Please join us for this short service, marking the events of the Last Supper of our Lord.
Maundy Thursday 13th April at 9.00pm
St Michael’s Church, Great Gidding
North and south aisles roof restoration
Intensive restoration has been carried out on both the north and south aisles following the roof lead theft.
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- South side roof stripped of lead
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- Thieves left a trail…
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- …and tools
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- Holes in the roof where the lead has been stripped
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- North side roof stripped of lead
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- Water damage to pews
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- Scaffolding on the north side
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- New roofing being installed on the north side
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- Protection from the elements
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- Protection from the elements
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- Aerial view of the work in progress
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- New roofing on north side
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- St Michael’s newly restored roof
Chancel roof restoration
The major re-roofing project carried out on the chancel was originally scheduled for 2015 and has no connection with the theft.
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- Chancel roof before restoration south side
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- Chancel roof restoration north side
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- Chancel roof restoration north side
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- Chancel roof restoration south side
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- Chancel roof restoration north side
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- Chancel roof restoration south side
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- Chancel roof after restoration aerial view
This year’s Remembrance Service at St Michael’s Church will take place on Sunday 13th November, starting at 10.50am. All welcome.
This year’s harvest festival will be held on Sunday 2nd October at 11am, at St Michael’s Church, followed by buffet lunch at Footpath House, 23 Gains Lane. Everyone is welcome to either or both.
Please bring food to share; hot and cold beverages, crockery and cutlery will be provided.
Lunch will be al fresco (there will be gazebo cover for wet weather).
Any queries please contact Mrs Purllant, tel: 01832 293943 or email: clarabeth@hotmail.com
Sunday 18th September 2016 at 6pm
The second of our Choral Evensongs at St Michael’s Church takes place on Sunday 18th September, when the music will be led by the Octagon Singers from Ely Cathedral. Ely Cathedral Octagon Singers (ECOS) was founded in September 2006. Open to all singers aged 16 and over, it is a voluntary choir which complements the work of the Cathedral’s full-time choirs, singing on an occasional basis at Evensong, Sunday Eucharist, and many other special services in the Cathedral’s calendar. They will be conducted by Edmund Aldhouse (Assistant Organist of Ely Cathedral) who has been Director of ECOS since February 2015.
The canticles will be sung to the setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and anthem is a setting of words from St John’s Gospel, “I give you a new commandment”, music by Peter Nardone.
We welcome as our preacher, Reverend Canon Tim Alban Jones, Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough.
We invite you to join us for refreshments after the service, which starts at 6pm.
Come along and join in at St Michael’s Church in Great Gidding for our ‘Songs of Praise’ service on Sunday afternoon at 4.00pm.
After the service there will be refreshments.
If you have a favourite hymn please let Michael Keck know (tel: 01832 293357) and we’ll do our best to include it.
Title: Songs of Praise
Location: St Michael’s Church
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2016-04-17
An exhibition of ongoing research into those from the Giddings who served in the Great War has been mounted in St Michael’s Church.
The exhibition will run from Friday 7th November until Thursday 13th November, and will be open from 8.30am – 4.00pm each day.
This year’s Royal British Legion Remembrance Service will be held in St Michael’s Church, Great Gidding, on Sunday 9th November at 5pm.
A delightful and varied programme of music is in store at St Michael’s Church this summer.
An evening with Ball & Socket
Saturday 7th June 2014 at 7.30pm
Ball & Socket captivated an enthusiastic audience here two years ago, and we are delighted to welome them back with their mix of Flanders and Swann songs and other material in similar vein.
Tickets: £12 (includes finger buffet and glass of wine). To purchase tickets, please telephone: 01832 293357
Proceeds in aid of Chancel Roof Restoration Fund
William Russell
Saturday 14th June 2014 at 4pm
An illustrated talk by Dr Gillian Ward Russell on the London organist, and her forebear, William Russell (1777-1813).
Tickets: £10 (available at the church door on the day)
Promoted by Peterborough & District Organist’s Association
Choral evensong
Sunday 22nd June 2014 at 6pm
Sung by Peterborough Chamber ChoirVoluntary: Choral Dorien (Alain)
Introit: One thing I have desired (Sumsion)
Responses: Barber
Canticles: Ridout in F
Anthem: Never weather-beaten sail (Parry)
Address: Reverend (Wing Commander) Mike Elliott, Royal Air Force (Retd)
Voluntary: Fantasia in A minor BWV 904 (J.S Bach)
Organ Recital
Saturday 28th June 2014 at 7.30pm
Steven McIntyre (Organ Scholar, Peterborough Cathedral)
Leslie Crowson (tenor)
Music by Bach, Stanley, Mendelssohn, Stanford and Mushel
Tickets: £6 (available at the church door on the night)
Proceeds in aid of Chancel Roof Restoration Fund
Choral evensong
Sunday 21st September 2014 at 6pm
Sung by Divers VoycesVoluntary: Choral Prelude ‘Nun danket alle Gott’ (Kauffmann)
Introit: In omnem terram (Giovanni Francesco Aneiro)
Opening responses: Caesar de Zachariis
Magnificat: Francesco Soriano (octavi toni)
Nunc Dimitis: Ivo de Vento (quarti toni)
Responses after the Creed: plainchant
Anthem: Beati eritis (Giovanni Croce)
Address: Reverend Paul Skirrow, Honorary Warden, Ferrar House, Little Gidding
Voluntary: Te lucis ante terminum (John Redford)
A new July event for Great Gidding
A new event for The Giddings! Following the weekend of the Eliot Festival at Little Gidding there will be a series of cultural and fun events held in and around the village. From Monday 8th July through to Sunday 14th July there will be poetry, arts, crafts, lunches, cultural visits and a couple of fun events to cater for all tastes.
Events list
Saturday 6th July and Sunday 7th July
Monday 8th July
Tuesday 9th July
Start time 11am at 85 Main Street.
Fox & Hounds Lunch, start time 12.30pm.
Booking and menu choice phone 293657 before 1st July.
Menu 1, Ham , salad and hot new potatoes £6.00.
Menu 2, Scampi, chips & peas £7.00
Start time 3.15 through till 10pm, includes an adult bouncy castle.
Thursday 11th July
Curry Club lunch at Spiceland 12.30pm . Booking meal phone 293354 or 293591
In the evening there will be a talk about the Civil War and it’s effects on the local area.
Start time 7.30pm, Village Hall.
Saturday 13th July
Start 7.30pm.
Sunday 14th July
Choice of Hymn to Lois Jordan 293178 or johndeval@hotmail.com
Further updates and announcements will appear here on the run up to the event
If you would like to help with any of the events or submit an item for the display in the church please let one of the organisers know.
Paul Burgess, Mary Read, Roland Bostock, Julie Morrison and Julie Trolove
Alternatively use the contact form below.