BEVERLEY M INSTERMAGAZINE

The Parish Magazine of Beverley Minster, All Saints’ Routh, St Paul’s Tickton, St Leonard’s Molescroft and St Peter’s Woodmansey

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EDITORIAL

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1 Corinthians 12:4-26

“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the

same Spirit…. But it is the same God who

activates all of them in everyone.”

I am often reminded of Paul’s description of the body as both a collection of separate bits and a single entity when I look around the Minster. My duties include observing the fabric for damage and this helps me detect how different bits were put together at different times to create the whole beautiful edifice we know today. When I look around our church I never think that it is giving me an insight into God. Instead, it is showing me what wonders can be created by generations of otherwise unconnected people, separated by time but united by the desire to serve God.

Neil Pickford

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH

Welcome to the MARCH edition of the Minster Magazine.

The cover picture shows Jesus and the disciples from the 2012 Beverley Passion Play. The play is performed again this year on the streets of Beverley on Good Friday. More on pages 6 and 7.

Contributors this month are: Sally George, Emily Hoe, Neil Pickford, Jeremy Fletcher, Rachel Young, Dawn Pollard, Sandra King, Kevin Hara, Marjorie Neaum, Steve Rial and Paul Hawkins.

Contributions for future editions to:

julian.neaum@gmail.com

the editorial team

S C H O O L R E P O R TSuper Sentences At Beverley Minster School, we are always seeking ways to make our writing more interesting. We decided that we wanted to make our writing ‘Fantastical.’ To do this, we chose a really boring sentence and decided to make it more interesting! The sentence we used was “The man went to the place.” This is what some of our children did to make that boring sentence ‘Fantastical.’

The mysterious, majestic minion, who wanted to party, danced excitedly to the delightful, dazzling disco, because he wanted to find true love. The big man went to the freezing North Pole to see the reindeer and Santa. The dashingly, handsome Prince Charming flew comfortably on a fighter jet to a fantastic, fun, blue fairytale castle. Today, the smelly, stupid servant crawled to the Royal Queen with his robotic mouse dragging behind him. The deadly, genius gangster, who had stolen the glittering diamonds, limped triumphantly to the slimy sewer, because he was desperate to conceal his stash from the pursuers. Bravely, Perseus crept silently towards the Gorgon Medusa’s foul smelling death spreading lair, avoiding terrified stone turned victims, hoping to slay her, removing her curse and eventually returning back to day light.

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Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is very late this year, March 5. My old boss, when asked what he was giving up for Lent, used to say ‘self righteousness’, and it always made me think. If you’re giving something up because you think you’d be better off without it (like excessive food, for example), then it might just be that your motives for doing so are all wrong.

Lent grew up as a season to prepare for the celebrations of Easter, and particularly as a way of preparing for baptism at the Easter Vigil. What better time to declare a person raised to new life in Christ than at sunrise on Easter Day? Our Easter Vigil (which doesn’t go on all night!) recreates that journey from darkness to light and from death to life. Outside the Minster we light a fire, and bring the new light of Christ inside, so that a dark world can receive light and life in Christ. It’s a very special service, at 7.30 pm on Saturday 19 April.

Lent takes up six or so weeks up to that point.

Your preparation for Easter could take various forms. Fasting and giving things up derives from Jesus’s 40 days in the Judean wilderness. From the earliest days of the church people tried to recreate and emulate that experience, and my picture shows a monastery built in that same wilderness, so that monks could have no distractions and rely solely on God.

You don’t have to do that, but giving up a meal, or a TV programme, or a luxury, or meat for a day, or alcohol or coffee, can act as a reminder of what we just want and what we really need. A major fast (like a day for example), can reveal what our real needs are, and help to convince us of God’s greater provision for all our well being.

