The UpperWylye Pari sh Ne ws APRIL 2018 ‘Growing in the Love of God’ 1979 to 2018 Our vision is to be open, welcoming, growing and inclusive churches, living within the love of God, and sharing God's love and life with others. upperwylyevalleyteam.com CHURCHES IN THE UPPER WYLYE VALLEY The foundation stone was laid in 1866, and the church was dedicated two years later by the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The church is an impressive building by JL Pearson, built at the expense of the Everett Family, as a memorial to Joseph Everett who died in 1865. It is cruciform in plan with a tower and tall spire over the crossing, large five-light windows to the east and west and a rose window in the north transept. If you look up inside the church, you will see stone rib vaults to the crossing and chancel, which are Pearson’s trademark. The church is built of Frome stone with Box stone dressings. The church has a number of interesting features; most striking is the spire, which stands 134 feet above the top of the tower. Another feature is that the church is not built on the usual east west axis. The east window faces south-east so that it aligns with sunrise at the winter solstice and on the following six days (which include Christmas and the patronal festival of St John the Evangelist, 27th December). It follows that the west window glows in the Midsummer Sunset. To find out more, do read “Sutton Veny A History” by the Sutton Veny History group (ISBN 978-906978-48-8) Delivered free to homes in Boyton, Codford, Corton, Heytesbury, Knook, Norton Bavant, Sherrington, Sutton Veny, Tytherington and Upton Lovell THE DIARY Please let Robin know of any Social Dates ThE FRIENDS OF you have so they can be included in the ST. MARY’S ChURCh AGM ANNUAL diary. We deliver this magazine door to GENERAL MEETING door to all our ten villages, and the Monday, 30th April, 2018, at 6.00pm Friends of Heytesbury, editorial team would love to have a The Poplars, High Street, Codford Knook & Tytherington Churches greater overview of what is going on in the (Michael Elcomb’s house). Heytesbury Church, villages. Please come along, bring your friends 11th April 2018 at 6pm T: 840790 [email protected] and join us for this annual event and a Honorary Treasurer required glass of wine. for the Friends of Heytesbury, Knook & MEN’S Tytherington Churches from April 2018 FELLOwShIP ROYAL BRITISh LEGION due to the current incumbent retiring. BREAKFAST wOMEN’S SECTION Replies to Peter Andrews 01985 840517 hEYTESBURY BRANCh Monday 9th April (2nd April is Easter Monday) Our next meeting on 25th April 2018 in the Corsley Festival Choir Alex Saunt – UWV Men’s Fellowship Residents’ Hall of the Hospital of St John Breakfast in-house speaker will be a social meeting with fun Quiz. Handell’’s Messiiah ‘The Expansion and Development of the Visitors always welcome. Parts Two and Three St Margaret’s Church, Corsley BA12 7Qe British Expeditionary Force 1914-18’. 7.30 pm on Sunday 13th May Charity - Macmillan Nurses ST JOhN’S SOCIAL EVENTS Tickets: £12.50 (Children £5.00) Alex Saunt is providing an in-house talk, from choir members or phone 01373 832418 being a Corton resident and a regular at - Coffee morning on Wednesday Pimms Bar opens at 7.00 pm tendee of the Men’s Fellowship Breakfasts. 11th April 11am to Noon. It was with great joy that we celebrated BUG hUNTERS Joan Reynolds 100th birthday on AT LANGFORD LAKES 10th March ɄƖɄ ɄɄɄ The Upper Wylye Valley Bug Hunters had a Grow your own flowers great afternoon at Langford Lakes during and vegetables in Knook ''Ʉ*0-Ʉ*!!$ Ʉ$)Ʉ-($)./ -Ʉ the last half-term holiday. Twenty families *)ɄŲųŻźŷɄźŶŷųųŸɄɄ came and enjoyed seeing swans, tufted Heytesbury Knook and Tytherington 0VS"HFOUTBSFBQQPJOUFESFQSFTFOUBUJWFTPG5IF/BUJPOBM'BSNFST6OJPO.VUVBM*OTVSBODF4PDJFUZ-JNJUFE /P 3FHJTUFSFEJO&OHMBOE3FHJTUFSFE0GGJDF5JEEJOHUPO3PBE 4USBUGPSEVQPO"WPO 8BSXJDLTIJSF $7#+"VUIPSJTFECZUIF1SVEFOUJBM3FHVMBUJPO"VUIPSJUZBOESFHVMBUFECZUIF'JOBODJBM$POEVDU"VUIPSJUZBOEUIF1SVEFOUJBM3FHVMBUJPO"VUIPSJUZ"NFNCFSPGUIF"TTPDJBUJPOPG#SJUJTI ducks, cormorants drying their feathers, Parish Council is setting up an allotment *OTVSFST'PSTFDVSJUZBOEUSBJOJOHQVSQPTFT UFMFQIPOFDBMMTNBZCFSFDPSEFEBOENPOJUPSFE and a variety of other wildfowl. But what site in Knook, with roughly 10 half-sized excited the children’s interest the most plots. were the rats around the birdfeeder If you are interested in having an outside one of the hides. allotment, come to a meeting with £25 was collected for the Wiltshire Allan Cavill, Allotment Mentor for the RoadHog Catering Ltd Wildlife Trust. National Allotment Society, on Saturday