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Buckden Roundabout
September 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 September
Sunday 3rd
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Mrs. Angie Barnes
Sunday 10
th
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Mr. John Green
Sunday 17th
10.30 a.m. Morning Service: Local Arrangement
6 p.m.
Evening Fellowship
Sunday 24th
10.30 a.m. Harvest Festival: Rev. Matt Finch (followed by
lunch)
Activities in September
Friday 1
st
:
10 a.m.
Coffee Morning in aid of
Shoebox Appeal
Monday 11
th
:
12.30 p.m.
Study Lunch
Tuesday 12
th
:
9.30 a.m.
Quiet Time
Friday 15
th
:
12 noon
Soup and Sweet Lunch
Friday 22
nd
:
10 a.m.
Coffee Morning
Tuesday 26
th
:
9.30 a.m.
Bible Study
Friday 29
th
:
10 a.m.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Six Bells, a Bishop, a Queen and two Dukes (1500-1551)
Part 6 in the story of Buckden Church, celebrating the 800
th
anniversary of William de Bugden, our first recorded priest in 1217.
Readers may be puzzled that, in our articles celebrating the 800
th
anniversary of St. Mary’s first recorded priest, William in 1217,
we have not given more space to the vicars that followed. The reason for this is that their names lack detail and they were
often of an ordinary background, making them difficult to trace in historic records. We know more of those from the 18
th
cen-
tury onwards and they will be noted later. A good, but incomplete, list can be found at:
http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/buckden/historyvicars.php
Our earliest (Catholic) bell dates to c1510, when it was cast by Thomas Bullisdon of London; its Latin inscription translates as
‘Saint Katherine Pray for Us’, and it may have been subscribed for by the guild worshiping in the north aisle mentioned last
month. The belfry houses six bells, made in 1510, 1627, 1654, 1779, 1790 and 1997, the last for the celebration of the new Mil-
lenium bell frame. They are still rung every week and for weddings etc.
Henry VIII appointed Thomas Wolsey as Bishop of Lincoln in 1514, and he stayed at Buckden’s new palace. Simultaneously,
Wolsey began construction of Hampton Court Palace and was made Lord Chancellor the following year. Queen Katherine of
Aragon was held in Buckden palace under house arrest by Henry in 1533, but had access to the village and no doubt prayed in
St. Mary’s, with the newly appointed vicar, Henry White MA.
Henry White was still vicar in 1551 and would have presided over the hasty burials of two Dukes of Suffolk. Staying at the pal-
ace, the older Duke, Henry Brandon, aged 15 died on 14
th
July, and his younger brother Charles became Duke. Unfortunately,
Charles had also contracted the same English sweating sickness and died twenty minutes later, making his the shortest-lived
peerage on record.