LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL
EGLWYS GADEIRIOL LLANDAF

Service Times from September 2018

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There are to be some slight alterations to weekly and daily service times from September onwards. As the start of the new academic year approaches certain changes have been made to accommodate Llandaff Cathedral School maintaining a weekly pattern of worship in the cathedral. Their regular services will now take place on Friday mornings instead of Thursday meaning the Cathedral’s Eucharist on Friday will now take place at the later time of 10.00am.

In addition to this, the time of daily Evensong or Evening Prayer on all days except for Sunday will be later, beginning at 5.30pm.

All other service times remain unchanged and from September 1st the weekly schedule of services at the Cathedral will be as follows:

Monday

9.30am           Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Tuesday

9.30am           Yr Offeren

12.00noon       Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Wednesday

9.30am           Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Thursday

10.00am         Yr Offeren

11.00am          Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Friday

8.40am           Cathedral School Service

10.00am         Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Saturday

9.30am           Holy Eucharist

5.30pm           Evensong/Evening Prayer

 

Sunday

7.30am           Matins (said)

8.00am           Holy Eucharist

9.00am           Parish Eucharist

11.00am          Choral Eucharist

12.30pm          Holy Eucharist

3.30pm            Choral Evensong

Organ Spectacular!

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On Saturday 15 September Stephen Moore (Director of Music) and David Geoffrey Thomas (Organist) will give a recital of popular organ music at Llandaff Cathedral in aid of the Cathedral Choir’s 2019 tour to Sweden.

The concert, beginning at 7.00pm, will include works by Bach, Guilmant, Vaughan Williams, Vierne and Widor played on the 2010/13 Nicholson Organ.

Members of the audience have also been invited, if they wished, to request a specific piece of music to be played. We were inundated with requests and the results are printed below within the full programme for the recital.

Admission to the concert will be FREE with a retiring collection. There will also be celebratory refreshments served by the Cathedral Choir Association.

Llandaff Cathedral Organ Console

The Proposed PROGRAMME is as follows

Alexandre Guilmant – March on a theme by Handel

J S Bach – Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

David Johnson – Trumpet Tune in E-flat

REQUEST Michael Festing – Lardgo, Aria & Variations

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rhosymedre

Edward Elgar – Imperial March, Op.32

REQUEST Edward Elgar – Chanson de Matin

William Walton – Crown Imperial

Percy Whitlock – Folk Tune

Louis Vierne – Carillon de Westminster

REQUEST Olivier Messiaen – Dieu Parmi Nous

J S Bach – Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D

REQUEST William Mathias – Processional

Charles-Marie Widor – Toccata from Symphonie V, Op.42

 

 

 

Cathedral Choir Concert

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The final concert in the Cathedral Summer Concert series takes place on Friday 13 July and will mark the end of the academic year for the Cathedral Choir.

Friday 13 July, 7.00pm
Llandaff Cathedral Choir in Concert

Music to be performed will include:

Handel – Zadok the Priest, Lewis – The souls of the righteous, Gjeilo – Ubi caritas, Lauridsen – O nata lux, Todd – The Call of Wisdom

Tickets for this concert will be priced £10, £8 (concessions) and £5 for students and will be available on the door. The Cathedral Choir Association will serve refreshments at the close of the concert.

Director of Music, Stephen Moore, says “I am greatly looking forward to this year’s Cathedral Choir Concert which will be the last event of the academic year for the choir and will follow hot on the heels of them making a CD recording earlier the same week. It’s always a wonderful occasion and a great opportunity for the choir to perform outside of their usual liturgical role. Much of the music to be performed has been learned over the past academic year, and this concert gives us a chance to reflect on that year and look forward to the next.”

All are assured of a warm welcome.

 

The Ordination Service 2018

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“The Ordination Service 2018: Preparations have already begun in Llandaff Cathedral for our Ordination Service which will be held on the 30th June.  This service has always played a significant part in the life, not only of the Cathedral but in the Diocese as a whole.  It marks the beginning of a new chapter in the lives of those who are going to be ordained, as at the service they will be commissioned by the Bishop to serve God and his people in wonderful new ways.  For those who will be ordained deacon, they will be moving home and beginning again in new parishes after being in Theological College, while those who are going to be ordained as priests will be continuing in their curacies and yet beginning a new kind of ministry.

