THE PARISH CHURCH OF STOKE DAMEREL
(ST. ANDREW & ST. LUKE)

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Sunday 26 April                4th Sunday of Easter
 

Merciful God,
we entrust to your tender care
those who are ill or in pain,
knowing that whenever danger threatens
your everlasting arms
are there to hold them safe.
Comfort and heal them,
and restore them to health and strength;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

PLEASE PRAY FOR:-
The sick:-
Maureen, Margaret W, Graham, John S, Kathy, Mo, Matt,
Bertie, Morwenna, David J, Wendy.
The long term sick and infirm:-
George, Peter, Diana, Liz & Keith N, Rob, John and Shirley.
The recently departed:-
We give thanks for the lives of Peter Charles Davis and
Janet Vickers. We pray for their families and friends at
this sad time.
The Ministry Team:-
Wendy, Ruth, Marilyn and Rhona.

BLESSED SACRAMENT CANDLE

If you would like to have the candle lit for a week
for a particular prayer / thanksgiving /
commemoration, etc., please send a £5 donation to
Debbie Smith, clearly marking your donation as
being for the candle. Details of your intention can
be emailed to:- sarah.lundstrom@virginmedia.com
so that a mention of the commemoration, etc., can
appear in the Sunday Sheet.

SERVICES THIS WEEK
Stoke Damerel Parish Church is a hybrid church
open for public worship and private prayer and all
services will be live streamed.
By attending a live streamed service, you give
implied permission to have your image captured
on CCTV and to be broadcast as participant in the
liturgy.

Watch our livestreamed services
Please follow the link to make your way to our YouTube page: 

 STOKE DAMEREL YOUTUBE CHANNEL 

Sunday 26 April            4th Sunday of Easter
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Sue Nicholas
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Sue Nicholas
with Rev’d Fiona Lang

Wednesday 29 April
1000 Morning Prayer

Sunday 3 May            5th Sunday of Easter
0800 Morning Prayer
Led by Ruth Sayers
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Fr David Watson

WELCOME BACK
To Rev’d Sue and Rev’d Fiona who will be
leading our 10am Eucharist together this week.

ANNUAL MEETINGS
At last weekend’s Annual Meetings the following
people were elected:
Church Warden:  Ms. Marilyn Goldsbrough

PCC Members and responsibilities:
Mac Armstrong
Andrew Brown – Chair
Tony Barnard
Rosie Chapman
Sarah Lundstrom – PCC Secretary
Ann Pitt
Jack Price
Debbie Smith – PCC Treasurer
John Steere – Parish Safeguarding Officer

PCC Ex Officio:
Ruth Sayers – Deanery Synod Rep
Vacancy – 2nd Deanery Synod Rep

Additional elections:
Christina Richardson: Gift Aid Secretary
Ruth Jordan: Electoral Roll Officer

MARILYN'S MEMOS

This Sunday:
10am Eucharist: Please make yourselves known
to the six confirmation candidates who will be
attending our Eucharist.

3pm Concert: Shepherd on the Rock
Song and Clarinet with Catherine Hamilton,
Richard Line and Olwen Knowles
We have a well-known local soprano and
accompanists performing for us on Sunday. Do
come along for two hours of musical joy, with
refreshments served by the Stoke Damerel team.

Thank you all for observing Bishop Michael’s directive
It is much appreciated that our congregation has
taken on board the message from Bishop Michael
regarding the practice of (not) dipping communion
wafers into the chalice. He has quite clearly
explained it is considered a full communion if only
one kind is taken from the presiding priest.

Morning Prayer and next monthly Eucharist
Thank you, Elaine, for stepping in on Wednesday
when I will be in London for two days. The
following week we look forward to seeing Rev’d
Brian for our monthly Eucharist.

Our bell tower roof
We are very happy to report that work has started
again, and the architect and contractor will be
meeting to inspect progress next week. Fingers
crossed completion may be in sight.

Our ancient organ is having some TLC
Our organ repair guru, Michael Farley of Budleigh
Salterton, will have sent his two experts on Friday
to check over what is currently ailing: syphoning /
something in the bass stops I understand. We are
very fortunate that a very local organist has
volunteered to play on several future occasions.
You might have met Stephen Trahair and his wife
Maggie at our Eucharist last week. Poor Rev’d
Scott agreed to share the service with Rev’d Fiona
to enable him to play, however he quickly tinkled
the Bechstein ivories instead!

A message from Wendy Pezzey
Wendy is very much missing her contact with us,
as she is somewhat confined to barracks, and
would love to hear from you. She has given me
permission to give her phone number should you
wish to have a chat.

