Hatfield Remembrance Day Service with Canon Michael Everitt and the Hatfield Chapel Choir 2020
Notes from the Coordinating Chaplain Following eight years as College Chaplain and Vice-Master of Hatfield College, the Revd Professor Anthony Bash moved to a new role in the University in the Easter Term 2020. Since then, there has been a vacancy in the post of College Chaplain. In the interim, I have had the pleasure of supporting the College, particularly in relation to chapel worship. Of course, as with so many areas of College life, and indeed our lives in general, we have had to make the best of a challenging year due to the COVID pandemic. In this, I have appreciated the unwavering efforts of Jess Norton 22
Raybould, Director of Music, and Miles MacLachlan, Organ Scholar. They have both worked hard to maintain the College’s excellent choral tradition in exceptional circumstances. Due to Covid restrictions, Chapel services have been broadcast each week via the Choir of Hatfield College Facebook page. These have been led by various College chaplains as well as members of the Cathedral clergy. There has been a ‘reduced’ Covid-compliant choir at each service who have sung a range of anthems and settings for Evensong. This is a remarkable achievement with only three or four voices! Special acts of worship have included an outdoor College Remembrance