Please keep the candidates, their families and all who support them in your prayers as they prepare for this life changing event. “

 

Clerestory Works – Next Phase

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As the next stage of the repair work to the Cathedral clerestory begins, the Cathedral Organ will be covered internally with plastic sheeting to protect it from dust and dirt. The organ console, from where the instrument is played, will also be boxed in. We will be without the organ for the duration of the work, and so will be bringing our wonderful Steinway piano into its own to accompany our worship. Choral services will continue as usual during this period, with the Cathedral choir returning to their duties from Thursday 11 January onwards. We look forward to having the organ back during the latter part of Lent.

The cathedral roofless during the war
The cathedral roofless during the war

Background to the Project

The Bathstone ‘detached’ shafts at clerestory level are splitting due to internal corrosion of iron cramps used in the re-construction of 1859 to tie the shafts to the surrounding stonework.

When iron corrodes it expands considerably, with enough force to split stone. It is likely that moisture got into the stone following the bomb damage in 1941 (when the clerestory was left exposed to the elements until the current roof was installed in 1953), and this moisture has accelerated corrosion of the iron.

Each of the 84 Nave and 12 West Front internal detached shafts will be carefully dismantled to remove the embedded ironwork and repair the stonework. New stainless steel cramps and dowels will be inserted, and the shaft stones will be repaired and reinstated in their original positions. The surrounding stonework will have a light clean to remove the worst excesses of carbon encrustation.

Repair methodology
Repair methodology
The effect of corroding iron cramps on the stonework
The effect of corroding iron cramps on the stonework

The dowel hole and cramp inside a shaft
The dowel hole and cramp inside a shaft
Ancillary Work

The cost of scaffolding the entire Nave and Choir is considerable, and it will make sense to do as much work as possible while the scaffold is in place.

The clerestory windows will be repaired and cleaned as part of the project. The leaded windows are secured to horizontal iron tie bars. During the 1950s restoration the tie bars were attached to brass spigots which were embedded into notches in the reveals of the windows with hard mortar. Most of these fixing spigots are now loose. This causes the windows to rattle with wind pressure and even when the organ is played, which in turn leads to cracking of the glass.

Stainless steel angle sections will be installed to hold the existing brass spigots against the stone reveals, to avoid dismantling the windows (a very expensive process). The brackets will be toned-down to make them less noticeable – the recipe involves a mixture of gold size, pure turpentine and burnt umber pigment. The plain glazing also needs a thorough clean inside and out, and this will be done carefully with cotton swabs.

Spalling window stonework around glazing tie bars
Spalling window stonework around glazing tie bars
A prototype of the glazing bracket
A prototype of the glazing bracket

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 1953 hardwood ceiling is stained in places from past roof leaks, and these stains will be also removed in areas that can be accessed. Render will also be repaired and re-decorated.

Training Initiative

The project includes a training programme of five three-week training blocks for trainees who are considering a career in building conservation.

The Programme

Scaffolds will be erected in phases between June and November 2017 and from January to April 2018, with breaks for key events and festivals in the cathedral. The work will mean some disruption to visitor access and services at times, and this will be communicated to visitors and the local community throughout the project.

Our Mission Statement

Llandaff Cathedral is a Christian gathering of the Church in Wales, which is a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is also the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff. The Cathedral is a focus of pilgrimage and spirituality in the Diocese of Llandaff and for the City of Cardiff. Our purpose is therefore to worship God and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. In so doing, we welcome all who come here, irrespective of gender, race, creed or sexuality, in order that we might share and pass on our rich Christian heritage and the joy of Christian faith.

Thought for the Week

This week let us think about all the people around the world who have been affected by the recent natural disasters. We pray that they will be given the strength and aid to rebuild their lives.