• Hindringham Group Church Programme July 2022

    Church Programme July 2022

    All Saturdays in July 10 am – 12 noon Thursford Coffee Mornings. Open to all.

    Sunday 3 July 10:30 am Barney Communion with Revd Nicholas Varnon.

    Sunday 3 July 6:30 pm Hindringham Choral Evenson at Church with Director MArk Jones and Minister Revd Robin Stapleford.

    Tuesday 5 July lunchtime Little Snoring Dancing Pilgrims simple Circle Dance, all welcome, come and join in – details contact Revd Robin: [email protected].

    Sunday 10 July 10:30 am Thursford Communion – Revd Varnon

    (Tuesday 12 July 7pm Deanery Synod at Little Walsingham Shrine Orangery with talk from Revd Canon Peter Doll of the cathedral on the newly established Walsingham Way that runs through our parishes.)

    Sunday 17 July 10:30 am Little Snoring Communion – Revd Varnon

    Tuesday 19 July 10 am Great Snoring Communion – Revd Stapleford

    Sunday 24 July 10:30 am Hindringham Communion – Rev Stapleford

    Sunday 31 July 9:30 am Great Snoring Communion – Revd Stapleford

    Sunday 31 July 11 am Kettlestone Communion – Revd Stapleford

    Advance notices:

    Sunday 3 September 7 pm Hindringham Musica Mira choral concert: ‘Welcome to All the Pleasures’, featuring Purcell, Bach, Buxtehude, Dowland. Retiring donation 50% church.

    Sunday 25 September 10:30 am Group Communion with Bishop Jane Steen of Lynn – venue to be arranged.

  • Message from the New Rector

    Revd Robin Stapleford

    Revd Robin Stapleford: I am your new church minister, parish priest, a.k.a vicar, (etc!) for all church services including Sundays, and for weddings, christenings, funerals, pastoral care and church events.

    From August 2022 a regular monthly pattern of Sunday Services will be established and publicised.

    I am often known as ‘Revd Robin’, and also Robin is fine.

    Hindringham Group: Great and Little Snoring, Thursford, Kettlestone, Barney.

    [email protected] Colkirk Rectory

  • Newsletter for February 2022

    The village newsletter for February is available to view online. Please use the following link: Kt Pens Parish News issue 133 FEB 2022

  • Yews in the Church Yard

    The two yew trees either side of the porch and the laurel on the left-hand side have been trimmed as far as is possible but are extremely difficult to maintain as they have grown so big and as a result have become very unattractive.  The PCC has therefore sought and been granted permission to remove them completely and replace them with two new yew trees planted further away from the path and

    These decisions are always fraught but two major advantages of undertaking this work are that it will open up the view of the porch and the war memorial to people coming up the path from the lych gate, and it will make maintenance much easier.  Finally, it will allow us to get rid of the stray laurel that has grown very close to the yew on the left-hand side.  This has, over time, grown into the side of the yew making it visually unattractive and almost impossible to improve by trimming.  As many of you will know, yew wood is extremely hard, and we are proposing to ask the tree surgeon to remove them at the same time as he works on the lime tree*.  Although these changes will take some getting used to, the PCC is anxious to make the maintenance of the Churchyard easier whilst retaining its character as far as is possible.  We are none of us getting any younger!

    * The Friends of the Church have done an amazing job of looking after the Churchyard and the Church Field during the Autumn and Winter.  Keeping the ivy and weeds down, and restoring some order to the area by keeping it free of branches brought down by the various storms we have had and are having as a write.  The maintenance is ever ongoing and has been a job well done.

    One of the problems we face is looking after the trees and shrubs in the Churchyard and to prevent those near the Church from causing damage.  Our Architect advised that the tree nearest the tower should be monitored as it is perilously close to touching the tower.  We have therefore appointed a tree surgeon to “reduce” it, before the leaves start to come.  This tree is not only beginning to touch the tower, but produces quantities of leaves that have, over time, blown into the sumps on the roof of the tower causing major problems with damp on the roof and affecting the timbers underneath.  There is a pressing need for repair work to the roof, but there is no point in thinking about this whilst the tree is exacerbating the problem!

  • Kettlestone Church re-opens

    Monthly service to recommence on Sunday 5 July with Eucharist at 11 am

    Please bring your own hand sanitiser with you to sanitise your hands when entering and leaving the church. There is also hand sanitiser for general use.

    We are discouraged from singing at the moment, and service booklets will be placed in the pews to ensure appropriate distancing. For those sitting in household groups there will be extra copies available at the back. Please take your service booklets home with you, clearly marked with your name, so that you can use them in the future.

    The church has been ‘stripped out’ with kneelers removed to prevent possible infection.

    Communion will be with bread only, administered at the chancel step, with communicants forming a line. It will also be administered in the pew for those who have difficulty walking or standing.

    There will be no collection made during the service, rather a retiring collection with the plate at the back. Church bank details will be on the notice sheet to encourage payment by standing order – the less we have to handle cash, the better!

    With all best wishes,

    James

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