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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
NB
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
th
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
th
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.