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<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />

singing the song of faith and justice<br />

+ +<br />

<strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />

…<br />

<strong>February</strong><br />

<strong>2018</strong><br />

<strong>2018</strong><br />

articles: The Future of <strong>St</strong> Nicholas <strong>Church</strong> — Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

// Chatterton's Literary Afterlife — <strong>St</strong>uart Andrews // Modern<br />

Slavery notes — Cecile Gillard // Night Shelter reflections — Keith<br />

Donoghue // Unseen: Lent Appeal News<br />

Chandelier at churcch: Doors Open Day 2017<br />

Mixed media on brown paper; Adèle Macron, age 7<br />

diary: Concert: <strong>St</strong> John Passion; Bach Camerata — 3rd <strong>February</strong> //<br />

Unseen UK art exhibition — 19th <strong>February</strong>–3rd April // Lent<br />

Course — 22nd <strong>February</strong>–15th March // undivided: Something<br />

About <strong>Mary</strong> lecture series — 20th <strong>February</strong>–6th March


<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />

With Temple, Bristol & <strong>St</strong> John the Baptist, Bedminster<br />

vicar's letter<br />

THE FUTURE OF ST NICHOLAS CHURCH<br />

AND ITS IMPACT ON US<br />

church wardens<br />

Richard James: 0117-966 2291<br />

Elizabeth Shanahan: 07808 505977<br />

head verger<br />

Matthew Buckmaster: 0117-2310061<br />

vergers<br />

Carys Underdown: 0117-231 0061<br />

Andy Carruthers: 0117-231 0061<br />

director of music<br />

Andrew Kirk: 0117-231 0065<br />

vicar<br />

Revd Dan Tyndall: 0117-231 0067<br />

associate vicar<br />

Revd Kat Campion-Spall: 0117-231 0070<br />

associate clergy<br />

Revd Canon Neville Boundy, Revd Peter Dill<br />

Revd Canon John Rogan, Revd Canon Michael Vooght<br />

operations manager<br />

Peter Rignall: 0117-231 0073<br />

admin executive<br />

Evelyn Burton-Guyett: 0117-231 0064<br />

admin associate<br />

Pat Terry: 0117-231 0063<br />

admin assistant<br />

Ros Houseago: 0117-231 0063<br />

the parish office<br />

12 Colston Parade, <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />

Bristol BS1 6RA 0117-231 0060<br />

research assistant<br />

Rhys Williams: 0117-231 0068<br />

education officer<br />

Sarah Yates: 0117-231 0072<br />

assistant organists<br />

Claire and Graham Alsop<br />

For more information about<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> visit our website at<br />

www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk<br />

Any of the staff may be contacted at<br />

parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk<br />

A<br />

NUMBER OF PEOPLE have been in<br />

touch with me asking about news<br />

reports they have seen about the<br />

future of <strong>St</strong> Nicholas <strong>Church</strong> in the city centre.<br />

There have been articles in the Bristol<br />

Post, on the diocesan website and even on<br />

the website of the Anglican Communion<br />

declaring that the church, which hasn’t<br />

been a site of public worship for some sixty<br />

years, is about to be recommisioned. The<br />

‘follow on’ question from some of those<br />

who have been in touch with me, has been:<br />

what about the Hogarth? So here’s what<br />

we know.<br />

— revd dan tyndall<br />

<strong>St</strong> Nicholas (the building) is being handed back to the diocese and there<br />

is going to be a new church from Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in London<br />

planted there. Bishop Lee has recently sent round the following information<br />

sheet (it is lengthy and I thought about editing it) — which we<br />

print in full below:<br />

ST NICHOLAS — A “RESOURCING CHURCH” FOR BRISTOL<br />

What is a “resourcing church”? A resourcing church is a church which<br />

is initiated by and works closely with the local bishop with the intention<br />

to resource mission across a city (or town). A resourcing church<br />

exists to reach new people — those who are currently unconnected to<br />

the <strong>Church</strong> — and aims to help evangelise the city and transform society.<br />

Its distinctive vocation is the deliberate resourcing of mission beyond its<br />

own congregation and location. It aims to grow and give away disciples


and leaders by planting or strengthening other churches, developing<br />

ministers and providing other resources for mission.<br />

Why have a resourcing church in Bristol? Bristol is the ninth biggest city<br />

in England and the second largest in the south. After decades of postwar<br />

population decline, since the year 2000, its population has grown<br />

rapidly, by almost 20% to 640,000 people across the urban area.<br />

The city continues to change, becoming younger, more diverse and<br />

increasingly oriented to its central areas which have been transformed.<br />

Over the last 10 years, these have grown by over 25% (+27,000 people),<br />

the student population by 25% (+10,000) and the city centre by 50%<br />

(+12,500). In the city centre, 60% of people are aged 15 to 29, across<br />

inner Bristol, 48% of parishes are in England’s most deprived, 40% of<br />

people identify as Christian compared to a national average of 59% and<br />

18% are from BAME groups.<br />

Our churches have not managed to reflect this changing demographic.<br />

All these groups are under-represented in <strong>Church</strong> of England churches<br />

(for example, 0.5% of 18-24 year olds attend a CofE church). Overall CofE<br />

attendance across greater Bristol has reduced by 15% and under 16<br />

attendance by 30% over the last 10 years.<br />

A resourcing church will be one way to help address these challenges<br />

and opportunities so we might make more disciples, engage younger<br />

generations and connect with our communities in our changing city.<br />

How does a resourcing church fit with our vision, priorities and plans?<br />

As a diocesan initiative, a resourcing church is designed to embody the<br />

diocesan vision of Creating connections and work to its priorities of making<br />

disciples, growing leaders and engaging younger generations. The<br />

particular focus of <strong>St</strong> Nicholas as a church community is to reach younger<br />

people outside the church: it aims for 40% of its membership to be<br />

unchurched or dechurched and 60% under the age of 30. Founded on<br />

a core of worship, teaching and prayer it will also have a significant focus<br />

on growing disciples who have a passion to lead both in ministry<br />

and society and to partner with other churches and organisations in the<br />

social transformation across the city.The broader focus of <strong>St</strong> Nicholas<br />

as a resourcing church is to connect with others to help resource mission<br />

and ministry across the city. As such, it is part of the wider diocesan<br />

programme of developing Mission Areas and Resourcing <strong>Church</strong>es that<br />

enable partnership, growth and mutual support. The Bristol resourcing<br />

church will report in to the diocesan programme board on a bimonthly<br />

basis, the Bishop’s <strong>St</strong>aff every four months and Bishop’s Council every<br />

eight months. Plans are now progressing to launch a resourcing church<br />

in Swindon at Christmas <strong>2018</strong>. Through the Mission Areas and existing<br />

additional investments in stipendiary ministry across the inner areas of<br />

Bristol in particular, there is scope for a wide and varied approach to<br />

planting and strengthening churches across the city.<br />

Where will the resourcing church be based? The church will be based<br />

out of <strong>St</strong> Nicholas on the corner of Baldwin <strong>St</strong>reet and High <strong>St</strong>reet on the<br />

north side of Bristol Bridge. <strong>St</strong> Nicholas closed as a church following war<br />

time bomb damage, was leased to Bristol City Council and was rebuilt as<br />

an ecclesiastical museum. The museum has been closed for some years<br />

and used as Council offices and storage. The Council have been keen to<br />

give up the lease but have been restricted by the storage requirements<br />

of a huge canvas triptych by William Hogarth, originally commissioned for<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> and subsequently bequeathed to the City. The Diocese<br />

has reached agreement to continue to store the painting in the church<br />

until such time as the Council can relocate it (a significant and expensive<br />

