At three p.m. on Saturday 17 th November (feast day of St Hugh)

Burgh parishioners travelled by coach to Lincoln to attend the collation and installation of Father Terry as Canon at Lincoln Cathedral along with six other Canons – designate .

 

There are 53 canonries each having “a stall” in St Hugh's Choir hence the term installation.

 

 

 

 

“ Melton Ross with Scamblesby –

The Reverend Terence Steele Incumbent of the Burgh Group and Rural Dean of Calcewaite & Candleshoe- The churches of Scamblesby and Melton Ross were given to the cathedral, possibly by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, in the early years of the twelfth century: they were confirmed as the endowment of a prebend by Pope Eugenius III in 1146. Holders of this stall include the Tudor historian Polydore Vergil and, more recently, Robert Runcie, later Archbishop of Canterbury ”

 

 

 

 

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