Hugh Scott Chignell
Hugh Scott Chignell (died 19 September 1950)[1] was Dean of Kimberley, South Africa, and Rector of St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley.
Education and ordination
Chignell was a scholar at the
South Africa
Chignell went out to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1920.
During four of the following fifteen years he travelled through southern Africa speaking on spiritual healing.
Kimberley
Chignell was installed as
Projects at St Cyprian’s Cathedral
Lady Chapel
The cathedral's
Cathedral organ
The second of two important building projects was the addition of an organ chamber and vestry and the installation of a new three-manual organ. The organ was a gift from Tom Hill of Kimberley as a memorial to his late mother Amy Henrietta Hill. The Hill family had contributed stained glass as well, including the Great Resurrection Windows in the north transept. Chignell hoped the new organ, by J.W. Walker and Sons, would "make us quicker to praise and adore." Sadly, at its dedication on 18 November 1937, the late Hill could be present "only in spirit and not in body to hear the results of his great gift." At the time it was the "only completely electrically operated cathedral organ" in the South Africa: 60 kilometres (40 mi) of wire had been used to make it work. Cathedral organist Wylie Turnbull, at St Cyprian’s from the 1920s, presented a recital after the dedication service, at which the choir had sung the Te Deum.
Impressions
John Hunter would later recall that Chignell was a "deeply spiritual" man, possessed of "profound faith"; and "a man with considerable personal charm."
References
- Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 10 July 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)