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Restoration Challenge ISSUE 24 FREE to the residents of Snitterfield may 2010 RESTORaTION CHaLLENGE We are privileged to have a beautiful, historic, 900 year- old, grade 1 listed building in Snitterfield (the only building so listed in the village) going back to medieval times and having associations with Shakespeare, the Phillips and Coventry families. Unfortunately, the fabric of the building is deteriorating and is now in need of urgent restoration. English Heritage has offered £69,000 towards the restoration of the roof, stained glass windows, stonework, treatment of timbers and rain water drainage. However, we need to raise a further £37,000 by November 2010 to benefit from this donation. See inside how you can help towards raising funds to restore and preserve St James the Great. PHOTO: CHRIS VINCENT CHRIS PHOTO: Helen Hayter will be taking over from Richard Hobbs to ARE YOU UP TO THE keep us up-to-date with District news. We are sure you join us in thanking Richard for the hard work and dedication he CHALLENGE...? has shown to the village whilst he was in office. ST JAMES THE GREAT Helen writes: I would like to thank all of those people who RESTORATION – voted for me in the recent elections to become the Stratford District Councillor representing the Snitterfield Ward for the next ENGLISH HERITAGE HAS four years. It is a challenge that I will enjoy. There were several THROWN DOWN THE concerns raised to me as I was calling on people just before the GAUNTLET elections in Snitterfield; the Foxhunter,a ffordable Housing and English Heritage has offered £69,000 Flood Prevention still being three of the most important issues to address. towards the restoration needed to I look forward to working closely with the Parish Council and all the residents of repair and maintain the structure of Snitterfield to help care for our village, and to being part of the team of Councillors the church. We must raise £37,000 by working for the District of Stratford on avon. fundraising or donations to achieve the Please do not hesitate to contact me on 01789 731388 or email [email protected] target otherwise we will not receive their money. This sum must be raised by November 2010. Whether you worship A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF Flood RELIEF The sub-committee continues with there or not it is an important part of improvements. a new trash screen has been SNITTERFIELD PARISH COUNCIL our village’s heritage and we must do erected, the brook has been cleared of debris, everything we can to ensure its future. Numerous issues were discussed but the major and plans for three balancing ponds produced issues have been: (funds have not yet been found for this). The fundraisers welcome donations large and small, from near and far – one very FOX HUNTER The GYPSY SITE, BLACKHILL a third planning generous anonymous parishioner has application to build application has been lodged, this time the already donated £1,000. If you wish to three dwellings on the Highways agency have not opposed it, the donate you may also fill in a Gift-aid site has been refused legal battles continue. This application has form, thereby increasing the donation under the current now been deemed as ‘invalid’ and the planning District Council planning process has been stopped until the documents by 28%. Please send donation or policies. This means required by the District Council planning and cheque (made payable to St James the that only a replacement legal departments have been received from Great Snitterfield Restoration Fund) or building would be the agents acting for the owners of the site. contact any member of the fundraising allowed. The owners Once these documents have been received the committee for information: must now remove the planning process will start again and all the Ben Barter 731770, Pauline Brace 731070, derelict building under an enforcement notice persons who have written to the District Council John Foster 731454, John Fitchford 731357, or go to appeal against the planning refusal. planners about this application will be contacted Tania Gill 731642, Helen Hayter 731388, The timescale for both options is difficult to and the new application will be out for review determine, but it could take another 12 months and response again. Philip Lelliot 731886, Alan Morris 731415, before any action is agreed or started on the Guy Norris 730308, David Robotham site. a second plan is said to be imminent. GYPSY SITE, KINGS LANE This was rejected by 731321, Gerry Stammers 731364, the Planning Department and was dismissed on Hilary Schmidt-Hansen 731246, Janet AFFORDABLE HOUSING Fourteen houses are to appeal. be built on the Bearley Road site, detailed plans Smith 731580, Margaret Tweed 731636, are being