Cathedral Echo News and views from the Minster Easter 1989 Floral view a real delight EASTER daffodils outside the Trust where it was reset into the precious stained glass from Cathedral are made even lovlier new lead. the effects of the elements for this year by the emergence of On its return to Lincoln it was many hundreds of years," said the building's east end from its replaced in its original position, Mark Dicken, co-ordinator of the veil of scaffolding. but this time double-glazed not Cathedral's Fabric Fund. The scaffolding has been in with familiar sheets of glass but It has taken five years to position for at least five years with clear glass panels cut to complete the project for just two during which time restoration match the stained-glass shapes windows positioned on either work has been carried out on the behind them. side of the great east window. east aisle windows. Plans are now in hand to carry "There is no evidence to the out similar restoration and Druing this time the medieval naked eye that the windows protection work on other pre- stained glass was removed and have been double-glazed. cious stained-glass windows in sent to the Canterbury Glaziers' "But it is hoped it will protect the Cathedral. Preparing for a new challenge CATHEDRAL staff are Lincoln and met the Bishop tramps and university stu- Provost Jackson said he busy preparing for the and his wife they changed dents. was looking forward to his May installation of the their minds and are now both From there he went to installation on May 12. "I am Dean-elect, the Very looking forward to it very Shipley where he also itching to get on with the job. much. worked for Yorkshire Tele- My guess is I will be Rev Brandon Jackson, vision for 10 years, as wel1 as • A spectacular view of the Cathedral's east end He is already anticipating particularly concerned with who says he is just it- keeping up his parish work. Lincoln wil1 be entirely dif- holding the whole team He and his wife, Mary, ching to arrive and get on ferent from Bradford where together." have three children: Tim (29) with the job. he has spent the past 11 Angle who works as a butler at Minster At present he is Provost of years. Buckingham Palace; Robert Speaking of how he would Bradford Cathedral which, he "Bradford has an 27) who is married and who feet taking over fo• explained ia she as a 040■1111Nifpiplarixem**ss egmes suffered enormous un- the chinch; and Sarah (24), a for one of employment through the nurse who is also married and to BB his shoes in the sense out of the ancient foundations such contraction of the wool in- with her doctor husband that I am the new Dean. But I as Lincoln. dustry of which it is still the hoping to work for the do feel very inadequate. Provost Jackson said he centre. Church Missionary Society "However, we are very the dark was completely overwhelmed different and I will be You give up things "From what I have seen of for three years. when he received the 1etter approaching the job from a AS duskdusk falls on Easter Day, Lincoln, I anticipate it will be Unlike the Dean Emeritus, asking him to consider different angle so it wil1 be a city counci1 engineer will a much slower pace of life the Very Rev Oliver Fiennes when you buy becoming Dean of Lincoln. difficult to compare us." alter all the timeswitches on although I don't really know the Dean-elect and his wife Despite his initial re- the Cathedral's floodlighting. a Wrights' Conservatory... what that means," he said. will not be living in the Keeping This wil1 enable the building Before we went to Brad- Deanery. luctance to take the post, "I was just wondering who to be illuminated after the ford, Provost Jackson was "We came to look at it and Provost Jackson and his wife would take over from Oliver are now very excited about long darkness of Lent. vicar of St Peter's Church in we honestly didn't know how Fiennes when the letter ar- they managed to live there all the prospect Shipley for 12 years. Switching on the lights, rived from number 10 asking these years. It is so huge and "1 am looking forward to which are arranged in banks me if I would consider it," he Born in Cheshire he has demonstrating the relevance cold," he explained. of 10 or 12, has to be stag- said. spent all his working life in of the Christian Gospel to a Instead they will be living gered. This helps to reduce At first, Provost Jackson Yorkshire starting as a curate in Minster Yard until a house city which is so dominated by the burden on the 1ocal elec- had been reluctant. But after at St George's in Leeds