Not only that, such fasting can be used to point out injustice and unfairness. The ‘End Hunger Fast’ is a national campaign to ensure that no one in this fabulously rich nation of ours should go without food. It caused a stir when

lots of bishops wrote an open letter to the Government about it. There’s a national day of fasting on April 4, and you can find out more at www.endhungerfast.co.uk

Lent offers other kinds of discipline. You could start to do something: read a book you’ve always wanted, come to a service you’ve not tried, join us for Morning or Evening Prayer, or join in the series of Lent Reflections that Fiona is leading in the Peter Harrison Room on Saturdays at 10.00, starting on March 8. I give up wearing black socks in Lent. You’ll just have to ask me why…

From Lent we look for the joys of Easter, and after the discipline of the desert we find the lushness of the river side. My final picture is only a few miles from that monastery. God promises us a life in Christ like an ever flowing stream. I pray that this Lent you will find wells of love in God which will never run dry.

Jeremy

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TA I Z É – A P L A C E TO M E E T G O D

Taizé is a small village in Burgundy, near to Cluny and Macon, nestled in the rolling French hills. It is the place where, in 1944, a man born Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche founded an ecumenical monastic community. The early story is told on www.taize.fr:

“Everything began in 1940 when, at the age of twenty-five, Brother Roger left Switzerland, the country where he was born, to go and live in France, the country his mother came from. For years he had been ill with tuberculosis, and during that long convalescence he had matured within him the call to create a community.

When the Second World War began, he had the conviction that without wasting time he should come to the assistance of people going through this ordeal, just as his grandmother had done during the First World War. The small village of Taizé, where he settled, was quite close to the demarcation line dividing France in two: it was well situated for sheltering refugees fleeing the war. Friends from Lyon started giving the address of Taizé to people in need of a place of safety.

In Taizé, thanks to a modest loan, Brother Roger bought a house with outlying buildings that had been uninhabited for years. He asked one of his sisters, Genevieve, to come and help

him offer hospitality. Among the refugees they sheltered were Jews.”

Gradually, other men joined him and they formed a community. Over the years, many young people from across Europe began to travel to experience the worship and ethos of this community, whose mission is a “pilgrimage of trust on earth” based on the Beatitudes. It is a place where you can meet God.

Nigel and I visited Taizé for a week in the summer of 1989, driving down through France with our own camping equipment after our usual camping holiday. It was very hot and thundery, and full of people. Some camped; some trudged up the hill each day from Cluny to be a part of the worship. As we were camping, and taking a full part in the week’s activities, we were assigned washing-up duties after the mid-day meal – the Brothers provide simple food for the thousands of visitors each day. We met other young people from around the world – two girls from Poland stick in my mind, as it was just after the political thawing of that country and they had been allowed out.

But it was the silence that did it for me, as for many others. Not the music – the songs happen to be easy to learn and are helpful for meditative prayer, but actually it was not

the music that was most important for me. It was the space for meeting God – just you and Him. And when you meet God like that, you appreciate and embrace fully the Brothers’ ecumenical mission. During worship it was like standing on top of the world, listening to people from every country, in every language, praising God together and seeking His will for their lives. Amazing.

Whilst we were there, I remember hearing some Brothers say that they would prefer us not to try to copy their worship back home, but instead invite one of them to visit and speak. This is because it’s very hard for us to make it authentic – nothing is like the whole package found in Taizé. But they don’t mind us using their music in our own sorts of services, which is why the service we held on Sat Feb 8th was called a ‘Taizé prayer service’. What we do, in singing their music, reading Bible passages, praying Brother Roger’s prayers and sitting silently before God, is our own interpretation of Taizé – but, I think, it is no less real in its capacity to enable us to meet with God. We can then make our own “pilgrimage of trust on earth”, knowing that our lives have been profoundly changed by the experience.

Rachel Young

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A F E A S T F O R L E N TMan does not live on bread alone, but on every

word that comes from the mouth of God

Matthew ch 4 v4

These verses from Delia Smith’s book of Bible readings and reflections for each day of Lent inspired me to talk to two people in the Minster, whose names are almost synonymous with food and who lead the catering team in providing much more than bread alone for crowds of people, including visitors, shoppers and worshippers, on a very frequent basis: Carol and Peter Mountstephen.

Yet spiritual food has always been extremely important to them both; praying and reading the Bible is as essential as eating meals and would lead to withdrawal symptoms if missed. ”We would not know another way,” they told me. They both feel spiritually at home in the Minster. When they arrived 12 years ago (Peter said it was more or less by accident they turned left for Beverley), feeling very vulnerable as southern immigrants, they were worried whether or not they would be accepted in Yorkshire, although from boyhood, Peter had come with his golf-loving parents for holidays year by year to East Coast courses, their favourite being Whitby. Carol and Peter’s fears were laid to rest immediately they attended the Minster, where they found a warm welcome and friendship and began their lives of service to the church as a couple retired from busy jobs as police officer and teacher, with their 2 children settled at opposite ends of the country.