project). The location of the building, on the cross roads within the city<br />

centre, is an ideal base for a church to serve the whole city. Although it<br />

will have a concern for the city centre and work with other parishes and<br />

churches around its immediate location, it is not a parish church with a<br />

sole focus on its vicinity. It will be set up as a Bishop’s Mission Order with a<br />

wider geographical focus. The building has potential for a range of ministries<br />

with an unconverted crypt and a mezzanine level. However, the nave<br />

space is not particularly large (reduced by the presence of the Hogarth)<br />

and the building has no curtilage. Therefore, to continue to reach new<br />

people, it must also give people away to other churches and ministries.<br />

Who will be leading the resourcing church? Revd Toby Flint has been<br />

appointed to be the leader of <strong>St</strong> Nicholas. Toby served in a number of<br />

churches and ministries in London and France prior to training for<br />

ordination at Wycliffe Hall. He served his training curacy at Holy Trinity


Brompton and has continued in an associate role for the last six years. He<br />

is currently Lead Pastor at Holy Trinity Brompton and has been particularly<br />

involved in leading its Alpha ministry. His passion is for the unchurched.<br />

Toby has been appointed because he not only has the character and gifts<br />

to lead a resourcing church but also because he has been trained to do<br />

so. This is the first time that the Diocese of Bristol has recruited a clergy<br />

person from a church in the HTB network and has done so because that<br />

is where there is most experience and support to help leaders undertake<br />

these audacious projects. As a diocesan resourcing church, Toby will be<br />

fully integrated into the diocesan family. Although the church has a citywide<br />

brief, he will be located in City Deanery and its Chapter. The new<br />

church will have a governing council of which the Bishop or a Bishop’s<br />

<strong>St</strong>aff member will be a member. That person will also be the Bishop’s<br />

Visitor of the BMO.<br />

Toby will be moving to Bristol after Easter <strong>2018</strong> with his wife Gill. They<br />

are expecting their first child in January. Toby will form a team to help<br />

plant the church consisting of employed staff and volunteers focused<br />

on engaging younger generations, and a small group of curates. These<br />

are additional training curacies with a view to planting or leading other<br />

churches in the Diocese in the future. Some members of the planting<br />

team may move from London and others may be commissioned from<br />

local Anglican churches.<br />

How is the resourcing church’s ministry being funded? In order for<br />

resourcing churches to grow quickly and start planning church planting<br />

activity, a resourcing church must itself be resourced well at the outset.<br />

There are five strands of expenditure related to the ministry:<br />

Repair and refurbishment of the building; Ongoing ordained ministry<br />

costs; Curate costs; <strong>Church</strong> staffing and operational costs; <strong>Parish</strong> Share.<br />

The Diocese has been awarded <strong>St</strong>rategic Development Funding (SDF) of<br />

£1.45m over four years to support each strand in the start up phase. As<br />

such, the stipendiary costs of the leader and planting curates will not be<br />

borne by general diocesan funds. The resourcing church curates are also<br />

additional to the Diocese’s existing commitment to increase from four<br />

to six stipendiary curates per annum. The Diocese is investing capital<br />

expenditure to bring the building to an adequate state of repair. The<br />

SDF award and fundraising by the new church will enable the church to<br />

be fitted out for worship and ministry. The Diocese will take on ministry<br />

costs and training curate costs but that will be resourced by the new<br />

church increasing its <strong>Parish</strong> Share giving to one of the highest levels in the<br />

Diocese. The new church will not only start giving <strong>Parish</strong> Share in the third<br />

year but take on its full operational costs.<br />

What can we expect to happen? <strong>St</strong> Nicholas aims to launch in September<br />

<strong>2018</strong>. Between now and then, a number of things will need to happen:<br />

A building project, compressed by the delays to securing the building;<br />

Team formation and recruitment; Relationship building between Toby<br />

and other local leaders to help build partnerships and inform the new<br />

church’s plans.<br />

When the church launches it will have a focus on those currently outside<br />

the <strong>Church</strong>, and young people. However, we know from research<br />

and experience in other cities that a good number of those who join<br />

will not only do so as they arrive new to the city but also from other<br />

churches. Although two out of five members are new to or returning<br />

to church (we pray for more), one in ten resourcing church members<br />

join from another Anglican church in the city and one in five from a<br />

non-Anglican church. This kind of movement was particularly evident<br />

in some of the earlier resourcing churches. Although this kind of<br />

transfer happens without resourcing churches this will inevitably be<br />

somewhat disruptive. It is therefore important to work together and<br />

think how we can diminish any negative impact. The <strong>Church</strong> of England<br />

has learnt from experience of ways to help with this. Some churches<br />

have already started thinking about sending a small group to join the<br />

planting team.<br />

How can other churches play their part? First, by praying: for Toby and<br />

the developing team, for <strong>St</strong> Nicholas to integrate as a new member of<br />

the diocesan family, for good relationships and for the church to be<br />

able to focus on its mission to reach younger generations. Second,<br />

by welcoming Toby and the team into the city and life of the Diocese.<br />

Third, by thinking about how you might partner, support and be


supported by <strong>St</strong> Nicholas. Finally, by taking this opportunity to renew<br />

your commitment to the communities you seek to reach and serve<br />

and the vision and priorities of the Diocese.<br />

December 2017<br />

The PCC <strong>St</strong>anding Committee met in mid-January to consider the<br />

implications of having this brand new, very well resourced, church just<br />

down the road from us; and we considered it from the perspective of<br />

our own mission and minstry as well as from the perspective of the<br />

development project and, in particular, the Hogarth altarpiece.<br />

<br />

into life as a church community provides all churches in the city with an<br />

opportunity to re-consider how we can best support and partner one<br />

another. At <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> we are very conscious that our local vocation<br />

as a parish church is mirrored by our national and international reputation<br />

as a heritage destination. As such we believe have much to offer to<br />

that conversation.<br />

The PCC recognises the value that <strong>St</strong> Nicholas will bring as a resource to<br />

churches which share that same model of ministry and mission. However,<br />

SMR contributes a valuable and successful model of mission and ministry<br />

that is both traditional and progressive. With diocesan resource currently<br />

leaning in one ecclesiological direction, we are concerned that a somewhat<br />

narrow view is being offered to the wider diocese of what a flourishing<br />

church looks like.<br />

Let’s start with the Hogarth. It is staying where it is in <strong>St</strong> Nicholas <strong>Church</strong><br />

until a new home for it can be found. It’s fair to say that the new church<br />

doesn’t want it there and the diocese doesn’t want it there, but there is<br />

nowhere else for it to go. So, for the time being, a scaffold structure is being<br />

erected which will provide the necessary environmental protections<br />

and there is an agreement that the artwork will be available for viewing<br />

at least six times a year. The question of the new home of the piece is still<br />

under discussion and, if we can be sure that it will be an asset and not<br />

an albatross, we will give serious consideration to offering the Hogarth a<br />

place in our development project.<br />

However, this is not the only implication for us and other churches in the<br />

city centre. <strong>St</strong> Nicholas is going to be a very well resourced church from the<br />

outset with few of the commitments that gather to the lives of most parish<br />

churches and most <strong>Church</strong> of England clergy. So, <strong>St</strong>anding Committee has<br />

decided that it is highly appropriate to welcome Toby Flint as a brother in<br />

Christ and a fellow minister in the gospel, and to request a meeting with<br />

the leaders in the diocese to discuss our concerns about this new<br />

development as well as the opportunities that arise from it.<br />

The letter says:<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> PCC is delighted to welcome Revd Toby Flint to the city<br />

and looks forward to meeting him in due course. Bringing <strong>St</strong> Nicholas back<br />

