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Manchester Cathedral There has been a place of worship on the site of Manchester Cathedral since 632. From the reference in the Domesday survey of 1086 and subsequent historical records, it is generally inferred that the church of ‘St Mary’ stood approximately in the same place as the present Cathedral and was the mother church of Manchester. The carving known as ‘the angel stone’ on permanent display in the nave is thought to evidence the church’s early Anglo- Saxon heritage. In 1421 the parish church became a Collegiate Foundation by Royal Charter of Henry V and in the later 15th Century it was closely connected with the new Tudor monarchy through Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII’s mother and stepmother to the church warden, James Stanley. The misericord carvings in the quire date from this period. Turbulent times followed, with the College dissolved under Henry VIII and its Church plate coniscated by Edward before being re-established under Mary I in 1553 and subsequently receiving its Third Charter from Elizabeth I in 1578. An advisor to Elizabeth, Dr John Dee, was warden of the Cathedral from 1596 until his death in 1608. Dee is chiely known as a mathematician and astrologer but gained a reputation as an occultist and found little favour in Puritan Manchester or with Elizabeth’s successor, James I. During the Civil War the church was ransacked, but new galleries were built in 1660 and 1698. The campaigner, Thomas Clarkson, visited the church in 1787 and delivered an anti-slavery speech that gave momentum to the Abolition of the Slave Trade; when the bill was passed in 1807, William Wordsworth wrote a sonnet to Clarkson to mark the occasion. In 1847 the Diocese of Manchester was created and the church became the Cathedral. An explosion in population saw mass weddings and baptisms conducted by the famous Joshua Brookes and Canon Cecil Wray. The 19th Century also saw extensive rebuilding, including the Victoria Porch built in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. During the First World War, Manchester Guardian columnist, Peter Green, was a residentiary Canon at the Cathedral and wrote proliically on the social effects of war. A bomb destroyed most of the north-east of the Cathedral in 1940 and caused extensive damage in the rest of the building. There followed two decades of restoration; between 1976 and 1995 the west windows were replaced with a scheme of richly coloured designs by Antony Hollaway – one window for each of the patron saints, Mary, Denys and George, and two windows depicting ‘creation’ and ‘revelation’ respectively. In 2010 – at the beginning of an ambitious and wide-reaching Development Project leading up to the 600-year anniversary of the irst Henry V charter in 2021 – In 2013 the old under-loor heating system was replaced and the nave and quire looring renewed. Daniel Pearson Singer/Songwriter New album ‘Alone,Together’ out now www.danielpearson.net Here the Cathedral stands today with a vivid and most remarkable future awaiting.
Sean Cernow Sean Cernow is an actor, writer and director from Manchester, England. Born into a single parent family in 1977 and raised on the Abbey Hills and Holts Estates in Oldham gripped at the time by racial unrest, mass unemployment and neo-nazi marches by the National Front and the BNP. It wasn’t long before Sean was known to the police and by the age of ifteen had spent more than his fair share of time in police custody. The teachers at school would constantly attempt to dissuade him from any artistic endeavor citing that ‘a job in engineering or a factory’ would be more suited to a single parent child with hardly any GCSE’s and it was at this point that Sean’s fractured relationship with school totally failed. In 1993 he attended Oldham’s Higginshaw School of Performing Arts before going on to study theatre at Tameside College of Performing Arts in Ashton and the North West College of London. In 1998 he enrolled on Salford University’s Media Performance Course. In 2000 he made his ilm debut as the gunman, Little Pel in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People. Between the years of 2001 and 2003 Sean found himself in Manchester Prison known famously as Strangeways. In order to make some sense of his time there he began writing in an attempt at self therapy. After a conversation on the exercise yard about the ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’ and Sean writing poetry and court letters for ‘cons as well as screws’, the nickname ‘The Wordman of Strangeways’ stuck. Months after his release in the November of 2001 he struck lucky and began working on Channel 4’s BAFTA winning prison drama, ‘Buried’. Sean’s demons were never too far away and after a six month tour with Red Ladder Theatre Company, he found himself back behind the walls of prison. It wasn’t being back behind bars that was the surreal part, it was watching his character, Kirk Mitchell in ‘Buried’ on tv in his prison cell on K- ‐Wing in Strangeways. After being transferred to HMP Sudbury and with the help of the prison, Sean founded ‘Lockdown Theatre Company’ and wrote its irst piece of theatre with the help of his cellmate, James. It was an attempt to give whoever turned up some life skills, something to break the monotony of incarceration and the chance to make new friends and it WORKED! Agenda for the Evening Drinks Reception Kindly sponsored by Pickled Walnut Welcome Thanksgiving Celebratory Dinner Wine kindly sponsored by Milton Keynes College Introducing your Host Sharon Grenham-Thompson The Redemption & Justice Awards 2015 Presentation of the Awards Entertainment Featuring Daniel Pearson (Singer/Songwriter), Sean Cernow (Actor) and POP UK Dancing Carriages at 1:00am In the April of 2003, Lockdown Theatre with it’s cast of ‘bad lads’ premiered ‘Time’ in the theatre of HMP Sudbury. Shortly after they performed the piece for students studying law and performing arts at Derby Tertiary College. ‘Time’ was such a success that they went back again in the August of that year but by this point Sean had been released and was in the process of rebuilding his life. Since 2004 Sean has become known as a versatile ilm and television actor appearing in over forty productions. His most recent work includes: Prisoner’s Wives, Foyle’s War, Casualty, Scott and Bailey, Dragonly, The Interceptor, K- ‐Shop and The Musketeers. He has recently inished shooting The Hollow Crown – Henry VI Part 1 for BBC/BBC Worldwide and Julian Fellowes’ Doctor Thorne for ITV.
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