Last year, a lot of the lead on the roof was stolen, as you know. There was quite a lot that didn’t get taken, and this we removed, when the temporary covering went on. It was stored inside the church,…
Category: Church
Willows Family, Covenham
The window in the East end of St Bartholomew’s Church says that it was fitted “in memory of George Willows, and Ann Glover, his wife, who both died in the year 1852, by their son John Glover Willows”. I did…
Tree Removal
Today was tree removal day at St Barts. Two old Ash Trees have had to be removed as they were starting to pose a threat to the structure of the building. All the trees and hedges on the site are…
Grade 2* Listing – A discovery
Whilst going through a lot of the paperwork for the church, the graveyard, and other old documents – we have found that the listing for the church extends to the land surrounding our next door neighbour at Haiths Farm. The…
With Apologies
It’s been a while since our last post, but things have been going on behind the scenes. First of all, we have to sadly report the death of John Bowles – one of the founding trustees of St Bartholomew. He…
Planting, planting, planting
We have received a good number of plants free, from the Woodland Trust – and will soon be looking to fill in all the hedge gaps around the St Bart’s site. I attach a few photos I took today, showing…
St Barts In Bloom
Since we cleared all the undergrowth away last Autumn, the spring bulbs have had a chance to appear. We hope to start our working parties again this Spring – and we hope you can join us once again, helping to…
St Bartholomew’s Missing Font
Whilst looking for something else, I stumbled across this image of the missing Font from St B’s…. I’ve never actually seen a photograph of it, and this must date pre 1976 when the church was ‘retired’.. It’s not very clear,…
Snowfall in Covenham
It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes it snows. We thought we would show you a picture of St Barts looking festive. More updates to follow.
St Barts – Sold to America?
In early 1986, there was a proposal to move the whole of St Bartholomew’s church to Newport Beach California. We contacted the now Rector The Rt. Rev’d Stephen C. Scarlett, and asked if he could enlighten us a little more…