We applaud the vocational call within the <strong>St</strong>atement of Needs for a new<br />

bishop of Bristol “to broaden, deepen and renew our understanding of<br />

Christian discipleship”, and “to celebrate the breadth and depth of Christian<br />

commitment” across the Diocese. <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> offers a thriving<br />

model of mission and ministry that is complementary to that being envisaged<br />

for <strong>St</strong> Nicholas and thus makes a vital contribution to those aspirations.<br />

To that end, we would value a conversation with the appropriate senior<br />

leaders in the diocese to discuss how, with additional resource, SMR might<br />

deepen our role as a resource to others churches in the Diocese and accelerate<br />

our growth as a thriving Christian community, a welcoming heritage<br />

destination and an effective parish church that is “Singing the song of faith<br />

and justice”.<br />

I will, naturally, keep you informed as to how this develops and, in the<br />

meantime, please do ask me any questions you may have.<br />

Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

Vicar<br />

[ NB: Confirmation November 2017 — reflections: as promised, the magazine plans to<br />

publish a selection of reflections on confirmation by members of the congregation who<br />

were confirmed last November, and aims to run a Vox Pop column in next month’s issue.]


church matters <br />

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT UPDATE<br />

— RHYS WILLIAMS, RESEARCH ASSISTANT<br />

Chandelier at church: Sketch at Doors Open Day 2017<br />

Wax crayon on brown paper; Artist unkown<br />

G<br />

OD OF THE AGES,<br />

who stirred our ancestors<br />

to build this house of prayer to the glory of your name,<br />

inspire us with that same longing to be a beacon of your kingdom;<br />

bless our current endeavours, that, begun, continued and ended in you,<br />

what we build in stone, may be woven into a community of hope<br />

where your name is praised, your story is told, and your love is shared;<br />

so that this and future generations may be heard<br />

singing the song of faith and justice;<br />

for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.<br />

One of many drawings made by visitors<br />

or all ages exploring the church<br />

SMR Prayer<br />

Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

FOLLOWING COMPLETION of the church’s Heritage Asset Review<br />

in autumn 2017, the Project Team is now working on a Heritage<br />

Interpretation and Learning <strong>St</strong>rategy with Imagemakers, an organisation<br />

that has expertise in developing engaging and innovative visitor<br />

experiences. From Imagemakers’ website:<br />

Imagemakers has been planning, designing and delivering visitor experiences<br />

for 26 years. We love what we do — taking a thoughtful, creative and<br />

practical approach to projects, working closely with clients and communities<br />

to develop a shared vision from inception to completion. [You can find<br />

out more about Imagemakers at www.imagemakers.uk.com]<br />

The purpose of the Heritage Interpretation and Learning <strong>St</strong>rategy is to build<br />

on the information contained in the Heritage Asset Report by identifying<br />

the stories that might be told at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong>, thinking creatively about<br />

how they might be told and investigating ways in which improved heritage<br />

interpretation can enhance the overall visitor experience. The work will also<br />

look at ways in which an enhanced visitor experience can help the church<br />

to generate more income. This will involve examining how broadening the<br />

church’s range of activities might attract new user groups and open access<br />

to associated markets.<br />

Following an initial interpretation workshop in November attended by<br />

members of the staff team, the <strong>Church</strong> Warden, representatives of the<br />

PCC and project consultants — Imagemakers drew up a draft Outline<br />

Interpretation Plan that was presented to the Project Team in December.<br />

This document was then updated over Christmas and New Year to reflect<br />

feedback from the Project Team.<br />

One of the key areas addressed by the plan is the identification of themes<br />

that can help the church to better tell its story to visitors. Themes in interpretation<br />

summarise the key messages that should be left in the minds<br />

of the audience. They are an essential way to organise a wide range of<br />

stories into a coherent narrative, and should sum up the essence of what


makes a place and/or a collection special. Themes may never appear in<br />

these words in the interpretation, but they should nevertheless guide content<br />

development and the specific messages contained within each piece<br />

of interpretation. Firstly, Imagemakers identifies an overarching theme that<br />

broadly defines the nature of the organisation — which for <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />

is as follows: <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> is one of the greatest parish churches in<br />

England. It is a place of creativity, storytelling and reflection for all. This<br />

is followed by four primary themes:<br />

1. Continuity in a changing city<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> is a beautiful, historic building that has evolved over<br />

centuries and served communities of worshippers and visitors through<br />

times of calm, challenge and change.<br />

2. Telling a local story<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> is the oldest building in <strong>Redcliffe</strong>, and has been at the<br />

centre of parish and community history for 900 years.<br />

3. Departure and arrival<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> is a place of departure and arrival – for different people<br />

at different times and in different ways.<br />

4: Inspiring people with music, poetry and the arts<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> is a place of great artistic expression and inspiration —<br />

why don’t you visit and ‘have a go’ yourself’?<br />

Each of these primary themes contains a long list of sub-themes that<br />

become more and more specific. For example, a sub-theme of the primary<br />

theme “departure and arrival”, might be the church’s links with America,<br />

a sub-theme of which might be John Cabot’s voyages. Having identified<br />

the various themes and sub-themes, Imagemakers will then use them to<br />

plan a suitable flow of ideas that can guide people as they explore <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong><br />

<strong>Redcliffe</strong> — in whatever direction and circulation they prefer. The thematic<br />

framework will enable Imagemakers to organise and present the church’s<br />

heritage in a logical way, telling one story at a time, and dividing information<br />

into distinct and digestible sections that visitors can understand and<br />

absorb before moving on to the next.<br />

Rhys Williams<br />

Research Assistant<br />

CHANGES AT THE WEST END TO THE 9.30 SERVICE — REVD DAN TYNDALL<br />

FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS we have been trialling some changes<br />

to three things at the 9.30 service: having the Children’s Area at the back<br />

of the north aisle ; receiving Communion in <strong>St</strong> John’s Chapel ; putting out<br />

fewer chairs at the West End.<br />

During Advent I asked members of the congregation for their thoughts,<br />

comments and reflections and had over 30 people get in touch with me to<br />

share their reactions. This feedback was reviewed at the first meeting of<br />

the newly inaugurated PCC sub-committee for Worship on 25th January.<br />

The Children’s Area has been well received so we will leave that as it is.<br />

Communion in <strong>St</strong> John’s Chapel has not worked well so we will revert to using<br />

the Lady Chapel. However, we are still keen to move on from everyone<br />

at the West End walking the length of the church to receive Communion in<br />

the Lady Chapel. I will be talking to the Head Sidesman and the Wardens<br />

about the possibility of having everyone heading to the east end of the<br />

nave where people would then be directed either to the side ambulatories<br />

to take Communion in Lady Chapel, or up the chancel steps to High Altar<br />

depending on how each queue is looking. There may well be other good<br />

ideas out there, and we are very happy to explore and trial them if they<br />

have potential.<br />

Comments about the removal of Chairs in the West End were mixed. We<br />

also had a number of people saying they miss being able to sit down over<br />

coffee, and talking about the care of <strong>St</strong> John’s Chapel during coffee. We did<br />

recognise that we needed to try and ‘calm’ behaviour in <strong>St</strong> John’s Chapel<br />

after coffee, but feel just as strongly that our Sunday School is amazing<br />

and we should rejoice in having forty children at the West End and <strong>St</strong> John’s<br />

Chapel during coffee even if that means that things are a bit disruptive. We<br />

also agreed that providing seating for coffee would be helpful but that removing<br />

the Children’s Area and most of the West End Chairs had had a very<br />

positive impact on the freedom of movement and on conversation during<br />

coffee. So we have decided to modify the trial at the West End — as follows:<br />

we are going to leave the same number of chairs out during the service as now,<br />

and place other chairs in <strong>St</strong> John’s Chapel in such a way that will not only create


a barrier around the altar (to stop running around it and putting juice beakers<br />

on it), but also provide seating for those who wish to use it during coffee.<br />

