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Reports and College Activities A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL The Revd Katherine Price Chaplain ‘Now, O Lord, who hast enabled us to build this House for thine honour and our own Happiness, let thy Holy Spirit sanctify it, and us.’ (Provost John Gibson, sermon on the consecration of the Chapel, 1 November 1719) On All Saints’ Day 1719, when the Fellows of the College gathered to celebrate the consecration of their new Chapel by the Archbishop of York, they undertook to keep the building in good repair and to hold regular services. This year, the College has certainly been keeping the first part of that promise. The re-roofing has gone to schedule and with minimal disruption to Chapel activities, although the shutdown put paid to my hopes of posing on the roof in a cassock! Many thanks are due to David Goddard, who has retired as Clerk of Works but stayed on to oversee the project. The gradual removal of scaffolding from the Chapel building in August (photo by Grace Finlay) 46 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
Regular services have been a different matter. We started the academic year with a celebration of the Chapel building, and we could scarcely have imagined we would end by learning to manage without it. For me, the highs and lows of this past year have only reinforced the importance of sacred space. As many of us have been experiencing the challenges of life when ‘work’ and ‘home’ are the same room, we can appreciate anew the necessity of a place set apart, where we take up Jesus’ invitation to ‘come away with me to a quiet place.’ Reports and College Activities At the start of the 2019-20 year, the Chapel welcomed a new occupant to the Provost’s stall. Dr Claire Craig has fully engaged with Chapel as an integral part of the College’s life, and we gave her a memorable first term, with a schedule of events to coincide with the Chapel’s threehundredth anniversary. On 3 November Archbishop Sentamu in the College Chapel we hosted the College Visitor, the Most Revd and Rt Hon. Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, for his final visit to the College before his retirement this year. In his sermon, he described the Chapel as ‘a home for God to be hospitable.’ The following week, we were joined for a study day by historians Dr Geoffrey Tyack, the Revd Professor William Whyte, and the Revd Dr Andrew Braddock, alongside our own Professor Owen Rees and archivist Michael Riordan. I was especially amused by Professor Whyte’s observation that we owe the preservation of the Chapel’s unspoiled eighteenth century interior to the stick-in-the-mud attitude of the College’s northern Fellowship, who were sceptical of spending money on the latest fads! (Some might say this remains a proud Queen’s tradition…) The talks were followed by a sell-out choir concert of music by Bach and Handel. That was the culmination of a challenging but exciting programme for the choir. We also shared our tercentenary celebrations with the nation, welcoming back BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong crew for a live broadcast on 30 October, as well as recording a second evensong for later broadcast on International Women’s Day in March. Live broadcast worship was a new experience for me, and rather a hair-raising one! I was enormously grateful to hand over the sung parts of leading the service to my co‐chaplain for the term, the Revd Laurence Price. (The youngest and arguably most musical member of the Price household remained outside in his pram, ably watched over by our newly-arrived Professor of Philosophy!) College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 47
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PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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Comparative Literature at Columbia
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KEITH MASLIN Dr Keith Thomas Maslin
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