MEMORIES KINGSWOOD ASSOCIATION NEWS 2021-22
MEMORIES OF THE CHAPEL On 16 June we shall celebrate the centenary of the School Chapel. Rather than just telling our current students how and why the Chapel was built, we thought it would be lovely to share the experience and memories of those who have spent time in it. These are the replies received by the Association; MICHAEL JEFFERSON (HALL HOUSE 1955-59) “It was probably in the summer term of 1958 that one Sunday evening a boy in the School choir sang a solo in counter-tenor. It seemed to go down quite well. Shortly afterwards parents, staff and boys gathered in the School Hall for a concert. The School’s ‘male voice group’ went on stage to perform. I sang one or two bass solos. Afterwards a number of parents came up to me, keen to be introduced to my identical twin brother. I had to confess that we were one and the same person.”
MARTIN SPUFF SPUFFORD (KS 1955 - 59) About 1956 I kept a pet jackdaw and he flew into the chapel during morning service. It landed on my shoulder!!!!!! “Boy. Get that bird out of here”, Arnold Sackett. Mr Sackett was not amused and I had to take it out of the building. Most embarrassing!
KEITH SCOTT (KS 1948 - 55) A.B. Sackett's long and convoluted, but always interesting, sermons; The tedious sermons delivered by many visiting preachers, The embarrassment felt by boys when their fathers were the guest preachers; ABS singing hymns loudly and mostly out of tune; John Sykes's organ voluntaries after morning chapel, passing along his inside knowledge that a whole holiday was about to be announced - usually by the playing of Mendelssohn's Wedding March; The glow of light from the chapel on dark winter days, and the welcome warmth once one was inside; Older boys showing off their newly-developed deep voices by bellowing out such Welsh classic hymns as "Guide me, O thou great Jehovah". 43
