Truro Cathedral Author(s): Dotted Crotchet Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 44, No. 726 (Aug. 1, 1903), pp. 513-520 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/903954 Accessed: 17-03-2016 12:42 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Musical Times Publications Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 144.122.201.150 on Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:42:23 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.-AUGUST I, I903. 5I3 THE MUSICAL TIMES Whatever may have been 'the neatnes of buyldinges' which caught the eye of old John AND SINGING-CLASS CIRCULAR. Norden, the architectural features of Truro in AUGUST i, 1903. the present day are not of supreme interest, the Cathedral, of course, excepted. Truro can however claim to be one of the oldest towns in TRURO CATHEDRAL. England. As at Wells, a stream of water runs through its principal streets, though 'A prety compacted towne, well peopled its raison d'etre is not so obvious as in the and wealthye marchauntes .... There is Somersetshire city. not a towne in the weste parte of the Shyre Let us for a moment or two turn from the more comendable for neatnes of buyldinges, buildings and the silently flowing stream to some and for beyng served of all kynde of distinguished Truronians. Taking them in necessaries; nor more discomendable for chronological order, we begin with one who had Pryde of the people.' the least enviable reputation-Samuel Foote Thus wrote John Norden concerning Truro (I720-77), the actor and dramatist. So keen three hundred years ago. If the old topographer was his wit that even serious Dr. Johnson was had stood in the streets of the Cornish capital obliged to lay down his knife and fork and forego on the middle day of July in the third year of his dinner in order to laugh: 'The dog was so the 2oth century, he would probably not very comical-no, sir, he was irresistible,' said BOSCAWEN BRIDGE, TRURO. (Photo by Mr. F. H. Tims, Truro.) have applied the term 'discomendable' to the the great lexicographer. Foote, though he little 'Pryde of the people': verily they have deserved the honour, was buried by torchlight in something to be proud of! the West cloister of Westminster Abbey. The Before treating of the principal feature of 'prince of enamellers,' Henry Bone, R.A. (I755- the little city-that stately pile now standing I834), first saw the light at Truro. Not a few in the midst of its narrow streets, its beautiful of the 500 products of his brush-now so eagerly new Cathedral-we may consider something of sought after by collectors-came into existence interest other than the strictly ecclesiastical. at I5, Berners Street, London, where he lived. This content downloaded from 144.122.201.150 on Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:42:23 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.-AUGUST I, 1903. 5I4 A fine example of Bone's work may be seen in specimen of Renaissance monumental art of the Jacobean period, decorated with emblematic the National Gallery-his large enamel 'Bacchus and Ariadne,' after Titian, sold for 2,200 guineas! figures such as Time, Death and the like, and Of saintly Henry Martyn, the martyr-missionary having semi-recumbent figures clad in the (I78I-I812), more anon. A statue in Lemon costumes of the day, the whole executed in fine alabaster and marble of different colours. Street, Truro, commemorates one of its dis- About a century ago this monument needed tinguished natives-Richard Lemon Lander restoration. The work was duly carried out, (I804-34), the great explorer of the Niger and central Africa. Lander received his second and upon its completion the mason employed made out his bill thuswise: name because on the day of his (Lander's) birth Colonel Lemon won the contested election for To putting one new foot to Mr. John Robartes, mending the other, putting seven new buttons to his the borough. Who was Colonel Lemon ? He coat, and mending his breeches knees. was a native of Truro, and the composer of one To two feet to his wife Phillipa, mending her eyes, of the best double chants, an amateur product and putting a new nosegay in her hand. that has found its way into almost every To two new hands and a new nose to the captain. collection. It first appeared in John Marsh's To two new hands, and mending the nose of his 'The Cathedral Chant Book,' and is dated wife, repairing her eyes, and putting two new cuffs 'I790.' We give the chant in its original to her gown. form:- To making and fitting two new wings on Time's shoulders, and making a new great toe, mending the handle of his scythe, and putting a new blade to it. ^Vnj^4 J.^JK- V.....I s K_0 7 6 7 7I 6' 6N I7 6T6B 7 6 6 87 665 4 3 This familiar little church-tune naturally leads us back to our main point-Truro Cathedral. All other English Cathedrals are haloed with historical interest. Truro has its history to make, and the generations yet unborn will yield the material and the historians. There were Bishops of Cornwall in the long, long ago: their names are on record from circa 865 to I046. In the latter year the See was merged into that of Exeter, and so remained for over eight hundred years. More than one attempt had been fruitlessly made in the Igth century to revive the ancient See of Cornwall, but the magnificent gift of 40o,ooo by Lady Rolle towards an endowment brought the matter to a practical issue, with the result that the late Edward White Benson, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, was consecrated the first Bishop of Truro on St. Mark's Day, I877. One of the first acts of the new Bishop was THE BAPTISTERY. to set about the building of a mother-church for IN MEMORIAM-HENRY MARTYN. his diocese. It was decided to erect the new (Photo by Mr. F. H. Tims, Truro.) Cathedral on the site of St. Mary's Church, Truro, as that i6th century edifice sadly needed The foundation stones of Truro Cathedral- restoration. The late Mr. J. L. Pearson, R.A. the first English cathedral, be it observed, was elected architect of the proposed fane, and founded and built since the Reformation-were he, with much skill, incorporated into the new laid with great ceremony by King Edward VII. building the South aisle of the old church. (then Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall) Some of the ancient monuments have found a on May 20, 1880. The erection of the Choir, place in Mr. Pearson's noble building. One, in Transepts, Baptistery, and a portion of two the north transept, is to the memory of a John bays of the Nave was completed in I887, and Robartes and his wife (I6I4). It is a remarkable consecrated on November 3 in that year by This content downloaded from 144.122.201.150 on Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:42:23 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE MUSICAL TIMES.--AUcUsT I, I903. 5I5 :__ :_ i_ _ i_ 1~~~~~~~~~~~1 t. ._ . :N~~~~~~~~~~;-~~r ,F , iilil ! :: 5 .t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~C This content downloaded from 144.122.201.150 on Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:42:23 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 516 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-AUGUST I, I903. the second Bishop of Truro (Dr. G. H. elaborately treated and recessed under gabled Wilkinson), now Bishop of St. Andrews. On arches, the tympana being filled with sculpture that occasion the choir of Ioo voices was -not, as in many ancient examples, representing conducted by Mr. (now Dr.) G. R. Sinclair, the Doom or kindred subjects, but more while Mr. (now Dr.) C. H. Lloyd presided at naturally exhibiting our Lord in His acts of the fine organ erected by Father Willis. The mercy and love. A statue of King Edward VII. following is a specification of the instrument, finds a prominent and appropriate place in the situated, as our illustration on p. 5I9 shows, in West front. the triforium, the organist also occupying that Upon entering the sacred edifice one is struck elevated position:- with its splendid proportions no less than its perfect symmetry. Nothing offends the eye, GREAT ORGAN (12 stops). Feet Feet. and one is hardly conscious of the newness of Double Diapason ... ... 6 Twelfth ... 3 the stonew6rk, so riveted is the attention on Open Diapason ... 8 Fifteenth ... 2 Open Diapason 8 Mixture (3 ranks) ... the satisfying harmonization of the whole with Claribel ... i6 ... 8 Double Trumpet ... its constituent parts. ' A great success,' remarked 8 Principal ... 4 Tromba ... Flfte Harmonique ... 4 Clarion ... 4 an experienced journalist to the present writer, a SWELL ORGAN (13 stops). verdict that tersely summarizes one's own Geigen Principal ..