Month: July 2024

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Heritage Open Days – Leicestershire ~ St Peter’s Church, Thornton

England’s largest festival of history and culture!

Heritage Open Days 6th-15th September 2024

Every September thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate our fantastic history and culture.

It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore.

As part of Heritage Open Days, St Peter’s Church, Thornton, will be open over the weekend of 14th and 15th September for all to visit.

It’s your chance to explore this lovely Grade 1, historical church for yourselves, and discover its wealth of history.

An Exhibition in the church will provide a fascinating insight into Thornton’s history.

The church will be open between 10 am and 6 pm on Saturday 14th and from 1 pm till 5 pm on Sunday afternoon.

Entry is free. Donations always welcome. Refreshments will be available to purchase.

Any contributions towards the exhibition are welcome. Do you have stories to tell or old photographs of Thornton that we could borrow to display?

Please contact churchwarden.thornton@gmail.com

For details of other Heritage Open Days venues go to http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk

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Fund Raising weekend in Thornton

Last weekend, 6th and 7th of July, was a busy one in the village with two fund raising events.

Quiz night with cream teas and Prosecco took place on Saturday, raising £480 towards the running costs and upkeep of Thornton Community Centre.

Sunday afternoon saw the return of the biennial Thornton Open Gardens raising funds for the upkeep of St Peter’s Church.

Despite the stormy weather forecast and the couple of heavy showers that materialised, this year’s Thornton Open Gardens proved popular once again. 

On the afternoon of Sunday 7th July, 302 visitors came to enjoy our 13 contrasting open gardens.

As well as the gardens themselves to admire, there was a variety of refreshments on sale, a plant sale, a quiz and a fun animal hunt.  

Locals, friends and acquaintances rubbed shoulders with visitors from further afield, many of them regularly seeking out summer open gardens events all over the Midlands. 

Everyone seemed to enjoy all that Thornton had to offer.  The event made an impressive profit of £1697 which is to go towards the maintenance of St Peter’s Church.

Friends of St Peter’s would like to thank all those who opened their gardens, served refreshments, directed the car parking, donated and sold plants and manned the church. 

Our thanks, too, to The Brickies (Bricklayers Arms), the Shop and Thornton Nurseries  for selling programmes. Also, to The Garden Design Company, who generously supported the event, which was organised by Friends of St Peter’s.

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St Peter’s Churchyard Working Party ~ 13th July

Our next working party is this Saturday, 13th July, 10 until 12 noon.

Jobs to be decided.  Join us if you can, even if its just for a short time. Thanks.

Please bring with you a drink, stout gloves and any tools you think would be useful.

Hope to see you there.

Shirley (Church Warden)