next to the Bishop's is ready the physical stature of the tricity supply. he and his wife Mary came to where he worked among for them. Cathedral itself, - he said. Exhibition idea 4••• proves a winner •••'' SPRINGTIME visitors to the Arts and local sponsors to fund Cathedral are all benefiting resident artists, Medina from an idea thought up by Hammed, to work on the ...Things like rotting, rusting, Bailgate butcher, Larry Cathedral Awareness Cam- corroding, painting and draughts. Dickens. paign. Mr Dickens suggested he Miss Hammad's enthusiasm For a more carefree, maintenance should make a donation to the took her into numerous schools free, problem free life style, choose Cathedral which could be used and colleges in the county. as a contribution towards Scholars and students in turn Wrights' conservatories for extra funding a programme by which visited the Cathedral where space and warmth. Made and today's city and county child- they experienced its imposing ren became the well-informed presence at first hand. installed by the experts. adults of tomorrow. The result of this work is the Now open seven days a week. Now the ideal has come to exhibition of paintings and fruition with an exhibition of pottery which completely fills children's art taking place in the North Transept. WRFGHT the North Transept between The exhibition was opened WINDOW SYSTEMS now and the end of April. by the Archdeacon, the Ven As well as Mr Dickens's do- Christopher Lawrence, and Outer Circle Road Showroom, Lincoln nation, additional funding, was children from William Farr Tel. 0522 512941 obtained through the Cathe- School at Welton and • Larry Dickens and Medina Hammad selecting exhibits to be put dral's Preservation Council, Dunholme Primary School on display in the North Transept. Lincolnshire and Humberside provided entertainment INDEX: Men of the choir 3. Parish profile 4-5. New angel 6. Detroit churches 7 Page 2 CATHEDRAL ECHO Medieval facade shields a vast array of bureaucracy Fulfilling key role in diocese link with people WHEN you are admiring by ulations, it is also his respon- the splendid sight of the Judy Theobald sibility to approve any plans Cathedral it is easy to for alterations to church forget it is still the centre buildings. It's an approval which leads to the granting of clergymen. My place of work of a large and busy dio- an Archdeacon's Certificate is not in the Cathedral but out cese. an essential requirement in the parishes so I am known before any work can begin. Behind the medieval facade as the 'almost always absent • Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln from 1885- of many of its buildings there Archdeacon," he said. Running is a huge modern office 1910 1n his role he is responsible system consisting of ac- Again, although he has along with the Bishop for countants, lawyers and advisers in this area, over the appointing clergy within his secretaries all involved in the past five years he has also had Archdeaconry. Picture tribute day-to-day running of this to acquire a great deal of diocese. "While the Bishop is knowledge himself and is Linking this bureaucracy to looking at the candidate from now not only conversant with • The almost always absent Archdeacon, the to kind bishop the people it serves, are the a pastoral point of view, I many modern buiding regu- Ven Christopher Lawrence three Archdeacons of have to be working out if the lations, he is familiar with AT Grantham in May 1907 when Bishop King Lindsey, Lincoln and Stowe. vicarage will be big enough medieval building terms as dedicated the Church of St Anne a 16-year-old Of these, the Archdeacon of for his family," he well. of the Cathedral without the county often with tiny apprentice photographer, Walter Lee, had been Lindsey actually lives in the explained. Although he lives very near having any direct involve- congregations but it is instructed by his employer to obtain a picture. shadow of the Cathedral. The Archdeacon is also the Cathedral he is not di- ment. Because I have no amazing to see what lengths The equipment needed at that time was, of The Ven Christopher involved when things go rectly involved with its day- vested interest in any specific these congregations are course, somewhat cumbersome and was set up Lawrence has held the posi- wrong. When there are dis- to-day running. part of the Cathedral's daily prepared to go to keep their outside the parish room where the Bishop was to tion of Archdeacon of putes or when parishes have "As a canon, when I am in life I am able to bring an churches alive.