St Peter's Farndon

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  Thorpe: St Laurence

  During the coronavirus crisis please check our "Services and events" and "News and notices" pages for ways that we can worship while staying in our homes as required by the authorities.

  St. Laurence's is a small rural church heavily renovated in 1873-7 but with its original 13th century tower intact. Of interest are a stone font, probably Norman, but made up of fragments of uncertain date, and an effigy of Lady Margaret de Thorpe whose husband, Sir William, fought at Crecy in 1346 and was the first English Governor of Calais.

  The east window depicts St Laurence and is in memory of the Rev'd Andrew Ping, a former rector. The chancel window is in memory of John Wood, son of a former rector who was killed in the South African war. There is also a bronze plaque from his colleagues at Smith’s Bank (now NatWest), Newark, thought to be one of only two memorials in the country to a serviceman of rank lower than an officer.

  Safeguarding

  The parish of Farndon w Thorpe is committed to the safeguarding of children, young people and adults. We follow the House of Bishops guidance and policies and have our own Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO).

  Full details are on our "Safeguarding" page.

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  All Saints', Hawton

  All Saints' church is much more than the glorious medieval Ancaster and Blue Lias stone building that soars high above the surrounding fields and water-meadows. It's much more than its world-renowned carved stone Easter Sepulchre. It's much more than 7-800 years of history. It is a living, vibrant place of worship where one senses the presence of God, and of the thousands of saints who have worshipped here down the centuries, as soon as one enters the building. There is a deep peace about the place. It is a place that our Celtic forebears might have described as "thin"; one where the boundary between earth and heaven seems to stretch almost to breaking point.

  All Saints' church is all of those but it is much more, for the church is not just the building. It is the people who gather for worship here today; people from the village and the surrounding area who come to express their faith in God - the Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer - in word and in song; who come and are nourished in that faith by Word and Sacrament; and who then go out to live out that faith by their words and deeds among their friends and neighbours, their work colleagues, the strangers that they meet in the street.

  There is so much that the church in Hawton, both the building and the people, has to offer you. In the words of Jesus, "Come and see." S. John chapter 1, verse 39.

  Safeguarding

  The parish of Hawton with Cotham is committed to the safeguarding of children, young people and adults. We follow the House of Bishops' guidance and policies and have our own Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO).

  Full details are on our "Safeguarding" page which includes links to our Safeguarding Policy.

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