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Salisbury Cathedral Scrap-book 14

14

1999-2004

1 volume

A purpose-made scrap-book with a coloured floral cover design and a label numbered "14". The book contains press-cuttings relating to the history, features and contents of the Cathedral and to people and events associated with it. A large volume of cuttings is inserted loose-leaf without being pasted in. The main topics covered include: the new Bishop of Ramsbury, Right Rev Peter Hullah; plans for the redevelopment of the Plumbery and the new Refectory and Shop (Nov 1999); the installation on the West Front of a statue of an angel carved by Jason Battle (Apr 2000); the funeral of Brigadier Stephen Saunders, former British defence and military attaché shot dead in Athens (Jun 2000); the rejection of all six (out of 86) short-listed designs for a proposed new building in the Close to house the Cathedral's copy of Magna Carta; the six rejected designs were by Daniel Libeskind, Stephen Marshall, David Chipperfield, Allies and Morrison, Evans and Shalev, and Ian Ritchie; the project manager, Chris Watson, said that the Dean and Chapter were determined to wait for "absolute excellence" (Jun 2000); a visit by HRH the Prince of Wales to see the restored West Front of the Cathedral (Jun 2000); an article marking ten years since the establishment of the girls' choir (Jul 2001); a gala to celebrate ten years of the girls' choir, attended by 350 girl choristers from 19 cathedrals and by soprano Emma Kirkby (Jul 2001); the first Cathedral open day, at which visitors were invited to try stone masonry, preaching, glass cutting, flower arranging, embroidery, tile making, lead dressing and choral singing (Jun 2001); Rev Tim Thornton, new Bishop of Sherborne (Jun 2001); a Cathedral service including a three-minute silence in remembrance of the victims of terrorist atrocities in the USA on 11 September 2001 (Sep 2001); Cathy Langton, the Cathedral's first female organ scholar (Oct 2001); the installation on the West Front of a statue of St Aldhelm carved by Jason Battle (Oct 2001); retirement of chorister John Robinson after 34 years' service (Jan 2002); tributes on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in the Cathedral and in Salisbury generally, including a two-minute silence; the television broadcast of her funeral in Westminster Abbey was shown on a large screen in the St Lawrence Chapel; Salisbury celebrations of HM the Queen's Golden Jubilee, including a visit by Edward and Sophie Wessex and a Salisbury Festival event in the Close (Jun 2002); retirement of the Dean, Very Rev Derek Watson (Jun 2002); a sculpture exhibition, "In Praise of Trees" (May 2002); an exhibition of stained glass by Henry Haig ((Jun 2002); the BBC recorded two "Songs of Praise" programmes in the Cathedral (Oct 2002); a dendrochronology report suggesting that timbers in the Cathedral roof did indeed come from trees felled in 1222, but in woods near Dublin rather than locally (Mar 2003); the Cathedral set aside areas for prayer and reflection following the start of war in Iraq (Mar 2003); the installation on the West Front of a statue of George Herbert, donated by the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral and carved by Jason Battle (Sep 2003); two sculptures by Ronald Rae, "Lazarus" and "Fallen Christ", exhibited in the Close (Nov 2003); the Cathedral choir took part in "Freddie's Festive Fundraiser" in aid of Sargent Cancer Care for Children, with Cherie Blair, Patron of the charity, and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Jan 2004); the proposed closure of the Library of York Minster (May 2003); obituaries of Dr John Derek Sanders, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Gloucester Cathedral for 27 years (Jan 2004); obituaries of Rev Philip Barrett, author of Barchester: English Cathedral Life in the Nineteenth Century (1993), "the standard work and unlikely ever to be replaced" (May 1998); obituaries of Dr Lionel Dakers, Director of the Royal School of Church Music and one of the first Lay Canons of Salisbury Cathedral (Mar 2003); the sale by Oriel College of its copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare to Sir Paul Getty (Mar 2003); an article about Anthony Trollope's The Warden (Jan 2003); "The Best View in Britain" as nominated by readers of Country Life - Salisbury Cathedral (Jul 2002); obituaries of Dr Geoffrey Bill, Librarian of Lambeth Palace Library, 1958-1991 (Dec 2001, Jan 2002); article on the tenth anniversary of the girls' choir (autumn, 2001); a feature on Sarum College (Nov 2001); an envelope containing miscellaneous press cuttings, mainly from the Salisbury Journal, 2000-2001, including items about the celebration of the completion of works on the West Front, the visit of HRH The Prince of Wales, and Salisbury Festival; collected by "Alun" and forwarded to Suzanne Eward by Michelle Walter of Salisbury Cathedral Visitor Services; an envelope sent to Suzanne Eward and containing articles relating to the tenth anniversary of the girls' choir (Jul 2001); an article about Matthew Parker's Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, "one of the world's most magnificent collections of medieval illuminated manuscripts", with illistrations in colour (unidentified source; no date); the retirement from Parliament of Sir Edward Heath after 51 years as an MP and as Father of the House since 1992 (Jun 2001); an article on the financial effects on the Church of the Foot and Mouth epidemic (Apr 2001); obituaries of Oxford medieval historian Sir Richard Southern FBA (Feb 2001); an article about a film by Jonathan Meades, Victoria Died in 1901 and Is Still Alive Today, sent to Suzanne Eward under cover of a colour postcard showing 33 The Close as "Headquarters of The Girl Guides Association S.W. England", a J Arthur Dixon Series 5 postcard numbered 4876 dating probably from the 1960s; an envelope containing a press-cutting about the unveiling of the Prisoners of Conscience window by Yehudi Menuhin in May 1988, sent to Suzanne Eward by "Peter" (a verger?).

English

Material: paper

Eward, Suzanne