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Cranmer Awards
Rules
- The Competition, known as 'The Cranmer Awards', is open to all candidates of eleven and under nineteen years of age on 1st February in the year of the National Final.
- There are two classes:
11-14 years
and 15-18 years
- Candidates may be entered by their school or church or, depending on Diocesan Branch circumstances, may enter a class sponsored by the Prayer Book Society at a local Festival of Music, Speech and Drama.
- Candidates are required to present their own choice of passages from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
- The presentation should be of not less than three minutes and not more than five minutes duration. At the National Finals, all candidates are required to speak from memory. At a Branch or Festival event, if reading is allowed, then ALL candidates must read.
- A candidate's chosen passage MUST NOT include any words which may be spoken only by the officiating priest: Absolution; Exhortations; Prayer of Consecration; Prayer of Humble Access; Post-Communion prayers; Blessing.
- No part of the following services may be used: Solemnization of Holy Matrimony; Visitation and Communion of the Sick; The Churching of Women; The Making of Bishops, Priests and Deacons.
- The chosen passages should be spoken in a manner appropriate for a church service and any form of dramatization should be discouraged.
- Any liturgical deviation* from the text of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer will incur a loss of marks.
*A 'liturgical deviation' shall be defined as the inclusion of any phrase which comes from any prayer book which has been published subsequent to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (e.g. the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the Alternative Service Book, Common Worship). Candidates should be particularly careful not to use any material from Common Worship even if described as from the Book of Common Prayer.
- The Judges' decision is final.
- The winner of each class in each diocesan or Festival heat will go forward to compete in the National Finals.
- There will be an official timekeeper and accuracy checker. Any deviations, inaccuracies or time faults will be given to the Judges who will deduct marks as appropriate.
- The First prize winner is not eligible to compete in the National Final the following year, unless it is in the older age group.
- The judges will use the following criteria and marking scheme:
| Clarity and projection: |
20 |
| Pace, use of pause and emphasis: |
20 |
| Fluency and rhythm: |
20 |
| Natural, intelligent communication of meaning: |
20 |
| Secure, accurate memorisation and timing: |
20 |
| Liturgical deviation from the 1662 BCP text: |
-20 |
| Total deviation from the 1662 BCP text: |
Disqualification |
- The National Finals will normally be held in February each year.
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