SPIRE
2009
The Seventy-Ninth Annual Report of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral
The Friends of the Cathedral are most grateful to those listed below who by
their generous contributions have assisted in the production of this Report
The National Trust
www.ashmills.com
photographic services
also photo restoration and retouching
Tel: 0777 590 6634
email: [email protected]
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Association
We organise lectures, outings and social events
for the benefit of members and to raise funds
for National Trust projects in Wessex
Contact: Mrs S K Evans Tel: 01722 328050
I N Newman Ltd
Neal’s Yard Remedies
Funeral Directors & Monumental Masons
Natural toiletries and natural medicine
55 Winchester Street
Salisbury, Wilts
SP1 1HL
Tel: 01722 413136
27 Market Place, Salisbury SP1 1TL
Tel: 01722 340736
email: [email protected]
Parker Bullen
Jacqui Elkins
Solicitors, Notaries Public
and Associate Trade Mark Attorneys
45 Castle Street
Salisbury, Wiltshire. SP1 3SS
Tel: 01722 412000
Book-keeping Payroll Administration
Unit 29 Downton Industrial Estate
Batten Road, Downton, Salisbury SP5 3HU
Tel: 01725 513710 Fax: 01725 513715
email: [email protected]
Sampson Coward
Woolley & Wallis
CONTENTS
Page
Page
4
Officers and Members of the
Executive Council
22 17th Century Life and Strife at
Salisbury Cathedral
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The Bishop of Salisbury
32 Friends’ Visit to Rutland 2008
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The Dean
35 Friends’ Day Programme and AGM
11 The Cathedral Architect’s Report
36 Report of the Executive Counci
and Accounts
12 Grants made to Cathedral:
2008-2009
39 Minutes of the Annual General
Meeting 2008
13 Cathedral Music 2008-2009
Solicitors – specialists in family
and employment law
2 St Thomas’s Square, Salisbury SP1 1BA
Tel: 01722 410664
Chartered Surveyors
51 – 61 Castle Street, Salisbury SP1 3SU
Tel: 01722 424524 Fax: 01722 424533
email: [email protected]
www.w-w.co.uk
The Medieval Hall
Coombe Caravan Park
A special venue for public and private events
Static & Touring Pitches
Race Plain, Netherhampton, Salisbury
Wilts SP2 8PN
Tel: 01722 328451
email: [email protected]
The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EY
Tel: 01722 324731
e.mail: [email protected]
www.medieval-hall.co.uk
Arundells
59 The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EN
Home of former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath
House open for pre-booked guided tours only with access to the garden
Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, April to October
Telephone 01722 326546 www.arundells.org
43 New Members
17 Cathedral Prayer
44 Obituary 2008 – 2009
20 The 750th Anniversary Academic
Conference
45 Objects of the Friends
The Editors record their grateful thanks to all our contributors, regular and occasional;
and for the photographs to Ash Mills (inc front and back covers), Michael Drury
(pages 11 and 12) and Rodney Targett.
Printed by Sarum Colourview Ltd, Unit 8, The Woodford Centre, Old Sarum, Salisbury SP4 6BU.
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BEQUESTS
Making a charitable bequest in favour of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral
contributes a lasting and important addition to the funding the Friends can
make available to support the Cathedral.
This year we have been very fortunate to receive bequests totalling
£100,928.64 from the following Friends:
Phyllis Lough, Eunice Freda Phillips, Dennis M Hilliard, Christine Mary Holmes,
Pamela Pauline Young, Mary Edmond.
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OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
at 31 March 2009
PATRONS
The Rt Revd The Lord Bishop of Salisbury
The Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
The Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
PRESIDENT
The Very Revd The Dean of Salisbury
VICE-PRESIDENTS
The Very Revd Hugh Dickinson, Dean Emeritus of Salisbury
The Very Revd Derek Watson, Dean Emeritus of Salisbury
The Chairman, Salisbury District Council
The Mayor of Salisbury
Chairman
Lt Col Hugh D. H. Keatinge OBE
Honorary Treasurer
Mr Ian R. McNeil
Membership Secretary
Mr John Kennerley (co-opted 2008)
Elected Members
Miss Sally Vaughan OBE
Mr Ian Henderson
Mr Paul Williams
Mr Kenneth de Vere-Lorrain MBE
Mrs Kate Weale (from November 2008)
Mr Ian Hutton-Penman (from November 2008)
Archdeaconry Representatives
Sherborne: Mrs Ruth Binney
Dorset: The Very Revd John Seaford
Sarum: Lt Col Hugh D. H. Keatinge OBE
Wilts: vacant
Chapter’s Representative
The Revd Canon Mark Bonney
Secretary
Mrs Kate Beckett
Editors of Spire
Mr Anthony and Mrs Kate Weale
The Association is registered with the Charity Commission No 243439
Registered office: 52 The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EL
Telephone: 01722 335161/555190
e-mail: [email protected]
www.salisburycathedralfriends.co.uk
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THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY
We live at a time when the focus of the world’s
attention is – at last – moving towards the
sustainability of human life. The wars of the
future, they say, will not be over territory so
much as over increasingly scarce resources, like
water. Here, the living waters springing from
the cathedral’s new font are a constant
reminder of our call to be refreshed and
renewed in our understanding of the
elemental interdependence of all life. As we
contemplate our call to be living temples of
the Spirit, we need to remind ourselves that
the very stones of which the cathedral is built tell the story of the
interdependence of living organisms. Though mainly constructed from Jurassic
limestone quarried at Chilmark, eighteen miles west of Salisbury, the columns
and many of the clustered shafts and carvings are made from Purbeck marble.
Purbeck marble, a dark grey fossilly limestone, is found only in thin beds on the
Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. It was deposited in marine and freshwater conditions
in the Jurassic and the Cretaceous periods. The Lower, Middle and Upper
Purbeck Beds formed approximately 155-45 million years ago, when mollusc,
fish and reptile remains as well as fossilised dinosaur footprints were deposited in
shallow seas, lagoons and fresh water. Though not a true marble, it can take a
fine polish, which is why it is so widely used in our churches. First exploited by
the Romans, it can be found as far afield as Lincoln, York and Westminster,
though Salisbury has more than any other. Its characteristic appearance comes
from densely-packed shells of the freshwater snail Viviparus, laid down
repeatedly in waves between soft clay and mud.
So the stone which supports the cathedral, which beautifies it and makes it
famous, is the product of teeming aquatic life which has then become part of a
later landlocked life before disappearing, only to re-emerge after many
millennia, when extracted by human beings. The life that lies at the heart of the
stone has a continuing life of its own. Through the ages its hidden fossils and
footprints have been discovered by quarrymen hard at work splitting open the
layers of stone, a reminder of the origins of this once hidden life.
Of course the stones which make up the cathedral are themselves still changing
and breathing, reacting to the elements which bathe them in scorching heat
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one day, in cold and rain the next; to the touch of countless hands or the steps
of endless feet. So much so that many are gradually replaced one by one, just as
all our body cells are replaced every seven years or so. So while the major repair
programme, which it is hoped to complete by 2015, may one day let us see the
cathedral without scaffolding, that vision of perfection will not last for ever: it
will always be changing.
All this teeming life in the stones that surround us comes from the waters, just as
we do when we emerge from our baptism into life with all its possibilities, life
with God. We are becoming the living temples of God’s Spirit we are called to
be; always changing till we die. In our Baptism we became agents of change for
God in the world, to carry his life into the lives of others. That is how we
become fully alive, recalling the words of St Irenaus, ‘the glory of God is a
human being fully alive.’
As we gaze on the tiny fossils in the cathedral’s pillars, be thankful to be part of
a chain of everlasting change, and embrace that change boldly.
THE DEAN
‘Isn’t this a simply terrible time to be trying
to fund-raise?’
It feels as if this is the question I have been
asked most often in the first half of this
year. The ‘credit crunch’ and the cold
financial climate which has the world in its
grip are frightening prospects, taking their
toll both on the lives of individuals and on
businesses, charities and the public purse.
Many of our Friends will have had their own
disposable incomes cut savagely by the
collapse of the stock market, or they will have watched anxiously as offspring
have been made redundant, property prices have declined or public services
begin to be withdrawn. We care deeply about the effects such events have on
the lives of individuals. We also want to encourage certain changes in wider
society prompted by the collapse of the economy, asking what kind of
confidence we should have in the future. What shared understanding do we
have of what is worthwhile, of shared values that aren’t simply monetary, and
how do we encourage virtues of character such as prudence, temperance and
fortitude? You would expect the Cathedral to play a part in reshaping the
national attitude towards what is a ‘good life’.
At the same time such events also make the Cathedral’s life more vulnerable.
Our finances, like that of most households, survive because of income from a
number of different sources. People in past generations generously endowed the
Cathedral with funds, the capital of which we cannot touch, but the interest
produces a crucial income stream for our day to day budget needs. You will
realise that the amount we are receiving from these investments is a great deal
less this year than it was last year.
From the Cathedral Flower Festival, June 2008, masterminded by Michael Bowyer
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Another major element of our income is the donations from visitors and the
money they spend whilst they are with us, for instance having lunch in the
Refectory, buying gifts in the shop, or because of the efforts of those such as our
magnificent tower tour guides. Thanks also to our Marketing and Visitors
Department – David, Fiona, Lesley, Liane, Michelle and Sarah – we continue to
attract and care for our visitors in a professional and Christian way, but all our
guests will be thinking carefully about how much they spend this summer. Since
their donations make up 45% of all our income, any new thriftiness may well
influence how much we receive. The same will also be true for other benefactors
and the gifts upon which we rely to sustain and extend our life. Our entire
budget depends on this generosity because we receive virtually nothing from
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public funding, local or national government. Even the possibility of grants from
English Heritage towards the conservation of the building has now vanished.
Similarly we receive nothing from any church sources except the stipend of
three of the clergy from the Church Commissioners.
None of this should allow us to ignore the great needs that are around us and
press upon us as a Christian community. This year sees the Cathedral work more
strenuously in the cause of social justice, because we believe that our calling is to
work on behalf of the needy both here in Salisbury and in parts of the world,
like the Sudan, where our privations are as nothing to their poverty. We were
told earlier in the year that it would be necessary for £5 billion to be taken off
the public services of this country, and we cannot face that level of cutbacks
without its changing the nature of our communities. Neighbours and friends will
need to exercise a greater duty of care and there will be more demands placed
on charities, but we will all need to learn a better way of compassion if our
society is to protect its weakest and poorest members. There are practical ways
that the Cathedral community can respond, but again we need to be part of
that debate in the diocese as the church challenges us to think differently in a
post-credit crunch world. Instead of distrust, misunderstanding and living
autonomous lives, we’re keen to build habits of confidence, respect and
compassionate response.
No-one can underestimate the challenges we face as the financial world works
through this current crisis and realigns itself to entirely new conditions. However,
Chapter have already exercised some clear priorities in these last months and we
continue to be confident in our life together.
We have determined to move into the future prudently. A body which advises
the Cathedral routinely but is rarely seen in public is called the Finance Advisory
Group. It is made up of skilled people in the world of finance and we draw on
their long experience and wise counsel. They see our budgets and comment
before Chapter agrees them, they scrutinise our accounts to ensure that we are
spending our money according to our published priorities and they sound
warning notes if they believe we are pursuing policies which will lead us into
jeopardy. Last year we welcomed the Chairman of the Group, Jane Barker, who
is the Chief Executive of Equitas, onto Chapter so we have that advice and
accountability at the heart of our decision-making. With Jane’s help we steer a
cautious but steady course into the future.
