Welcome
Welcome to the website for All Saints Church, Hemblington. We do not know who built our church or when. What we worship in each week is a beautiful and simple building. The clear glass windows allow the light to flood the building. We gaze out at the rolling fields that surround the churchyard. This delightful building is very much part of the environment as the environment is part of the church.
Safeguarding
Our parish of Hemblington: All Saints is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults from harm. We follow the House of Bishops guidance and policies and have our own Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO). Our Diocese of Norwich safeguarding pages contain vital links and information including contacts for the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor who advises our PSO. If you are concerned that a child or adult has been harmed or may be at risk of harm, please contact our PSO Mrs Susan Nichols snichols781@aol.com.
For more information about Safeguarding please click here.
New Organ
On 9th September, we installed a new organ at Hemblington Church. Our previous “organ” was a very old digital piano, which was donated second-hand to the church many years ago. It has served us well but lately has been temperamental and spare parts are no longer available.
The new organ is a second-hand Allen’s Protégé L9 digital pipe organ with two keyboards and a 32-note pedalboard. The organ was originally installed in St Gerard’s Church in Bellshill, near Glasgow. St Gerard’s closed in November 2024 after amalgamating with Sacred Heart in the same area.
The organ is now ten years old but comes with a further ten years warranty. Our organist, Rory Marsden, believes that this new organ will significantly enhance the music at services and hopefully, encourage us to hold more musical performances in the church.
Draft Pastoral Scheme for the Benefices of Blofield and Broadside
The Norwich Diocese Mission and Pastoral Committee has prepared a draft Pastoral Scheme for the reorganisation of the Blofield and Broadside benefices. Details can be found in the following documents. Anyone may make representation for or against these changes no later than midnight on 26th September. Details on how you may do this are contained in the documents:
Harvest Festival Service
Our Harvest Festival service will be on Sunday 28th September at 9.30 am and it will be followed by refreshments. Please do join us, everyone is welcome.
Make and Mardle
The October Make & Mardle will be on Thursday, 23rd October at Gables Farmhouse, Hemblington Hall Road, Hemblington from 10am to 12noon. Come and join us for a tea / coffee, cake, chat with optional craft. All will be very welcome.
Communal Worship at our Churches
Sunday services now regularly take place in the Churches of Blofield and Hemblington and we look forward to welcoming worshippers.
Sunday services are held in Hemblington Church with North Burlingham at 9.30 am and in Blofield Church at 11.00 am. Services alternate between Holy Communion and a Service of Morning Worship.
The Wednesday morning service is at 9.30 am in Blofield Church, alternating between Holy Communion and Morning Worship.
Thursday morning prayers are at 9 am in Hemblington Church.
Our church buildings will remain open for private prayer at published times.
Church Opening Times
Hemblington Church is open to visitors every day from 9.30 am until 4 pm.
We hope you enjoy the history and peace of our lovely church.
Take a look inside Hemblington Church
As a retirement project, Andrew Hawkins is building a website which takes a virtual tour of places of interest in and around the historic city of Norwich, presented as a series of interactive 360-degree panoramas in which you, the viewer, can ‘turn the camera’ to look left and right and up and down. He has just added a section about Hemblington Church which contains beautiful views of our church. The Hemblington Church entry can be found at:
http://norwich360.com/hemblington.html
But have a look round the rest of the website for interesting insights into our local heritage.
Access to Hemblington Parish Records
For anyone who is researching family history in the Hemblington area we have a page explaining how you can access our church records.
This can be found here.
Virtual Tours of Hemblington Church
Thanks to Paul Brittain of Norfolk360.co.uk you can now experience a 360 degree tour of the inside and outside of our church by using the following links:
View inside All Saints, Hemblington Church on Google Tours
Video of Hemblington Church
This is video shows our beautiful church on a lovely summers day in June 2014. Music by the Octagon Singers of Norwich.