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Buckden Roundabout
November 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 November
Sunday 5
th
10.30 am
Local Arrangement
Sunday 12
th
10.30 am
United Remembrance Service at St Mary’s
Sunday 19
th
10.30 am
Morning Service: Mr Tony Sainsbury
6 pm
Sunday Evening Fellowship
Sunday 26
th
10.30 am
Morning Service: Mrs Leonore Charlton
Activities in November
Friday 3
rd
10 a.m.
Coffee Morning
Friday 10
th
10 a.m.
Coffee Morning
Monday 13
h
12.30 p.m.
Study Lunch
Tuesday 14
th
9.30 a.m.
Quiet Time
Friday 17
th
10 a.m.
Soup and Sweet Lunch
Friday 24
th
10 a.m.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Tuesday 28
th
9.30 a.m.
Bible Study
The Commonwealth, the Restoration and some good men (1640s-1760s)
Part 8 in the story of Buckden Church, celebrating the 800
th
anniversary of William de Bugden, our first recorded priest in 1217.
St. Mary’s clock was installed by Thomas Powers of Wellingborough in 1630, and it’s still working. The fine pulpit was carved in
the 1640s.
Oliver Cromwell recruited some Buckden men and they fought in the Civil War, although most Buckdonians remained loyal to
the Crown. The minister, Richard Brearcliffe, was removed in 1643 and St. Mary’s had to rely upon travelling Presbyterian minis-
ters until the Restoration in 1660.
Matthew Hopkins, the infamous Witchfinder General, lived in Buckden for part of 1644 and married local girl Mary Sparrow in
this church. Many Huntingdonshire women were wrongly hanged by him for allegedly practising witchcraft.
Much of the bishops’ ancient palace was made derelict during the Commonwealth period and the church, too, suffered badly,
having tombs and statues destroyed and windows removed. In 1649, the population paid the equivalent of three years’ taxes
to install a new nave roof, still bearing the date and initials of the church wardens.
New vicar, Giles Waring, presided over the burial of Bishop Robert Sanderson beneath our altar in 1663. Sanderson had been
King Charles II personal chaplain and he did much to renovate Buckden palace and church.
The last visitation of the plague hit Buckden hard in 1666. The church Register usually recorded an average of 3 burials a month,
except in July 1666 when 52 people were buried. The location of the plague pit remains unknown.
Bishop Thomas Barlow was buried in the chancel in 1691, as was Bishop John Green in 1779. Bishop Richard Reynolds is also
possibly buried here (1744). Reynolds ordained Lawrence Sterne in Buckden in 1735 and Sterne served as curate here; he later
wrote Tristram Shandy. In St. Mary’s in 1764, Green ordained John Newton, a former slave ship captain, who went on to write
Amazing Grace and assist Wilberforce in the drive to abolish slavery.
METHODIST MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING
Very many thanks to all who supported this event last
month and to those who gave wonderful help with organ-
ising it. We raised almost £235 which is a magnificent
total. Thank you all. Pam Siddall