Some of that involves our spending the money we do have wisely. That isn’t
about spending nothing! One of our priorities is to keep together a highly skilled
workforce and to value them. Our people – staff, volunteers, congregation – are
our greatest asset and some of what they bring to our life is irreplaceable. For
instance, the masons and conservators who work on our repair programme have
skills and dedication the like of which we could not replicate. We do not pay
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lavish salaries and the only bonuses are those of job satisfaction and love of the
Cathedral, but all the more reason we should work strenuously to ensure that
we hold together our first class team.
We also need to spend our money in ways that make our future more secure
and efficient. You will know that there are areas of our life that either show signs
of neglect or have grown up in a piecemeal way. Some of what we do, like
having two choirs or the work done by the Education Department, suffers from
its own success and has outgrown its facilities. In all our planning we are not
only hard-headed about the costs and outcomes but we also look to a selfsufficient future. It has to be thus because there is no funding available to us
except that which comes from the munificence of individuals.
It is this dependence on voluntary donations which means that Chapter has to
make fund-raising a routine priority. When people say to me: ‘Isn’t this a simply
terrible time to be trying to fund-raise?’ I usually agree with them though I also
wonder if there is ever a perfect time to ask for money! I reflect on how
Cathedrals could not survive without seeking funds as a way of life. We have to
fund-raise; it’s just a question of how we do it. We are not apologetic about our
need for support; to pretend it does not exist would be to bury our heads in
the sand. Yet we try to make sure that money doesn’t dominate our
relationships or become an anxious preoccupation. We try to ensure that
everyone knows that what is on offer at the Cathedral is essentially free; the
welcome we give and worship we offer reflect the gloriously free gift of God’s
grace. The personal welcome of our guides is a big part of communicating that
message. But we are also responsible for the future of this building, and it is in
that spirit that we do ask people, far and wide, to share in the privilege of
supporting our life.
So what can our Friends do to play their own distinctive part in helping us
secure our future? You are already important contributors to the sustaining of
our life and for that we are enormously grateful. Yet there is more we would like
to ask from you at this time.
Enclosed with the Spire this year is a new legacy leaflet which I hope you will
read and possibly give a copy to friends or family on our behalf. Through it may
I ask you to consider reviewing what you might leave to the Cathedral in your
will? Many of us have only modest immediate resources but we might have
property which on our death would make possible a wonderful gift to
something like our fabric fund or choral foundation.
In the last twenty years the Cathedral Trust, under an independent set of
trustees, has done stalwart work in raising money for the Major Repair
Programme, but those funds are just about gone and so we need to have a new
push towards the completion of the conservation of the building. Again there is
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no public money available for our efforts and so we hope to persuade grantgiving bodies or generous benefactors to help us complete this venture. I am
immensely proud of what we have done to renew the safety and face of the
Cathedral over the last twenty years but without the last £14.3 million we will
have to leave the programme unfinished. If you know of anyone who might
consider this a cause worthy of their interest please do let me know.
And what else can you do as we navigate these difficult financial waters? You
can encourage us! For instance, we have a relatively new team, Claire HouseNorman and Jilly Wright, in our Development Office who co-ordinate our work
in a very professional way as we ask for money, whether it is from grant-giving
bodies or sympathetic individuals. They need your help in making connections,
in commending the Cathedral as a worthy recipient of your friends’ charitable
giving, and in conveying your confidence and trust in all we do. Society doesn’t
much admire the vocation of being a fund-raiser but without them our financial
future would be pretty bleak.
In times of hardship we always turn to our friends and we are very glad that you
are there to support us.
June Osborne
Dean
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THE CATHEDRAL ARCHITECT’S REPORT 2009
The major repair programme has passed two milestones in recent months.
Those of you who have followed the annual patterns of incremental change
will have noticed that January and February are times of scaffold movement,
dismantling it in areas where the previous year’s work is complete and
re-erecting it further on for the next. Scaffold dismantling is our equivalent of
an unveiling and the two milestones have both been marked in this way. They
relate to the north side of the nave and to the west walk of the cloisters.
For the first time since 1998, the north side of the nave is now clear of scaffold,
contrasting, in its recently completed state, with those areas east of the transept.
Less obviously but perhaps just as importantly, the annual cycle of scaffold
movement has been broken in the cloisters, for the first time since 1999. This
marks the approaching end of the conservation and repair programme in the
west walk, leaving only the north walk for attention in the future.
For the record, the
cloisters project started
even earlier, in 1994 when
a contract for the exterior
of the cloister was let to
Thos. King & Sons Ltd of
Andover. It dealt with the
roofs (re-leading the west
walk and part of the south
walk too) and the
stonework of the external
elevations, but leaving the
interior and the open
arcade (inside and out) for
a later phase. It was that
later phase which
commenced ten years ago,
starting in the south west corner and working eastwards down the south walk,
three bays at a time. Reaching the south east corner in 2002, where wall
paintings were discovered over the new door to the works departments yard,
progress then continued down the east walk before returning to the south end
of the west walk in 2006.
Throughout this programme, a similar pattern has been followed, three or
sometimes four bays at a time. First the extraordinary set of carved and painted
vault bosses have been consolidated and conserved by Anne Ballantyne, a
specialist wall painting conservator. These bosses are one of the lesser known
glories of Salisbury Cathedral and are worthy of much greater attention.
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Painted decoration survives in the form of fictive
masonry patterns on the vault ribs and locally
elsewhere and there are tantalising remains of more
elaborate decorative schemes in other places. All this
is carefully recorded by Peter Martindale, another
wall painting specialist, before conservation which
then continues throughout the plaster vaults and the
stonework of the flanking arcade walls. Costs so far
exceed £1.2 million and much of this has been spent
on re-plastering the vault and careful masonry repair
and conservators’ work in the open arcade.
Although it is perhaps the recently lime-washed vaults that make the greatest
impact, it was the essential work to the open arcade, identified as a priority long
before the spire appeal was launched, that has driven the programme onwards.
Quite apart from the parlous condition of the traceries, many of the remaining
Purbeck Marble shafts were split and further loss seemed inevitable. Thanks to
the efforts of the works department’s conservators, ably led by Dave Henson,
this has been kept to a minimum. Although many had been previously replaced
in the local sandy limestone, known generically as Chilmark, by T.H. Wyatt in
1844, disrupting the
architectural composition, a
policy has been adopted in the
recent campaign whereby any
essential shaft replacement
should be undertaken in
Purbeck marble once again; a
policy which, if followed, will
eventually result in the
redressing of the compositional
balance.
Michael Drury
Cathedral Architect
CATHEDRAL MUSIC 2008 - 2009
It is a great privilege to be responsible for the music and musicians at the
Cathedral, working with the Cathedral choir and Salisbury Cathedral Junior
Choir as well as those we meet through outreach concerts and events run by the
Cathedral and Cathedral School.
Stephen Moore, a graduate of Trinity College of Music and organ scholar at the
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, joined us as organ scholar for the year. A very
personable young man, he has made an excellent contribution to the musical
life of both the Cathedral and the School.
2008 was an especially busy year for us as the Cathedral celebrated its 750th
anniversary. The choir worked superbly throughout, taking part in major
liturgical services and special concerts on top of the regular nine choral services
each week - which remained our priority. We are fortunate indeed to have two
sets of choristers who divide the workload equally between them, supported as
ever by our loyal lay vicars. It goes without saying that we continually strive to
raise our standards in every aspect of our music-making.
In June Archbishop Desmond Tutu visited us. Nearly 2000 packed the Cathedral
to hear the Nobel Peace Prize winner speak as part of the Salisbury International
Arts Festival ‘Peace Weekend’. The choir joined with the Fezeka School Choir
from Gugulethu Township in South Africa to sing Mozart’s Coronation Mass
which was particularly moving. After the service the Archbishop spent time with
GRANTS MADE TO SALISBURY CATHEDRAL: 2008/2009
The Executive Council agreed the following grants:
Te Deum frontal repairs ................................................................£20,000
Large Screen TV Monitor ................................................................£7,000
Nave Altar works ............................................................................ £5,000
Monument Conservation (£10-15,000 per year for 3 years) ............... £45,000
Total................................................................................................. £77,000
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the choristers and subsequently spoke at the next day’s morning assembly at the
Cathedral School, an experience I am sure the children will never forget. The
Cathedral’s celebrations peaked with a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury
at the end of September. He presided over the major 750th anniversary service
and re-dedicated the building. We were very pleased to perform Three Motets
by Jonathan Willcocks - ‘A Sure Foundation’, ‘Rejoice and Be Glad’, and ‘Into his
Marvellous Light’ - which were specially commissioned for the service by the
Salisbury Cathedral Downing Fund. They are very skilfully written for singers and
highly effective settings of their chosen texts.
The choir gave the premieres of four new commissions in July, each offering
different styles of contemporary choral music. So much of what we do with the
choir is founded on traditional and familiar sacred repertoire, but it is also very
exciting and hugely inspiring to teach the choristers music which has never
been performed before. The first, a setting of George Herbert’s poem ‘Prayer’ by
distinguished composer Judith Bingham, (commissioned by the family and
friends of two members of the congregation), was written for the girl choristers
and men. Simon McEnery was commissioned to write a new setting of Psalm 98
for the choir to sing at a special open air service in the Close at the end of the
diocesan pilgrimage, which marked the joint celebration of the Cathedral’s
750th anniversary and the 35th anniversary of the Salisbury-Sudan Link. Howard
Goodall was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and
Families’ Music and Dance Scheme to write a new anthem, Music, Sister of
Sunrise for our senior boy and girl choristers, who had the honour of
representing the Choir Schools Association at a special Gala Concert at Sadler's
Wells Theatre celebrating the achievements of the country’s most talented
young musicians and dancers. The fourth premiere was a setting of the Nunc
Dimittis by Tarik O’Regan, commissioned by the Southern Cathedrals Festival for
the girl choristers of Winchester and Salisbury Cathedrals and the men of
Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedrals. It is absolutely vital that
modern composers are encouraged by the Church to write challenging music
for today’s musicians. I’m delighted with all four of these pieces and the great
variety of styles they offer.
My assistant, Daniel Cook, has had a remarkable year, and his talent and
reputation as a formidable organist continue to grow. In addition to his day to
day duties he performed, to great acclaim, the complete organ works of Olivier
Messiaen in a series of six concerts celebrating the centenary of the composer’s
birth. He recorded a CD of ‘The Organ Music of Sir Walter Alcock’ with Priory
Records on the Father Willis organ, which was launched in January 2009 and has
since received excellent reviews. Daniel has founded Salisbury Cathedral
Chamber Choir which sang for the first time in the Cathedral in December
2008, and in January 2009 he became director of the Farrant Singers. He plays,
without doubt, a central role in the Cathedral’s excellent music provision.
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Salisbury Cathedral Junior Choir goes from strength to strength and currently has
about 65 members, boys and girls, in school Years 4-8. This choir is open to any
child, boy or girl, in Years 4-8, is non-auditioned and there is no charge. Ian
Wicks, Director of Music at the Cathedral School, is its inspirational choir director.
They had a busy year singing major concerts in the Cathedral as part of Salisbury
International Arts Festival (SIAF) and Salisbury 750 celebrations and also in the
Millennium Centre, Cardiff, as well as giving informal concerts and taking part in
services each term. They also recorded the cover CD for Wiltshire Life magazine’s
Christmas edition. Two members were successful at the Cathedral choir voice
trials in 2008 and have since been promoted to full choristers. The choir is again
singing in this year’s SIAF, and performs a concert and takes part in a choral
masterclass in the Southern Cathedrals Festival here in July.
The girls and lay vicars toured Austria for a week at the beginning of April 2008
singing a broad cross-section of the music they sing everyday in the Cathedral.
