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ST MICHAEL’S BASSINGHAM

Work has been completed on the East End of St Michael’s. The lime plaster has been replaced behind the dorsal curtain and following the post – builders clean the church is looking lovely.

ST MARY’S CARLTON-LE-MOORLAND

St Mary’s hosted a very happy and successful Arts & Crafts weekend at the end of August to celebrate the talents of many people in our community. We had hundreds of visitors and were pleased to collect £420 in donations for the Withamside parish. We’re grateful to the WI who provided delicious refreshments.

There were 16 crafts represented and by popular demand there will be another celebration of our talents in 2024 when we hope to see even more on display.

Thank you to Andrew Alsop for organising the weekend and to everyone who helped to make it such a success.

May Update

27 April 2022 update

A working party has been busy on restorative work of the lychgate/war memorial which will be looking at its best for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.

13 April 2022 update

Onwards and upwards! Andrew.

8 April 2022 update

Update! The sink went in today and toilet completed! Grey seat- very posh! Andrew.
Dear all, path edges mowed and paths swept. Memory garden mowed, left where flowers are still in evidence.
Choir area up to alter rail cleaned and ready for carpet layer. Heating grids cleaned. Boiler entrance tops cleaned, ready for painting.
Still to clean off coal hole top and slabs from the step from the choir, down the aisle beside the heating grids.
That will leave cupboards in the entrance to clear and the vestry. Then the spring cleaning.
Cheers! Andrew and Mike.

1st April 2022 update

The carpenters have been very busy and have completed the oak cladding of the servery and WC area at the back of the church. The electrician and plumber are connecting the services today which means that Church Street is currently closed to traffic.
It’s hoped that the completion date may come forward from 1st June. Doesn’t it look good!

10th March 2022 update

Work is proceeding well inside the church, see the photograph below of the new floor for the servery area.

We are hopeful that we will meet the revised completion date of 1st June. 

The building programme is well under way at St.Mary’s Church. All the trenches for the main services have been dug, completed and back filled. An archaeologist was on site during all the excavation work. Nothing of any consequence was found. The heater has been repositioned and the base of the new floor at the back of the church has been laid. We hope that the progress can be maintained so our Easter re-opening of the church becomes a possibility

The trench has been dug this week for the drains

The church is approached through the parish lych-gate, erected as a War Memorial after the Great War. The Victorian stained glass windows depicting scenes from the life of Jesus are perhaps the most striking feature of the church interior. The building has 11th,13th,15th and late 16th century features and was restored by Fowler in the last decade of the nineteenth century.   The most recent additions to the church are the air-source heating units, the first in the diocese of Lincoln.

 

ST MARY’S CARLTON-LE-MOORLAND IS REOPENING

We are pleased to let you all know that St Mary’s will be open again from 1st June and  on Sunday 10th July at 10.30 a.m there will be a service to celebrate the new facilities and to re-dedicate the church. No sermon, no intercessions, but there will be a “Litany of Dedication” lasting about twenty minutes. There will be Holy Communion within the special service. All welcome! Celebratory drinks and snacks after the service.
St. Mary’s will also be open from 2.00 p.m. until 4.00 p.m. in the afternoon on the same day. Tea and cakes available for visitors. All welcome!

BURNS NIGHT SUPPER – A GREAT SUCCESS!

The supper, in aid of St. Mary’s Church Withamside Parish Funds, proved to be a highly successful evening. The traditionally dressed bagpiper was on hand to pipe all the seventy guests in and to lead the procession bearing the haggis for the ceremony of the “Address to the Haggis”. All the traditions were followed- haggis, neeps and tatties with whisky gravy. This was followed by “Typsy Laird” and cheese and Scottish oatmeal biscuits. There was a toast to the lassies and a reply on behalf of the lassies. After the supper there was Scottish dancing. The evening ended with lusty singing of “Auld Lang Syne”!

Nearly £1,500 was raised towards Parish Funds. The evening was made possible because the group of about 18 local people once more rallied around to run the bar, prepare the food, set up the tables and to make sure the evening ran smoothly for everyone’s enjoyment. Grateful thanks to Tony Davis and the Bassingham Explorer Scouts for their help by waiting at tables and working in the kitchen.