Carol loves the ancient, traditional aspects of worship and the preaching, which she often finds surprisingly personally relevant. Peter loves the psalms, especially Ps 121, which his father used to read to him, and the atmosphere and colours of the Minster building. It is a deeply spiritual place where Peter feels the close presence of God, in which he has always felt very comfortable and supported, throughout the ups and downs of his life. Both Carol and Peter grew up in Christian families (Carol in Guildford and Peter in Woodford Green, Essex) and attended Anglican churches (daily chapel at school aswell for Peter) and both had experience of other denominations (Carol went to a Catholic school and Peter moved to a non-conformist church in his youth because the girls were more attractive!).

From the first contact Carol had with the catering team as a washer-up has developed her management of an exceptionally efficient, seemingly almost tireless group of volunteers; planning, budgeting, shopping, preparing, producing vast numbers of delicious meals, snacks and drinks, washing and clearing up, time after time. Then there is all the accounting and paperwork, which are Peter’s responsibility and passion. Carol describes the team as a family, who all play an important part and care for each other pastorally too. A typical day, which often reaches “the cusp of insanity” (Peter) and “can be absolutely crazy” (Carol).

The team’s mission statement is found in vs 6-10 chapter 12 of Paul’s letter to the Romans. It is their modus operandi, which rarely fails. Everyone knows each other’s strengths and weaknesses: there is rarely a cross word and, amazingly, in the very confined space of the kitchen, people hardly ever bump into one another. Decisions are taken democratically as often as possible as every event requires an enormous amount of time and effort from the whole team and has to be judged worthwhile and, importantly, whether it reaches out to the community. Peter feels it is vital to achieve that moral ratio. The Shoppers’ Lunches are a case in point, driven initially by a deficit in church-giving (although people said it would never work as an idea) to today’s success, 5 years later, making over £500.00 each time and drawing in people from the town and surrounding areas, no doubt enticed by the Wednesday Market publicity on an A-frame near the fruit and veg stall (soup and bread are payment in return) and the menus which are displayed in the Tourist Information Centre. Also, Carol sets great store by the welcoming atmosphere and being a very outgoing and friendly person herself, enjoys chatting with people who come. “It opens so many doors and you learn so much”. In fact, Peter thinks there’s a very spiritual feeling at the lunches. “If you could can it and sell it, it would spread peace throughout the world”.

The reputation which the catering team have earned is well-deserved, as everyone who has sampled its fare will know. (Some customers think they are professionals). However, Carol and Peter are concerned that the average age of volunteers is well above 60 and it is difficult to find new recruits prepared to offer such a major commitment. With a wry smile,

Peter related how he was asked once what they were all paid, which led one assiduous team member to actually work out that each volunteer probably earned £1200.00 per year, but for the church. Job satisfaction is high however, particularly at special occasions, such as the Churchwardens’ service at York Minster in 2006, when Archbishop Sentamu requested Beverley Minster’s catering team to provide a buffet meal for 1200, then Richard Carew’s and Lee Kirkby’s weddings, and the Christmas Tree Festivals (this year an amazing 6,000 people came over the 3 days and most wanted refreshments!) Carol and Peter acknowledge that the team has reached the limits of what it can do and somewhat reluctantly, plan to undertake fewer events.

Health and energy are important considerations. Both are very involved in the church; Carol on the Deanery Synod and Peter as a churchwarden. Grateful to be well now and attempting golf again, Peter did suffer serious heart problems and has struggled also with his compulsion to problem-solve and have everything ordered, precise and correct.