We gave four concerts in different and beautiful venues and sang Mass in St
Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, and in Salzburg Cathedral. We also visited Loretto,
Thalgau and Itzling, the Spanish Riding School, Melk Abbey, Mozart’s birthplace
and Fortress Hohensalzburg. I believe tours are important because not only do
they give the choir a chance to rehearse intensively and perform in different
acoustics, but also provide an opportunity for the children and men to have
quality time together away from the daily pressures of the term time schedule.
Equally important, choir tours take Salisbury Cathedral and all it stands for to a
wider world.
As ever, the Cathedral choir supported fund raising efforts for our Choral
Foundation by giving concerts. On Remembrance Day the full choir (boys, girls
and men) performed Fauré’s Requiem to a capacity audience. In January, the girl
choristers joined a star-studded cast of well known faces from the world of
music and theatre for the Gala Concert ‘A Starry Night’ masterminded by the
Countess of Chichester in her role as Chairman of Salisbury Cathedral Girl
Choristers’ Fund. Adapted from the well-known Epiphany story ‘Amahl and the
Night Visitors’ it was visually stunning and packed with glorious music. We are
extremely grateful to the Countess and to all those who literally ‘gave’ their
services to raise a substantial sum of money that evening.
The boys and men recorded a new CD of Christmas carols at the end of January
which will be launched for Christmas 2009. The girls and men record a CD of
Bernard Naylor’s Nine Motets in the summer term.
Our outreach work continues with the choir giving two regular concerts in the
diocese each term as well as participating in the annual Diocesan Choirs Festival.
The choristers also join in the extensive ‘Singing Together’ outreach programme
run by the Cathedral and Cathedral School which now involves five primary
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schools each term. They visit each school once, and sing at the big end of term
concert, the culmination of the term’s work, when all five schools combine to
create one huge choir in the Cathedral. These are wonderful occasions and are
often the first time many of the visiting youngsters and their families have been
inside the Cathedral.
We continue to work hard at recruitment. Throughout the 2007-8 academic
year, we filmed a new recruitment DVD ‘The Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral’
which was screened for the first time at the choir’s open day ‘Be a chorister for
a day’. Through a series of short chapters, it gives a fascinating insight into
the lifestyle of the youngsters in the choir, as well as including wonderful
photography of the Cathedral, the Close, and some of the special services held
each year. What comes over is the huge pleasure the children gain from being
choristers, and what a marvellous team they make working together with the six
professional men of the choir. The initial response to the film has been extremely
positive, and I consider it a triumph and in places very moving. It captures so
much and has been beautifully filmed, edited and produced by Ash Mills, who
works in the film and TV industry and here reveals a real empathy with the choir
and Cathedral.
We joined our colleagues from Chichester and Winchester Cathedrals in
Winchester last July for a dynamic Southern Cathedrals Festival. In addition to
the daily services, the choirs joined together in various combinations for three
major concerts. We look forward to hosting the festival in Salisbury in July 2009
which, in addition to daily services, features three concerts by the combined
choirs plus concerts by Sarum Voices, Sarum Consort, David Stancliffe’s singers
and period instruments, James Lancelot, and the Youth in Music series.
Our Organ Recital Series continues to attract eminent organists and ever larger
audiences. Our recitals are held on Wednesday evenings at 7.30pm, one per
month from April through to October. The Salisbury 750 piano recital was given
by ex-Salisbury chorister John Reid, winner of many awards, who is fast
becoming a renowned performer on the international stage. It was both
outstanding and well attended.
Finally, one of the best moments of the year had to be when one of our senior
choristers, Rosie Goodall, stood in front of an audience of about 1500 in Sadler’s
Wells Theatre and spoke very eloquently about what it means to be a member
of this cathedral choir, conveying the enthusiasm and love for singing shared by
cathedral choristers throughout the country. It made all the hard work seem
worthwhile.
David Halls
Director of Music
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CATHEDRAL PRAYER
George Herbert walked regularly each week from his parish at Bemerton to
Salisbury Cathedral to attend Evensong and, according to his biographer Isaak
Walton, he described the place and the experience as his ‘heaven on earth’.
Certainly, in his extraordinary poem ‘Prayer’, Herbert describes prayer as
(amongst many things) ‘heaven in ordinary’, as though to say, heaven could be
glimpsed, recognised and received in the daily pursuit of routine activities. That
of course suggests that prayer doesn’t need to be exercised in sacred space for
the praying act itself makes any space sacred. This is a point which is reinforced
for us in Herbert’s poem ‘The Elixir’, which we sing as a hymn. In that poem,
Herbert says ‘Teach me, my God and King, / In all things thee to see; / And
what I do in anything / To do it as for thee’, and he goes on to illustrate his
petition with the example of a servant who turns his workaday world into the
milieu divin simply by offering service, however mundane, to God - ‘Who sweeps
a room, as for thy laws, / Makes that and the action fine’. But although all space
is rendered holy by the exercise of prayer, George Herbert had a very high
regard for sacred space. His most famous body of poetry consisting of over 160
poems is called ‘The Temple’ and many of them focus on the physicality of
sacred space and its material properties, the pulpit, the altar, the glass, etc. as
sacramental signals of the divine presence.
Herbert remains a profound spiritual guide across the almost four centuries since
his death. No doubt he recognised, in the great church at Salisbury, the quality
of prayer which, though available to men and women everywhere in any
context, was gathered together in a communal activity and proclaimed to all
through its daily, dutiful practice. Any consideration of prayer within a cathedral
(or indeed the Church at large) begins with the daily office (from the Latin
officium or duty) of morning and evening prayer, which Cranmer’s genius turned
from a priestly, private office in Latin to a communal activity (Common Prayer)
for priests and people. It is often said that the Church of England is less a body
of doctrine and more a people at prayer and the Book of Common Prayer and
its successors (the Deposited Book of 1928, the ASB and today’s Common
Worship) embody that principle.
It will be no surprise, since prayer is ‘heaven in ordinary’ and is the raison d’être
of the church’s life as it reflects upon and responds to God’s love given to us in
word and sacrament, that this community’s life of prayer has developed in new,
interesting and creative ways.
Every day at Morning Prayer, we are invited to remember particular groups of
people - on Tuesday our Cathedral visitors are remembered and the prayers they
leave behind inform our own prayer and bring us a sense of the need to pray
beyond the local and the parochial. On Wednesday we pray for the Church in
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the Sudan and the terrible conditions of war, famine and oppression suffered by
our brothers and sisters there. On Friday, we remember especially the long-term
sick and those who are living with incurable and life-threatening illnesses, and
those who care for them. Daily, of course, we pray for the parishes, sector
ministries, and the Church’s administrative centre, and all who serve them. The
Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop and we support him and his suffragan
bishops in practical ways but crucially in our daily prayer.
In the last few years a Benedictine group has been formed, many of whose
members came on a pilgrimage to three Benedictine abbeys in northern France
and a subsequent visit to the mediaeval abbey of St Benoit sur Loire, re-founded
as a working community in the 1940s. Our Benedictine group meets bi-monthly
for prayer and discussion around some aspect of the Rule of St Benedict and its
spiritual importance today. In accord with St Benedict’s emphasis on hospitality,
the group’s meeting includes a simple meal. Recently, as an outworking of the
principle, they entertained to a meal members of the congregation who live
alone.
Another prayer initiative sprang up as a result of a Cathedral retreat at the
Benedictine abbey at Buckfast in Devon. This is a group open to all comers,
called Contemplating Prayer, which meets once a month, usually the first
Monday of the month, at 10.00am for three-quarters of an hour in the Trinity
Chapel. As the name of this group implies, there is an invitation here to those
who are thinking about and curious about prayer or simply wondering where to
begin. But it is also designed to take contemplation seriously and, although a
leader introduces a theme for reflection, most of the time is spent in corporate
silence as we try to empty the mind, still the body and wait as simply as possible
on God.
Both Dean Sydney Evans and Dean Hugh Dickinson were keen to make the
healing ministry more prominent in the Cathedral’s repertoire of prayer. For
many years, prayer for healing has taken place in the Trinity Chapel once a
month, usually at a Eucharist. It includes individual prayer for healing, and
counselling, laying on of hands and anointing with oil. More recently we have
wanted to give greater prominence to the healing ministry as a major aspect of
our regular pastoral care by encouraging communicants to come once a month
at the main Sunday Eucharist, after receiving communion, to pray for the sick
and to receive individual ministries of healing. We plan, in the next year, to have
a teaching seminar on the ministry of healing for the congregation, in the
context of a bring and share lunch on a Sunday morning.
Another ancient form of meditation leading to contemplation and to intercessory
prayer, which has found new practitioners in recent years (perhaps inspired
within the Reformed tradition at least by Neville Ward’s influential book ‘Five for
Sorrow, Ten for Joy’), is the saying of the rosary. Regarded with suspicion as a
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kind of Roman Catholic mariolatry by some Protestant Christians, it continues to
be a resource for prayer and meditation for many outside the Roman Catholic
communion. It can be used for individual and corporate prayer and is based on
repetition of a well-known prayer, usually the Hail Mary. A rosary group has
recently been formed in the Cathedral to meet once a month (usually the first
Thursday of the month) in the Gatehouse in the Cathedral Close.
Many people will be familiar with the work of the Taizé community and its very
distinctive style of worship and music. Taizé is a remarkable ecumenical and
international community of men in eastern France, near the ancient monastic
town of Cluny. Its contribution to the prayer life of the church has been to
enable young and old to meet across the historic divides of Christendom to pray
for reconciliation within the Church and among nations. In forging a new
theological language, it has developed worship which uses music that is
accessible, easy to learn and remember. Like the principle of the rosary, Taizé
worship uses repetition as a means of stilling the mind and the heart. Four times
a year, there are reflective times of worship in the Cathedral (on a Sunday
evening) using the chants of Taizé and another ecumenical religious community,
Iona.
From time to time, and always round festivals and the beginning of Lent, the
Cathedral advertises times for sacramental confession. Some have made personal
confession to a priest part of their rule of life, but it is a form of prayer and
penitence that seems to have fallen into disuse. The sacrament of confession,
though, stands as a sacramental sign of what is always true, that God forgives us
time and again when we are truly sorry and seek to amend our lives. Many
people today are again making use of this sacrament of penitence in the course
of spiritual direction or when on retreat. As well as developing corporate
dimensions of prayer, some of which have been mentioned in this article, the
Cathedral takes seriously this ministry of confession and spiritual direction and
counselling, and the Cathedral clergy are always available to meet with
individuals who wish to deepen their sense of God and find direction for their
spiritual pilgrimage.
I began with Herbert and I end with him. His best-loved poem ‘Love’ sees God’s
love extended to us, wayward and guilt-ridden though we are, as a feast to
which we are invited as guests. Sometimes this poem is used as a prayer of
preparation for Holy Communion at Saturday Evensong to remind us that the
heart of our prayer is God’s invitation and welcome to us. The Eucharist,
celebrated simply day by day, and with musical and liturgical splendour Sunday
by Sunday, is the spiritual heartbeat of the Cathedral, as it is of the universal
church. Here we are invited to taste God’s meat: we must sit and eat.
Jeremy Davies
Canon Precentor
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THE 750TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
The historical conference at the end of March 2008 was one of the few ‘closed’
events of our anniversary year, filled to capacity with 100 delegates and 20
speakers. Half of these were professors, one indicator of how seriously this
conference was taken. The range of expertise was expressed in papers taking in
the 750 years, and embracing the architecture, liturgy and music, and politics of
the cathedral. There were many gratifying aspects to the event: besides the
experts, there was strong participation from our ‘home’ community; almost all
the papers were bursting at the seams, and could have gone on much longer
than their allotted half hour; and many of the academics spoke warmly of the
experience, commenting that it is rare for attendances to hold up so well for the
last few papers!