These modifications to our current trial will come into effect on Sunday 18<br />

<strong>February</strong> — the first Sunday of Lent — and will be reviewed at some point<br />

thereafter, at which point I will be pleased to hear your views and comments.<br />

Dan Tyndall, Vicar<br />

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE to the way<br />

SMR is run? Are there areas of church life or members<br />

of the congregation you feel are overlooked? Do you<br />

want to be on the front line of the exciting developments<br />

going on in church? JOIN THE PCC — SMR NEEDS YOU !<br />

We are looking for new members to join our Parochial <strong>Church</strong><br />

Council (PCC), the body that sits behind the governance and running of<br />

our church. PCC meets 6 times a year (once every 2 months) on Mondays<br />

at 7.30pm, with sub-committees covering matters such as social outreach,<br />

worship and congregation that meet 3 times a year— so the workload is<br />

manageable if you work full time and/or have family or other commitments.<br />

Discover more about PCCs at https://www.bristol.anglican.org/pccs/<br />

This is a hugely exciting time to be involved at SMR with the growing<br />

numbers of families and children attending, and the development plans to<br />

enhance our social outreach, protect our treasures and nurture our church<br />

life. We are also re-working our internal processes and procedures to ensure<br />

they are as professional, streamlined and smooth as possible. So, if you’d<br />

like to get involved, have your say and represent your congregation, sign up!<br />

Elections take place at the Annual Parochial <strong>Church</strong> Meeting (APCM) on 30 April.<br />

Make yourself known to Dan and Kat, our clergy, or to our wardens<br />

Richard and Elizabeth if you’d like to know more. We particularly want to<br />

hear from you if you have experience in HR matters, project management,<br />

community engagement/social outreach, heritage, music or health and safety,<br />

but welcome a conversion with anyone who wishes to know more — you can<br />

contact clergy and wardens as below:<br />

Revd Dan Tyndall — E: dan.tyndall@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk T: 0117-2310067<br />

Revd Kat Campion-Spall — E: kat.campion-spall@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk T: 0117-<br />

2310070 // Richard James — E: richard@bristolbound.co.uk T: 0117-966 2291<br />

Elizabeth Shanahan — E: eshanahan21@googlemail.com M: 07808 505977<br />

soundbites music at smr<br />

— ANDREW KIRK, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC<br />

Christmas CD Recording: On three evenings in January, our choristers gave<br />

up three hours to record Christmas Carols for a new CD to be released in<br />

autumn <strong>2018</strong>. Our last festive recording took place in 2010 and there have<br />

been lots of requests for another. The programme will include some choir<br />

only, as well as some well-known congregational carols. I hope that this CD<br />

will sell as well as previous ones and we hope to have it available on digital<br />

streaming services too.<br />

Christmas Quiz: Thank you to those who entered the Christmas Carol<br />

Quiz in the December edition of the magazine. There were only two sets<br />

of answers which were completely correct (it was a difficult quiz).<br />

Congratulations to Ellie Case and Adam Lloyd (Team Alto) from the choir<br />

who were the winners! Sue Pickard was runner-up.<br />

Centerparcs: The Girls Choir, along with seven adult helpers enjoyed<br />

the weekend at Longleats Centerparcs from 19th to 21st January. As<br />

well as badminton, bowling and swimming, we were able to enjoy the<br />

two brand new water raft rides ‘Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon’ which was<br />

quite an adrenalin rush, especially when going backwards!<br />

New Members: We have been pleased to welcome some new girls and<br />

boys to the choir in recent months and many were able to take part in one<br />

or two of the carol services. We currently have 18 boys and 17 girls in the<br />

choirs. In the next few months, I hope to recruit some more.<br />

Passion Sunday — 18th March at 6.30pm: The boys and adults will sing<br />

Iain King’s new <strong>St</strong> John Passion, which was premiered in Gloucester<br />

Cathedral two years ago. It is written for choir, soloists and organ and<br />

lasts about 25 minutes, and is a fresh and exciting work. I do encourage<br />

you to come along to hear it.<br />

Andrew Kirk<br />

Director of Music


sunday school smr <br />

USING OUR TALENTS<br />

— BECKY MACRON<br />

SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADER<br />

ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of my role<br />

as Sunday School Co-ordinator is<br />

working alongside people with such<br />

a range of experience and talents, and it has<br />

been particularly rewarding to have had two young<br />

members of our Sunday School community,<br />

Sophie and Jacob, complete the voluntary<br />

section of their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award with us. As well as<br />

generally assisting, both Sophie and Jacob completed a project based on<br />

their strengths and interests — and we all enjoyed their gifts during our<br />

Prayer Day on 28th January.<br />

During this session we broke out from the usual routine and focused on<br />

three themes: Rocks: here we thought about God, the rock of our lives,<br />

and those people special to us, who can always be relied on. Paper: we<br />

discussed how we record special moments and the importance of keeping<br />

records (There was a focus on the Lord’s Prayer, including a version<br />

in Makaton for our little Sparks). Finally, in Scriptures, after completing<br />

an assault course, we learned that there is not just one way to do things,<br />

just like there isn’t one way of speaking to God. There was a range of fun<br />

activities taught in a carousel style, from an assault course to building with<br />

stones, sand and straws. Sophie had used her creative talents to design<br />

three excellent prayer stations for the children to explore. At the start of<br />

the session, Jacob, who has a natural flair for music, courageously taught<br />

the group our new Welcome Song, which he had composed especially for us.<br />

With Lent around the corner, we are now enjoying making plans to support<br />

this year’s charity: Unseen. As well as sharing fundraising ideas, we took<br />

part in a session using Unseen’s lesson materials; this really helped us understand<br />

more about the charity and the people it supports. We identified<br />

Freedom as a significant theme and will be exploring this in more detail on<br />

Good Friday. We have planned many exciting events during Lent, not least<br />

a Fun Run to remember: <strong>Redcliffe</strong>’s Sun Fun Run of <strong>2018</strong>: the three-legged<br />

race — don’t miss Sunday 18th March!<br />

Becky Macron, Leader<br />

Night shelter news . . .<br />

“LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE YOU HOMELESS?”<br />

— KEITH DONOGHUE<br />

IT’S RAINING AS I WRITE THIS and, although we are over the recent<br />

very cold weather, you don’t have to be out for very long before the cold<br />

gets into your bones. All of us who have been volunteering in <strong>Redcliffe</strong>’s<br />

contribution to the Bristol <strong>Church</strong>es’ Winter Night Shelter scheme have<br />

realised that, whilst it might mean a little personal discomfort or an early<br />

morning, we are very fortunate to have come from a warm home.<br />

Meeting this year’s guests has reinforced the fragility of the society in which<br />

we live. Several have jobs, two have left in the early hours in order to be<br />

sure of getting to work, and most are facing the difficulty of finding accommodation<br />

when you can’t provide a substantial deposit or a pre-existing<br />

address. All have expressed themselves grateful for a warm and unjudging<br />

welcome, good food, a comfortable bed and some breakfast.<br />

Those who have volunteered have put up and laid tables, laid down mattresses<br />

and made beds, cooked food, served it, cleared it away and washed<br />

up, played Uno, Scrabble and done jigsaws, sat through the night, made<br />

tea and toast, cleared away the beds and restored the hall, and to all of<br />

them I am immensely grateful. Whilst it is invidious to single out people as<br />

all have contributed such a range of skills, I am grateful to Sarah James for<br />

letting me do almost anything to her space, to Andy Carruthers for his ever<br />

creative and plaudit-winning cooking, and to the apparently indomitable<br />

duo of Ruth Roche and Jenny Martin whom it is simply impossible to stop.<br />

As was the case last year, the experience is proving to be enjoyable and<br />

humbling in equal measures, enabling us to meet and work together not<br />

just from the <strong>Redcliffe</strong> community but across a range of volunteers from<br />

other churches and to make friends and have conversations which might<br />

not otherwise have happened. During the training we reminded that<br />

homelessness is a circumstance not a label and also that we might all be<br />

but two payslips away from such circumstance. I am simply grateful to be<br />

able work as a team to put into practice the words — “anything you did for<br />

one of my brothers, you did for me”.<br />

Keith Donoghue, Co-ordinator


Modern slavery . . . notice board . . .<br />

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited<br />

in all their forms — UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948<br />

