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As in the past, when pilgrims faithfully stopped to pray on their way to Evesham Abbey, walkers from all over the world find us open today. Open during the day as part of the Small Pilgrim Places Network, so feel free to drop in to look around or simply to sit quietly and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588863966664-K8A2KOWP4WPP32JI12QK/Blue+sky+church.JPG Our Benefice - St Peter Little Rissington The 12th century church of St Peter is situated away from the village across a field and is accessed by footpath at the front and car park at the back. The church and churchyard are well maintained and the RAF cemetery which contains war graves brings visitors from around the world. Services at St Peter’s, Little Rissington 1st Sunday at 11am = Holy Communion Common Worship 2nd Sunday at 9.30am = Morning Worship 3rd Sunday = Joint Rissingtons Communion - see rota for details 4th Sunday 9.30 = Holy Communion Book of Common Prayer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588863494973-VTDZRI5NY39HJVZQZ0RF/Wyck2.jpg Our Benefice - St Laurence Wyck Rissington St Laurence’s Church, which celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2019, is located in the heart of the village of Wyck Rissington on the Oxfordshire and Holst Ways. It is a Grade I listed building, and is open to visitors every day during daylight hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588863312169-7EKB7ID7EVYW7GL5PHEE/IMG_3322.JPG Our Benefice - St John the Baptist Great Rissington The church of St John the Baptist is an attractive building with a fine square tower situated at the southern end of the village. 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Breakfast Church | 2nd Saturdays Breakfast Church meets from 9.00-10.15 on the 2nd Saturday of the month for Breakfast, Craft, Family Friendly Worship and fun! https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/historyofchurch daily 0.75 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588330149961-YPS5VTOE1JMFMG5M0LZM/cropped+balcony.jpg History of Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588330576564-TGNHFI3299XQJ1LXON21/choir+stalls.jpg History of Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588857453426-VRDRV5U7LFPH91JB630I/IMG_8049.JPG History of Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593175852918-PM3ZC556B1OCKW2NFI9B/floor3.jpg History of Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1589100113373-ZE1IFF11VW6CJ231UDUF/Patrick+%26+Julie-1010.jpg History of Church - Our Church The Benefice of Bourton on the Water with Clapton & the Rissingtons is part of the North Cotswolds Deanery of the Diocese of Gloucester. It was formed in 2006 and consists of 6 village communities, within which are 5 traditional Cotswold churches and a local ecumenical church plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588330149961-YPS5VTOE1JMFMG5M0LZM/cropped+balcony.jpg History of Church - Past There has been a church on this site since 709 AD. Much has changed since, but we are still worshipping God here and with each generation making its mark, there is plenty to see! Present In 2017 we undertook a major re-ordering to make the interior more suited to the needs of the Church family and community today. Our combined congregations in St Lawrence represent a wide churchmanship: from formal and traditional BCP to informal and varied all age worship, with most stages in between! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1590483546822-7Q8CYO1EO1JYSNUP0NJ7/sophie_peter_stlawrence+%282%29.jpg History of Church - Future All our congregations are friendly and worship is ordered but not stuffy. We project our morning services onto a screen, so use a wide range of hymns, songs and liturgy. We enjoy singing & members of the congregation read, lead the intercessions, assist with the distribution of Holy Communion and with leading non-Eucharistic services. We’d love you to come and join in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593191267418-1H021P1QDQ57HHWOZ5W9/rowena+bishop+archdeacon.jpg History of Church Rev Rowena King with Bishop Robert and Archdeacon Phil in October 2018 https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/brief-history daily 0.75 2020-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588331735910-8ABRZKM3EJUA73NCEUJL/seacome+line+drawing.png Introduction - In the beginning… There is plenty of evidence about the early occupation of Bourton on the Water. Iron-age man was here and the early British encampment of Salmonsbury was later occupied by the 2nd August Legion of the Roman Imperial Army. In late Roman times the settlement moved out of the encampment to build villas along the banks of the River Windrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593170606523-WZDPS68OWD5B08V6G1OS/domesday.jpg