Bertie Jukes
Bertie has been in hospital for a month and home
again. Mary Jago and I took him out for a coffee at
Jolly Jacks almost two months ago now and we all
enjoyed our outing. He lives where Peter Harrison
used to reside in Leeward House on the Mount
Wise development. Peter was the organiser of
regular men’s breakfasts at various cafes but due to
a deterioration in his health he has moved to
Sidmouth near his brother, leaving Bertie feeling a
bit isolated as he no longer drives. He would much
appreciate a call and a chat. Please ask me for his
number.
We could also arrange a time to visit together.

Recent trips out in splendid spring weather
Last Sunday I met friends in Cornwall and we
had lunch at the Hannafore Point Hotel in West
Looe. The location is stunning and the windows
in all the sea facing areas are huge and the view
magnificent. The carvery lunch was £16.99 with
three types of meat and a generous selection of
vegetables. The young staff members were very
polite and obliging!

On the way back to Plymouth, we came across an
amazingly beautiful ploughed field. I was very
intrigued by the perfect three tiered furrows.
I discovered that tractors now have screens and the
farmer can set the machine to Satellite Ploughing
and sit back while the tractor and the internet
operate the task in hand! We live and learn.

On Tuesday I was fortunate to share a fascinating
guided tour at Port Eliot House and Estate at St
Germans, my third visit in fact, but by far the most
informative. St Germans is a beautiful little
village, accessible via the Tamar Bridge or the
Torpoint Ferry. Much of the village has some sort
of relationship/former dependency with or upon
the Eliot family, whose history and that of the
estate is fascinating. The magnificent priory
church of St Germanus can be traced back over
1000 years and the original monastery walls can
still be seen within the adjacent seat of the Eliot
family. Concerts are held in the church and the
next one is on May16th:
East Cornwall Bach Choir.

Our tour of the house started in the extensive
below stairs kitchens, servants’ quarters and
preparation rooms all blessed with large windows;
an unusual feature for staff at this time to enjoy
views beyond their four walls. Several rooms are
devoted to an array of tools, nuts, bolts, moulded
ceiling patterns and a mound of broken furniture in
the process of being fixed by a resident carpenter.
The waistcoat of the last butler, one Mr Bersey, is
hanging in the housekeeper’s office. (Any relation
of Geoff’s I wonder as he farmed in this area?) The
tour then takes you upstairs to the reception areas,
which house a superb collection of family portraits
by St Joshua Reynolds and the highlight: a rotunda
featuring an almost complete mural painted by
Robert Lenkiewicz who was very friendly with
Peregrine Eliot, the late Earl of St Germans. The
title has passed to his grandson, who is in his early
twenties. The estate gardens and surrounding
grounds are stunning and the nearby Stables are
well worth a visit, now housing a very laid-back
bar, café and comfortable relaxing areas.


Memorial Services
Robin Tugwell - Saturday 23rd May 1.30 pm TBC
conducted by Rev’d Sue Nicholas.

Janet Vickers - Friday 29th May 2pm
conducted by Rev’d Tim Buckley.
Marilyn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN APRIL
Chris Tozer, Jenny Storey, Deborah Turner,
Matt Forster, Lemmy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN MAY
Fiona Lang, Diana Cooke, Lorna Bartlett,
Margaret Bibby, Elaine Cresswell, Ruth Sayers.

SOME OF THE MEMORIAL STONES TO
BE SEEN AT STOKE CHURCH
Last week I noted the various ways in which
information could be found about some of the
headstones in Stoke Damerel churchyard, as well
as memorials within the church.
I am sure that, in the past, some memorial stones
were destroyed or lost before they could be
recorded and will never now be seen.
There are some paintings and photographs of the
churchyard where headstones can be seen in the
original locations but none of the inscriptions are
readable. The photograph of the tower reproduced
below must have been taken in the early 1960’s
before the local authority set headstones against
walls or laid them as paths around the grounds.

In an even older photograph, probably taken in the
later years of the nineteenth century, the north
porch is seen overgrown with ivy. In the
foreground on each side of the path are the two
ancient stone columns which still exist, although
the two primitive carvings mounted on the
columns are now safely located internally on the
south porch columns.

The railings around the tomb of Tobias Furneaux
are visible, still to be seen, as well as a couple of
headstones, now removed.
Over the years, within the church building, many
wall mounted memorials have been repositioned,
whilst others remain in their original locations, as
can be seen from the late nineteenth century
photograph below. On the right of the picture the
1732 memorial to Robert Young and members of
his immediate family is still in the same position.

Presumably, this wall tablet has never been moved,
as it is shown in the same position in the
eighteenth-century watercolour below.

On the other hand, in the same watercolour, within
the wall recess, there is a 1723 (or 1724) oval wall
tablet to John Reynolds. In this recess the doors
leading through to the parish centre are now
located and when these were inserted in the 1980’s
the Reynolds memorial, pictured below, was
relocated above the inner doors from the north
porch.

Within the church, other relocations can be seen by
comparing images from different years and this
can sometimes help to date changes to the building
in years past.
Tony Barnard