History Week 16-22 May 2022
A wonderful week dedicated to the history of our church and village life.
Recordings of all the talks and our celebratory service are available here.
A timeline of one thosand years
Donwloadable here [9mB]
The medieval graffiti of the Church
Matthew Champion, author of Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches
The Sheela-Na-Gig , the female figure on the outside of the church
John Harding from the Sheela Na Gig Project
The Commonwealth War Graves
A talk by Sophie Newton,
Public Engagement Coordinator,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
A Thousand Years of Worship
A concluding service of celebration
in the Church
All week EXHIBITION
Exhibitions in the church organised by the Whittlesford Society, suitable for adults and children, and including
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a pictorial timeline of local and national events over the last thousand years
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Detectorist finds in the village [a thousand years of coins and buttons!]
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"Whittlesford faces"
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Model church
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The new edition of the Whittlesford Society's Church History guide.