Introduction However, we know little of the Christian beginnings in Roman times, though a charter exists to show that in the year 708AD a local Saxon king, Cenred, gave lands in his kingdom to the newly founded Abbey and Convent of Evesham. In return the Abbot was to provide monks to spread the Gospel in specific places in the kingdom including Bourton on the Water. The charter suggests that a simple wooden church was built here in 709AD. By the 10th Century charters clearly talk of the existence of a church here, and the Domesday Register (1086) notes that Bourton has its own priest with 60 acres of land and a church. https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/reordering daily 0.75 2020-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172324607-ELGYFP8MPMQCWJG0E64L/building+site.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172783904-9IBV7Z0YDT0I1OFJD89I/heating2.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172322960-N306RF63QPZ40FY76MM4/north+aisle.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593173247849-HQTPN12FPMOUC5QJHH1K/girders.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593174174785-I5U7FM4S2FRZ07SFMSA5/heating.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172322100-GYCPY87P3FQVL2HFETOA/tower+kitchen.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172783659-L4A69OAKHP2D40IZB630/room.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593174184205-Z8PGCUUUFDKI9I8MSLWN/heating3.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172466345-E87Y8ZON7F3N87FHO02W/floor.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172781880-O83NS162YXFHPLHQY0UT/view.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593174217637-K20Y6E6RSZZ6Y3FGXALB/heating4.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172323209-LPU4292O0Q3F467U7DXJ/floor4.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172784001-DC4OS3GND8XI1CSAQD1Q/view2.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172324921-8JUMZMSUIDRL29U703WP/floor6.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172784027-OH1539APIQOLWTVTRZGU/before+chairs.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172584414-OGOEP8TYQHCBWEVMJU60/font+move.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593173519886-U1VROMNGTLTXC6T8O994/plumbing.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1590483531256-IT28PTVBD0FUWAY12D77/sophie_peter_stlawrence+%281%29.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593172583164-V2DREXMETCQ2KOQJER39/electrics.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588345062109-RMU97G53BZLLQEOGNEIH/trad+service+2.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588864483629-19XVP7OGJCYOFKUI1XNY/P9150008.jpg Reordering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588585889266-A13B3UHWI21BB46JRHNE/Reopening+St+Lawrences.jpg Reordering Hard work - but worth it! 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B. Moore gave the present reredos (the ornamental screen covering the wall behind the altar) in memory of members of her family, and marking the sixth centenary of the founding of the present Chancel. The reredos panels represent the Annunciation, the Visit of the Magi, Christ on the Cross between St Mary and St John, the Resurrection and Mary Magdalene meeting the Risen Christ. Standard candlesticks were later made to match the English Altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588342480051-F5ZY50KP4EMOBOUFX18G/oak+screens+Peter+K+Burian+2018.jpg Features - The Woodwork - Oak Screens The oak screens were a gift of George E Moore in memory of his parents, designed by FE Howard and executed in 1924, following the ancient Cotswold traditional design. In 1928 Miss A. B. Moore gave the rood screen in memory of members of her family, and to mark the sixth centenary of the founding of the present Chancel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597927732815-R96R8YZ56Y72OQMJWBVA/heraldic+devices.jpg Features - The Woodwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597925225751-5JGDK7VY27OEV8ZNKBG8/IMG_1783+%282%29.JPG Features - The Woodwork - Pulpit 1888 The PULPIT is in linenfold oak panelling given in 1888 in memory of the Revd J. S. Hulme, Rector between 1872-1884 and sometime Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588330576564-TGNHFI3299XQJ1LXON21/choir+stalls.jpg Features - The Woodwork - Pews Oak choir stalls with linenfold panelling and a filigree flower motif sit on either side of the chancel. Constructed of oak to match the rood screen and nave roof they were temporarily moved out during our re-ordering and proved to be very solid and heavy pieces of furniture! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588343056991-VQ9GKMGPZCZVIH7CL8VV/pew+with+cushion.jpg Features - The Woodwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588344336686-KNLBZ5VVK0A04V9R0AMZ/balcony+chairs+race+2.JPG Features - The Woodwork - Chairs As part of our re-ordering we wanted to make both the north aisle and balcony flexible spaces, and decided we needed some chairs. Race Furniture, based in the village, did us proud with a beautiful beech veneered chair which is just perfect - they are easy to move, very comfortable to sit on and robust enough for everyday use. https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/features/project-five-z233w monthly 0.5 2020-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588345552553-6UQN3PWYSV4GZEU8JG4A/5292501893_4876e91a23_b.jpg Features - The Organ - The Organ Originally there was a second-hand instrument from Oxford in about 1880. This was rebuilt in 1949, incorporating the original Swell Organ by Messrs JW Walker of London. After alterations and additional improvements in 1972 by Messrs Osmunds of Taunton, it was totally rebuilt between 1983-1985 with a new Choir-Great Organ together with excellent parts of the original Swell, and all modern electronic controls, by John Coulson of Bristol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597923473797-A9VCGZ6Y7ZKZL1TRBQZ9/P5300054.JPG Features - The Organ - The Piano Having installed under-floor heating in 2017, the piano struggled to retain its tuning. In May 2019, having fund-raised for 12 months, we purchased a Roland GP607 in polished black. It’s inaugural use in worship was in July at the funeral of Rev Sue Cox who was a Reader in Bourton before beginning ordained ministry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597927982767-IPTU5YCWQ2Q1P20JID45/music+shield.jpg Features - The Organ https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/features/project-four-sdm74 monthly 0.5 2020-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597838833304-XX5B9POL42F13FWCSNM9/St+Columba+window.jpg Features - The Windows west corner of south nave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597923862057-GYFJE6NFD92652UO0T1A/nave+tryptich+gcs.jpg Features - The Windows south nave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597924559069-6AZCEF1YEEWXSFQ6HNT3/Good+Shepherd+detail.JPG Features - The Windows Chancel south side: detail The Good Shepherd To the glory of God and in loving memory of John Moore who entered into rest February 13th 1807 and of Sarah Moore who entered into rest August 28th 1806. This window is dedicated by their children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597924459380-XXOIRQ9AFSB6NYL1UFB8/Detail+from+chancel+north.JPG Features - The Windows Chancel north side: detail Watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the hour To the glory of God and in loving memory of Violet Louise Waller who died February 20th 1894 aged 19 years. This window is dedicated by her parents, sister and brother. AD 1895 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597924980215-NMR4CR54SS63IM87MINW/IMG_1838.JPG Features - The Windows east window detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597925057944-18SJ7EFVAQK5TLTMYSZK/IMG_1818.JPG Features - The Windows Sanctuary south side https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597927268543-MUCWU91A7Q6PAFOIAUEU/fortitudo.jpg Features - The Windows north aisle vestry end: FORTITUDO - STRENGTH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597926353769-4ZR2LUQAUW2CUH1ZKNO7/IMG_1853.JPG Features - The Windows north aisle: SPES - HOPE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597926525533-7WY18KCN3P3B7A0GH0SB/IMG_1862.JPG Features - The Windows north aisle balcony: CARITAS - CHARITY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597926147767-VNC507Z80VXEJ0FDQ1S3/IMG_1844.JPG Features - The Windows north aisle: HUMILITAS - HUMILITY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597926431736-NHQ7SCTXO21K61I29CTR/IMG_1856.JPG Features - The Windows north aisle balcony: FIDES - FAITH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597926781975-WMJOI7X1XANHPSYQE1BJ/north+aisle+saints.jpg Features - The Windows west wall: St Edmund, St George, St Alban and St Oswald https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/features/project-three-txnnj monthly 0.5 2020-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1587544188057-AX5OXMTAUOG3QHH0MLDI/IMG_8050.JPG Features - The Nave - pre-1784 When Walter de Burhton built his church of 1328, it included a Norman Nave and ‘saddleback’ Tower between Nave and Chancel; it had a South Aisle, originally a chantry chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary; this was founded by Walter in 1325 and later in the 17th century became the ‘Clapton Aisle’ (used by Clapton worshippers certainly until their church was rebuilt in 1670, after years of disrepair and disuse). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588345062109-RMU97G53BZLLQEOGNEIH/trad+service+2.jpg Features - The Nave - post-1784 In 1784 it was agreed that an 18th century Nave be built with a Neo-Classical Tower together with a low false ceiling to the Chancel. In 1875 Sir Thomas Jackson began to rebuild a Victorian Gothic North Aisle, to be followed by his fine south porch and in 1891 the Nave was altered from Classical to Gothic – much as you see it now. Since our re-ordering, the south porch is only used on special occasions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597830207706-0G2YQJLKJ14N60LEQD5J/font1.jpg Features - The Nave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588344895143-38ZGC6Q6Y0X119IG906N/Kingpost+roof+-+Martin+Thomas+2016.jpg Features - The Nave https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/features/project-two-r7aj2 monthly 0.5 2020-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1588339169470-ZMMHAC9GECH0SY5XJ1Z7/Glebe+House+as+seen+from+East+End+-+Lucy+Parry+2018.JPG Features - The Sanctuary - Crypt The Sanctuary is a good height due to the Crypt beneath, which has a flattened roof with two plain ribs. The Crypt is probably the site of the original reliquary crypt-chapel of about 1120AD. Some former Rectors and their families lie buried here. A tradition states that a passage went from the Crypt to the Manor house – once the summer palace of the Abbot of Evesham and in later times to the Rectory (as when Charles I stayed as a guest of Dr Thomas Temple in the 17th Century). Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to access the Crypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597829208234-1Q7975Y7CDD2MRLH5ZFL/choir+stalls.jpg Features - The Sanctuary - English Oak The Sancuary has a fine set of English oak furniture created by Messrs Sly of Northleach: a Bishop’s Chair in memory of Lady Ena Swiney and bearing her armorial arms, a prayer desk in memory of Helen Lumsden and a matching sedilia desk in remembrance of Frederick Alder, for many years a Reader in the Parish Church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597831867325-7H6HJE4LTF4FJNEQK5GD/Roof.jpg Features - The Sanctuary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597832168286-OMOTLV8NVPPGB8821XU2/XRISTOS.JPG Features - The Sanctuary https://www.bourtonparishchurch.co.uk/features/project-one-la5k7 monthly 0.5 2020-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597829208234-1Q7975Y7CDD2MRLH5ZFL/choir+stalls.jpg Features - The Chancel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597829150499-FURZSSM9LLISA3PJDSW9/Vernon+Chancel+Mem.jpg Features - The Chancel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1598006379292-O9IJ5OPMNQC72QGVIV0M/IMG_1822.JPG Features - The Chancel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1593180845264-0JZVVZWHLK28FTQZ9TSA/chancel.jpg Features - The Chancel - 1328 The oldest part of St Lawrence’s Church is the Chancel, built by an early benefactor, Walter de Burhton in 1328, replacing an earlier Saxon/Norman one. On the south side of the east wall is an aumbry (or communion cupboard) and above it traces of a stone bracket on which probably stood a statue of the patron saint. The bracket was discovered in 1874 when the huge Classic altar-piece of 1784 was removed, at which time traces were found of a mural painting round the East Window. Since then there has been evidence found of painting from Elizabethan times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597925501890-0Z7PWBWOJ977XL5LOZFA/IMG_1825.JPG Features - The Chancel - South Wall On the south wall of the sanctuary is a window from the early 14th century with a matching one further down the south wall of the Choir; and between is a priest’s door of the same period. The eastern-most window contains a level sedilia (window seat for assistant priests or servers) and beyond it a piscina where cruets of wine and water may be placed for use in Holy Communion. In modern times an oak door has been added to the aumbry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597831867325-7H6HJE4LTF4FJNEQK5GD/Roof.jpg Features - The Chancel - Ceiling The shields on the ceiling, repeated in the oak screens, recall the Patrons of the Parish – Evesham Abbey, Lord Chandos, De Clare Earl of Gloucester (St Peter’s crossed keys), the Provincial Arms of Canterbury, Elizabeth I, and Wadham College, Oxford; a current patron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597927732815-R96R8YZ56Y72OQMJWBVA/heraldic+devices.jpg Features - The Chancel The Heraldic Devices of this Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9ef424710b673de22a0df8/1597925343811-7TWTYTD0QG1SJQNN02MJ/IMG_1803.JPG Features - The Chancel The stone statue in the Chancel was carved and donated by Ernest Haines in 1967.