prepared. John Fitchford, Chairman Peter Turner 730039, Ron Vizard 730256, Joan Wilkinson 731649 PaRISH PLaN & VILLaGE DESIGN STaTEmENT PROJECT JUST a FEW OF THE maNy EVENTS TO In the last edition of The Stratford District Council NOTE IN yOUR DIaRy: SNIPE we asked for is developing its new ‘Local may Snitterfield Open Garden volunteers to help with Framework’ plan and we must Weekend the update of our Parish be in-line with their policies June 12 Piano Recital with Plan and the Village and help to influence the Strawberries and Cream in Design Statement. We future development of our St James, contact Elizabeth have made application to village and parish as a rural Fitchford the Stratford District Council for funding community. June 19 Quiz - Sports Club for our project. They have given us a We still need more help to complete June 20 Village Fete - visit our fund- grant of £2,500 for the work to produce the project in the timescale dictated raising stalls the new plan and design guidelines for by the Stratford District Council grant. June/July Barbecue in Wild Flower our parish. The new document must be completed meadow We have a small group of people and adopted by the District Council by interested in this very important project February 2011. august 29 Barn Dance and Pig Roast at Bramley Cottage, Kings Lane, which will set the scene for our parish If you are interested and have the time, contact Helen Hayter for the next 15 years by becoming a please contact me, the project leader, FOR UP-TO-DaTE INFORmaTION ON ‘supplementary planning guidance note’ Gerry Stammers, geraldstammers@ EVENTS aND HOW THE FUNDRaISING to be used for all developments and btinternet.com IS PROGRESSING VISIT improvement in our parish. Thank you. www.snitterfield.com First came a thatch roof, then a new course of stone and again thatch but SaINT JamES THE GREaT, SNITTERFIELD at last the tower was completed as we see it today. Look closely and you Over 1,000 years ago, can see the progress of its raising. our Saxon predecessors Six fine bells (dating from 1552 to 1897) ring out strongly, announcing made their way to the high services and weekly practice as they have done for centuries. mound in the village and In the churchyard lie the remains of William Shakespeare’s grandfather, their small stone church, Richard, and his wife. We do not know where these graves are – perhaps for services and festivals. near the splendid yews on the south side of the church? yews hold connection with worship through countless times and the age of our sturdy Although none of the ancients is indefinable.a re they from Edward stonework is now visible, Ist’s command that every churchyard should 1 most likely the remnant have at least one? Or do they go back another forms the base of the hundred years to Henry Ist – or even further, to chancel of the present the pre-church Druids? church; certainly, villagers While admiring these impressive trees, look up have worshipped here at the sundial on the south wall, a gift from since 800 AD. the 18th century Earl of Coventry. It hangs precariously askew – but is still accurate! years of Norman supremacy followed and saw rich overlords prepared to open their coffers to add prominence and decoration to the new church, The stonework is showing its age, crumbling gaining favour with God and man together, perhaps gaining funds from and uncertain. One of the stone aedicular fell wealthy churchmen in the diocese – and certainly levying taxes on their without warning and recently, the stone cross villeins! over the chancel pediment was removed after leaning dangerously. It is not the only piece So our church grew in different now ailing – take care if you are walking round! directions, with different funding and 2 different materials. The parish church has been part of 3 Snitterfield’s heritage for centuries. If it fell Walking outside the building, you down or into such disrepair that it must immediately detect a conglomeration close or decay, the generations whom it of stones, some the local grainy sheltered and revived for so long may well Jurassic limestone, notoriously be betrayed. Those of the future would porous, other more sustainable justifiably mourn its loss. Cotswold stone with its characteristic yellow fleck. Snitterfield can be proud of St James’s, 4 not just for its surviving stones and Stand in the west doorway and look history but for its watchful presence forward. Our church appears very in today’s maelstrom of rushing cares. long for the chancel is almost as Unlike many less fortunate, its doors are long as the nave. It is still dominated 5 open to all, all of the time, not just for by the grand Perpendicular east christenings, weddings and funerals but window; that, too, has seen changes.
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