The foreword, as it were, to the conference proper was the celebration of
Vespers, Procession, Compline and Salve Regina for the Wednesday in the
Octave of Easter (in other words, the worship proper for that evening) according
to the late-medieval Use of Sarum. This was a most remarkable experience,
carefully researched and organised by Professor John Harper, and probably last
encountered more than 450 years ago. Its power however arose from the fact
that this was not historical re-enactment, but an act of worship, in which no-one
played a ‘part’; rather the bishop, dean, canons, other cathedral clergy, and
vergers performed, as always, the roles required by the liturgy. This helped set
the conference’s tone as something more than a dry academic exercise, rather a
means of better knowing a complex and very much still-living institution whose
focus has always been its worship.
It’s invidious to select highlights among the papers given, which came with a
diversity of methods and styles of delivery, and several of which brought new
knowledge to our attention. There were some entertaining academic spats.
What follows are some of my own most vivid memories. I could of course list
many more.
John Harper showed that MS Powerpoint can actually be very helpful: a series of
plans with moving arrows showing processional routes and the like,
accompanied his description of the ways in which the Use was adapted from the
old to the new cathedral, and gave extraordinary insight. Dr John Crook also
used his computer skills, marrying his own photography with prints to
investigate the now-erased chantry chapels and features of the East End. I was
fascinated by Dr Nigel Aston’s depiction of the Salisbury Chapter of the early
18th century as a striking collection of liberal and latitudinarian theologians. And
Prof Arthur Burns gave me a far better grasp of the interaction between the
cathedral and the diocese in the early 19th century – a really very recent time,
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when many of the Church’s circumstances were radically different from our own;
his slides, illustrating preferments and patronage, were (after initial bafflement)
also very helpful.
The conference was held in the lecture room at the Salisbury Museum, with
catering (of a very high standard) provided in a marquee there by our own
Refectory. Michelle Walter from our Visitor Services Department organised things
magnificently. There were of course a few unforeseen complications, but,
especially since we were all new to organising events of this kind, I look back on
the conference with a very happy glow.
Edward Probert
Canon Chancellor
We have chosen, as the main article for this issue, one of the conference papers from
the home team. (Eds.)
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17TH CENTURY LIFE AND STRIFE AT
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
Lecture - given at 750th Anniversary Conference
On 24 April 1610 the Dean of Salisbury, John Gordon (who was away from
Salisbury whilst attending the King at Whitehall), wrote to the Chapter about
‘Sir Thomas Gorges . . . our neighbour, lately deceased’. He ordered that,
because Sir Thomas's son and executor, Sir Edward Gorges, desired ‘to burie him
with us’, they were to allow the body to be interred in whatsoever part of the
cathedral Sir Edward desired. He chose the prime site at the east end of the
north quire aisle and thus, after the death of Sir Thomas’s widow in 1635, did
Salisbury Cathedral acquire a most curious monument, the design of which is
reminiscent of Bernini’s baldacchino over the altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome,
completed only two years earlier. This fact is perhaps not without significance
since the site chosen for the Gorges tomb is where in medieval times had stood
the altar of St. Peter.
John Gordon was a kinsman of King James I, his grandmother being an
illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland. This, helped no doubt by the fact
that at James’s accession to the English throne Gordon had published a ‘strongly
protestant Panegyric of Congratulation’, must surely be the reason why in 1604
the King named him as Dean (even though at the time he was not ordained).
The King had an affection for Salisbury, visiting it several times during Gordon’s
fifteen and a half years as Dean, partly to pursue his favourite sport of hunting
and partly no doubt to visit his kinsman, with whom he shared a penchant for
theological disputation. The royal party stayed variously at Wilton House, the
Bishop's Palace or at Sir Thomas Sadler's house in the Close, which conveniently
adjoined the then Deanery. The favour which the King felt for Salisbury led him
in 1612 to grant a charter whereby the city was freed from its ancient fealty to
the bishop and incorporated as a free city. At the same time he conferred
judicial powers on the bishop and the Dean and Chapter within the Liberty of
the Close. They were granted the use of their own prison, stocks and whippingpost (the latter being set up near the north entrance to the cathedral
churchyard), and they also had the use of the gallows at Bishopsdown!
belfry. The anniversaries of the Gunpowder Plot, of King James’s accession, and
of the defeat of the Spanish Armada were among them.
During the royal visits choristers and other singers were borrowed variously from
Windsor, Wells and Winchester. In 1612 ‘the king's musicians with wind
instruments’ were paid 20 shillings, as was ‘Mr Lawes’ in 1613 ‘for his songe
which he gave to the Church’ - this was the composer Henry Lawes, one of the
famous musical sons of the vicar choral Thomas Lawes, another of whose sons,
William (whom Charles I delighted to call ‘the Father of Musick’), having taken
up arms for the King was to be killed in 1645 at the siege of Chester. The
visiting singers, both men and boys, were accommodated at the Hall of the
vicars choral, considerable sums being spent on feeding them and on their travel
expenses. This money might have been better spent on the maintenance of the
cathedral's own choristers, who in 1602 had been described as sorely neglected,
and being ‘verie lowsey’ had to be taken home by their families who cleansed
and new clothed them. It was said that the choristers went to the cathedral in
‘ragged, sluttish and uncleanly surplices’ and were so badly taught that they
often made mistakes in their singing ‘to the great shame of the teacher &
disgrace & discredit of so eminent a church’. As the choristers had been wellendowed at the turn of the 14th century by bishops Simon of Ghent and Roger
de Mortival with rents from properties in Salisbury, Preshute and Woodford to
maintain themselves and the Choristers' House, their apparent poverty now
suggests that their endowments were being mis-managed. The number of
choristers was at this time reduced to six, which explains the need to borrow
boys from elsewhere at the time of royal visits. The rest of the century was to
contain much quarrelsomeness for the Chapter, there being both internal and
external strife.
The Fabric Accounts reveal the busy-ness of the preparations undertaken to
receive the royal party. Close roads were repaired and the cathedral cleaned and
refurbished. Rushes, coals, perfumes and flowers were bought (even the king's
seat in the quire was decorated with flowers), and to mark the royal comings
and goings peals of bells were rung by the bell-ringers (including Hugh Maude,
whose ale-house in the belfry was the only one in the Close which was not
suppressed by the Chapter at this time). In fact, the annual round of cathedral
and national life was accompanied by the frequent sound of bells from the
The year 1625 was one of the notorious plague years when, in order to escape
the infection then raging in London, King Charles I with his court made a stay in
Salisbury. There seems to have been no notion that by moving from the source
of infection they might be spreading it elsewhere, as indeed did happen later
during the Great Plague in 1665 when Charles II fled from London with the
court to the Close at Salisbury, Samuel Pepys recording in August that year, ‘I
am told . . . that a wife of one of the groomes at Court is dead at Salisbury’.
Although Salisbury escaped the infection in 1625, in 1627 plague did arrive. In
two of the Salisbury parishes alone some 360 people died, whilst all but the
poorest fled the city. The cathedral clergy showed up badly, for they locked the
Close gates to keep people out. On the gates being once incautiously opened
while a service was in progress, people came flocking in so that they might
attend the service, whereupon the canons ordered that the doors should be shut
‘against so unwelcome a congregation’. The Close being thereby deemed no
longer a safe refuge, eventually the clergy too left and cathedral services were
abandoned for almost a year.
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From c.1620 the choristers stopped boarding at their house in Bishop's Walk
where they had lived since the 14th century, and became day boys, though the
Master of the Choristers (who undertook the boys' musical training) continued to
live in the old house. Then in 1629, following the death of the then Master, a
row of monumental proportions blew up over the appointment of his successor.
The position was then not necessarily occupied by the organist, as now, but by
one of the seven lay vicars, of whom the organist was accounted one. The dean,
John Bowle, and three of the six residentiary canons wished to appoint Giles
Tomkins, organist of King's College, Cambridge. However, the other three
wanted Thomas Holmes, son of the last Master. All would have been well had not
the Bishop, John Davenant, claimed the right of voting on the matter in his
capacity as prebendary of Potterne; as he was in favour of Holmes the result
would be a tie. The Dean strenuously denied that the Bishop had any vote in
Chapter, and meetings became acrimonious. Giles Tomkins arrived in Salisbury in
April, and having taken the requisite oaths as a lay vicar, he was admitted as such
by the Dean, though it was agreed that the question of the Master would have to
be submitted to arbitration. In spite of this the Dean and his three supporting
canons took Tomkins to the Choristers’ House to put him in possession of it. They
were flatly refused admission by Thomas Holmes’s mother, Dulcibella, who was
still living in the house with her son-in-law, James Clark, who had been appointed
temporary Master until such time as the position was filled. The matter was
referred to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who appointed a committee which
included four other bishops and the poet-dean of St. Paul’s, John Donne, to sort
out the matter. They failed to come to a decision and wrote to King Charles,
whose reply was so ambiguous that it was not clear what he meant. At a
subsequent Chancery Proceeding it was stated that the office of Master of the
Choristers had belonging to it a house with a school, and that because possession
of this house was denied to Giles Tomkins the choristers could not be taught,
with the result that the cathedral would soon be ‘utterly unfurnished of
choristers, and the service of God . . . left unperformed’. Eventually in 1630,
James Clark took possession of a vicar’s house in Rosemary Lane. Giles Tomkins
(who later also became organist) at last gained possession of the Choristers’
House and managed to stay there throughout the Commonwealth period.
That this whole affair left much bitterness among members of the Chapter is
evident from some of the answers they gave to questions asked at Archbishop
Laud’s metropolitical visitation of the cathedral in 1634, undertaken by his vicargeneral Sir Nathaniel Brent, who was warned that the Salisbury canons were
known as ‘wrangling residentiaries’. Not only were numerous things amiss at the
cathedral, but there was an undercurrent of personal animosities and tale-telling,
this at a time when Laud was determined to make cathedrals places of the
highest worship and decorum. A strong pattern of absenteeism from services and
residence emerged. For instance, Canon Henry Seward, who lived at the South
Canonry, admitted to being absent
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‘when sicknes, or weaknes, or extreme foule weather, or some necessary
busines do hinder me. I dwell far from the church, my house is more remote
then any other, the way in winter very fowle, my body weake, the weather
many tymes so tempestuous that I cannot go safely, and yet I frequent the
church more diligently then my predecessors were wont to doe’.
However, it was reported that Dr. Seward went to prayers scarcely once a week,
though he was at home and in health, many times being absent even on holy
days and Sundays. It was also said that out of 760 canonical hours a year when
the Chapter should have attended services, ‘they are not 60 in the church’.
Humphrey Henchman told of a great scandal because Dr. Seward had separated
a kinswoman of his from her husband (a gentle meek man) on the pretence of
cruelty, had had him cast into prison, and had persuaded his kinswoman to
pursue her husband through the ecclesiastical court for not giving her alimony.
Meanwhile the woman was living very comfortably in Dr. Seward's house, where
she daily received a gentleman-friend whom the Dean and Chapter had
forbidden Dr. Seward to admit!