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me, he has sent<br />

me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim<br />

liberty to the captives, and to release the prisoners — Isaiah 61: 1[NRSV]<br />

<strong>St</strong>op press : we’re running this notice board during Lent : let us know<br />

details of Anti Slavery initiatives you know about : thanks, Ed<br />

ANTI-SLAVERY PARTNERSHIPS — Cecile Gillard reports:<br />

THE UK INDEPENDENT ANTI-SLAVERY COMMISSIONER has<br />

issued an online map of the UK's anti-slavery partnerships. This<br />

enables people to find their local partnership, details of the activities<br />

it undertakes, which agencies and organisations are part of it, and how<br />

to make contact — here are details of our local Anti-Slavery Partnership:<br />

. . . AVON AND SOMERSET ANTI-SLAVERY PARTNERSHIP —<br />

area: Subregional; chaired by Police; coordinated by Non Government<br />

Oganisation (NGO). Contact for further information:<br />

coordinator@aspartnership.org.uk<br />

activities: Community awareness-raising; Frontline staff training; Intelligence<br />

sharing; Planning for joint enforcement; Survivor support; Supply chains<br />

analysis; Monitoring and analysis of progress.<br />

members: Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Unseen UK, Bristol City Council,<br />

North Somerset Council, Somerset Country Council, South Gloucestershire<br />

Council, Bath and North East Somerset Council, Business West,<br />

Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, HMRC, The Red Cross, NHS,<br />

DWP, Home Office (Immigration), Avon Fire and Rescue, Devon and Somerset<br />

Fire and Rescue, NCA, Regional Organised Crime Unit, ROCU (GAIN),<br />

Victim Support, GLA, Guildhall Chambers.<br />

objectives: The purpose of the Anti-Slavery Partnership (ASP) model is to<br />

support and enable the discovery of and response to incidents of human<br />

trafficking, slavery and exploitation through a victim-centred, multi-agency<br />

and collaborative community effort at both a local and regional level —<br />

its vision is the eradication of modern slavery<br />

first published October 2017 *<br />

* SEE IT AND DO SOMETHING!<br />

Cecile writes —<br />

THE NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY<br />

(NCA) has recently admitted<br />

it is shocked by the scale of<br />

modern slavery and human trafficking<br />

in Britain. Victims are hidden<br />

in plain sight ‘in almost every’<br />

town and city in the UK. Previous<br />

estimates of 10,000–13,000 people<br />

are ‘”the tip of the iceberg”. In fact<br />

it is so widespread many of us are<br />

unwittingly in contact with victims<br />

in our daily lives — key sectors include<br />

(but are not limited to) food<br />

processing, fishing, agriculture, construction,<br />

domestic and care work,<br />

car washes, beauty parlours and nail<br />

bars. Will Kerr, Director of Vulnerabilities<br />

at the NCA, says: “As you go<br />

about your normal daily life there is a<br />

growing and a good chance that you<br />

will come across a victim who has<br />

been exploited and that’s why we are<br />

asking the public to recognise their<br />

concerns and report them.” Victims<br />

are of all ages (children as young as<br />

12 have recently been rescued by the<br />

authorities from domestic servitude)<br />

and all backgrounds.<br />

Read the adjacent column, and if you<br />

see anything that does not look or feel<br />

‘right’ please report your concerns<br />

confidentially to the official Modern<br />

Slavery Helpline on 0800 0121700 or<br />

online at www.modernslaveryhelpline.<br />

org/report — or report to the police<br />

on 101 (but call 999 if you believe<br />

anyone is in imminent danger) — CG<br />

Signs that may suggest a person<br />

is being held in a form of captivity<br />

and/or forced or coerced into work<br />

can include:<br />

Restricted freedom<br />

of movement (eg not<br />

allowed to go out<br />

in public or travel<br />

alone) . . .<br />

. . . appearing to be under<br />

someone’s control; afraid<br />

to speak to strangers or<br />

make social contact; showing<br />

other signs of stress . . .<br />

. . . something<br />

odd about how they<br />

have come to live<br />

or work in an area<br />

or location . . .<br />

. . . unusual travel<br />

patterns to and from<br />

work (eg: dropped off<br />

and collected very early<br />

or late or in groups) . . .<br />

. . . their physical<br />

appearance: poorly<br />

dressed, unkempt,<br />

ill-fed, visible signs<br />

of injury . . .<br />

. . . isolation,<br />

rarely interacting<br />

with others


<strong>Redcliffe</strong> cultures . . .<br />

THOMAS CHATTERTON’S LITERARY AFTERLIFE<br />

— STUART ANDREWS<br />

bogus medieval manuscripts were allegedly discovered in the room in the<br />

church-tower, where a small museum is devoted to the boy-poet, with text<br />

by our leading Chatterton expert, Nick Groom of Exeter University.<br />

But Bristol contains a more significant monument to the brief and<br />

turbulent life of Thomas Chatterton — in the bibliographical richness of<br />

the Reference Library’s Chatterton archive, recorded by JC Rowles in<br />

her Annotated Bibliography (1981). Jean Rowles was then a senior librarian<br />

at Bristol Library, which holds books and archives from the former King<br />

<strong>St</strong>reet subscription library dating from 1740. The King <strong>St</strong>reet building is<br />

now a restaurant, but the borrowing registers survive — with the signatures<br />

of Coleridge and Southey.<br />

The room in <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> where the Rowley<br />

manuscripts were said to have been deposited — see p24<br />

BRISTOL HAS DONE WELL by Wordsworth’s “marvellous boy”. The<br />

most recent commemorative statue installs him, c lad in his Colston<br />

Hospital uniform, among the bronze-cast Bristol celebrities of<br />

the city’s Millennium Square. The city first proposed commemorating<br />

Chatterton in 1792 — though only in 1839 was a small statue surmounting<br />

a tall Gothic pillar paid for by public subscription. Until it decayed fifty<br />

years ago, the memorial stood outside the porch of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong>. The<br />

