St Joseph's R.C. Church, Hay-on-Wye explained

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Coordinates:52.0748°N -3.1271°W
Country:United Kingdom
Location:The Presbytery, 4 Belmont Road, Hay-on-Wye, Powys HR3 5DA
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Previous Denomination:Calvinistic Methodist
Website:https://www.stmichaelsrcbrecon.org.uk/st-joseph/
Founded Date:1968
Dedication:Saint Joseph
Status:Parish church
Functional Status:Active
Heritage Designation:Hay conservation area
Architect:F.R. Bates, Son & Price of Newport
Style:Gothic architecture
Parish:St. Joseph's
Deanery:Llandrindod Wells Deanery[1]
Archdiocese:Cardiff-Menevia
Province:Cardiff
Priest:Fr. Jimmy Sebastian Pulickakunnel MCBS

St. Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Belmont Road, Hay-on-Wye which is in Powys, Wales.[2] The parish is in the Llandrindod Wells Deanery of the Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia.[3] [4] St. Joseph's is served out of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Brecon.[5] [6] The Parish Priest for both parishes is Fr. Jimmy Sebastian Pulickakunnel MCBS. Fr. Jimmy is a member of the religious order of the Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament.[7] Canon Clyde Hughes Johnson, now retired, still helps in the parish and has done so for decades.[8] [9] [10]

Location

Hay-on-Wye[11] [12] is a medieval town and thanks to Richard Booth is widely known as the "town of books". On April Fools day in 1977, Richard Booth proclaimed Hay-on-Wye an "independent kingdom". He declared himself as King and his horse as the Prime Minister.[13]

The town hosts the annual Hay Festival.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] Literary connections to the parish include: Christopher Dawson, Penelope Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, and H.G. Wells.

Francis Kilvert is a literary connection for the geographical area known as "Kilvert country" which includes Hay-on-Wye and nearby villages, especially, Clyro and Llanigon.[19]

Christian Churches in Hay-on-Wye

In the late 1960's, the Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian Church of Wales) chapel was repurposed to become St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.

Active Christian Churches include St. Mary's Church[20] [21] and St John’s Chapel[22] [23] [24] (Church in Wales) and the Bethesda Evangelical Church (repurposed from a Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in 1865).[25]

Some inactive Christian Churches that have been repurposed for secular purposes including: Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (built in 1771),[26] [27] Ebenezer Methodist Chapel (built in 1845)[28] and Salem Baptist Chapel (built in 1659).[29] [30]

St. Joseph's R.C. Parish - Hay-on-Wye

There are two regular Masses, Sunday at 9am and Thursday at 10am. The weekly newsletter contains details about social and liturgical events including the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Exposition, Holy day Masses etc.[31]

Parishioners play an active part in the life of the parish. The Parish Advisory Council includes parishioners with responsibilities for safeguarding, finances, maintenance and repair etc. Lay roles include: altar serving, catechist (including RCIA), reader, eucharistic minister, hospitality etc. Periodic activities include: preparation of bidding prayers, church and altar linen cleaning, flower arranging etc.

Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Hay-on-Wye

The Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian Church of Wales) are the only nonconformist denomination indigenous to Wales. They broke away from the Church of England (and thus the Church in Wales) in 1811, facilitating the ordination of their own ministers. The Calvinistic Methodist denomination was formally established in 1823.

In 1828, a Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist chapel was built in Belmont Rd,[32] Hay-on-Wye. The word "Tabernacle" in church names emphasises the presence of God and the practice of Holy Communion.[33] The minister for the first decade was Rev Dr Thomas Phillips. In 1836, he left to become the Welsh secretary of the ecumenical British and Foreign Bible Society.[34] [35]

In 1834, Samuel Lewis described the Hay Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist chapel as a "handsome place of worship". Their Sunday school teachers freely taught "a great number of children".[36]