No-one who meets him would guess that a stammer has caused him extreme anxiety all through his life. He knows he has been greatly helped by St John of Beverley and feels very privileged now to be able to read and to lead intercessions fluently. Carol, to whom he has been married for nearly 46 years, calls him: ”delightfully different”. She keeps fit with tennis playing and appears to have met her match. They come across as a harmonious couple, completely comfortable with each other. Peter remarked confidently that Carol would soon butt in if he said the wrong thing, to which Carol – equally confident – agreed. When asked the all-important question: “Why do you do what you do?”, neither hesitated in replying: ”We do what we do for the love of God, helped by the people who have crossed our path and we try to live by the guiding principles of Romans ch 12 vs 9-21.”

I believe they would recommend this Bible passage to all readers as a nourishing dish of spiritual food for Lent 2014 and for always.

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The Good Friday Beverley Passion Play has become a biennial tradition in the town.

A unique opportunity for Churches Together to work on a joint project.

A rare opportunity for Christians to witness to their faith in the wider community.

It takes just six 2 hour rehearsals for the main characters. It takes just one 2 hour rehearsal for actors in the crowd.

Stewards have one meeting and play a vital role on the day. Consider supporting this amazing project and witness the impact that it can have on the hundreds who see it.

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S E E K C H R I S T ’ S L I G H TA Light to lighten the Gentiles - Luke 2:22-40

Jean Langlais, the twentieth century composer whose setting of the Communion service we are hearing tonight, was blind. He lost his sight as a two year old. His upbringing was not sheltered, and he loved climbing trees. He loved music, and as a teenager heard an organ, determining to learn it himself. He was taught first by another blind organist, and went on to be one of France’s most celebrated organists and composers. He said that he had no memory of light, yet it seems to me that his music is full of richness and colour and light and shade. Perhaps because he was in darkness, his evocation of light is all the greater. For light defines us. Apart from a very few animals, we alone create light when there is none.Light is our essence. The modern preponderance of light means that people today have no real regular experience of darkness. I was on a late train a couple of weeks ago, and all the lights went out. It was rather wonderful, but so disorientating that normally reserved English people started talking to each other. We make light, because we need it and love it. It is necessary and beautiful. For much of human history candles, and oil lamps, were essential bringers of light into darkness. The lighting of the lamps became a religious act which could never be reduced to the flipping of a switch. The festival of Candlemas, the Presentation, the Purification is about light. It commemorates the moment when Jesus was presented in the Temple. There he was recognised by a devout believer, and declared to be a light to lighten the Gentiles - the person whose life and death will be a means of revelation, illumination and warning to all the non Jewish peoples of the earth. He is also to be the fulfilment of all the hopes of Israel, God’s original people. In church the moment is remembered every time the Nunc Dimittis is sung. It is such a part of our evening worship – first in Compline, then, since Cranmer, at Evensong, that we can

become dulled to its challenge. It’s a massively radical statement. Hear it again: God’s promise has been fulfilled. This child is the means of rescue, for every single human being on the planet. He is a Jew, but will be light, piercing the darkness for all the peoples of the world. He is everything the Jews have been waiting for and everything a dark world needs. What is amazing here is that Simeon doesn’t keep this as a personal experience – ‘I can die fulfilled now’. Nor does he keep this as a Jewish experience: ‘we will be delivered and our nation’s borders secured’. This is global and eternal. He declares this month old baby to be the fulfilment of Israel, and a light to lighten the Gentiles - the person whose life and death will be a means of revelation, illumination and warning to all the non Jewish peoples of the earth. This child would unleash shalom, true peace, and no one would be able to stop it. It would burst out of the confines of Israel and transform the world. This requires much of us. It means being the light and proclaiming Christ to everyone - the indifferent, the hostile, and the devout of other faiths. It means taking a long look at ourselves. How can Christians proclaim Christ as a light drawing all people to himself when our lives are not as well lit as they could be, and when as the church we enjoy our disagreements more than what binds us together? When a candle shines in darkness, things are seen in a new light. When Christians say that Jesus is the light of the world it reinterprets the world as it is, and shows the world as it might be. As we proclaim Christ Light of the World, ask yourself what is being illuminated for you, and what you can illuminate with the light within you. Jean Langlais could not take light for granted. He had to recreate it in himself. Seek Christ’s light. Shine with it. And transform the world.

Jeremy Fletcherfrom a sermon preached

at Candlemas Holy Communion

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Update from Christ For All (CFA) in Andhra Pradesh

Recently a number of updates have been received from John Mark and the team working in Khammam and the surrounding area in Andhra Pradesh, South India. They continue to spread the gospel and live the gospel.