It was Bristolian Robert Southey who, ten years before he became Poet<br />

Laureate, joined with the failed publisher Joseph Cottle in producing a<br />

complete collection of Chatterton’s known works in three volumes of<br />

poetry and prose. Cottle did much of the editing of the spurious Rowley<br />

poems, incorporating text and sometime footnotes from earlier collections.<br />

Volume One was prefaced by George Gregory’s Life of Chatterton<br />

(London 1789). Editorial footnotes to Gregory’s text contained page<br />

references in the relevant volumes to prose and poems cited by Gregory.<br />

A contrary example reads: “The Editor has examined the Poem of ‘The<br />

Exhibition’, which is in the hands of Mr Catcott, but thinks it too indecent<br />

for publication” (1803, 1: liv).<br />

The third volume contains letters and miscellaneous pieces — twothirds<br />

of them newly collected. When reviewing the 1803 edition for<br />

the Edinburgh Review in 1804, Walter Scott regretted that the editors<br />

(themselves recognised poets) had not said more about the questionable<br />

authenticity of poems attributed to a 15th-century monk. But as late as<br />

1880, after three printings of W W Skeat’s 1871 modernised-language<br />

edition, a notice in the Quarterly Review commented that Skeat’s two<br />

volumes “do not pretend to so complete a collection as that formed by<br />

Southey and Cottle”. The 1803 edition would not be surpassed until 1971.<br />

We do not know whether Oscar Wilde, who lectured on Chatterton to an<br />

audience of 800 at the Birkbeck Institute on a foggy November night in<br />

1886, had read the review in the Quarterly. But we know that from the


mid-1880s Wilde kept a Chatterton notebook containing excerpts from the<br />

boy-poet’s works and from his biographers — often pasted in — together<br />

with comments by Wilde himself. His verdict on Chatterton reads:<br />

Thomas Chatterton the father of the Romantic movement in literature, the<br />

precursor of Blake, Coleridge and Keats, the greatest poet of his time, was<br />

born on the 20th of November 1752 in the house adjoining Pile <strong>St</strong>reet school<br />

in Bristol. The house is still standing…<br />

One hundred and thirty years after Wilde wrote those words, the house<br />

still stands — an apt monument to the 1803 Chatterton of Southey and<br />

Cottle — and to its Victorian afterlife.<br />

Image: <strong>St</strong>ained glass depiction of the Virgin <strong>Mary</strong>, illustrating<br />

undivided: Something about <strong>Mary</strong>: on the Cathedral<br />

website. [Readers may be interested in the Imagining the<br />

Divine exhibition showing at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,<br />

until18th <strong>February</strong>]<br />

forgotten voices WWI <strong>February</strong> 1918<br />

<br />

<br />

Photos: EJL <strong>2018</strong><br />

<strong>St</strong>uart Andrews<br />

<strong>St</strong>uart Andrews is the author of Robert Southey: history,<br />

politics, religion (Palgrave/Macmillan 2011). His full-length<br />

article Southey’s Chatterton and the Nineteenth Century<br />

is due to appear in The Wordsworth Circle later in the year<br />

p22: The room in <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> where the<br />

Rowley manuscripts were said to have been<br />

deposited — Frontispiece to Volume 2 of the<br />

Southey /Cottle 1803 edition of Chatterton’s<br />

collected works.<br />

p24: Left— Chatterton Room at SMR with<br />

C14th storage chest. Right (& detail above<br />

left) — bronze sculpture of Chatterton by<br />

Lawrence Holofcener; Millennium Square.<br />

OUR LADY . . . Lecture series . . .<br />

undivided: Something about <strong>Mary</strong> — Bristol Cathedral Chapter House<br />

Tuesdays 20 <strong>February</strong>–6 March at 6.30pm — £4 per lecture, with refreshments<br />

exploring “... the significance of <strong>Mary</strong> for Christians across the generations<br />

... with the help of accomplished speakers and looking at Marian devotion<br />

in music and in art, in history and contemporary culture, we will ask what<br />

<strong>Mary</strong> meant to pilgrims of the past and what she means for us today.”<br />

20 Feb: Second Eve or Second Thoughts — The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle, Dean<br />

of Bristol // 27 Feb: Our Lady of Bristol? The Virgin <strong>Mary</strong> and Sacred Space — Jon<br />

Cannon, Keeper of the Fabric // 6 March: Picturing <strong>Mary</strong> — Dr Beth Williamson<br />

Private Raynor Taylor, Welch Regiment <br />

T<br />

HE BATTALION HALTED along the roadside for the usual ten minutes.<br />

Suddenly we were called upon to stand up because the King was coming<br />

along this road and were were expected to cheer him. This cavalcade came<br />

along, the King in his car, and the officers did cheer but I’ve no recollection of<br />

any of the men cheering. After a period in the front line, you weren’t in any<br />

mood to cheer anybody.<br />

Gunner Leonard Ounsworth, 124 Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Attillery <br />

T<br />

HE RATS used to pinch your rations at night, they’d gnaw through<br />

anything you put them in unless it was in a metal container. But the gas<br />

attack finished them. In the morning there were dozens and dozens of these<br />

rats crawling about on their bellies. We just stubbed our toe beneath them and<br />

sent them into the moat. Yet there were two swans which lived on the moat and<br />

they were up on the ramparts apparently unharmed.<br />

Voices compiled by Lester Clements, for <strong>February</strong> <strong>2018</strong>


parishioner to parishioner msgs<br />

Christmas had arrived! Our thanks indeed to the Lord Mayor of Bristol<br />

for having us, and also to the students and staff who made our visit<br />

most enjoyable.<br />

Now back to another year of hymn singing. We will be meeting in the<br />

Faithspace Centre in Prewett <strong>St</strong>reet on the first Wednesday of every<br />

month at 11 a.m. Most times we sing a couple of hymns to serenade<br />

the Lunch Club before they eat, and I understand our singing doesn’t<br />

give them indigestion. Actually they say that they enjoy our singing,<br />

so we believe them!<br />

Photo: EJL 2108<br />

EPIPHANY PARTY (NEW YEAR): the first of some social events<br />

planned for our congregation this year — this one saw a friendly crowd,<br />

fun ice-breakers, excellent quizzes, a creative willow-weaving workshop<br />

run by Greca Warr, lots of chat, and a lot of food! Organisers Roma and<br />

team (including Wendy and Marion above) thanked Faithspace for the<br />

use of their hall and plan to hold another in April plus a further one in July<br />

to coincide with the Patronal Festival — when, where and all other details<br />

will be confirmed nearer the time. Watch this space!<br />

HYMN SINGALONG — Rosemary Kingsford writes:<br />

What a pleasure it was for our sing-along group to sing carols at the<br />

Treefest. We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and we hope the<br />

many visitors to the Treefest enjoyed our contribution. After carol<br />

singing we had some time to wander around the church, which looked<br />

absolutely wonderful, and admire all the fabulously decorated trees.<br />

We then collected together and made our way to the Mansion House<br />

to have mince pies and tea with the Lord Mayor. All the time we were<br />

there, girls from Redmaids School and boys from Q.E.H. School sang<br />

carols for us around the gallery in the main hall. It sounded beautiful<br />

and along with a mince pie and a cup of tea, we certainly felt that<br />

<br />

<strong>February</strong> Hymn Sing-along will be on 7th <strong>February</strong> in the Faithspace<br />

Centre at the usual time of 11 o’clock. The March Hymn Sing-along on<br />

7th March will be in <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong> <strong>Church</strong> at the usual time of 11<br />

o’clock. Let’s have another year of joyous singing, coffee/tea and cake<br />

eating! We welcome with open arms anyone who would like to join<br />

our friendly group. A word of warning though, we are not a “choir”,<br />

just a happy bunch of folk who enjoy hymn singing (and eating cake!)<br />

For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me,<br />

Rosemary Kingsford, on 0117–922162.<br />

THE CANYNGS SOCIETY: TRUSTEES FOR <strong>2018</strong> — Jason Viner writes:<br />

The Canynges Society is a registered charity dedicated to raising<br />

funds to support the maintenance of the building of <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />

<strong>Church</strong>. From April <strong>2018</strong> we are looking to recruit new trustees<br />

to this organisation. It is important that some of the trustees are<br />

<strong>Parish</strong>ioners of our church so that their views can be represented<br />

throughout the Society. The trustees attend 5 meetings a year of an<br />

hour’s duration in offices near the church. My tenure is coming to an<br />

end, so we need some sensible people to replace me — I have really<br />

enjoyed the role and have learned a lot about the church (and the<br />

costs involved!). Please consider nominating yourself and supporting<br />

the <strong>Church</strong> within the Society — thank you, Jason.<br />

For further details<br />

— email Jason at jason.viner@nbt.nhs.uk or call him on 07748197185<br />

and visit http://www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/the-canynges-society.html


