The East Trent Benefice Statement Appendices The Benefice Statement Describing the Conditions, Needs and Traditions of the East Trent Benefice Index Page Appendix 1: Around the Benefice in detail 2 Appendix 2: Pattern of East Trent Benefice Services 10 Appendix 3: Administrator’s Job Description 12 Appendix 4: Summary of Tasks & Skills audit 13 Appendix 5: Names and details of Benefice representatives 15 East Trent Benefice Appendices Final 08.03.16 1 Appendix 1 Around the Benefice in Detail – the villages, churches and halls from South to North Winthorpe is the second largest and southernmost village in the group lying off the main road with no through traffic but with ready access to Newark. There is a mixture of modern housing and large Regency and Victorian houses, the older houses forming a conservation area. There are three modern housing estates and two small private developments. There is no industry, no farmyard and no major development plans and the village remains largely surrounded by farmland. The Lord Nelson Inn at the centre of the village also includes a restaurant. Many of the children [100] at the Primary School come from outside the village. There is a Care Home in the village where the incumbent celebrates Holy Communion on request. The Newark & Nottinghamshire Show Ground and adjacent Air Museum lie within the Winthorpe Parish boundary although lying across the A46 Winthorpe All Saints The Grade II listed Victorian Church was built in 1888 to a design by Gambier-Parry replacing an ancient church which had served as a Cromwellian gun battery during the Civil War. This in turn had been built on an earlier Saxon site. It was re-roofed in 1982 and is generally in good condition. The bells are rung regularly. The appearance of the church and churchyard is a strong "selling point" to visitors and villagers alike. Regular concerts take full advantage of the excellent acoustic for small musical ensembles. Plans to provide a toilet and kitchen area are currently underway. Langford is a small community, we hesitate to call it a village as there is nothing to bind it together, there are no shops, no village hall and no pub, the only public building is the church which is itself a mile away from Langford Hall. The old village of Langford was located next to the church and in the past it stood at the most northern fording point of the River Trent hence the name La(o)ngford. In those days the Trent flowed along the bank next to the church, however, after a major flood over 400 hundred years ago the river re-established itself on the other side of Holme village. The parish of Holme was in due course incorporated into the parish of Langford. East Trent Benefice Appendices Final 08.03.16 2 Langford St.Bartholomew The present Langford church was built when the village was larger around 1200AD. After the parish of Holme was incorporated into Langford a vicarage was built in 1860 next to the church to serve both Langford and Holme. This is now a private residence. Over the past twenty years, despite the small size of the community, the church has been the subject of a major restoration programme, costing over a quarter of a million pounds, thanks to the dedication of a committed group of local people. It is now watertight, sound and looking clean and bright. Holme is a small hamlet about 6 miles N.E. of Newark alongside the east bank of the river Trent. The community is a mix of several families with school age children, teenagers and many retired people. It is a very rural parish with a number of small businesses operating as well as a couple of farms. A number of new houses have been built over the past ten years on brown sites within the village, this is mainly infilling and the new people tend to commute to work in other parts of the county. The village of Holme was an aging community until the new houses were built and this resulted in younger families and younger retired people. Following a recent successful Promise Programme where we exceeded our target, we are at last making some progress in generating a wider interest in the church. There is now an opportunity to make the church more accessible to these new people and therefore to provide a thriving Christian fellowship right on their doorstep. Holme has very little to offer in terms of community; no village hall, no shop, no pub or school – the church is the only major building and so we are drawing up plans as we respond to the ‘Building Communities of Grace’ initiative. Holme St. Giles The church of St Giles is a Grade I listed building and is a most notable building having been featured in a number of recent publications including England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins. It has also featured on television in ‘Heart of the Country’. We get a number of visitor groups, including from time to time groups from the continent. St Giles is built of stone with a double apex pantile roof and a small square tower topped with a broach spire. Building started in c1150 and the only remaining part of that period is the North wall. Between 1200 and 1355, the Early English period, the North door was added and the tower was built in c1350. Then in 1485, John Barton, a wealthy wool merchant, enlarged the building when he added the Lady Chapel and South Aisle. His tomb and that of his wife can be found in the Chapel. Repairs are ongoing with the tower and front porch requiring attention in the near future. East Trent Benefice Appendices Final 08.03.16 3 Collingham is the largest village on the east bank of the River Trent in Nottinghamshire. There is a broad cross-section of people, including professionals, small business owners, manual workers, the retired, etc. Growth has not taken away the noticeable village atmosphere, which the residents enjoy and value. Increased population has resulted in the provision of an excellent Medical Centre with an optician, dentist and pharmacy, a library, fire station and Car Service Centre, to complement a medium sized supermarket and convenience store, a number of other shops including a post office, two public houses and a Chinese take-away and a Fish & Chip Shop. There is a good village hall, a youth and community centre, a primary school (173 students), a pre-school, scouts and guides and a variety of clubs serving all ages, including U3A. There is also an excellent cricket ground and team and a recently refurbished football club, as well as a bowls club and a thriving tennis club. The village has a railway station with services to Nottingham (30 miles), Lincoln (16 miles) and connections to London, and frequent buses to Newark (6miles). Part of Collingham is a conservation area. Other housing includes modern private homes, an ex-council estate, sheltered accommodation, one nursing home and one residential home. There are no starter homes although some shared ownership housing was built in the eighties. The age profile of the population of Collingham is older than average. Collingham is twinned with Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, south of Paris. There is a hamlet at Brough, to the south of Collingham, with a small chapel that was closed in the 1980s and is now used by the Diocese as a repository. However, the Methodist Chapel at Brough is still open. Collingham South St. John the Baptist A Grade I listed medieval church with some fine Norman arcading. The church has been re- wired, and has had gas central heating installed. The clock has been electrified, the north side of the chancel has been re-roofed, the nave has been re-leaded, paths re-laid and a kitchen area fitted. Toilet facilities were completed in 2009. The church has a good two manual organ and five bells. The roof is alarmed following lead thefts at St.John’s, All Saints and at Clifton. Redecoration of the church and organ restoration, including the addition of Dulciana bass pipes, were completed in 2013. Re- roofing of the bell tower is planned to be undertaken during 2016. East Trent Benefice Appendices Final 08.03.16 4 Collingham North All Saints Also Grade I listed, the church is a good example of medieval architecture with a very good two manual organ and six bells. Major restoration in the 1980s included rerendering of the tower, a new drainage system and front path and electrification of the clock. Toilet facilities were completed in 2010 and there is office filing space in the south porch area to service the group complementing the main office in the Methodist Church. The church has suffered from more lead thefts in recent years than almost any other church in the diocese and the roof is now protected by alarms and the interior has been re- decorated. The Nave is very “open” for a medieval church and there is no screen so there is potential for further development to a more flexible format. Both Collingham churches have induction loops and sound reinforcement systems. Both have large churchyards maintained by a local contractor and regular working parties. South Scarle The compact rural village of South Scarle has a balanced mixture of old and new housing clustered round its mediaeval church. There is one working farm and several independent businesses, with a part time Post Office. South Scarle St. Helena A Grade I listed beautiful and well cared for church which has undergone a complete renovation and re-ordering in 2013/14.