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‘Aesthete, impressario, and indomitable persuader’: Walter Hussey at St Matthew’s, Northampton, and Chichester Cathedral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Garth Turner
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Until 1955, the setting of Walter Hussey’s life was buildings by Victorian masters: St Matthew’s, Northampton, built by Pearson’s pupil Matthew Holding; Marlborough College, with buildings by a series of Goths; Butterfield’s Keble; Street’s Cuddesdon; Scott’s St Mary Abbots, Kensington, and then St Matthew’s, Northampton, again, succeeding his father as vicar. But if this was the tradition in which he grew up, his achievement was to protest against its continuation inside the Church, when art outside employed a new idiom.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 28: The Church and the Arts , 1992 , pp. 523 - 535
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1992

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References

1 Northampton Chronicle, 23 July 1977. Interview with Hussey.

2 Hussey, Walter, Patron of Art (London, 1985), pp. 3, 24 Google Scholar (hereafter Hussey).

3 The Fine Art Collections, Pallant House Chichester, p. 5.

4 Hussey, p. 3.

5 Hussey, p. 3.

6 Ibid., p. 4.

7 Ibid., chs 1, 2, 3, 6.

8 Ibid., ch. 4.

9 Ibid., ch. 2.

10 Ibid., p. 83.

11 Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Hussey Pipers, ace. 7365, Britten 26 Feb. 1946 (hereafter WSRO. All letters are to Hussey, writer and date noted).

12 Hussey, p. 83.

13 Ibid., pp. 88ff.

14 Full list in Muse at St Matthew’s app. 1 (Northampton, c.1968).

15 Hussey, pp. 67ff.

16 So Professor R. H. Preston remarked to me.

17 WSRO, Rubbra, 17 Dec. 1945, 6 May 1949; Stanton, 14 Sept. 1946; Tippett, 15 June 1943.

18 Hussey, p. 18.

19 Chichester; Bishop’s Palace; Bishop of Chichester Hussey file. Hussey to Bell, 19 July 1943 (hereafter BC).

20 Ibid., 3 April 1946.

21 Ibid., Bell to Fisher, 2 Feb. 1955.

22 Hussey, p. 99.

23 BC, Bell to Fisher, 2 Feb. 1955.

24 London, Lambeth Palace Library, Bell Papers, 204, doc. 203.

25 Hussey, p. 100.

26 London, Council for the Care of Churches, Cathedrals’ Advisory Commission Chichester file. Croome to Potter, 13 March 1957 (hereafter CAC).

27 Ibid., Scott to Croome, 18 Jan. 1956.

28 Ibid., Croome to Potter, 13 March 1957.

29 Ibid.

30 Ibid., Hussey to Scott, 28 Jan. 1957.

31 Hussey, pp. 101f.;cf.CAC, Potter to Croome, 12 March 1957.

32 CAC, Potter to Croome, 12 March 1957.

33 CAC, Potter to Croome, 12 Oct. 1957.

34 Fine Art Collections, p. 21.

35 CAC, Croome to Scott, 6 Nov. 1961.

36 Hussey, ch. 12.

37 WSRO, March, 10 Oct 1966.

38 Hussey, ch. 5.

39 Ibid., p. 40.

40 Ibid., ch. 11.

41 Ibid., pp. 127ff.

42 Ibid., p. 92; WSRO, Piper, 27 Jan. 1966; Hussey, p. 130.

43 Chichester 900 (Chichester, 1975): Clark, pp. 68ff.; Hussey’s comment, p. 3.

44 WSRO, Vaughan Williams, 1 Feb. 1950.

45 Ibid., Eliot, 20 Jan. 1945.

46 Ibid., C. Day Lewis, 18 May (no year given).

47 Ibid., Stravinsky, 20 March 1953.

48 Ibid., Britten, 6 Jan. 1971.

49 Ibid., 11 Feb. 1973.

50 Ibid., Moore, 7 June 1973 (crucifix); 26 March 1973 (handles); for Clarke, see Hussey, p. 131.

51 WSRO, Sutherland, 21 Jan. 1975; 14 April 1975; 11 May 1977.

52 Communication from The Revd Grenville Morgan, Vicar of Dallingcon, Northampton, 1947-60.

53 Communications from Dr J. N. D. Kelly, FBA (non-residentiary canon from 1948); and The Rt Revd Warren Hunt (Hon Assistant Bishop from 1977).

54 WSRO, Kathleen Sutherland, 12 Nov. 1962.

55 WSRO, Sutherland, 11 Aug. 1978.

56 WSRO, Pears (undated, 1940s).

57 BC, Hussey to Bell, 19 July 1943; Hussey, p. 46.

58 CAC, Bushnell to Scott (undated).

59 CAC, Blacking to Scott, 10 Aug. 1956.

60 CAC, Scott to Croome, 18 Jan. 1956.

61 CAC, Scott to Croome, 6 Sept. 1956.

62 Daily Telegraph, 14 Feb. 1990.

63 For both see Church Times, 20 Aug. 1971.

64 Hussey, p. 3.

65 For Auden, Hussey, p. 83, and above: for Eliot, WSRO, Eliot, 20 Jan. 1945: ‘I shall hope eventually to write something which I could offer you to be put to music …’.

66 Chichester 900, p. 72.

67 For Hussey’s will see Daily Telegraph, 2 Dec. 1985.

68 BC, Moore to Callaghan, 4 April 1977.

69 I am grateful to the individuals and depositaries referred to above, and to the Dean and Chapter of Chichester, the executors of Hussey’s estate, and to the Britten-Pears Foundation.