Winchester Cathedral Record 2018 Number 87 Friends of Winchester Cathedral 2 The Close, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9LS 01962 857 245 [email protected] www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk Registered Charity No. 220218 Friends of Winchester Cathedral 2018 “My solicitor Royal Patron Her Majesty the Queen Patron The Right Reverend Tim Dakin, Lord Bishop of Winchester ticks all the boxes” President The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester Ex Officio Vice-Presidents Nigel Atkinson Esq, HM Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire The Mayor of Winchester Ms Jean Ritchie QC, Chairman of the Cathedral Council Honorary Vice-President Mo Hearn THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bruce Parker, Chairman Julian Hartwell, Vice-Chairman David Fellowes, Treasurer Efficient Anne Newsome, Tom Watson John Lankester, Geoff Howard Natalie Shaw, Nigel Spicer Focused Ex Officio Chapter Trustees The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester The Reverend Canon Sue Wallace, Precentor and Sacrist Approachable Annabelle Boyes, Receiver General STAFF Friendly Lucy Hutchin, Director Lesley Mead Dodie Napier Professional Friends’ Prayer Most glorious Lord of life, Who gave to your disciples the precious name of friends: accept our thanks for this Cathedral Church, built and adorned to your glory and alive with prayer and grant that its company of Friends GODWINS SOLICITORS LLP may so serve and honour you in this life ESTABLISHED 1823 that they come to enjoy the fullness of your promises BASED IN WINCHESTER, SERVING CLIENTS ACROSS THE UK within the eternal fellowship of your grace; and this we ask for your name’s sake. Amen. 12 St Thomas Street, Winchester SO23 9HF 01962 841484 [email protected] www.godwins-law.co.uk Welcome A Memorable Year This was the year that so much of the latest restoration, conservation and building work in the Cathedral came to glorious fruition. For The Friends, after so many months, at last the sheets and scaffolding disappeared to reveal, in all their splendid glory, the projects we have supported in the presbytery. The East Window has been released from its hiding place and the result, partly funded by The Friends, is devastatingly beautiful. The dismantling of the scaffolding also allowed the Great Screen to be cleaned for the first time in more than a century. Thank you to you all for your continued support. Your regular subscriptions enable The Friends to continue to underpin the Cathedral in so many essential ways. I hope you share the absolute delight of the Trustees in being able to make just a small difference to this incredible building and its wonderful community. After six admirable years as Director, we were sad to say goodbye to Lesley Bestwick who has chosen to move on to a challenging role with a Southampton charity. Her hard work has left a lasting mark on our organisation and all our thanks go to her. However, we are delighted, of course, to welcome Lucy Hutchin as her successor. Bruce Parker Chairman Winchester cathedral record 2018 3 Contents A message from the dean 5 Almost all revealed 6 Nick Cox, Cathedral Architect A second Ogle at the Deanery 10 A Year of Exciting discoveries 12 Dr John Crook, Cathedral Archaeologist Listening, not talking… 17 Canon Nick Fennemore on his role as Cathedral Chaplain The Great Screen Clean 19 Fake Cathedral News? 20 The unreal story of the Walker Statue Events 24 The Year in Figures 26 Martin Reid MBE 28 A tribute Office News 30 Cathedral and College – 1918 33 Memories of the Great War Queen Elizabeth’s Winchester Carol 40 Recent projects 42 Supported by the friends AGM Minutes 46 Financial Activities 48 Record Extra 50 Christmas Cards 51 Our Membership 52 Joint Editors – Bruce Parker and Lucy Hutchin Cover photo of Girl Choristers – Jim Pascoe Design and print – talkdesignandprint.com Many other photos by kind permission of Simon Newman and John Crook 4 Winchester cathedral record 2018 TheA message Deafrom n Catherine Ogle " The past year has been one of great achievement. " As the high scaffolding and barriers came down at Easter the marvellous glories of the conserved Cathedral have been revealed. It has been a great joy to see Presbytery ceiling and bosses afresh, for the first time in four years and with over a hundred years of dust removed, the Great Screen has been restored in its luminous beauty, with thanks to the generous grant from The Friends. This is a significant and encouraging time for Winchester Cathedral. We are coming to the fulfilment of major building conservation projects, with stunning new exhibitions due to be new home. You can read more about unveiled next Easter. We can anticipate this later in The Record. growing visitor numbers and our My grateful thanks go to you, The aspiration is that cathedral ministry Friends of Winchester Cathedral, for will engage with ever-widening the lively part that you play in the life audiences. We aspire to share our faith, of the cathedral and for all that you its heritage and life today with greater contribute to our sense of community impact, inclusion and engagement. and well-being. This is also a significant time for all So thank you Friends for your hours English cathedrals as spiritual heritage of support, for your work and your and beauty of worship continue to enthusiasm for Winchester Cathedral. attract increasing numbers of visitors Thank you to Bruce Parker for his and seekers. Chairmanship of The Friends. Thank On a personal note, having camped you to Lesley Bestwick and now Lucy for a year in a lovely cottage on Dome Hutchin and to the team. It is a great Alley, we have finally moved into the joy to be Dean of Winchester and Deanery and are delighted with our President of The Friends. Winchester cathedral record 2018 5 Almost all revealed Nick Cox, Cathedral Architect In the last year the quantity of building the new sound system. Beyond the activity proceeding within the Cathedral Cathedral itself, a significant contract has been as remarkable as in previous has also been undertaken at the years; several areas of the HLF project Deanery which has not been subject to have reached completion and other such attention for several decades. works have commenced, notably on Last year, this annual report recorded the north transept and north presbytery that the work to the polychrome aisle windows and the installation of bosses of the presbytery vault had been carried out. The results of this work, and the repainting of the vault fields and ribs, has now been revealed for all to see with the scaffold having been dismantled in the first months of 2018. It is now possible to look up once again and take in the full height of the presbytery and enjoy the light coming through the clerestory windows. It was during this last year that the conservation of the stained glass was completed by Holy Well Glass together with the associated stone repairs. The study of the limewash on south window 2 and south window 3 and trials on how to deal with it have yielded very pleasing results. Much of it, where on unpainted glass, could be removed but removal on painted lines was not possible without affecting the mediaeval paint itself. As such, the limewash has been left on the painted lines but the extent to which it might be damaging in the future is now mitigated by the external protective glazing. This prevents the condensation that was a significant component of the Stained glass completion decay process. 6 Winchester cathedral record 2018 Almost all revealed Presbytery vault and bosses The stonework of the presbytery, above gallery level, was all vacuumed down and more stubborn areas of grime were carefully removed by a conservator. The stonework of the window mullions and traceries was given a very thin coat of limewash by Trevor Hills from the Works Yard. The final effort in the stone cleaning and limewashing of the traceries was guided by trying to achieve an New tracery stonework being pieced overall balance in the appearance of into the north transept windows the presbytery whereby it appears coherent and cared for but still tells of craftsmanship is outstanding and in its great age and history. places, such as the canopies over the One of the last activities undertaken doors to the feretory, small traces during the dismantling of the scaffold of the polychrome paint that once in the presbytery was the cleaning covered the screen can be seen. down of the Great Screen. Undertaken In the south transept a huge amount of by McNeilage Conservation, the work has been carried out. The building transformation has been remarkable. work is now nearing completion in The build up of dust was thick and its readiness for the exhibition fit out – a removal has revealed the crispness major contract in itself. Since last year and fineness of the carved stone. The the lift has now been fully installed with Winchester cathedral record 2018 7 Almost all revealed Mezzanine balcony From the mezzanine the route up to the triforium continues past the new choir vestries and lavatory – a lavatory worth mention given the extensive work required to install the drainage route for it (and the new lavatories in the Song School) all the way across the Inner Glass clad lift with woven bronze mesh Close to connect up just outside the inter layer Judges’ Lodgings! The reconfiguration of the space outside the Morley Library its glass cladding and woven bronze has created a more generous route mesh; a first ride in the lift was a real to the triforium and the craftsmanship marker in time for all those involved brought to bear on construction of the with the complexity of its construction.