be received by Friday 18th June. 2 3 KEEPING IN TOUCH The quickest way to find out what’s going on locally is to install the Rural Daneside Churches app on your smart phone, if you have one. Go to your phone’s app store and search for “School Jotter”. When you’ve downloaded it, you can search for Rural Daneside Churches and choose which church(es) you want to hear from. We have a YouTube channel – Rural Daneside TV, where you can see our ministers talking to you. Go to YouTube and search for Rural Daneside Churches. Subscribe, so that you get notice of new videos. We have Facebook pages: @eatonandhulmewalfield @martonvillagecommunity @SwettenhamChurch @RuralDanesideChurches @wackyworship. Instagram, a way to share images rather than news: @ruraldanesidechurches. Don’t forget the basics – our webpages: The up-to-date websites are hosted by A Church Near You, the Church of England’s facility. To see the list of all our churches and find your way from one to the other: www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12764/benefice/ If you don’t have a smart phone and don’t have a Facebook account, are you happy for us to use email? Please send your email address to [email protected] If you don’t have access to the internet at all, please let us know if we can phone you with news. Phone 01260 224447 to give us your name and number. 4 SERVICES 6th June Marton 11.00am Parish Communion Siddington 8.45am Communion Eaton 9.45am All-Age Service Swettenham 6.30pm Evensong 13th June Siddington 10.00am Parish Communion Eaton 9.45am Morning Prayer Swettenham 11.30am Parish Communion 20th June Marton 11.00am Morning Prayer Siddington 8.45am Communion Eaton 9.45am Parish Communion Swettenham 6.30pm Compline Communion 27th June Siddington 10.00am Animal Service Eaton 9.45am Communion Hulme Walfield 11.30am Family Communion Swettenham 11.30am Morning Prayer (Petertide) Thursday 10am Communion services will continue to be streamed live on Zoom, but will not be held at Marton Church until further notice. Zoom details for services: Meeting ID 829 7421 4861, Passcode 2021, <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82974214861? pwd=cXpaa2tWS2lkSUt0RXkzYnlyRmhHUT09> For those using telephones: 0203 901 7895 or 0131 460 1196 Meeting ID: 829 7421 4861 Passcode: 2021 5 Dear Friends, Do you remember Kodak? They were everywhere in my youth, but almost entirely invisible today. So many of our family memories were captured on Kodak film – ‘Kodak Moments’ as their adverts described them. Oh, the memories of film cannisters, of struggling to wind on a new roll of film, and waiting for the photos to be developed and print- ed… Where are Kodak today? Well, they are still (just) in business, but I don’t remember when last I saw them. Their business was destroyed by the move from film to digital cameras. But here is the really curious thing: do you know who invented the digital camera? Will you believe me if I tell you it was Kodak? I keep thinking about Kodak as I think about our villages and churches. Although Kodak told us they were in the capturing memories business, when it came down to it, their management and structures believed they were in the photographic film business – and there was no place in that for digital cameras. So what about us and our villages? As vaccines and distancing measures start to pay off, and as we begin rebuilding normal life, it’s worth thinking about how we do things. We say that our villages are about strong communities and close neighbours. We believe our churches are about genuine spirituality and a kingdom of love. But, it can be all to easy to cling to the old structures hoping this will preserve what we had before. In a fast changing world we all need to do things differently if we are to hold on to what matters. In lockdowns we realised more than ever how important local is, and how precious our ‘Village Moments’ are. As things get busier again, in the new post-Covid world, I hope that we can hold on to, and improve, our local life. I’m sure we will need to be creative at times to do so – but can’t wait to see you all again in our shared communities. Ian. 6 500th anniversary is worth celebrating – but not just yet! 1521 was a very significant year in the religious life of the church in England. The Pope (England was a Catholic country at the time) made King Henry VIII Defender of the Faith, and a small chapel in the Cheshire countryside was consecrated, allowing it to be used for some religious ceremonies. King Henry’s relationship with the Catholic Church went rapidly down- hill a few years later, however, and he broke away in 1533, so beginning the creation of the Church of England, and heralding a tumultuous period in the religious life of the country. The newly-consecrated All Saints Church, Siddington, however, sailed serenely through the various upheavals of Henry’s reign as he began dissolving the country’s monasteries, and this year celebrates the 500th anniversary of its consecration. There has almost certainly been a chapel on the site serving the God- fearing folk of Siddington dating back much earlier than 1521 as records show a chapel mentioned in wills from the 1330s and 1474. It was probably a Chapel of Ease to the ‘mother church’ of Prestbury, and/or possibly a chapel attached to nearby Siddington Hall. The church was licensed for burials in 1721, but local people had to wait until 1883 to be allowed to marry there. It was built in the striking half-timbered fashion of the day, all of which still exists, although a great deal is hidden within a brick ‘sandwich’ built in Victorian times, when the congregation realised that the heavy stone roof they had installed to replace the original thatch was making the walls unstable, and used the brickwork to support the roof. It was that which eventually led to the church adopting its curious, even eccentric, painted walls inside replicating the original black and white, and also partially outside, which gives the building a unique charm. The years haven’t always been kind to All Saints, however. It fell into disrepair at one stage and was rescued from a sorry fate by some timely TLC which subsequent generations have endeavoured to continue. The church has seen many monarchs come and go since Henry’s day, weathered the Civil War, welcomed countless generations of worship- pers through its doors, and lost many of its sons to two world wars, but 7 few events down the centuries can have had such a dramatic effect on church life as the coronavirus pandemic. It is difficult to believe that the church doors, along with those of every other church, were locked and bolted for a few traumatic months last year. Even when the church was allowed to reopen, restrictions have continued to affect worship at All Saints, and indeed at every other church. So planned celebrations to mark 500 years of history have had to be put on hold, and instead All Saints is planning to mark the 501st year of its consecration (more lockdowns notwithstanding!) in 2022. Look out for more details. Article by Peter Kent Every oval shape contains a different letter of the alphabet from A to K inclusive. Use the clues to determine their locations. Reference in the clues to ‘due’ means in any location along the same horizontal or vertical line C is due east of H, which is due south of B. F is due west of D, which is due south of E. I is due east of F, which is due north of H. G is due west of A, which is Answer due north of I. page 25 J is due south of K. 8 The Reverend Dr. John Roskilly Tribute to the late Dr John When Dr John, as he was universally known, came to us in 1986 he found himself dealing with parishes which had been through many years of uncertainty and problems, with no incumbent, no vicarage, and having faced a period where there had been little prospect of how the situation could be resolved. Into this really difficult situation came a kind, gentle soul, with his equally lovely wife, Liz, and together they quickly estab- lished themselves as “Just what the doctor ordered”! They were both eternally patient and cheerful, even when coping with the quirks of the new vicarage, and John quickly gained a strong reputation both as a dedicated churchman and for his excellent parish work and the empathy he showed to all.