Chantry Chapel Events 2013
27th of May  Open day 
11am - 3pm 

New postcard for the Chantry Chapel

Transport from the past is the theme for the new picture post card for the friends Chantry Chapel.

Collectors of post cards will love this card of transport of the past on the old Wakefield Bridge.

The card is created to raise cash for the repairs and maintenance of the 14th Century Chapel.

The card will be on sale at the Chantry Chapel during the open days May 27th

And all Wednesday afternoons in June.  

Art Walk 
Wednesday 29th May
5pm to 9pm 

Exhibition of Artwork 
by 
Rachel Chapman & Jessica Ovey
Past Events

Wakefield Waterfront Event 

Wakefield Waterfront Event is on Saturday 6th April 2013 at Chantry Chapel 
10am to 4pm.  
A display of photographs and documents will provide background on the waterfront, and John Goodchild will give a talk, "Walking down the River" at 2.30pm.  We hope that visitors to the exhibition will bring their own photographs and memories of living and working in the area.

Wakefield Waterfront has a long and fascinating history. The Aire and Calder Navigation, and the Calder and Hebble Navigation  once provided a transport link that was vital to Wakefield's prosperity. The Waterfront was a hub of industry, lined with mills and warehouses,  maltings and other businesses. The aim of our project is to research this history with the help of the local community.

Wakefield Waterfront website

TUESDAY APRIL 23 
7.30 pm

CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF HYMNS ANCIENT AND MODERN

A LECTURE-RECITAL BY

THE JOHN’S SINGERS

MUSICAL DIRECTOR JOHN BASHFORTH

&

ELIZABETH CHARLESWORTH

TICKETS £5 FROM KATE TAYLOR, 19 PINDER’S GROVE, WAKEFIELD, WF1 4AH, CHOIR MEMBERS OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE

www.hoylandswainearts.co.uk

1 April, Open day 
27 May, Open day 
27 August Party on the bridge
11am-3pm 
Open day June 5 -12- 19-26 
Afternoons 
1 pm-3 pm

Disability Access Requirements Limitations   
At the Chantry Chapel
 685.8 mm Door Width With Level Access 

Past Events 

Kate Taylor arranged an informal evening of readings by  Keith Barraclough from a book by our former MP David Hinchliffe and our own Ken Rowley and Kate Taylor at the Chantry Chapel 
on Thursday 8 November at 7.30pm. 
No need to book. Copies of the book will be available at the Chantry to purchase at £12 99, or from Richard Knowles, Rickaro Books.

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Vintage on the Bridge
There will be a vintage sale (clothes, household, haberdashery) with arts and crafts and cream teas on Sunday 10 November, from 11.00am to 3.00pm at the Chantry Chapel. Family discovery trails will be available if you wish to explore the Medieval Chapel

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Music and Readings for Christmas, The Accord Singers, Tuesday 18 December, 7.30pm

Our annual Christmas event, provided by the Accord Singers, will, as always, include music, mulled wine, and mince pies. Tickets £5 from Kate Taylor. Cheques to be made payable to The Friends of Wakefield Chantry Chapel. Address below.From Kate Taylor, 19 Pinders’ Grove, Wakefield. WF1 4AH


 

The Festival British Archaeology

The British Archaeology Festival exhibition of Alfred Ellis & Sons the Chantry Chapel had 74 visitors on Saturday.

Including some-distinguishing visitors The Dean, the Bishop and the Lord Mayor of London  David Wootton,  and  Elizabeth Wootton, came in a posse with  
Sword bearer and Driver to the Chantry Chapel exhibition.

Friday the day before some 40 including ex employees of Alfred Ellis.

On Saturday, Margaret Huntingdon visited the Exhibition Margaret worked at Ellis’s from 1945 to 1954.

A very  successful    exhibition and one to be repeated. 

Brian Holding

Photography by Chris Williamson

Festival of British Archaeology 

Monday 16 of July  10.30 am
Exploring the imagery in the  Stained Glass Windows & on Frieze
Kate Taylor 

Alfred Ellis & Sons 1850 -2004
For the Festival  On July 20th & 21st  11 am - 4 pm The Friends of the Chantry Chapel will be  putting on an exhibition of industrialist Alfred Ellis & Sons. Brass Founders,
An exhibition of archive material and some artefacts from the Wakefield Company 
founded in 1850  producing  equipment for the mining  industry.
Researched by
Brian Holding 

Mosaic Workshops
Following the success of the last Mosaic project, we have further quiet family workships planned for the Chantry Chapel, on June 17, June 24, July 1, July 15, and July 22, all from 1.00pm to 3.00pm. No charge, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Do come along and help create a masterpiece! Contact Ali for further details -
 ali.bullivent@wakefield-cathedral.org.uk 
 

Party on the bridge

Very good response from visitors to the Chantry Chapel  2012
Dear Kate, I would like to write to thank you for the beautiful 'pooh' book that my youngest child ( 4 of 4) won at the recent Chantry Chapel competition.
The 3 children that attended (as my eldest was at a party) all really enjoyed themselves with the singing, drums and bunting activities; but most of all enjoyed throwing their Pooh sticks and watching them appear through the other side.
 