www.roadhogcaterers.co.uk If you have children who would like April 7th. We shall meet at the site (turn Karen Riggs to join our next activity in the Easter right into Knook from the A36 and it is Specialists in weddings, hog roasts, Holidays, please contact Verity Eastman: the first field on the right, just before vintage tea parties, garden parties [email protected] the housing) at 10:00 am and then Outdoor catering & bars, hire & Caroline Barker Bennett retreat to the Red Lion to discuss how it event planning will all work. Fully insured & licensed If you want to discuss the idea, PRAYER GROUP call Vanessa Sturmey 07847941133, or For bookings and all enquiries ring 01225 754124/07967 243687 Liz Colvin 01985 840323. We meet weekly. Email: [email protected] If you have any prayer requests, please call Anne on 840339. Puppy & Dog Training Classes, Advance notice Behaviour Consultations, Dog Walking, CODFORD VILLAGE FETE Dog Sitting & Day Care Saturday 23rd June 2018 11.00 am to 4.00pm Please contact Celia Callan BSc (Hons) Dip CABC Tel: 01985 248277 or Mob: 07806779749 Stall holders wanted Email:[email protected] £15 for a single pitch £25 for a double pitch www.doggietraining.co.uk Contact the Secretary to reserve a www.puppyschool.co.uk pitch on [email protected] Professional, Qualified & Insured Tutor Page 2 MINISTRY LETTER People often ask why they see different through to Candlemas (the presentation of Trinity starts with “tri” which means colours on Church altars and why clergy Jesus in the Temple). The liturgical colour “three”. There are three members of the wear coloured stoles during the year and for the Christmas season is White. Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The what the colours mean. The explanation is • For the two Sundays prior to Lent colour for Trinity Sunday is White. that the worship of the Anglican Church the colour of the church is Green which • Apart from these seasons, there follows a calendar that is based on a cycle means we are not celebrating any are 25 or 26 weeks of the year that do of liturgical seasons, each with its own particular event. not celebrate a particular aspect of colour, celebrated throughout the year. • Lent – the 6-week time of prepara - the mystery of Christ. This period of the Just as we mark our lives by tion for the celebration of Easter. It begins Church calendar is called Ordinary Time anniversaries, the Church celebrates the on Ash Wednesday and finishes on the because the weeks are numbered in order. mysteries of Jesus’ life in a recurrent evening of Maundy Thursday. The liturgical The liturgical colour for Ordinary Time is pattern. Within the yearly cycle, the colour for Lent is Purple, although the Green. Church remembers and celebrates Christ’s colour for Palm Sunday is Red, when we • Kingdom – The four Sundays which conception, birth, death, resurrection and celebrate Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. make up the ‘season' are a continuation of sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. • Easter – the heart of the liturgical ‘ordinary time' and used to be part of a In some respects the church’s way year is celebrated on Easter Day. The series of nine Sundays before Advent. The of keeping time conflicts with the secular joyful celebration of Jesus’ resurrection liturgical colour for the season is Red or calendar, which begins on the first of continues for six weeks from Easter Green. January. The new liturgical year begins on Sunday to Pentecost. The liturgical colour So when you visit church do look the first Sunday of Advent at the end of for Easter is White. out for the different colours knowing that November. The seasons of the liturgical • Pentecost – the day we celebrate the different colours have a real meaning. year are: the Apostles being filled with the Holy Jayne Buckles • Advent – a period covering the 4 Spirit. The colour for Pentecost is Red. Sundays before Christmas during which we • Trinity Sunday - The Trinity is a very thought for the month prepare to celebrate Christ’s birth and important concept in our Christian faith. anticipate his coming again at the end of But if it is preached that Christ has been time. The liturgical colour for Advent is raised from the dead, how can some of Purple. you say that there is no resurrection of • Christmas – the season of Christmas the dead? If there is no resurrection of celebrates Christ’s birth and early the dead, then not even Christ has been manifestations. It runs from 25th raised. And if Christ has not been raised, December for six Sundays, which takes us our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.