We are delighted to announce that the repairs have finally started at All Saints, Newton on Ouse. After several years of planning we were at last able to award the repairs contract to Geoff Neal (Roofing) Ltd and they started preparing the site at the end of last month. The scaffold is now in place and the repairs can begin. We will post more photos and updates as the repairs progress. Thank you to everyone who has supported the project along the way - especially the National Lottery (through the Heritage Lottery Fund), the National Churches Trust, the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust and the AllChurchesTrust as well as everyone who sponsored a slate or came to one of our fundraising events over the last few years. These repairs would not have been possible without you!
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Thank you to all those who attended our ‘Sharing Memories’ event at the church last weekend. There was a great turnout of people who either came along to recall their lives in the villages, and the role the church played, or to listen to other people’s stories – or both! We were also treated to a slideshow of images of village life over the years - our thanks to Mick Dean for sharing the slides with us. We will be adding many of the memories to this website over the next few months so that they can be recorded for future generations. If you have memories you would like to share but were unable to attend please do get in touch. We are grateful to the Heritage Lottery Fund for their help in putting on the event. Whilst putting together the grant applications for the Roof Repair Project we frequently came across people with memories of the church and its role in village life. Therefore we are delighted to announce that the next event as part of the project will be an afternoon of sharing memories. Come along to the church at 2pm Saturday 25th March and share any photos or mementos you may have but most importantly your memories! Do you remember a particular vicar or churchwarden, were you a member of the choir, did you help pump the organ? Help us to pass on these memories to future generations. Learn more about what life used to be like in Newton and the surrounding villages. You might run into old friends or make some new ones. There will be refreshments and a warm welcome awaiting you. Our thanks again for the support of the National Lottery - through the Heritage Lottery Fund.
We are delighted to announce that the Heritage Lottery Fund has given us Permission To Start the All Saints Roof Repair Project. We hope that the repairs themselves will begin in the Spring and we will make an announcement in the next few weeks about the first events All Saints will host as part of the project.
Our thanks once again to all those who have helped us along the way and to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting our project. Advent is upon us and you will soon be seeing angel heralds on Christmas cards and in shop window displays. There are angels at All Saints too but sadly the damp conditions and water ingress caused by our leaking roofs is causing irreparable damage. The image to the left clearly shows the impact the damp conditions have on the soft stone of these carvings and that of the main structures of the church. We are getting ready to halt the damage and repair the roofs as soon as possible but we can't do it without your help. If you are stuck for a present for someone who has everything or would like to do something in memory of a loved one at this special time of year please consider sponsoring a slate and help us protect the church and keep it and its heritage available for future generations. As well as the vital repairs to the roofs and stonework of All Saints our project will also endeavour to inform and educate our visitors about the history of the church. An important part of this history is our link to the nearby RAF base at Linton on Ouse - for example, the church spire has long been used as a navigation aid for pilots at the base. We are honoured that the churchyard at All Saints, Newton on Ouse is the final resting place for a number of servicemen, including wartime and peacetime graves. More details can be found on this page of our website.
If you can, please join us for the annual Remembrance Service on Sunday 13th November, starting at 10:50am. As is tradition we will be joined by representatives from the RAF and we hope to once again have the Last Post played on the bugle. The recent wet weather has heralded the arrival of autumn after a lovely Indian summer. This means the buckets in the church are being emptied even more regularly and our volunteers are keeping an eye out for any new leaks. It’s not just the damage to the areas the rain might drip onto we are concerned about but the damage the damp atmosphere causes. All Saints was built to be beautiful and to achieve that the stonemasons needed to use soft stone which could be intricately carved. Unfortunately this also makes it susceptible to damp conditions and many of the finer carvings are simply crumbling away as the photo shows. In honour of the church’s dedication our Annual Gift Day Coffee Morning is held as near as possible to All Saints Day, the 1st November. This year it will be Saturday 29th October, at the Old Vicarage from 10:30am onwards. Please do come along and help us raise money for the much needed repairs at All Saints. There is still time to Sponsor A Slate to support the All Saints Roof Repair Project. Money raised from the appeal will help us to keep this wonderful building open for future generations. You can see the need for the project by looking at photographs of the damage on this page. You will also find more information about the appeal and details of how to sponsor a slate. Thank you to all those who have supported us – we couldn’t have got this far without you. In (hopeful) anticipation of work on the roof starting next Spring we will once again be visited this month by John Drewett and team. They will be carrying out surveys in the churchyard this to ensure the roof repairs will not have a negative impact on bats. Previous surveys discovered that whilst the churchyard provided a well-used route for bats on their way to hunt the church roof was used only as an occasional roost by the odd bat. Perhaps they don't enjoy the drafty and leaking conditions any more than we do! Therefore don't be alarmed if you spot people in the churchyard late evening/early morning this month or hear the high-frequency sounds picked up by the bat detectors.
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February 2018
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