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The 2010 Programme of Special Events to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Markenfield Hall is currently being finalised and will be published shortly
PROGRAMME of EVENTS to CELEBRATE the 700th Anniversary of the Licence to Crenellate
Sunday 11 July 11:00am
Holy Communion (BCP) celebrated by the Rt Rev’d and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of London.
Monday 12 July 7:00pm
Mass (Tridentine) it is hoped a Missa Cantata with the Latin Mass Society - Fr Geoffrey Parfitt.
Thursday 12 August 6pm
Evensong (BCP) – Canon Ronald McFadden.
Saturday 21 August 11am Requiem Mass (Tridentine) for Sir Thomas Markenfield and three other members of the Markenfield family, the last of the family to live here and worship in this Chapel before being driven into exile and starvation following The Rising of the North in November 1569 - Father Ronald Creighton-Jobe and sung by Fr Adrian Convery OSB and other monks from Ampleforth Abbey
Wednesday 8 September 7:30pm
Ripon International Festival in the Great Hall. The Souza Winds: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn in a programme of Debussy, Arvo Part, Ball, Arrieu, Patterson and Dvorak’s Quintette in F (from "American" Quartette).
Thursday 9 September 2:30pm and 7:30pm
Ripon International Festival in the Great Hall. The Pantagruel Renaissance Musicke in Layde Louthians Lilte: 17th Century music from the Lowlands of Scotland.
Thursday 16 September 6pm
Evensong (BCP) sung by the choir of St Columba’s, Topcliffe - the Very Rev’d Keith Jukes, Dean of Ripon.
Wednesday 29 September 6pm
Mass (Patronal - St Michael Archangel) - Fr Patrick Waldron.
Wednesday 13 October 6pm
Mass (St Edward the Confessor) - Fr Patrick Waldron.
Wednesday 20 October 6pm
Holy Communion (BCP) Canon Paul Greenwell
Thursday 21 October 7:30pm
Markenfield as it was…Ian Curteis in conversazione with Allan Foster, who was born at Markenfield in 1931 when his Father was tenant farmer, was tenant farmer himself 1957-1997 and is father of the present tenant farmer Andrew Foster.
Friday 22 October 8:00pm
The Ebor Singers, conducted by their Director Paul Gameson, in a programme devoted to the theme of Autumn. To be followed (at about 9:00pm) by sung Compline, led by Canon Glyn Webster.
Saturday 23 October 8:00pm
Venice in 1310 an illustrated lecture by the President of The Friends of Markenfield, Viscount Norwich CVO (John Julius Norwich), for 29 years Chairman of Venice in Peril, followed by many years’ Chairmanship of the World Monuments Fund in Britain, author of (among many other works) the classic two volume History of Venice
Tuesday 2 November 6pm
Mass (All Souls) – Fr Patrick Waldron
Thursday 11 November 6pm
Evensong for Remembrance – Canon Keith Punshon.
Monday 6 December 7:30pm
Christmas at Markenfield. A Service of Lessons and Carols held in the Great Hall, this year in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care. Conducted by Canon Keith Punshon with the Ebor Singers directed by Dr Paul Gameson. Tickets on sale from 1st November on 01904 621000.
Wednesday 8 December 6pm
Mass (Immaculate Conception) – Fr Patrick Waldron.
Wednesday 29 December 7:00pm
Night Prayers to conclude our year of celebration and thanksgiving – Canon Ronald McFadden
Photograph courtesy of Simon Miles.
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