18/06/2026
⭐️Meet the Team!⭐️
Tim Clark, Volunteer Church Historian & Guide
What’s your role on the team, and what does a typical day look like for you?
As volunteer church historian, I research and curate the church’s history, and support projects that involve a history input. I also have my regular guiding slot in the Beauchamp chapel, and, with my fellow guides, show tour groups around the church.
What do you enjoy most about working here?
Without a doubt, meeting people. I have learned a lot that way! And it is wonderful to be able to work in a building in which you are literally surrounded by centuries of history and in a space that is as complex and innovative as the Beauchamp chapel.
If your job had a movie title, what would it be?
Perhaps the Agony and the Ecstasy? Historical research can be frustrating, but when you work out something significant it’s all worthwhile. And it sometimes feels as though getting to grips with the Beauchamp chapel is as complex a task as painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel!
What’s a fun fact about you that most people at work don’t know?
I am a wizard (occasionally, and always aided by luck) at table tennis. 🏓
What’s one thing that always makes your workday better?
The satisfaction of welcoming visitors to St Mary's and enhancing their experience of coming here.