John Lee, Treasurer, wrote a long tirade telling tales about his fellows and
pouring out numerous grievances which he had been bottling up for eight
years. His worst complaint was the bitter feud he had long been waging with
the vergers Barksdale and Barfoot. He claimed his right by ancient custom
(citing the testimony of two octogenarian women who supported him in his
claim) to be led from his house to the cathedral by two vergers, though the
Dean himself had only one. For some years now the custom had been ‘wilfully
suppressed’, the Chapter allowing him one verger only to attend him inside the
cathedral and lead him to his stall. Yet even there Barfoot ignored him, saying
he would not verge him ‘except I badd him to dinner for his labour’. Lee
thereupon refused to pay the vergers’ wages, but a further injustice came when
they were paid out of Lee's own commons money! Lee also complained that,
although as Treasurer it was his duty to safeguard the communion vessels, these
had been taken away to the houses of some canons and ‘I know not whether
applied to their private uses, till they are to be used at communions’; and he
reported of a fellow canon that he ‘doth too often fall into such violent passions
as very much trouble & terrifie his house’.
Two grumbles which perhaps showed which way the political wind was blowing
were first that, contrary to King Charles’s orders, the nave was cluttered with
rows of seats put in for the use of the Mayor and Corporation, who now
neglected to come to sermons because, being puritan, they were ‘of the faction
against the church’. (There had indeed been controversy earlier in the century
about the seats allotted to the Mayoress and Aldermen’s wives in the
Hungerford Chantry in the nave, for strangers habitually intruded there.) The
second grumble was the disrespect shown by men of all ranks who ‘most
unreverently walk in our church in the tyme of devine service . . . with their
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hattes on their heads’ (this being a puritan trait). The ‘trudginge up & downe of
youths, & clamours of children’ caused a great disturbance to preachers
delivering sermons, but although the vergers had been told to sort out the
problem, Barfoot sat through all the noise while the canons themselves
endeavoured to quell the tumult. It was all a far cry from Laud’s ideal of the
‘Beauty of Holiness’.
The Fabric Accounts reveal the unrest at the beginning of the Civil War,
payments being made for the Watch who were on duty at the Close gate, and
for billeting some soldiers. In 1645 there was a skirmish in the Close when
Royalist forces set fire to the belfry door in order to smoke out Parliamentarians
who were defending it. The inhabitants of the Close in 1644 sent a petition to
Ralph, Lord Hopton, General of His Majesty's western forces, begging him not to
fortify the city under the command of Sergeant-Major Innis ‘whoe. . . is of the
Romish Religion’, but instead to appoint a commander who ‘will encourage and
advance the true protestant religion against Poperie as also scismes and sects’.
(Lack of knowledge of what happened to the cathedral library at that time leads
only to conjecture as to how it is that it contains two volumes bearing the
signature ‘Ralph Hopton’.)
During the Commonwealth period, when monarchy, House of Lords and
Anglican Church (including Prayer Book and music) had been swept away,
bishops, deans and chapters throughout the country were abolished and their
estates sequestrated. The cathedral clergy - some sixty in all - were ejected from
their benefices and many suffered hardship. Among them was the Dean, Richard
Baylie (a kinsman of Archbishop Laud), who was also President of St. John’s
College, Oxford, and in that capacity was involved in sending the university
plate to the king. Baylie also at that time put in the Bodleian Library for safe
keeping some mediaeval manuscripts which had been lent by the Chapter in
1640 to Archbishop James Ussher. Although several requests were made for their
return at the Restoration, they were not returned to the cathedral library until
1985. Canons Henchman and Nicholas seem for a short time to have joined the
royal army (as did some of the prebendaries), Henchman being also
instrumental in helping Charles II escape to France after the Battle of Worcester
in 1651. Prebendary Thomas Mason typified those clergy loyal to their Church he received rents which were due to the Chapter, sent £20 to help Dean Baylie
at Oxford, denied on oath having the Chapter rent-roll (but, when pressed,
produced it the next day), and refused to take the Covenant, saying he would
stand for the Prayer Book while he lived. He compared Parliament’s proceedings
to the rebellion of Absalom, and was heard to pray ‘O Lord, however thou dost
sorely afflicte thy Church and bring it very lowe, yet make it not an utter
desolation’.
Members of Chapter were turned out of their houses, the City Corporation
buying from the Parliamentary Commissioners for £800 four of the canonical
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houses in order to make provision for the new presbyterian ministers at the
cathedral and the three Salisbury parishes. The Bishop’s Palace was granted to a
Dutchman, a tailor, who did much damage there. The Deanery and South
Canonry were granted to laymen. Aula le Stage was the only canonical house in
which a canon was described as ‘yet dwelling therein’, he being Matthew
Nicholas (brother to Charles I's secretary of state). Other cathedral officers vicars lay and choral, two vergers, and the schoolmaster - continued living in
their houses, although the Common Hall of the vicars choral was let. But one
good thing which happened in 1649-50 was that Parliamentary Commissioners
meeting in the chapter house undertook a survey of every house in the Close (as
well as of Chapter properties and lands elsewhere), which gives descriptions of
all the Close houses as they then were, together with the names of their
occupants.
During the Commonwealth period, the cathedral Burials’ and other Registers
were not used. So it was not until 1962 when, a new pavement being laid in the
presbytery, an unrecorded and hitherto unknown burial was found which from
the inscription on the coffin-plate was proved to be that of Philip Herbert, 4th
Earl of Pembroke (died 1650), one of the ‘most Noble and Incomparable pair of
Brethren’ to whom was dedicated the First Folio of the collected edition of
Shakespeare's works. The earlier burial of the other brother, William, had been
duly recorded in the register. Although Philip in his will asked to have
constructed over his body ‘a seemlie meete and convenient tomb fitte for my
honour, degree and qualitie’, this was never done!
Of the residentiary canons who had been deprived, the only survivors at the
Restoration were Dean Baylie, Precentor Humphrey Henchman, and Canon
Matthew Nicholas who had been appointed Dean of St. Paul’s by King Charles I
and who now had a new grant of his deanery. The Treasurer, Edward Davenant,
who was not a residentiary, was also a survivor. The Chapter resumed business in
September 1660, and in just one week seventeen new prebendaries and four
residentiary canons were installed. The exact process whereby the Chapter
regained possession of its lands and properties is not known, since the only year
between 1643 and 1674 for which the Fabric Accounts have survived is 1665.
There must have been many depredations among the muniments, for Bishop
Henchman in 1661 bemoaned the fact that many of the charters, volumes and
registers ‘by the fraud and criminality of naughty men have perished in the late
Troubles’, and that those which remained were in confusion. He ordered that all
records were to be returned to the muniment room, and that anyone
concealing any in his own dwelling was deemed to have incurred a sentence of
excommunication. In spite of these losses, the Historical Manuscripts
Commission was yet able, in its report published in 1901, to comment on the
‘great wealth’ of the Salisbury Chapter archives. Richard Drake, appointed
Chancellor in 1663, later had the huge task of sorting through the muniments
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and putting them in order. Interestingly, he recorded in the margins of the
Chapter Act Book not only the fact that, owing to the plague in London and
Westminster in 1665, the king and the royal family had come to stay in the
Close, but also in 1666 that there was a ‘Conflagration, alas! in the town of
London!’. It was during that 1665 visit that the king and queen went up to the
eight doors’ level of the cathedral tower, whence two boys fell onto the roof
below and were killed.
The cathedral's musical establishment had also to be restored. Fortunately, the
Chapter had had the foresight in October 1642 to dismantle the organ and
store it away. This meant that, since many cathedral organs were destroyed
during the troubled times, Salisbury was one of the very few cathedrals at the
Restoration which did not need to acquire a new instrument, their old one
being re-installed in 1661 by the well-known organ-builder, Thomas Harris. It is
not known exactly how choral services were re-established, for the previous
continuity of boys becoming in their turn adult singers was gone. There did
however appear at Bishop Henchman's visitation in 1661 four vicars choral, five
lay vicars and the organist, and seven choristers who would have had to learn
the repertoire from scratch. Two lists of music surviving in the Chapter archives
show exactly which anthems and services were being sung by the cathedral
choir at the end of the 17th century.
That the Chapter was somewhat laggardly in obeying the requirement in the
1662 Act of Uniformity that before 25 December all deans and chapters should
obtain a copy both of the Act and of the Book of Common Prayer annexed, ‘to
be . . . kept and preserved in safety for ever’, is shown by the fact that it was not
until April 1663 that Bishop Henchman wrote from London to say that he had
bought on the Chapter’s behalf the copy of the sealed Prayer Book which was
ear-marked for Salisbury (and for which he wanted reimbursement). The Prayer
Book and copy of the Act survive in the library, though the Great Seal which had
been appended is lost. In 1676, Dean Pierce compiled a list of gifts which the
cathedral acquired at the Restoration, among them the magnificent pair of
silver-gilt candlesticks given by Sir Robert Hyde in 1663 which are now on the
Trinity Chapel altar.
At the Restoration, the cathedral seems to have been in a reasonable state of
preservation (indeed, it is said that members of the influential Hyde family had
employed workmen during the Commonwealth period to keep it in good repair)
but the houses in the Close were not, and the coming years were to see a
transformation from the medieval to 17th and 18th century styles of domestic
architecture. Owing to the arrival as Bishop in 1667 of Seth Ward, an early
member of the Royal Society, Salisbury became a centre of the 17th century
scientific movement in England. In Ward’s time here the whole ethos of the Close
can be seen to have changed. For a time there was living at the palace as the
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Bishop’s domestic chaplain the eminent mathematician, Isaac Barrow, one of the
greatest of the Anglican divines of the Caroline period, to whom Seth Ward
granted a prebend. Other Fellows of the Royal Society visited Ward here, among
them Samuel Pepys, who in June 1668 looked into the quire while a service was
on ‘and saw the Bishop, my friend Dr Ward’. Living at No. 17 The Close was Dr.
Daubigny Turberville, the most successful practising oculist of his day, whom
Pepys, on the scientist Robert Boyle's recommendation, consulted in London
when his eyes were giving trouble. Ward, who recovered the chancellorship of the
Order of the Garter for the bishops of Salisbury, at his own expense repaired the
Bishop's Palace, built and endowed the Matrons’ College, commissioned a survey
of the tower and spire by Christopher Wren, and restored the cathedral quire.
Sadly, Ward’s latter years were clouded by the bitter dispute he had with
Thomas Pierce, who became dean in 1675. The Bishop had advanced his two
nephews to rich prebends, thus passing over Pierce's son
Robert. (However, as Seth Ward’s successor as Bishop
was later to describe Robert Pierce as ‘a very ill
man of a turbulent spirit and loose behaviour
that had given him much trouble and
uneasiness’, Seth Ward may have had a point!)
Be that as it may, being vexed at this apparent
nepotism, Thomas Pierce insisted that all
dignities connected with the cathedral were
in the gift of the Crown, not of the bishop,
and claimed (wrongly) that because the
cathedral was a royal free chapel subject only
to the king, the bishop had no jurisdiction
therein and no right of visitation.
With such an example before them, the discord
inevitably spread to the choir, who refused to obey
some monition of the Bishop. Jonathan Trelawny,
Bishop of Bristol, wrote in 1686 to Archbishop Sancroft:
Seth Ward
‘I wish to tell your grace what I observed at Salisbury. By reason of the
deane’s supporting the choir against the bishop there is scandalous neglect
in the performance of the services. The day I rested in the town the singing
men refused to sing an anthem which was then desired by the bishop’s
nephew and Canon Hill; and in the afternoon the organist (which, they
say, happens often) was absent, and the prayers performed without the
organ. I cannot suppose this as done to me, being a stranger, but wholly
intended to the bishop, to whom I made a visit, as being his friend’.