Calvinistic Methodist congregations were known as the ‘Jumpers’ due to their energetic engagement in services and enthusiastic hymn singing.[37] Of the 6,427 known non-conformist chapels in Wales, more than half were rebuilt at least once.[38] In 1872, a stone-built chapel was built on the same Belmont Rd chapel site at a cost of £700. The architecture was in the Classical and Gothic style of the gable entry type.[39] [40] [41] The building of the new church was overseen by its Calvinistic Methodist minister Rev Richmond Leigh Roose.[42] [43] [44] He was the father of the Wales international footballer Leigh Richmond Roose.[45] The contractor for the building work was Mr. James Webb of Hay.[46] The church was designed by the prolific Calvinistic Methodist architect Richard Owens of Liverpool. He designed up to 300 chapels, mostly in Wales and mostly Calvinistic Methodist.[47] [48] [49] After moving from Wales to Liverpool, Owens designed many buildings in Liverpool including 10,000 terraced houses. This included the family home of Ringo Starr (No. 9 Madryn).[50] Owens died in his home in Anfield Road, Liverpool at the age of 60 from gallstones and was buried in Anfield Cemetery.[51] [52] The Calvinistic Methodist minister Rhys Thomas Pryddererch BA, BD, was a well respected preacher in Hay-on-Wye and the local area. He volunteered for the infantry in 1914 but was rejected on medical grounds. He declined the role of Army Chaplain. He volunteered 3 more times, and was eventually accepted as a Private in the King's Regiment (Liverpool). He died within 10 days of arriving on the Western front in 1917. He is commemorated on the Hay-on-Wye and Cusop War Memorial.[53] [54] [55] [56]

A diary containing a pulpit list, exists for the years 1959-1963.[57] However, there is no known record specifying when the chapel fell into disuse.

St. Joseph's, Hay-on-Wye parish and church history

Following the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, there was a growth in the Roman Catholic population in England and Wales.[58] In 1850, Pope Pius IX restored the hierarchy of dioceses in England and Wales in Universalis Ecclesiae. Wales was split between the Diocese of Shrewsbury and the Diocese of Newport and Menevia.[59] [60] [61] [62]

Without a Roman Catholic church in Hay-on-Wye since the 16th century, the faithful had to travel up to 20 miles by road, often assisting one another to get to churches.[63] Those that could afford to travel by rail could use the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway. The nearest churches included Brecon,[64] Weobley,[65] Belmont[66] and Hereford.[67] [68] The clergy at Belmont and St. Michael's provided a supportive role for the formative St. Joseph's parish. Belmont was founded in 1859 as a house of studies for the Benedictine monasteries at Downside, Ampleforth and Douai.[69] Until 1915, Belmont was also the Cathedral for the Diocese of Newport and Menevia.[70] The Gothic St. Michael's RC Church in Brecon and adjoining presbytery date from 1851, and were designed by the architect Charles Hansom.[71] [72] In 1892, Henry Richard Grant, a Roman Catholic, ran a newsagents and printing business[73] [74] from 6 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye. Henry was married to Jane Victoria Grant (nee Hughes). They had 7 sons and 2 daughters.[75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] At the start of the 20th-century most parishioners attended Roman Catholic Mass in the Grant's home, served by the Secular Priests from Brecon or the Benedictines of Belmont (formally designated an Abbey in 1920). Families that sent their children to the Benedictine run Belmont Abbey school for boys (from 1926)[82] [83] or St. David's school for girls in Brecon (from 1903) had the possibility of attending Mass in the schools. The school for girls was originally run by the Daughters of the Holy Spirit (from France).[84] [85] [86] In 1948, the Ursuline Sisters (from Ireland) took over the school.[87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] The conversion of the Caldey Island Benedictine monks to Roman Catholicism in 1913 meant that the monastery built by the Anglican Father Ignatius (Lyne) at Capel-y-Ffin,[93] near Llanthony Priory,[94] came under the ownership of a Caldey monk. The property was sold to a Roman Catholic lay person of deep faith but shallow morality. The property hosted a Roman Catholic community of artists and craftspeople known as the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. Consequently, Mass was celebrated at Capel-y-Ffin from 1913, initially by a monk from Caldey Abbey.[95]

Some would say that the origins of St. Joseph's parish is Celtic. Henry Richard Grant came from Scotland in 1892. Thomas Joseph Madigan came from Ireland in 1909, as did Rose Jones (nee Fitzgerald) in 1926 and the Dewan family. Rose received the Papal award, the Benemerenti medal. Many of the descendants of the Celtic Victorian and Edwardian families are active parishioners.[96]