The team were delighted to announce that Dr Thirupathi John Aharon Franklin will be joining the team as John Mark’s new assistant. Dr Franklin is Azariah’s (the founder of CFA) nephew and has been involved in different initiatives within the CFA team for the last 28 years.

600 children at both the children’s Day Care Centres and at the Shanthi High School have received welcome kits. Each of the kits included notebooks, crayons, pencils, pads, wrapper roll, colour pencils, colour sketch pens, a ball pen, and a Geometric box. Shoes and slippers were also distributed to the Children at the Shanthi High School and at

Gollapudi children’s home.

Thanks to the continuous generous support new sarees were distributed to residents of the Home for the Aged at Gollapudi, participants of the Midday Meal program, Khammam and the Bible School trainees.

A new font has been constructed in the front of the church at Gollapudi and in the 88 new believers were baptised between April and September last year villages where pastors from CFA minister. There are now approximately 50 people receiving free lunches at feeding centres in Khammam, Bonakai and Gollapudi.

11 young people are currently attending the Asian school of evangelism for one year of training in discipleship and evangelism.

A number of building projects have been carried out – a new post-operative ward has been added to St Mary’s Hospital, land has been secured to build a new parsonage at Gurralapadu and new toilet facilities have been built at the leprosy colony.

Dawn Pollard

T H E L E N T E N L I LY

Just when it seems winter will never end, the Lenten Lily otherwise known as the Lenten Rose (Hellebore) begins to bloom, giving us months of beauty to enjoy in the period up to Easter.

The species of Hellebore, to which the Lenten Rose belongs, includes the Christmas Rose Helleborus Niger which flowers from January onwards then leading up to the wonderful display of the Lenten Lily Helleborus Orientalis in the period of Lent leading up to Easter. The Lenten Rose is a variable species with flowers from white to plum purple and spotted inside in shades of crimson and maroon.

In ancient times it was used in Churches to herald the coming of Easter but is no longer seen as often due to the advent of the large Easter lilies Zantedeschia Aethiopica otherwise known as the Arum Lily.

It was once used for medicinal purposes for the treatment of mental illnesses including insanity but also had more sinister uses by the ancient Greeks who poisoned the wells of their enemies. However nowadays it is one of the loveliest plants for bringing the garden to life on the dreariest of days.

Kevin Hara

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F R O M T H E A R C H I V E SI am writing this on Candlemas Day, 2nd February, which is a celebration of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. This ancient festival marks the midpoint of Winter, halfway between the shortest day and the spring equinox. In olden times many people used to say that Christmas lasted for 40 days. Therefore, any Christmas decorations still up, could be taken down on Candlemas Day. I was looking out at the snowdrops in the garden, also known as Candlemas Belles. An old rhyme ‘The Snowdrop in purest white array, first rears her head on Candlemas Day’. When Eve was about to give up hope that the cold winters would never end, an Angel appeared. She transformed some of the snowflakes into snowdrop flowers proving that the winters do eventually give way to the spring. For the gardener these flowers herald the beginning of Spring.

February is a time to emphasise the importance of Confirmation and in 1929 Dr. Rigg stated that it should be viewed as the most important event in a person’s life and the preparation being the most important part of a clergyman’s work. “By his talks in a class or in private conversation he can help individuals even better than in his sermons. Too often the preacher feels that in the pulpit he is ‘drawing his bow at a venture.’ The Confirmation Classes were held at the Vicarage during March “for grown-up people on Tuesday at 6.15, for boys on Fridays at 5.15 and for girls on

Fridays at 6.15. Other times can be arranged by special appointment”. “The Confirmation Service will be held at St. Mary’s Church on Friday, April 11 at 7.30 p.m.”

“Let us remember the Psalmist’s words, ‘While I was thus musing, the fire kindled.’ We need to learn our own weakness, but also that we can rely upon Christ’s all-sufficient power and love.”

