A letter is The Times regrets that its recent list of golf major winners omitted Harry Vardon “who won seven majors, six Opens and one US Open”.
His grave can be found in the St Andrew’s churchyard at Totteridge near High Barnet.
The lovely holiday Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Friday 15 August.
All Saints, Margaret Street: High Mass at 6.30pm; setting Missa Assumpta est Maria (Palestrina); preacher Father Michael Bowie.
St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside: Eucharist at 1.o5pm.
St Mary Moorfields: Mass at 8.05am, 12noon, 12.30pm, 1.05pm and 5.30pm.
Surprisingly, The Assumption, Warwick Street is keeping the feast on the following Sunday at 10.30am.
St Cyprian’s Church, Clarence Gate, is keeping its feast day on Monday 15 September with High Mass at 7pm.
This is in anticipation of St Cyprian’s Day on Tuesday. It is also observed in some places later in the month.
The preacher is George Bush, Rector of St Mary-le-Bow.
There is a ‘Festal Eucharist’ on Sunday morning 27 July at St Bride’s Fleet Street when the congregation says farewell to rector David Meara.
David and Rosemary Meara are retiring to Oxford.
David Meara, who is also Archdeacon of London, officially stepped down as rector earlier this year to become priest-in-charge. This was to allow the search for his successor to begin early. Canon Alison Joyce will be installed as rector this autumn.
The Eucharist on Sunday begins at 11am and will be followed by a reception.
It was announced this morning at St Bride’s Fleet Street that The Reverend Canon Dr Alison Joyce, currently Vicar of Edgbaston Old Church Birmingham, is to be rector.
Canon Joyce, who succeeds David Meara, will move to London in October.
The Assumption in Warwick Street, now in the hands of the Ordinariate, is attempting to restore its Portuguese link.
The first church on the site was a chapel built in 1740 for the Portuguese embassy in Golden Square behind.
Next Sunday 15 June the Portuguese ambassador is to attend Trinity Sunday Mass at 10.30am. His Excellency João de Vallera will be joined by other representatives of London’s Portuguese community in London.
There is tower top singing at St Michael’s Cornhill this Thursday 29 May to mark Ascension Day.
The congregation is invited to join the choir on the roof after the 1pm Choral Eucharist.
The sound of Bow Bells will echo down Cheapside and Bow Lane for 45 minutes before the Solemn Mass at 1.05pm in St Mary-le-Bow.
This year there is no tower top singing at Southwark Cathedral due to building work but there will be singing at the west of the nave at 7.15am.
Ascension Day is also a time for beating the bounds. This happens as usual in All Hallows-by-the-Tower parish starting at 3.15pm. The route includes the river boundary which some will visit by boat. Festal Evensong follows at 5.30pm.
This is one of years when the Tower of London beats the bounds of its liberty. Church and beefeaters will meet on Tower Hill at 7pm.
“St John-at-Hampstead is right in the centre of London but makes you feel like you’re in a little country church graveyard,” writes Tony Parsons in The Sunday Telegraph.
He adds: “The place changes beautifully with the seasons and the painter Constable is buried there.”
Tony Parsons is right. The churchyard is divided by a road with another church, St Mary’s Holly Hill, higher up. Both are delightful buildings protected by the churchyard.
This Sunday 11 May is Punch & Judy Sunday at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden.
As the 11am Parish Mass ends the Grand Procession will arrive from the piazza for the 12noon Special Church Service with Mr Punch in the Pulpit.
Afterwards there are Punch and Judy & Puppet shows and maypole dancingin the churchyard.
The day ends with choral evensong at at 4pm.
The Punch & Judy day is held on the nearest Sunday to 9 May which is the anniversary of the first show held in 1662 outside the church.
St Mary-le-Bow is marking the 50th anniversary of its restoration after the Second World War.
On Tuesday 27 May at 6.30pm Juliet Gardiner gives a talk on City Churches on the front line: The Blitz and its impact. The speaker is author of The Blitz: The British Under Attack and the free event is in association with Daunt Books.
The commemoration service takes the form of Choral Evensong on Wednesday 11 June at 6.30pm.
The following evening the guild of ringers will attempt a 50th anniversary peal.
Full details and updates are on the St Mary-le-Bow website.
