7 / 24
7
Buckden Roundabout
April 2017
St Hugh’s and Methodist Church
Catholic Church of St Hugh of Lincoln, High Street,
Buckden
Telephone:
01480 810344
Website:
saintshughandjoseph.churchgoers.co.uk
In the pastoral care of the Claretian Missionaries:
Fr. Chris Newman cmf
Fr. Angel Ochagavia cmf
Fr. Peter Wareing cmf
Fr. Paul Peter Alphonse cmf
Sunday Masses
- Saturday evening at 6.30 pm and Sundays at
9.45 am.
Weekday Masses
- Monday to Saturday at 9.30 am in the Lady
Chapel.
Morning and Evening Prayer
Monday to Saturday at 9.15 am
and 5.45pm in the Lady Chapel.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
every Saturday from 10.00 to
10.30 am.
The Rosary
is prayed each Monday morning after the 9.30 am
Mass.
Catechism Classes
for school age children each Sunday from
9.00 am in term time. Formal classes for primary age children.
Silent Adoration.
There is half an hour of silent adoration be-
fore the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday following the 9.30
am Mass and ending with Benediction at 10.30 am.
Would any newcomers to the Village who are Catholics
please let Fr. Chris Newman know their contact details
.
Buckden Methodist Church
Minister:
Rev. Paul Beard
(01480 473444)
Stewards:
Angie Barnes (810102)
Bob Baxter (8100920)
Carol Swepstone (810053)
Services in April
Sunday 2nd
10.30 am Morning Service: Mrs Wendy Beard
6.00pm
Evening Fellowship
Sunday 9th Palm Sunday
10.30 am
Holy Communion: Rev. Paul Beard
6.00pm
S.U.S at Tempsford
Sunday 16th Easter Sunday
10.30 am
Morning Service: Mr Don Moornan
Sunday 23rd
10.30am
Morning Service: Mr Colin Webber
6.00pm
Evening Fellowship
Activities in April:
Mon 3
12.30pm
Lent Study lunch
Wed 5
2.30pm
CAMEO QUIZ
Fri 7
10.00am
Coffee Morning
Tues 11
9.30am
Quiet time in the Wesley Room
Fri 14
Good Friday Walk of Witness
(Children’s activities and seasonal refreshments
in the Methodist Church As usual)
Fri 21
10.00am
Coffee Morning
Tue 25
9.30am
Bible Study in the Wesley Room
Fri 28
10.00am
Coffee Morning
In The Beginning….
This year marks the 800
th
anniversary of the first named priest in Buckden, ‘William de Bugden’. William of Buckden,
hardly a unique name in 1217, but people were named after where they came from in those days, so he was a local
chap.
In this first of a series of short articles, we’ll uncover a bit about the early church in Buckden, before William’s time.
Christianity reached this area around 275AD as noted from church plate dating from that period found at Water
Newton and a little later in Godmanchester, but it wasn’t until 673AD that the monks of Peterborough and Ely began
missionary work in the Great Ouse valley and the first small wooden church was probably built in Buckden around
680-700AD, as there was sufficient population (about 125) to support it.
By 1086, the Domesday Book records that there was a church and a priest here, and already the new Norman Bish-
op of Lincoln, Remigius had ordered the singing of Psalm 101 daily in Buckden church.
Bishop Robert Bloett of Lincoln examined Christina of Markyate (formerly Theodora of Huntingdon) in our church in
1115, and found her not guilty of adultery!
Bishop (Saint) Hugh of Lincoln loved his manor (the Towers) and church in Buckden, staying here as often as he
could. When he died in November 1200, his body lay ‘with great mourning’ in Buckden church before being taken
to Lincoln cathedral for burial.