First Mass Centre

In 1925, Thomas Joseph Madigan, was a Councillor for Hay Town Council[97] and Brecon Town Council.[98] He owned a shop in Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye selling motorised vehicles, parts, petrol etc.[99] The shop was next to The Plaza Cinema (now Hay Cinema Bookshop) which later became J. V. Likes garage. Thomas Joseph Madigan acquired the lease for the assembly room in Market Street over the Cheese Market hall.[100] [101] [102] The parish of St. Joseph's was created sometime in the 1920's, possibly when Bishop Francis Vaughan the Bishop of Menevia gave consent for Roman Catholic Mass to be celebrated in the hired assembly room. The previous use of the room was as a Masonic lodge. Fr. Flannery from Belmont spent months decorating the dilapidated assembly room, which was partially furnished with discarded furniture from Weobley[103] and Belmont. Colonel Abel Morrell of Wyecliffe and Miss Binney (who later became a Nun) also provided church furniture. Up to 1959 and for different periods of time, the Mass centre was served either by the Brecon clergy (1930, 1948) or the Belmont clergy (1926, 1939). Anecdotally, current parishioners remember that the assembly room roof leaked when it rained, and getting coffins up and down the steep stairwell was challenging.[104] [105] [106] Fr. John Brady (RIP-1975), the Parish Priest in Brecon introduced Sunday school in the afternoons in the assembly room. Led by Eileen Biddle, in good weather she would host the Sunday school in her home in Witney-on-Wye.[107] [108] It took a while before the Mass centre could be formally registered for marriages. In 1951, the first Roman Catholic marriage in Hay-on-Wye since the 16th century, took place in St. Joseph's parish. Fr. Cubley married Mr and Mrs Terrence Madigan.[109] [110] On one occasion Fr. Patrick Shannon was called away after Mass on a family emergency, and had to leave the Blessed Sacrament. The bishop gave permission for John Grant and Thomas Joseph Madigan to watch and pray with the Blessed Sacrament in the interim period before collection. The need for a larger church building grew as evacuees were billeted to Hay-on-Wye during the Second World War.

First Parish Priest

In the 1950's, members of the Madigan family ran the “Plaza” cinema in Brook Street, now the “Hay Cinema Bookshop”, opposite the Swan and behind Like’s garage. In the late 1950’s, John and Clive Grant, Des (aka Dessie) Madigan and other parishioners raised money to buy the Grade II listed Ashbrook House, in Church Street, Hay-on-Wye.[111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] This became known as the old Presbytery. It was intended to build a church in the grounds at some future date.[117] [118] [119]

In October 1960, Bishop John Petit the Bishop of Menevia appointed Fr. Hugh Healey as the resident Roman Catholic Priest for the parish, the first since the 16th century, he lived in the old Presbytery.[120] A Church Building Funding Committee was set up, achieving excellent results. External practical and financial support was provided by Cyfeillion Amgueddfa Cymru (Friends of National Museum Wales),[121] and from the Sisters and school children from the Convent of Mercy, in Glenamaddy, County Galway.

Fr. Healey’s zeal for fund raising was tireless. He held monthly jumble sales on the lawn of the old Presbytery. He would drive around the country to collect jumble, furniture and other items and was affectionally known as 'Steptoe' and the King of the Totters'. He would often repair and renovate the items to make a few shillings for the parish. He made leather belts and wallets to order.

Anecdotal evidence by current parishioners reveal that Fr. Healey would celebrate a very early Sunday morning Mass at St. Mary's chapel, Capel-y-Ffin, a distant outpost of the parish. He would then rush back to Hay-on-Wye to celebrate early Mass.

First Parish Church

In 1967, rather than build a new church in the grounds of the old Presbytery, the former Calvinistic Method chapel in Belmont Road, Hay-on-Wye was purchased by Fr Healey for the bargain price of £1,500. It was refurbished, re-roofed and adapted for Roman Catholic use by the firm of architects F.R. Bates, Son & Price of Newport at a cost of £6,000, leaving a debt over £3,000. The firm specialised in modernising Catholic churches across South Wales.[122] [123] [124] [125] [126] [127] [128] [129] For the first time the parish had its own church. On May 28th 1967 (Ascension day), St. Joseph's church was blessed and opened by Bishop Petit. The ecumenical spirit of the Second Vatican Council was manifest by the attendance of Clergy from other local Christian denominations.

The 'Holy Joes' choir was formed in the 1970's - the natural successors to the 'Jumpers'. Their organist was Des Madigan (son of Thomas Joseph Madigan). He was renowned for playing the organ loudly. Consequently, the 'Holy Joes' were equally renowned for singly loudly!

