July 2017

Buckden Roundabout

July 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 July

Sunday 2nd

11.00 am BDCT Village Festival Service (Village Hall)

6.00pm

Section Service at Buckden: Rev Paul Beard

Sunday 9th

10.30 am

Chapel Anniversary: Rev Paul Beard

(Lunch to follow)

Sunday 16th

10.30 am

Morning Service: Dr Barbara Spences

Sunday 23rd

10.30am

Morning Service: Mr John Bridge

Sunday 30th

10.30am

Morning Service: Local Arrangement

Activities in July:

Wed 5

2.30pm

CAMEO Afternoon Tea

Thurs 6

2.30pm

Church Council

Fri 7

10.00am

Coffee Morning

Fri 14

12.00pm

Coffee Morning (not lunch)

Fri 21

10.00am

Coffee Morning

Fri 28

No Coffee Morning

Please note: that the monthly soup lunches, Quiet Time and

Bible Study will take a break during July and August, re-

starting in September.

Not exactly DIY SOS….

Part 4 in the story of Buckden Church, celebrating the 800

anniversary of William de Bugden, our first recorded priest in 1217.

Bishop John Gynwell of Lincoln did not support King Edward III’s wars in France. So, on 20

June 1358, King Edward sent three

knights, Thomas de Stukeley, John de Tolly and Robert Bayour to demand funds from him. They found him praying before the

altar of Buckden church, and they threatened him ‘with long knives’. Bishop John continued praying. Then the knights, per-

haps fearing a repeat of the Thomas-a-Becket murder and its consequences 188 years previously, left him in peace and fled the

scene. But the king never forgave him, and he died impoverished four years later.

Bishop William Grey had a far happier life and used his wealth to create a lasting testimony to serve Buckden’s people for many

centuries to this day. Between 1432 and 1436, he rebuilt the Norman nave and tower, while the prebend (John Depyng, his

local representative) remodelled the chancel. Grey spared no expense with the finest masons constructing the beautiful Per-

pendicular style nave and south aisle (where a little stained glass remains) and Depyng raised the old Norman chancel, added

the fine large windows and the carved oak angel choir in the roof.

In addition to assorted carved clergy and saints, who would have been familiar to the congregation, the bishop inserted the five,

superb carved angel musicians into the south aisle roof. Five hundred and eighty years later, they are still playing their lute,

viol, shawm, dulcimer and hurdy-gurdy. It is believed that both the choir and band are modelled on the boys and men of the

time.

Upon Grey’s death in 1436, Bishop William Alnwick completed the highest storeys and upper windows c1438, but is best re-

membered for inspiring King Henry VI to endow and build Eton School and King’s College, Cambridge in 1440-41.