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Buckden Roundabout
December 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. Antony Arockiam cmf
Fr. Jim Kennedy 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. Antony 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 December
Sunday 3rd
10.30 am
Morning Service: Mr Don Moorman
Sunday 10
th
10.30 am
Holy Communion: Rev. Pam Siddall
Sunday 17
th
10.30 am
Carol Service: Rev. Paul Beard
6 pm
Sunday Evening Fellowship
Sunday 24
th
10.30 am
Christmas Eve service led by the stewards
Monday 25
th
10.30 am
Christmas Morning worship
Activities in December
Friday 1
st
10 a.m.
Coffee Morning
Friday 8
th
10 a.m.
Patients Association
Coffee Morning
Monday 11
th
12.30 p.m.
Study Lunch
Tuesday 12
th
9.30 a.m.
Quiet Time
Friday 15
th
10 a.m.
Soup and Sweet Lunch
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RESUME IN THE NEW YEAR
Everyone is welcome to any of these events.
A Fire Engine, Nelson’s Column and St. Mary’s gets the Palace (1795-1840s)
Part 9 in the story of Buckden Church, celebrating the 800
th
anniversary of William de Bugden, our first recorded priest in 1217.
A modern vicarage (now the Old Vicarage) was built for £260 in 1795 for the new vicar, Edward Maltby, a very learned, wealthy
and well-connected man. He was our longest serving vicar (37 years) and he did much good here during changing times. He,
his first wife and eldest son are commemorated in the church; the latter having been thrown from his horse in Ceylon (Sri
Lanka) while in the Army, aged 24 in 1820. Maltby later became Bishop of Chichester, then Durham.
The parish fire engine, pumped by teams of 12 men, was housed in a shed in the north-east corner of the church yard from
about 1805.
The worst of the absentee bishops (Lincoln: 1820-27), George Pelham, is commemorated by the marble figure of a grieving wid-
ow by EH Bailey RA (he also carved Nelson on top of his column in Trafalgar Square) in the north aisle. Pelham died after catch-
ing a cold at the Duke of York’s funeral and was buried in Sussex, but his widow insisted on a memorial in St. Mary’s although he
had not visited here in his seven years as bishop. The memorial was erected despite the overwhelming objections of the con-
gregation, who had never seen the man.
The increased social conscience of the day encouraged Bishop John Kaye to transfer the bishop’s palace to the vicar Henry Side-
botham, for the church’s and public use in 1842. Lincoln retained Buckden manor until 1862 when it was transferred to the
Bishop of Peterborough.
Revd. Sidebotham donated eight fine carved oak panels of Christ’s Passion to the church in 1842; he may have purchased them
or they could have come from the palace, as the date is rather coincidental. Originally carved in the Low Countries in the 1500s,
they were later mounted in our modern reading desks and reward closer inspection as the figures are all clothed in 16
th
century
Flemish costume.