<strong>Redcliffe</strong> Gardening Club . . .<br />

. . . meets<br />

Thursdays<br />

10am to 12noon<br />

Somerset Square, Prewett <strong>St</strong>reet<br />

For more information call Angela Hogg on 0117-9734560<br />

and there’s green shoot promise of<br />

daffodils and clump after clump of<br />

Livingstone daisies waiting for the<br />

summer. These are just the obvious<br />

expected faithfuls along with the fig<br />

tree, marigolds, flowering currants,<br />

lavenders, rock roses and all the<br />

veggies yet to be planted...<br />

But every gardener knows the<br />

surprise of a forgotten brown shoot<br />

mouldering away in the winter which<br />

suddenly sprouts in the spring or<br />

summer. Imagine how often the<br />

surprise is doubled in communal<br />

gardening because you often do<br />

not know what your fellow members<br />

might have quietly popped in<br />

one day. For example, last week<br />

while weeding, we suddenly uncovered<br />

a very healthy fuchsia, a rather<br />

sensitive looking lavender (it will<br />

need nurture) and scores of bulbs<br />

pushing up along the park railings...<br />

Wonderful!<br />

AH<br />

If you like gardening<br />

and enjoy a touch of the unexpected<br />

come and join the group — in or near<br />

Somerset Square<br />

Thursdays 10am–12 noon<br />

Call Angela Hogg on 0117-9734560<br />

for more detailed information<br />

NEW YEAR, NEW LIFE...<br />

— ANGELA HOGG<br />

MID JANUARY has been<br />

finger-tingling cold but the<br />

<strong>Redcliffe</strong> Gardening Club<br />

has been at work every Thursday<br />

morning since 11th January this<br />

year: weeding, cutting off dead ends<br />

and branches, planting ground<br />

cover — e.g. Euphorbia — and, as<br />

always, picking up litter. The first<br />

week back after Christmas two<br />

members filled at least six bin liners<br />

of rubbish, mainly the fall-out from<br />

31st December celebrations judging<br />

from the number of dead rockets<br />

and other fireworks.<br />

But... “Garden, you’re worth it”, as the<br />

1990’s Oil of Olay advert used to say<br />

to its clientele! It blooms in a low<br />

key way even in mid-winter, with<br />

yellow Mahonias, purple Hebes,<br />

pure white snowdrops with their<br />

thin green frill and a shiny red and<br />

green leafed Bergenia Magic Giant,<br />

Photos: Angela Hogg <strong>2018</strong>


morning prayer lectionary <strong>February</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

morning and evening prayer are said daily at 8.30 am & 4.30 pm in the lady chapel<br />

5 FEB Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

2 Timothy<br />

6 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

2 Timothy<br />

7 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Titus<br />

8 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Philemon<br />

9 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Philemon<br />

10 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Philemon<br />

19 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

20 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

21 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

22 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

23 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

24 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

1, 2, 3<br />

29: 31 — 30: 24<br />

4: 1–8<br />

5, 6 (8)<br />

31: 1–24<br />

4: 9–end<br />

119: 1–32<br />

31: 25 — 32: 2<br />

1<br />

14, 15, 16<br />

32: 3–30<br />

2<br />

17, 19<br />

33: 1–17<br />

3<br />

20, 21, 23<br />

35<br />

10, 11<br />

41: 25–45<br />

3: 23—4: 7<br />

44<br />

41: 46 — 42: 5<br />

4: 8–20<br />

6, 17<br />

42: 6–17<br />

4: 21 — 5: 11<br />

42, 43<br />

42: 18–28<br />

5: 2–15<br />

22<br />

42: 29–end<br />

5: 16–end<br />

59, 63<br />

43: 1–15<br />

6<br />

12 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

13 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

14<br />

Ash Wednesday<br />

Psalm<br />

Daniel<br />

1 Timothy<br />

15 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

16 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

17 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Galatians<br />

26 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Hebrews<br />

27 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Hebrews<br />

28 Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Hebrews<br />

1 MAR Psalm<br />

Genesis<br />

Hebrews<br />

2 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Hebrews<br />

3 Psalms<br />

Genesis<br />

Hebrews<br />

27, 30<br />

37: 1–11<br />

1<br />

32, 36<br />

37: 12–end<br />

2: 1–10<br />

38<br />

9: 3–6, 17–19<br />

6: 6–19<br />

77<br />

39<br />

2: 11–end<br />

3, 7<br />

40<br />

3: 1–14<br />

71<br />

41: 1–24<br />

3: 15–22<br />

26, 32<br />

43: 16–end<br />

1<br />

50<br />

44: 1–17<br />

2: 1–9<br />

35<br />

44: 18–end<br />

2: 10–end<br />

34<br />

45: 1–15<br />

3: 1–6<br />

40, 41<br />

45: 16–end<br />

3: 7–end<br />

3, 25<br />

46:1–7, 28–end<br />

4:1–13<br />

Lectionary Notes: If you have internet access, there is a feed on the <strong>Church</strong> of England<br />

website for the Daily Office. See http://churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/join-usin-daily-prayer.aspx<br />

If you have a smartphone, the CofE has produced apps for Daily<br />

Prayer—These provide the psalm and readings embedded in the daily office (Morning<br />

and Evening Prayer) liturgies. See http://www.chpublishing.co.uk/features/our-apps<br />

diary dates 1st <strong>February</strong> – 8th March<br />

Please note that in addition to the events opposite which vary in frequency or<br />

other details, the following happen every week in this period:<br />

Mon<br />

Tues<br />

Tues<br />

Weds<br />

Thurs<br />

Fri<br />

Faithfood // 11.00am — Faithspace Community Centre (FCC)<br />

Faithspace Coffee Morning // 10am–12pm — FCC<br />

Christian Meditation // 6.30–7.00pm — FCC<br />

Jazz in the Undercroft // 7.30pm–10.00pm<br />

<strong>Redcliffe</strong> Gardening Group // 10.00am–12.00pm — Somerset Square<br />

Police Beat Surgery Drop-in // 1.00pm–2.00pm — FCC<br />

1 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Peter Dill<br />

1 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Joshua Hales; Sheffield Cathedral<br />

3 Concert // 7:30pm — Bath Camerata — <strong>St</strong> John’s Passion, J S Bach<br />

5 Pot Luck Lunches // 12.30pm<br />

6 Holy Communion // 12.30pm — Revd Peter Dill<br />

7 Hymn Sing-Along // 11.00am — Rosemary Kingsford — FCC<br />

7 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Lunch Club // 12.00pm — FCC<br />

7 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Film Club // 2.30pm — I’m all right Jack — FCC<br />

8 Eucharist with Prayer for Healing // 12.30pm — Canon Neville Boundy<br />

8 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — James Drinkwater; Clifton College<br />

13 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

14 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Lunch Club // 12.00pm — FCC<br />

14 Mothers’ Union // 2.30pm — John Pickard; European River Cruises, Pt 2 — FCC<br />

15 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

15 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Paul Haywood; Nottingham<br />

19 PCC Meeting (Discursive) // 7.30pm — Mercure Hotel<br />

20 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall<br />

21 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Lunch Club // 12.00pm — FCC<br />

21 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Film Club // 2.30pm — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — FCC<br />

22 Eucharist with Prayer for Healing // 12.30pm — Revd Peter Dill<br />

22 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — John Davenport; All Saints, Clifton<br />

24 Wedding of Jordan Bacon & Keighley Brown // 1.00pm — Revd Kat Campion-Spall<br />

27 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Peter Dill<br />

28 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Lunch Club // 12.00pm — FCC<br />