Seth Ward became mentally ill with the worry of it all, the antiquary John
Aubrey relating how ‘The black malice of the Deane of Sarum . . was the cause
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of his disturbd spirit, wherby at length, he quite lost his memorie'. The Dean
was even more graphic: ‘I had from London this information, that the Bishop of
Sarum had a great Blow upon his Intellectuals, which made him in a manner
useless, having lost all his Faculties’. The enmity came to an end in July 1686,
during Archbishop Sancroft's visitation of the cathedral when, at the King's
decree, the Dean begged pardon of the Bishop for the disruption he had
caused, and there was made ‘A SOLEMN UNANIMITY, peace and concord
betweene my Lord Bishopp of Sarum and the Deane and all the Canons of the
Chapter’. That the concord was genuine is perhaps evidenced by four books by
Pierce in the library inscribed as personal gifts from himself to Seth Ward.
Dean Pierce also had worries, questions being raised as to the regularity of his
ordination (presumably due to the requirement in the Act of Uniformity that
clergy should have been episcopally ordained). He said that after thirty-seven
years he had, not surprisingly, mislaid his ordination papers, but claimed to have
been ordained deacon and priest in one day by the then Bishop of Oxford.
During his conflict with Seth Ward he had needed to produce documentary
proof of his appointment as Dean, but he wrote that the relevant documents
had ‘been Both imbezild’. He endeavoured to cleanse the cathedral of
immorality, as for example when the Bishop refusing ‘to punish his chaplain for
a Bastard begott in his Pallace . . . I was forced as Dean to punish both parties
according to Law’, the unfortunate couple having publicly to express sorrow for
their ‘unlawful Expressions of Mutual Love’ before their marriage.
With all the hotheads that were in the choir, inevitably some occasionally had to
be disciplined. Bishop Ward's visitation in 1683 shows William Powell during a
service exclaiming to a loud-voiced fellow-vicar ‘God confound you, why do you
keep such a bawling, can't you sing softlyer?’ At another service he boxed the
ears of a chorister who was misbehaving, saying ‘God, you, I’ll see you ordered!’
On yet another occasion Powell banged the same chorister’s head against the
back of his seat, causing his mouth to bleed, and called him ‘Bastard!’, his
excuse being that he had seen the boy playing at the quire door when he
should have told Powell which service was to be sung. In September 1676 it was
decreed that no communion bread on Sundays should be given to Thomas Low,
lay singer, owing to to his great and frequent sins! The verger Edmund Gillo was
in 1685 accused of ‘sawcily’ disputing with the Dean about his duty, of
‘Noctivigation and excessive drinking and Drabing with one Mary Oakeford a
Chimney-sweepers Daughter all night even the very Night following Christmas
Day’. Gillo had even reviled William Powell and his wife, ‘in his drunken fit
calling her Whore and him the Son of a Whore and adding to both other
filthiness of his tongue, too filthy to be named in this place’. For these and other
misdemeanours Gillo had to kneel before the Dean in the Chapter House and
make a grovelling public apology for ‘my Rebellion Contumacy and Ingratitude
in a contemptuous refusall to obey [his] repeated orders and Commands’.
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Even the organist, the distinguished composer Michael Wise, was often in
trouble, and in 1674 had to make a public apology in the Chapter House for
accusing the Chapter of creaming off more than £300 of the money which
should have been paid to the choristers or to him for their keep. In 1683 he was
accused of being negligent in the performance of his duty, and of labouring
‘under a notorious Fame of Prophanenesse, Intemperate Drinking, and other
Excesses in his Life and Conversation'. In spite of this, a contemporary of his
could yet describe him as ‘a man of great pleasantry’ and ‘a most sweet and
elegant composer’. However, even Wise’s end was turbulent when, after a row
one night with his new wife, he rushed out of the house in a rage and, being
ordered to stop by the night watchman, uttered ‘stubborne and refractory
language’. In the ensuing quarrel he received a blow on the head which killed
him, aged only 41. He was buried three days later, not as has been assumed at
either this cathedral or St. Paul’s Cathedral (where he had recently been
appointed organist), but at St. Thomas’s Church, Salisbury.
Following the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685 many prisoners were brought to
Salisbury and kept in the cathedral cloisters (as had happened to Dutch
prisoners of war in 1653). Thought was taken for the welfare of their souls
insomuch that two vicars choral were paid 30 shillings out of the offertory
money for ‘reading prayers to the prisoners’. The bell-ringers rang peals in June
1685 for the routing of the Duke of Monmouth in the west, and his capture at
Ringwood.
When, following the landing of William of Orange with some 15,000 men at
Torbay in November 1688, James II came with his army to Salisbury (a key place
for the army in the west of England), the cathedral bells rang out for him, as
they did with apparent impartiality for the Prince of Orange on 4 December
when he came to Salisbury. He stayed for one night at the Bishop’s Palace which
but a fortnight before had been the scene of James’s famous two-day-long nosebleed! The Prince was accompanied on his journey to England from the Hague
by his chaplain, the historian Gilbert Burnet, who was to succeed Seth Ward the
following year as Bishop. In February 1689 the bells pealed again ‘when King
William & Queen Mary were proclaimed’, the Chapter obviously acting in true
Vicar of Bray fashion! Though famous battles were still to take place in Ireland,
and in the Spanish Netherlands, it seems that in 1689, with new monarchs and
a new bishop, internal strife had for the time being come to an end at Salisbury
Cathedral.
Suzanne Eward
Cathedral Librarian and
Keeper of the Muniments
© Suzanne Eward 2009
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THE FRIENDS’ VISIT TO RUTLAND
AND LINCOLNSHIRE
After a very early and punctual start from Salisbury Coach Station, we drove
through the rain to Coventry Cathedral where we were met by Mr Ken Offley,
the Vice-Chairman of the Friends of the Cathedral. As we had arrived earlier than
expected we had time to look around the ruins of the old Cathedral which had
been destroyed in 1940 by incendiary bombs. Only the east end wall and the
west tower were left standing, and in this large open space various memorials
had been built, including a beautiful loving group representing Peace and
Reconciliation, which is the theme of the new Cathedral. This has been set at
right angles to the old Cathedral, thus giving it a north-south axis. One enters
through large engraved glass doors looking north towards the high altar, and to
the vast Sutherland tapestry depicting the figure of Christ in Glory. The first
impression is of stark grey walls but when you turn to face the entrance, you are
amazed by the sudden appearance of stained glass windows. The cross hanging
over the altar contains the original cross of nails taken from the old Cathedral.
After a talk about the Cathedral, we joined the midday prayers for Peace and
Reconciliation.
After lunch in the
undercroft, we set off for
the village of Cottingham
and the Hunting Lodge
Hotel. After our arrival, we
had a quick wash and
brush up before our visit to
Rockingham Castle. It is
one of a chain of castles
built by William the
Conqueror and had
wonderful unimpeded
views of the surrounding
countryside. An interesting
feature of the garden was
Burghley House
the elephant hedge.
The following day began with a visit to Geoff Hamilton’s gardens at Barnsdale,
which were quite delightful. They are divided into many small gardens which
you may remember from the BBC programme ‘Gardeners’ World’, a very
pleasant way to start the day. We then took to the water on the Rutland Belle
which took us on a tour of Rutland Water, the largest man-made lake in the
country. We disembarked at Normanton Church which is partially submerged
and has been turned into a museum. Our lunch stop was at Stamford with its
twenty three churches and a street market.
On then to Peterborough Cathedral, a church in the grand East Anglian
Romanesque tradition of Ely and Norwich. On first sight, the west front is most
impressive but on closer inspection appears to be a work of glorious confusion!
Inside, the painted wooden ceiling is interesting and the fan vaulting in the
retrochoir, known as the New Building, is quite magnificent. It was built with
Barnack stone from quarries owned by the monks and the east end was in use
by 1137. The Friends provided us with a delicious tea during which we had a
talk about the Cathedral. After a wander round we joined the Evensong service.
The third morning was spent in Oakham, the county town of Rutland, where we
visited the market and what remains of the castle. The interior walls of the Great
Hall were covered with hundreds of horse shoes which had been donated by
visiting lords and monarchs throughout the ages.
We then drove to Burghley House in time for lunch. There was plenty of time to
look around the house where all the walls, and even some of the ceilings, are
covered with tapestries and paintings including representations of Heaven and
Hell. A bit overwhelming but fortunately the rose garden provided a fragrant
place to recover.
Peterborough Cathedral
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We finished the day with a complete
contrast. We were met at Barnack
Church by the Rector who,
accompanied by her small dog, gave
us a talk about the history of the
church and the local stone.
Our final day started with a lie-in as
some of the group attended the
morning service at the little church in
Cottingham. On the journey back to
Salisbury, we stopped for a quick look
at the triangular lodge at Rushton,
built by Sir Thomas Tresham between
1594 and 1596 as a rabbit-keeper’s
house, but it is in fact a building with
many symbols of his true faith!
Our last port of call was Canons
Ashby, a Tudor house named after an
Augustinian Priory on the site. Such a
pleasant tranquil place compared to the grandeur of Burghley House.
FRIENDS’ DAY
Saturday 19th September 2009
PROGRAMME
TIME
EVENT
VENUE
9.30 am
Close Walk
Cathedral West Front
10.30 am
Tower Tour
Cathedral at West End
10.00 and 11.00
Works Yard
9.45 am
Tours of the Masons’ Workshops
with Ted Hillier & Chris Sampson
Tours of the Glazing Department
with Sam Kelly
Tour of the Vestry & Music Room
12.30 pm
Buffet Lunch
Sarum College Refectory
2.00 pm
Lecture
North Transept, Cathedral
10.00 and 11.00
Anne Dewing and June Calamvokis
who shared a room and are still friends!
Vestry
‘The Fifteenth-century remodelling
of the east end of Salisbury
Cathedral’
Dr John Crook FSA
Triangular Lodge
In fact this tour was full of contrasts – ancient and modern, grandiose and
simple, large and small, all cunningly put together to give us a most enjoyable
four days. Lance, our driver, was thanked for his cheerful patience and skilful
driving which got us safely round some tight corners! Thanks were also
extended to Shirley Reeves for her expert guidance which added greatly to our
knowledge of the places we saw. But special thanks must go to Kate for
organising such a successful tour – no one would have known it was her first!
Everything ran smoothly, we always started our days on time – 8.30 am sharp –
the hotel was comfortable and the food and staff were excellent. What more can
one ask of a tour?
Works Yard
3.15 pm
Annual General Meeting
North Transept, Cathedral
4.00 pm
Tea
Sarum College Refectory
4.30 pm
Choir in Open Rehearsal
Quire
5.30pm
Evensong
Cathedral
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2009
The Annual General Meeting will be held in the North Transept of the Cathedral
on Saturday 19th September 2009 at 3.15 pm
AGENDA
1. Opening Prayer
6. Treasurer’s Report and adoption of the
Accounts for the year ended 31 March
2009 (see page 36 of this Report)
2. President’s Introduction
3. Minutes of the Annual General
Meeting held on 13 September 2008
7. Appointment of Honorary Auditors
(see page 39 of this Report)
4. Matters arising
8. The Secretary’s Report
5. Election of members to Council
9. Any Other Business
Note: Anyone wishing to propose a motion or nomination for submission to the AGM should send
it to the Secretary in writing, signed by the Proposed and Seconder, to be received not later than
Friday 21 August 2009.
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THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL: REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2009
The summarised accounts set out on the following pages have been extracted from the full audited
accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009 and are a summary of information relating to both the
Statement of Financial Activities and the Balance Sheet.
The summarised accounts may not contain sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of
the affairs of the Association. For further information, readers are asked to refer to the full annual
accounts, and the unqualified report on those accounts by the Association's auditors. Copies are
available on request from the Friends' Office, 52 The Close, Salisbury, and the accounts are also filed
at the Charity Commission.
THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2009
INCOMING RESOURCES
Subscriptions
Share of Cathedral Shop profit
Donations
Legacies
Investment income
Total incoming resources
Objects and Organisation
2009
2008
45,814
15,000
31,084
126,124
20,340
49,355
15,000
43,124
9,687
20,102
238,362
137,268
45,000
20,000
12,000
130,000
37,500
77,000
167,500
50,223
42,047
127,223
209,547
111,139
(72,279)
(81,674)
(43,778)
29,465
(116,057)
382,518
498,575
£411,983
£382,518
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
RESOURCES EXPENDED
The objects of the Association are to help and support the Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral in
maintaining, preserving, improving and enhancing the fabric, fittings, ornaments, music and
monuments in Salisbury Cathedral; and to support the life, worship and ministry of the Cathedral. To
pursue these objects the Association makes grants to the Cathedral to fund specific projects and
purchases.
The management of the Association is deputed to the Executive Council, the members of which are
shown on Page 4.
Review of Activities and Achievements
Grants to Salisbury Cathedral
Monument conservation
Te Deum frontal repairs
Lighting project
Other projects
Governance costs
Total resources expended
During the year the membership increased slightly to 3,496 and the Association received total income
of £238,362, compared with £137,268 in 2008/09. Ordinary income, excluding legacies and special
appeals, was £101,721, compared with £103,306 in 2008/09; and legacies amounted to £126,124.
The Friends made grants of £77,000 to the Cathedral, of which £45,000 was towards the restoration
of Cathedral monuments and will be paid over three years. This compares with grants of £167,500 the
previous year.
After administrative expenses of £50,223 the Association had net incoming resources of £111,139
(2007/8: net outgoing resources of £72,279).
After taking account of investment losses, the total funds increased by £29,465 to £411,983, which is
all unrestricted.
Signed on behalf of the Executive Council:
Mrs K Beckett (Secretary)
Lt Col H Keatinge (Chairman)
Approved by the Executive Council: 21 May 2009
Net incoming/(outgoing) resources
OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSES
Gains and losses on investments
Net movement in funds
BALANCES AT 1 APRIL 2008
BALANCES AT 31 MARCH 2009
AUDITORS’ STATEMENT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF
THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
Respective Responsibilities of Members of the Executive Council and Auditors
We have examined the summarised accounts , consisting of the summarised Statement of Financial Activities
and Balance Sheet, which are the responsibility of the members of the Executive Council. Our responsibility
is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summarised accounts within Spire with the full annual
Accounts and Trustees Report. We also read the financial information within Spire and consider the
implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with
the summarised accounts.
Basis of Opinion
We conducted our work with reference to Bulletin 2008/3 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Our report
on the Association's full annual financial statements describes the basis of our audit opinion on those financial
statements.
Opinion
In our opinion the summarised accounts are consistent with the full Annual Report and Accounts of the Friends
of Salisbury Cathedral for the year ended 31 March 2009.
FLETCHER & PARTNERS
Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors
Salisbury, 19 June 2009
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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
SUMMARY BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2009
2009
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets
Investments (at market value)
OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
HELD ON SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2008 at 3.15 pm IN SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
2008
625
258,179
340,355
258,804
340,355
1.
The meeting opened with members joining the Dean in saying the Friends’ Prayer.
2.
President’s Address
The Dean the Very Reverend June Osborne began her address by thanking Tim
Tatton Brown for his lecture on the Consecration crosses, and warmly welcoming
everyone to the AGM, including the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Mr. John Bush. She
had written on behalf of the Friends to Valerie Pitt-Rivers, the Lord Lieutenant of
Dorset, to wish her a speedy recovery from an operation. The Dean said that the
750th anniversary celebrations were now drawing to a close and that one of the
central features would be the special anniversary service at 3 pm on the 29th of
September when the Archbishop of Canterbury, following in the footsteps of his
predecessor Boniface of Savoy, would consecrate the new font and re-consecrate our
life together. She said that during October, in order to thank all her staff for their
endeavours over the year, she would be taking them to Highgrove, the home of the
Prince of Wales, where they would be having tea.
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
61,099
237,302
27,794
94,943
298,401
122,737
94,789
26,463
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due
within one year
NET CURRENT ASSETS
203,612
96,274
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
462,416
436,629
50,433
54,111
£411,983
£382,518
She continued that, as might be expected, the focus of many of her remarks would
be on the 750th anniversary celebrations. There had been a broad range of activities
to mark a successful year that had included an Academic Conference, an Open Day,
a Medieval Fair, a Flower Festival, a Diocesan Pilgrimage and an Exhibition in the
Cloisters. Inspiration from the worldwide Anglican community had challenged our
sense of mission, through Desmond Tutu, Daniel Deng Bul, Katharine Jefferts Schori
and Rowan Williams. The year had left its mark on all of us, and it would be easy to
believe that we would now return to normal. However, this was not the case and in
celebrating the building there had been changes. The most obvious of these was the
new font. In answer to some criticism, she said that for many years the Cathedral
had needed a font in the main liturgical space and not one which had been
designed for another time and place. She said that the new font represented the
culmination of ten years of scrutiny. The Chapter had also said that it would only go
ahead if all of the costs were covered by private donations and in this regard, she
thanked Sir Timothy and Lady Sainsbury and Sir Christopher and Lady Benson for
their generosity in making it possible for the Cathedral to acquire a contemporary
font of the same materials used in this building originally. She said that it had been a
very special year and she thanked the Friends for being there throughout: at all of
the events, in sponsoring the statue of Canon Ezra and in contributing to the costs of
the internal and external lighting of the cathedral.
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due
after one year
NET ASSETS
Representing:
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS
General Fund
Exceptional Support Reserve
411,983
-
57,721
324,797
411,983
382,518
£411,983
£382,518
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
(a)
Life Membership Subscriptions: These are taken to income over 12.5 years
(b)
Exceptional Support Reserve: The reserve was to enable exceptional support, if necessary, to be
provided to the Cathedral. During the year it was transferred to the General Fund.
(c)
Grants payable: These are accounted for when a legal or constructive obligation to pay the
grants has come into existence.
(d)
Legacies: are included as income once it is reasonably certain that they will be received and the
amount can be measured reliably.
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In closing, the Dean thanked the Friends as a body to be proud of: Lt Col Hugh
Keatinge, the Chairman, for his untiring efforts, Kate Beckett the new Secretary and
her staff, Paul Lucas the outgoing editor of Spire, and Gemma Russell and David
Felgate, the outgoing members of the Council. She also paid tribute to Derek
McFaull, the Archdeaconry Representative of Wiltshire, who had passed away during
the summer.
3.
Apologies
Apologies had been received from the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, the Bishop of
Salisbury, Mr and Mrs John Gammon, Mrs Maggie Hunter, Mrs Isabella Jones, Mrs
Sheila Boulter, Mr and Mrs R Brockhurst, Ms Caroline Barnett, Col and Mrs Harvey,
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F J Earle, Sir Manvill Johnston, Ms Heather Bland, Ms J Calvert, Mr and Mrs L Baker, Mr
and Mrs M Gallagher, Mrs Rhoda Grant (from Belgium), Miss Jane Erith, Mr and Mrs
Donald Binney, Mr and Mrs John Dickson, Mr and Mrs John Warren, Rear Admiral and
Mrs Gueritz, Miss M Drage.
4.
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 22 September 2007
Miss Jennifer Bowen proposed, seconded by Miss Sue Grieg, that the Minutes be
accepted as a correct record and this was passed unopposed.
5.
Matters arising
There were none.
6.
Election of Members to Council
The Chairman thanked Gemma Russell and David Felgate, the outgoing members of
the Council. He said that we had been fortunate to have two candidates proposed to
become members of the Council: Mrs Kate Weale and Mr. Ian Hutton-Penman, who
were duly accepted.
7.
Treasurer’s Report and adoption of the Accounts for the year ending 31 March
2008
Mr Ian McNeil reported that, compared to the previous year, the accounts this year
were much more regular. We completed our payments to the lighting project, and
raised £25,000 for the west front statue, which was paid in July 2008. Our income
was also back to more normal levels at £137,268, as legacies were reduced when
compared to 2007. The net result was a loss of £72,279 compared to £174,803
in 2007. Whilst in 2007 we took a small surplus from gains on our investments,
this year we had a loss of £43,778 as the credit crunch took hold. Our balance at
31 March 2008 of £382,518 was satisfactory.
With regard to the balance sheet this reflected the movements referred to. Cash was
reduced by about £45,000 and investments by £44,000. To enable the final
payments on the lighting project to be made. Mr Anthony Bainbridge brought to the
attention of the meeting a query regarding the creditors on the balance sheet on
p34 of the Annual Report. Due to a misprint, the amount of £54,111 should be listed
as falling due after one year.
The Treasurer thanked Fletcher & Partners for their assistance with the audit, and
Gerrards for their help in withstanding the credit crunch. He reported that we have
this year moved our accounts to a very much more computer-based system, and are
benefiting greatly from this. Mr Peter Summerfield proposed, seconded by Mr John
Bushell, that the Accounts should be adopted, and this was passed unopposed.
8.
Appointment of Honorary Auditors
The Chairman reported that Messrs Fletcher & Partners were willing to continue as
Honorary Auditors. Mr David Lever proposed, seconded by Mr John Bushell, that
Fletchers should continue to be the Association’s Auditors, and this was passed
unopposed. The Secretary would write to Messrs Fletcher & Partners accordingly.
9.
The Secretary’s Report
Mrs Kate Beckett reported on the past year.
The Secretary was delighted to report as Executive Secretary and to see so many
people supporting the AGM. As the Treasurer had already reported, we raised over
£137,000 in the past year, and granted £167,500 to the Cathedral. The official
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“switch-on” of the new Cathedral lighting system took place in March, and Canon
Ezra looked very settled on the west front. So now, when our Cathedral was so
beautifully lit, you knew that your efforts had made it all possible.
Both she and Lizzie enjoyed working for the members, and the very warm welcome
received from everyone had been fantastic. She gave her thanks to everyone for
being so unfailingly helpful and patient with their many questions – the Dean &
Chapter, Church House, our Chairman and all on the Executive Council, and
colleagues in the Friends' Office, and of course to Bishop David and the Dean who
consistently supported the Friends. Jane Erith was happily settled into her new home
in Somerset awaiting the arrival of her new greenhouse, and had been invaluable at
the end of the Brushford hot-line, whilst Mike Gallagher had now settled in Lichfield.
Lizzie Rowe as Assistant Secretary had settled into a routine, and we had made a few
changes to the general running of the office which were working well, including Tory
Hirst, our financial whiz, getting to grips with Sage Accounting, with the support of
Ian McNeil, our Honorary Treasurer.
Membership
We were extremely grateful for John Kennerley’s support as Membership Secretary,
and very happy that he had agreed to be co-opted and to continue to come in every
week to keep our membership records up to date, which kept us on our toes. During
the past financial year, the membership decreased slightly to 3,499, down on last
year. Increasing and indeed maintaining membership was always high on our list of
priorities, and we would sustain our efforts in addressing this issue. There were
members all over Britain, Europe, USA and Australia, and their loyal support and
interest was greatly appreciated. The Secretary thanked everyone who had
succeeded in encouraging friends and family to join the Friends. We had a happy
and successful day with our stall in the Cathedral during the Open Day in April, part
of the 750th Anniversary Celebrations, and we gained 10 new members. We had a
pitch at the Medieval Fair on both days in May, and devised a quiz and a treasure
hunt, which successfully attracted custom. We handed out lots of information about
the Friends, and everyone who helped again enjoyed the day. Both events were
particularly valuable to us in terms of public relations. The Secretary then mentioned
a lovely letter received from a member living in Bristol, who came to both the Open
Day and the Flower Festival. Having enjoyed herself so much at both events, she sent
in a donation for £500!
