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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.