FEBRUARY


Diary continued / ...<br />

1 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Revd Peter Dill<br />

1 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Emma Gibbins; <strong>St</strong> Woolos Cathedral<br />

5 Wedding of Rio Irvin and Shelby Smart // 2.00pm — Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

6 Holy Communion // 12:30pm — Canon Neville Boundy<br />

7 Hymn Sing-Along // 11.00am — Rosemary Kingsford — Transept<br />

7 <strong>Redcliffe</strong> Film Club // 2.30pm — Pride — FCC<br />

8 Eucharist with Prayer for Healing // 12.30pm — Revd Dan Tyndall<br />

8 Organ Recital // 1.15pm — Paul Carr; <strong>St</strong> Paul’s, Birmingham<br />

parish register November 2017-January <strong>2018</strong><br />

BAPTISMS<br />

Penelope Rose Wrixon<br />

Bobby Leah Wrixon (adult)<br />

Ashley David Wrixon (adult)<br />

Miss Samantha Walker (adult)<br />

Bess Nancy and Elin Lola Viney<br />

FUNERALS<br />

Jeremy Rupert Knight<br />

died 26th November 2017, aged 70 years<br />

Janet Allen<br />

died 26th November 2017, aged 80 years<br />

Maureen Elizabeth Biggs<br />

died 30th December aged, 84 years<br />

MARCH<br />

14th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

14th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

14th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

14th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

14th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

18th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

17th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

26th January <strong>2018</strong><br />

Date 2017 26 November SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE ATTENDANCE<br />

Attendance refers to congregation only<br />

8.00am Adult Child<br />

not to clergy, servers, choir or vergers //<br />

5 -<br />

* Advent Carols by Candlelight<br />

9.30am 108 37<br />

† Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols<br />

11.15am 19 - ‡ Family Carols (4.00pm); Midnight Mass (11.30pm)<br />

§ Epiphany Carols (see table opposite)<br />

6.30pm 30 -<br />

Date 2017 * 3 December 10 December † 17 December ‡ 24 December<br />

8.00am Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child<br />

4 - 8 - 3 - 6 -<br />

9.30am 101 36 107 34 98 30 70 10<br />

11.15am 15 - 21 - 18 - 8 -<br />

6.30pm * 190 *10 116 1 † 520 (inclusive) - -<br />

4.00pm ‡ 540 ‡ 200<br />

11.30pm ‡ 470 ‡ 8<br />

NB: Reporting church service Collections will begin again in the March issue<br />

Dates 2017-18 31 December 7 January § 14 January 21 January<br />

8.00am Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child Adult Child<br />

7 - 6 - 6 - 7 -<br />

9.30am 70 2 94 26 102 32 96 -<br />

11.15am 8 2 12 - 15 - 16 -<br />

6.30pm 18 1 27 - § 47 3 40 3<br />

nb editor’s note<br />

email: editor.mag@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk<br />

E<br />

–PIC...! Thanks for all pictures received to date; they’ve been wonderful — epic !<br />

I’ve had some queries about practicalities though, so here are some guidelines<br />

for use when providing images, either as digital files or on paper, for print — plus<br />

also a note on permissions and attributions. Apologies if you’re familiar with this,<br />

but if not I hope it makes sense and please get in touch if you would like any help:<br />

• Paper images: either pass them to the <strong>Parish</strong> Office for scanning — I will scan and<br />

return them to the Office for you to collect — or scan them yourself (please choose<br />

print resolution: 300dpi) and send the files to the Editor.mag address.<br />

• Digital images — file sizes for print: >6MB for a full (A5) page; >2.5-3MB for a<br />

half page. NB: sizes


prayers <strong>February</strong> reflections<br />

groups within the church<br />

T<br />

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funeral of Janet Allen 17th January <strong>2018</strong>:<br />

Head Server Dean Barry<br />

“ John would like to thank everyone for all their kindness<br />

since the loss of Janet. A special thank you to those who were able to<br />

come to the funeral and enable it to be such an uplifting and positive<br />

occasion. All the sympathy cards and messages of kindness were very<br />

much appreciated by John and family.<br />

A number of people have asked about the poem that was read at<br />

Janet’s funeral, and it is reproduced here for all who wanted<br />

to see it.”<br />

You didn’t die just recently, you died some time ago.<br />

Although your body stayed a while, and didn’t really know.<br />

You suffered from dementia, you failed to comprehend.<br />

Your body went on living, but your mind had reached its end.<br />

So we’ve already said, ‘Goodbye,’ to the person that we knew.<br />

The person we remember, the person that was ‘You’.<br />

And so we meet again today, at your body’s end.<br />

For it was true and faithful, until right at the end.<br />

And now when we remember, we’ll think of all the rest.<br />

We’ll concentrate on earlier times, and remember all the best.<br />

For in the real scheme of things, your illness wasn’t long.<br />

Compared to all the happiness, you brought your whole life long.<br />

We think of you as yesterday, when you were fit and well.<br />

And when we’re asked about you, it’s those things that we’ll tell.<br />

And so we meet in remembrance, of a mind so fit and true.<br />

We’re happy to pay our last respects, to say that ‘we love you’.<br />

Sketch at SMR (detail); Kendra Lindegaard, age 9<br />

The regular congregation is large, active and involved. If you would like to<br />

join one of the many groups connected with the <strong>Church</strong>, please contact the<br />

appropriate group leader<br />

Head Sidesman<br />

Head <strong>St</strong>eward<br />

PCC Secretary<br />

PCC Treasurer<br />

PCC Safeguarding<br />

PCC Recorder<br />

Sunday School<br />

Faithspace Centre<br />

Lunch Club<br />

Meditation<br />

Mothers Union<br />

<strong>Church</strong> Flowers<br />

Coffee Rota<br />

Bell Ringers<br />

Canynges Society<br />

Journey into Science<br />

<strong>Magazine</strong> Editor<br />

Graham Marsh<br />

Andy Carruthers<br />

Keith Donoghue<br />

David Harrowes<br />

<strong>St</strong>ephen Brooke<br />

Tal Singh Ajula<br />

Becky Macron<br />

Sarah James<br />

Bobby Bewley<br />

Lewis Semple<br />

Hilda Watts<br />

Mildred Ford<br />

Christine Bush<br />

Gareth Lawson<br />

Pat Terry<br />

Eric Albone<br />

Eleanor Vousden<br />

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If you or one of your family are sick or have gone into hospital, please let us<br />

know — contact the Clergy or Vergers as soon as possible.<br />

Please consult the <strong>Parish</strong> Office before making any arrangements for<br />

baptisms, weddings or funerals.


sunday services<br />

8.00 am holy communion<br />

9.30 am sung eucharist<br />

With Crèche and Sunday School, and followed by coffee<br />

11.15 am choral mattins<br />

6.30 pm sung evensong<br />

weekday services<br />

holy communion<br />

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.30 pm<br />

2nd and 4th Thursdays at 12.30 pm with Prayers for Healing<br />

morning and evening prayer<br />

Monday to Friday at 8.30 am and 4.30 pm in the Lady Chapel<br />

opening times<br />

Weekdays all year round from 8.30 am – 5.00 pm<br />

Bank Holidays 9.00 am – 4.00pm (except New Year's Day)<br />

Sundays 8.00 am – 8.00 pm<br />

The <strong>Church</strong> is occasionally closed for special events and services<br />

The Arc Café in the Undercroft<br />

Serving home made refreshments all day<br />

Opening hours:<br />

Monday to Friday 8.00 am – 3.00 pm<br />

Lunch served from 12.00 – 2.30 pm<br />

Tel: 0117-929 8658

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