Grants and Projects
In addition to the grants made to the Cathedral, the Chair Project continued to
progress. Thanks were expressed to everyone who had so generously contributed so
far; the total was presently 1,322. We needed to sell another 110 chairs or so to break
even and start making a profit. Buying chairs wasn’t restricted to just Friends –
sponsorship was encouraged for anybody and made an ideal gift especially with
Christmas coming! Many already sponsored commemorated a loved one or a special
event or recorded their contribution for posterity, and all donors are to be recorded in
a book to be deposited in the Cathedral Archives. Sue Ash, who had been coordinating the chairs for some time, had had to pass the responsibility back to the
office. So a very big thank you was said to Sue, and also to the Vergers, and to
Richard and Brendan in the Works Department, for all their help on the practical side.
Bequests
Last year we received bequests or donations in memoriam totalling just over £9,000.
In this current financial year we had so far received nearly £21,000, which included a
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single bequest of £20,000. The Friends had agreed to fund the repairs to the Te
Deum frontal, one of the Cathedral’s most precious pieces of needlework, and this
amount would go a long way to covering the cost of these vital repairs. Bequests
and donations continued to make a welcome and crucial contribution to our funds,
whatever the amount. Bequests to charities were exempt from inheritance tax but
not exempt from making a real difference to the Cathedral!
Outings
In May a party of Friends visited the Library of Women Writers at Chawton House,
followed by a tour of Jane Austen’s home, now a museum. In June a party of Friends
stayed in the East Midlands, which proved an area of great beauty with lots to see.
Thanks went to Ian Henderson for a most well informed and enthusiastic talk about
Rutland prior to the trip, and to the Friends of Coventry and Peterborough
Cathedrals who looked after us so well. Everyone enjoyed themselves and a big thank
you was said to Shirley Reeves, who gives so much of her time and expertise in
helping with organising and leading the trips. A day trip to Westonbirt School and
the arboretum was planned for October, which should be very colourful at this time
of year. The pilgrimage to Iona, led by Canon Jeremy Davies, was confirmed for
September 2009, and a preliminary booking to Oberammergau in Bavaria in 2010,
the Friends’ 80th anniversary year, had been made. Our trips were always well
supported and although self-funding, any amount of profit, however small, provided
a welcome boost to our funds.
Christmas Cards
Two designs of Christmas Cards were being offered for sale this year, a subtle
watercolour by Bill Toop of the Cathedral from Harnham Water meadows, and Ashley
Mills’ floodlit Cathedral at night left from last year and offered at a reduced cost.
Sheila and Peter Brown worked hard to process all the orders received, many of
which were sent abroad, and they were on duty selling cards on a stall in the East
Cloister after the AGM. Pre-orders were also on the stall or available from No 52
during office hours, where cards were on sale normally.
Volunteers
A very special group of roughly 100 or so people were really important to us, and
were essential to the success of the Friends, our wonderful band of volunteers. So
many people were willing and cheerful, prepared to give their time in a variety of
ways. All had a part to play in our endeavour to support the Cathedral, and the
Secretary said a very big thank you. She particularly thanked Revd Paul Lucas, who
had now relinquished the editorship of Spire to Anthony and Kate Weale.
There was certainly plenty to keep us busy and the Secretary assured everyone that
the team worked hard to do all possible to support the interest of the Friends. We
counted ourselves incredibly lucky indeed to have so many Friends!
The Secretary looked forward to the next Annual General Meeting of the Friends’
Association on Saturday 19 September 2009 in the Cathedral.
10. Any Other Business
There was none.
The Meeting ended with the Grace at 3.50 pm.
NEW MEMBERS 2008/2009 as advised at 31 March 2009
We welcome as Friends the following new members:
Mr & Mrs Steve Abbott
Mrs Jill F G Abele
Mr & Mrs Michael Adams
Mr Mark Allen
Mrs Josine-Marie Arthur
Mr Hilary Bachelier-Carasco
Revd Jonathan and
Rev Jane Ball
Ms Margery Barwise
Mr William Battersby
Ms Rachel Bebb
Mr & Mrs Bowerbank
Dr Lydia Brown
Mr David Browne
Mr & Mrs David Burnside
Miss Barbara Butler
Mr B M Cartwright
Mrs Marge Chapman
Mrs Sylvia R Clarke
Mr & Mrs T E Collyer
Mrs Hilary J Corfield
Mr David Coulthard
Mr & Mrs Michael Crawley
Miss J Cunningham
Mr & Mrs Graeme Davis
Mr & Mrs Reginald W Davis
Mr Peter Di Gleria
Mr Tim Dodd
Miss H A Ducker
Mr & Mrs Graham Eaton
Mrs Janet Edmonds
Revd John Edwards
Lt Col Michael G Elcomb
Mr & Mrs Frederick Elder
The Ven & Mrs Patrick Evans
Revd Wendy Fobister
Mr & Mrs Michael Gill
Capt & Mrs Duncan Glass
Mr Christopher J Glenn
Brigadier Sir Arthur B.S.H
Gooch DL
Mrs Janurin M Hawker
Mr & Mrs Peter Hirst
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Mr Steve Hodgkinson
Mrs Gillian M Holland
Mr & Mrs Christopher
Horwood
Mr & Mrs Kevin
House-Norman
Mr Matthew Hughes
Mr Malcolm Hunt
Dr & Mrs Douglas Imeson
Revd Christopher Jones
Revd C G T and
Revd M P Jones
Mrs Isobel Jones
Revd Louise Kingston
Mrs Christine Lees
Mr & Mrs C Lewis-Cooper
Miss A Lewis-Cooper
Mrs Jacquelinie Macleod
Mrs Doreen Magee
Mr Mark Maidment and
Miss Helen Mehring
Mr John A Mariner
Major Anthony Markham
Mr Roger H McCann
Mr Arthur McCarten
Mr David Milborrow
Miss Barbara Milner
Mrs Carol Milner
Mr & Mrs Robert Moody
Mrs Olwen Moyle
Mr & Mrs Robert Neale
Prof & Mrs Peter Neville
Miss Elizabeth Newman
Miss Deidre Nicholas
Mr & Mrs Nigel Rodway
Mrs Lizzie Rowe
Mrs Shiela Rushworth
Mrs Ann Sangwin
Mr & Mrs P Sharpe
Mr Andrew Speirs
Dr & Mrs John Spencer
Mr & Mr Geoff Squire
Mr & Mrs J S Stout
Mr & Mrs Mike Sutcliffe
Mr & Mrs Richard Sutton
Mr & Mrs John Sweeney
Mr Ken Tatam
Mr & Mrs Edward J
Tinline
Mrs Beatrice Todd
Mrs Anne Tompson
Lt Col & Mrs Simon
Ward
Revd & Mrs Christopher
Wheaton
Mrs D A Whettingsteel
Mrs Lianne Whittles
Mr Paul Winstanley
Mrs Elaine Wood
Mr & Mrs Robin Wright
Honorary Members
(former Choristers)
Miss Flora Beverley
Mr Harry Burnet
Mr Jack Cox
Mr Aubrey Clarke
Miss Cassandra Dalby
Mr & Mrs Michael Porter
Mrs Mary Poynton
Mrs A Price
Miss Rosie Goodall
Mr & Mrs Michael P
Rathbone
Mr & Mrs Gary Richards
Mr & Mrs Edward Richardson
Mrs Caroline Rippier
Miss Saskia Wilkins
Mr Edward Wing
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Mr Jack Mynott
THE OBJECTS OF THE FRIENDS
OBITUARY 2008/2009
up to 31 March 2009
We learn with deep regret and sympathy the deaths of the following friends:
To support the Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral in maintaining, preserving, improving and
enhancing the fabric, fittings, ornaments, furniture, music and monuments of the
Cathedral, and to support its life, worship, and ministry.
(with dates of enrolment)
Mrs E Rosemary Barry
Mrs Beatrice Ivy Beale
Mr J Benham
Admiral Christopher M Bevan
Mr Donald Binney
Council’s Archdeaconry Rep
for Sherborne
Mrs Eunice Brown
Mrs M Burlinson
1979
1976
1965
1991
2004
Mr D Caddick
Mrs Birthe Churchill
Mrs H M Clemerson
1999
2005
1985
Canon David Dicker
Miss Mary Edmond
Mr J M Elgar
1984
1955
The Association was formed in 1930 and has over 3,500 members.
Canon Pat C Magee
Mrs Margaret G Martin-Jones
Mr Derek J J McFaull
Council’s Archdeaconry Rep
for Wiltshire
Mrs Barbara Morgan
Mrs A C Moules
2003
1980
Mr Richard M D Odgers
1999
Mrs E E Page
Mrs Valerie Mayo Pearce
1984
2005
Mrs Sheila Quaddy
2004
Mrs A W Rose
Mrs Russell
1984
1984
Dr Kenneth Sargeant
Miss Suzanne A Shaw
Mr P Shemilt
Mr Kenneth Symonds
2007
1998
1976
1997
Mr J Tapley
Mr Richard M T Tyler
1986
1984
1979
2004
1984
1977
1975
MEMBERSHIP
1977
1961
2002
Minimum annual subscriptions are:
Ordinary — single
Ordinary — joint
Corporate membership:
Schools, PCCs etc
Businesses and Professions
Life — single
Life — joint
SERVICES IN THE CATHEDRAL
SUNDAYS
1961
1979
Rear Admiral Teddy F Gueritz 1970
1965
Mr M Ingram
1990
Mr Malcolm Knight
Mrs Betty Jean Kukowka
1999
1967
£10.00
£100.00
£200.00
£300.00
Enrolment, Banker’s Order and Gift Aid declaration forms may be obtained from
The Secretary, The Friends’ Office, 52 The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EL
Tel: 01722 335161/555190 E-mail: [email protected] or downloaded from
www.salisburycathedralfriends.co.uk
1961
Dr G S C Hibbert
£15.00
£25.00
Mrs Phyllis Dorothy Lough
Mrs B Lush
1995
1952
Dr A S Wallace
Mrs J A Wheeler
Mrs M A White
Mrs J M Wyld
Mr C Mackechnie-Jarvis
1973
Miss Pamela Pauline Young
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ON WEEKDAYS
0800
Holy Communion
0730
Morning Worship with Holy Communion
0915
Mattins **
1115
Holy Communion - 1662 (Thurs only)
1030
Sung Eucharist
with Sermon *
1215
Holy Communion Contemporary Language (Tues only)
1500
Choral Evensong*
1730
Evensong*
* Sung by the Cathedral Choir in term time and by
visiting choirs at other times.
** Usually sung but occasionally said or replaced
by another service.
Please check the website www.salisburycathedral.org.uk
or telephone 01722 555113 (recorded details) for any changes to the above.
THE FRIENDS' PRAYER
God our Father, by whose inspiration our ancestors were given the faith and vision to
build our Cathedral Church of Sarum and in succeeding ages to care for its
maintenance and adornment; give us grace as Friends to serve you with the same faith
and vision, so that our Cathedral may speak to every generation of beauty and holiness
and be a witness to your abiding presence in our land and in our lives.
Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
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Back cover: ‘One of the four largest of the ‘Angel Heads’, positioned close to the Cathedral’s
new font in the nave as part of a spectacular and moving Art Installation which ran from
November 2008 to February 2009. The seven and a half heads were sculpted especially by
Emily Young to celebrate the Cathedral’s 750th Anniversary,’
Photographer: Ash Mills