During the 1930’s there are quite a few magazines missing. At this time in 1936 Reverend Rigg left the Minster for Cornwall and later became archdeacon of Bodmin. He was succeeded by the Reverend Louis J. Baggot who had been vicar, rural dean and lecturer in pastoral and moral theology at the local theological college in Clifton. In the March 1939 edition of the Magazine Rev’d. Baggot is appealing for new members to join the Mothers’ Union under the heading “‘He Calleth for Thee’. The Minster Magazine finds its way into six hundred homes. And yet our Minster Branch of the Mothers’ Union has only 85 members. There is something wrong somewhere. And there is a challenge to set it right. What a fine thing it would be if every mother joined the Mothers’ Union. Why not? ……...Perhaps this letter may catch the eye of some mother where despair has settled and needs a way of recovery. Well, here’s a chance!”

In this March 1939 magazine there is a general section called ‘The Sentinel Circle’ - a readers’ forum for exchanging useful personal experience in home affairs. Under the title of “ ‘Work of the House’ Those who have much shopping to do personally might be glad of the following idea recently seen in use. The basket is of an ordinary make though possibly the handle is a little taller, and the platform is just a plain piece of wood, run on four small wheels, that can be easily obtained for a penny each or even less. In this way the whole weight of the basket and its contents is taken from the shopper’s arms although, of course, the whole can be easily lifted when crossing the road, etc. - Mrs. Smith.”

Now this would have been an innovation for the Mothers’ Union members.

Sally George

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MINSTER YOUTH AND CHILDREN

Things are developing…

Emmaus is growing by the week! We’re

welcoming new young people almost every

session at the moment, with an increase of 20

new faces since October! The speciality hot

drinks and fun games might have something

to do with it!! (Favourite beverage - hot

chocolate and contest ‘Newspaper Ninja’).

Mini-MessyLast week we had 14 new people – mostly

young families who currently have little or no

other church contact – it’s an exciting area of

work! The week before we had 11 new people.

Please continue to support us with your

prayers as we nurture these precious people,

and encourage them to encounter God.

Youth Café was another evening of fun and

enjoyment on Friday 14th February, when we

welcomed 130 teens into the Minster Jungle

in our ‘I’m a Teenager: Get me out of here!’

themed night. This involved five Bushtucker

Trails on the stage through the night, including

eating real (dead) bugs, retrieving stars from

plates of jelly which also contained crickets

and meal worms (!), fishing plastic bugs from

bowls of baked beans using their feet, and

much more! (Photos attached). The helpers

were wonderful, and the feedback from young

people most positive. As they left, everyone

was given two Freddo bars of chocolate to

mark the beginning of Angel Week (see pic) –

more on that later!

Choir Meet our new female chorister. Sophia joins

Steve the male chorister in our brilliant choir,

and she has quite a bit to say for herself! You’ll

see her singing and processing with the girls on

third Sundays, and making new friends after the

service – do keep an eye out for her. She hasn’t

yet been ‘surplussed’ nor ‘surpliced’, as the girls

thought she ought to earn it first.

Emily Hoe

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Beverley Minster Parish Centre, 38 Highgate, Beverley, HU17 0DN Telephone: 01482 868540 Email: minster@beverleyminster.org.uk Website: www.beverleyminster.org.uk

Beverley Minster Parish Magazine is published by Beverley Minster Parochial Church Council. Views expressed by contribu-tors do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial team or the publishers. Copy date for the APRIL edition: Friday 21 March

Editorial Team: Content: Marjorie and Julian Neaum (julian.neaum@gmail.com) design: Mervyn King (e: kings@three.karoo.co.uk), distribution: John Grimshaw (t: 01482 871370), proof-reading: June Stephenson.

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South Transept High Roof Gutter - Part 3

At the high point of the gutter a piece of mop stick rail is put in situ, the process of forming the lead to cover the whole new wood floor now begins. As you can see from the photos the expansion joint is formed over the rail, and lead drips are formed and fixed at the end of each gutter bay.

An expansion joint is formed around the pinnacle, the cover flashing along the edge of the parapet walls fixed in with expansion lead compound.

With all the work carried out this has made the gutter levels back to their original position, this has meant that the lead from the roof slope itself had to be trimmed back as required.

All the work has been completed and the gutter is water tight with the water flowing away.

Steve Rial and Paul Hawkins

MINSTER MAINTENANCE