{"id":1481,"date":"2025-06-11T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:04:17","slug":"friends-weekend-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/friends-weekend-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Weekend 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-block_a56111df0e185ab569cae22dcf0b0764 class=\"post-page-banner align\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Friends-Badge-Small.jpg\n   )\">\n  <div class=\"container content-container text-center d-flex align-items-center flex-column justify-content-center\">\n    <h1 class=\"text-white\">\n      Friends Weekend 2025\n    <\/h1>\n    <h2 class=\"h3 text-white\"><time class=\"dt-published\" datetime=\"2025-06-11T22:03:11+00:00\">\n      11 June 2025\n    <\/time><\/h2>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends from far and near gathered at Wells Cathedral on the 6th, 7th and 8th of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Cathedral was due to be closed for filming, the Friday afternoon was slightly different.  There were two tours of the Treasury Block and Vicars Close and a talk on Bishop Reginald de Bohun.  <br>A small party of Friends also went to visit St Cuthbert&#8217;s, one of Wells two parish churches and a very fine building its own right.  As well as a tour of the building, there was the fascinating history of the two reredoses and the largest collection of medieval painted fragments in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday the AGM began by a Presidential Address from the Dean and a report from the Chancellor, who is also the Keeper of the Fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Hopkins was re-elected as Chairman for a maximum sixth month term while the Friends Council completed the process to nominate a candidate for election as Chairman at an Extra-ordinary General Meeting (EGM) on 15th November 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on Saturday there were free tours around the Cathedral for Friends &#8211; including the ever popular High Parts Tour.   Friends were invited to attend Evensong and the first lesson was read by Mr Robin Duijs, a Vice President of the Friends.   Saturday ended with a dinner at the Crown in the Market Place.  This was a very convivial event with a amusing bit also thought provoking after dinner speech from the Archdeacon of Lincoln, the Venerable Gavin Kirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday the Friends were also included in the Cathedral Eucharist, with a welcome from the Chancellor, a mention in the Archdeacon of Wells&#8217; sermon and the use of the Friends Hymn &#8211; the firs time it has been sung for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends Weekend 2026 will be 5th to 7th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6th to 8th June 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friends Weekend 2025 - 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