In 1740, William Seward, a lay preacher from the Calvinistic Methodist theological college Coleg Trefeca, and other outsiders visited Hay-on-Wye to promote the Calvinistic Methodist/Presbyterian cause. A stone thrown from a hostile crowd of locals in Black Lion Green resulted in Seward receiving head injuries. It lead to his death a few days later, becoming the first Methodist Martyr.[130] Current parishioners remember that in 1968, the Rev. Dr Ian Paisley and other outsiders came to Hay-on-Wye to protest about the repurposing of the Presbyterian chapel. Paisley did not suffer the same fate as Seward, but he did suffer the same lack of influence over the locals. Richard Booth revealed that the outsiders did not reflect the view of the people of Hay-on-Wye. In the spirit of ecumenism, the Rev. Thomas Wright a Presbyterian from Coleg Trefeca was pleased with the "link with the building’s past" and he was "pleased that God was still be honoured on that spot”.[131]

Fr. Healey was a popular figure around town. He always had time to stop and talk, especially when walking his dog. He was a regular at the nearby Indian restaurant - he would have approved of Fr. Jimmy's annual curry night. Parishioner Des Madigan, recounts that Fr. Healey said he would "like to die with his boots on". He did, having to be carried from the St. Joseph's altar in 1984, dying soon after. Fr. Hugh Healey carved his name into the history of Hay-on-Wye, a revered and much loved character by the parishioners and the people of Hay.

One of Father Healey's parishioners also carved her name into the history of Hay-on-Wye. Lady Penelope Betjeman (the wife of John Betjeman the Poet Laureate) used to "come into town on her pony and trap, wearing a chunky knitted jumper and jodphurs".[132]

First Presbytery adjoining the church

The old Presbytery was later sold, in order to purchase the new Presbytery adjoining the church in 1985. The Parish Priest at the time Fr. Patrick Murray lived in a small flat in Oxford Road for a few months until the purchase was completed. Canon Clyde Johnson had advised Bishop James Hannigan to purchase the house which was to become the new Presbytery, "bringing great joy and encouragement to the parishioners". The Presbytery was also used as a parish centre, important in a town with limited capacity social venues. Additional Masses were celebrated in the house for ad-hoc family events. The house and the spacious gardens were used for parish social events. The house flanking the new Presbytery was previously owned by John Grant (the grandson of Henry Richard Grant). The house on the other side of the Church was owned by another Roman Catholic, Mrs Rose Jones. The house that became new Presbytery was built in 1938 by Mr John Watkins of MiddleWood for Mr Ralph Jones, brother-in-law of Rose. The cluster of buildings was affectionally dubbed by Rose as the 'Vatican City'.

More recent times...

Church interior

The interior curved roof is one of the few original Presbyterian architectural features following the refurbishment in 1967.[144]

In the late 1990's, Fr. Tim Maloney commissioned a bespoke set of Stations of the Cross. Stonemason Caitriona Cartwright carved the Stations of the Cross using stone from local quarries. The text font was inspired by the letter cutting of 18th century headstones. Her other works includes a Baptismal font in a Wiltshire church.[145] [146]

The abstract coloured window glazing is thought to be the work of the Architects F.R. Bates, Son & Price of Newport. Around the start of the new millennium, the windows either side of the church had deteriorated and had to be replaced. John Darlison oversaw that that the work was in keeping with the Hay conservation area specification. Another parishioner salvaged some of the stained glass windows from a skip, and repurposed some of the stained glass windows.

Church exterior

The church building is within the Hay Conservation area, but is not Grade II listed.[147] [148] The conservation area includes the entire medieval town of Hay-on-Wye.[149] Due to its heritage, the church is not orientated traditionally i.e. towards the east. The altar faces towards the west and the entrance towards the east. The architecture is based on a thirteenth century Gothic style. The pitched roof is covered in Welsh slate and local stone was used for the rock-face stone front wall (looking from Belmont Road). The gabled front has a central pointed window with three simply moulded lights with three hexagons in the tracery. To its left is a single pointed window with a straight head to the main light and a hexagon in the tracery. The wall on this side terminates with a stepped buttress carried up into a pinnacle.

The right hand side at the front has a small tower containing the pointed main entrance door, with a bell stage above which tapers to a square cap with a bold corbel table.

Architect Richard Owen's church designs often included a spire and an upper seating area. It is possible that a spire was intended to be added, or it was added but has been lost e.g. St. Davids.[150] [151] Shortage of interior space probably denied Owen the opportunity to include an upper seating area e.g. Aberystwyth.[152]

St. Joseph's Parish Priests

Fr. Hugh Healey (RIP - 1984).

Fr. Martin McCormack (RIP - 1984).

Fr. Patrick Murray (RIP - 1991).

Fr. Peter Flanagan (RIP - 2008) SCJ.[153] [154] [155]  

Fr. Tim Maloney (RIP - 2013) IC.[156] [157] [158] [159]

Fr. Patrick Fitzgerald-Lombard O.Carm.[160]

Fr. Jimmy Sebastian Pulickakunnel MCBS.[161]

Notable People

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