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Buckden Roundabout
August 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 (810092)
Carol Swepstone (810053)
Services in August
Sunday 6th
10.30
a.m. Holy Communion: Rev. Paul Beard
06.00p.m.
Section United Service at Gt. Barford
Sunday 13
th
10.30a.m. Morning Service: Miss Vivien Almond
Sunday 20th
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Rev. Heather Walker
Sunday 27th
10.30 a.m. Mrs. Wendy Beard
Activities in August:
HOLIDAYS at HOME: 7
th
– 9
th
August
While other activities are taking a holiday, Buckden and Dis-
trict Churches Together are hosting three entertaining after-
noons in the Methodist Church for the ‘young at heart’ who
are unable to get away this Summer. Look out for publicity and
book your place.
Please note: that the usual Methodist coffee mornings,
monthly Soup Lunches, Quiet Time and Bible Study will take
a break during August, re-starting in September.
How do you like the new rose, Your Majesty?
Part 5 in the story of Buckden Church, celebrating the 800
th
anniversary of William de Bugden, our first recorded priest in 1217.
Following the completion of the church’s current structure in c1438 there was a building lull until the 1480s, when Bishop John
Russell of Lincoln rebuilt his palace (the gatehouse, walls and tower of his red brick palace remain magnificent behind the
church) and installed a rood loft in the church’s chancel arch. It lasted only 70 years until removed by Queen Elizabeth I’s de-
cree, but its stairs and loft entrance in the south aisle remain.
Russell also built the fine porch with carved stone animals around the outside and the Virgin’s Assumption as a central vaulting
boss. He had been chancellor to King Richard III during the Wars of the Roses, and so was at pains to placate his new King Hen-
ry VII after the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 when Richard was killed and left in a car park…..but that’s another story! The
bishop entertained Henry at the palace and showed him the new king’s Tudor double rose in the roof of the porch, pledging his
allegiance to Henry. It kind of worked, he was permitted to remain as bishop, but had less power at court.
The few remaining stained-glass windows in the south aisle, mentioned previously, date between c1436 and c1485. They were
installed by Norwich glaziers and portray the Annunciation and Coronation of St. Mary, indicating that the south aisle was prob-
ably used as a Lady Chapel, although most figures are now defaced.
The north aisle was built around the 1480s and was used as a guild chapel, reserved for the use that guild and its members. It
was probably not a professional guild (i.e. masons or farmers) although its core would have been upper class, but likely villagers
could pay a small weekly fee to join the guild to have their and their family and ancestors’ souls prayed for daily by a priest.