A huge thank you from Beatrice  (age 3) for her new bedtime story book .
 
With love Anneka .
 
Anneka Murphy
Manager and Senior Temple Spa Lifestyle Consultant


1) I had a great time - it was so well organised and the volunteers doing the cakes and the poohsticks etc were brilliant and worked so hard all day! I think I enjoyed this Party more even than last year.

2) I loved doing Poohsticks and so did everyone who took part, especially the adults! A good event all round and the sun shone for us too.

3) I met a lot I knew from the theatre and other friends so a pleasant day. At least it kept fine to about 3pm.

 

 

 Filmed and Edited by Rich Wainwright

Friends of the Chantry Chapel invite you to the 
Annual Party on the Bridge
Saturday 7 July 10am to  
Dancing  Shadows exhibition
Sunday 8 July 12noon to 3pm

A novelty at this year’s party on the bridge will be the chance to play pooh sticks

The medieval bridge with the river Calder below provides a perfect location for the activity first made popular in a
 Winnie the pooh story by A A Milne.

Dropping a stick from the upstream side, timing how quickly they emerge from the downstream side, and timing how quickly they emerge from the bridge downstream timed by a stopwatch.
The party that is open to all.
Art and craft stalls art cards and post cards on sale.
Runs from 10 am to 4 pm there will be entertainment and refreshments.
Drumming and Singing
Homemade cakes tea and coffee.
There will be a short talk on the history of the Chantry Chapel at 10.30am and 1pm.
A film of the changing face of the historical Chantry Chapel and the Hepworth Wakefield Story

By Brian Holding show throughout the day.

Dancing Shadows

The Dancing Shadows exhibition.Opening by
Cllr Danise Jeffery Member for Regeneration.  

 An exhibition in the Chantry Chapel by University of Nottingham Architectural Students  will be opened at 12 noon on Sunday 8 July by Wakefield Council Leader Peter Box.  Some 60 students  have been busy in Wakefield since October devising projects which could rescue the city from degenerating into somewhere faceless and bland. There are some fascinating ideas for the Chantry Chapel and Bridge! 

The exhibition will be open daily from 12 noon to 3pm from Sunday 8 July to Saturday 14 July.

Course Director  Dr Short will give a talk about the origins and fulfilment of the scheme at 11am on Friday, 13 July, in the Chantry. 

12 noon, Sunday 8 July.    Talk by David Short, Course Director, 11am, Friday 13 July.  Exhibition open daily 8-14 July from 12 noon to 3pm

Disappointment at the lack of quality regeneration elsewhere in the city, following the opening of the Hepworth Wakefield in 2011, has led  Nottingham academic David Short to choose Wakefield as the base for course-work for the University’s second and third year architecture students.

Some 60 students  have been busy in Wakefield since October 2011 with the task of responding to a sense of its individual character and devising projects which could rescue the city from degenerating into somewhere faceless and bland.

Now an exhibition of their work, entitled Dancing Shadows, will be open to the public in the Chantry Chapel, Wakefield Bridge, from 8 to 14 July. It has been described as a ‘speculative, imaginative and curious response to the city’.

It will be opened at 12 noon on 8 July by Wakefield Council Danise Jeffery Member for Regeneration. 

Dr Short, course director for the Nottingham University Bachelor of Architecture degree,  visited the Hepworth Wakefield in the summer of 2011. He found an ‘interesting problem’ where a ‘statement building’ had been constructed with the aim of kick-starting regeneration but to little apparent effect.

Wakefield shared a problem, he thought, with many other city centres which are being lost to nondescript shopping centre which could be anywhere.

The city, he decided,  had a lot to offer students in terms of drawing on its past and in terms of suggesting future development that would both revitalise it and respect its local identity. 

Over the months, third-year students have pursued their own research and devised their own briefs, based on their individual findings.  The results vary from those with immediate and practical appeal, to the zany and even, one of their tutors suggests, absurd.

There is a centre for ex-offenders designed as a place of transition between prison and the outside world,  and a new civic centre for marriages. A brewery, spa and miners’ retreat is suggested for a former colliery site. A headquarters for the ‘Liquorice Association’ would provide educational facilities and allow for making liquorice products. Its neighbouring ‘Drainers’ Organisation’ HQ would give direct access to the city’s network of sewers and culverts. The run-down Kirkgate Station would get a cinematic centre where film past, present and future could be celebrated.

Perhaps the most futuristic of schemes is for a euthanasia and  organ transplant centre

Second-year students have taken inspiration from the historic Chantry Chapel on Wakefield Bridge. They have designed more bridges, each incorporating a building, to stand further downstream on the River Calder. These include a Hepworth Bridge, resonating with the new Hepworth Wakefield art gallery, a leather-based manufactory on a footbridge, and a ‘Rheum’ bridge, drawing on the genus Rheum to which rhubarb belongs,  celebrating Wakefield’s status as the capital of the ‘rhubarb triangle’. 

The exhibition will be open daily from 12 noon to 3pm.

Dr Short will give a talk about the origins and fulfilment of the scheme at 11am on Friday, 13 July, in the Chantry.

                

 

Friends of The Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin