QUESTERS VISIT TO CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL : 29 JANUARY 2026

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Our group of 16 plus our driver, Robert, left Andover on time for the journey to Chichester on a cold January morning. Arriving in good time considering all the road works.

We all had a restorative hot drink at the lovely Cloisters cafe. Then made our way into the Cathedral to meet our 2 guides, Sue and Chris, for a very informative tour of this seat of Christianity. Construction began in 1075! Our tour lasted almost an hour and a half.

The Cathedral boasts uninterrupted side aisles the full length of the building.

The 1530’s Tudor paintings in the South transept are a rare and valuable example of propaganda painting anywhere in the country.

Also the 2 beautiful modern tapestries were really quite stunning. As were the stained glass windows. The south window, dated 1877, showed scenes from both the Old and New Testament. But the window which impressed us all was the Chagall Window from 1978. The strong colours and figures just shone.

We went our own way for lunch. Some of us returned to the Cathedral cafe, whilst others went into the city.

Managed to be all present and correct for our journey home. Arriving back in Andover by 4.30pm after a lovely day out Questing.

Pam Shadick

                     

Photogroup Meeting 21st January 2026

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Only 3 people attended the meeting with both Pam and Mike Liberson absent. The theme was ‘What I See’. The standard of all the submitted photographs were very high with a wide range of subjects for such a wide-ranging theme from stunning wildlife to well-composed landscapes. The best picture was awarded to Ann Hawke’s ‘Tiger chasing prey’. It was agreed to attach two photographs from each person to the updated Photography Group’s web page.

Tiger chasing prey (Samba Deer) – unsuccessful – Ann Hawke

John Hawke gave a laptop slide show presentation of a November 2025 bird watching trip to The Gambia giving a feeling of warmth to an, otherwise, miserable rainy day. This was a heavy cull from approximately 800 photographs. It was interesting to note Anjie Sargeant’s comments relating to her sightings of some of the birds when visiting South Africa – relevant to the Hawkes’ impending tour next month!

The February theme will be ‘One Colour, Four Photographs’.

Reading Group 1 – Books read during 2025

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Jan-25 Huma Queresha How we met
Feb-25 Levinson Wood Walking the Americas
Mar-25 Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth
Apr-25 Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor
May-25 John Grisham Camino Island
Jun-25 Sebastian Foulkes The Seventh Son
Jul-25 Fern Britton The Good Servant
Aug-25 Grace Dent Hungry
Sep-25 Sangherra Sathnat The Boy with the Top Knot
Oct-25 Lionel Shriver Should we stay or should we go
Nov-25 F Scott-Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Dec-25 Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea