All Saints Church, Hemblington

Harvest was celebrated at All Saints Church Hemblington on Sunday morning, 6th October, with a traditional service of hymns and thanksgiving for the plenty that we enjoy, reminding all of the pressing needs of so many people elsewhere. The prayers of the service reminded the congregation that all gifts ultimately came from God.

A request for donations of food, to be offered to the Great Yarmouth Food Bank, had been amply responded to by the families and staff of Hemblington School and members of the congregation.

Our little medieval church had been decorated with symbols of the harvest and flower arrangements, for which the Revd Sue Shillam expressed her admiration and thanks to all who had worked so hard to show gratitude for all we have.

On Saturday 14th September our much missed ex-neighbours Joyce and Andrew Burtenshaw gave a presentation titled “The Journey of St Christopher” which retold the full story of his life before and after his conversion to Christianity. They have generously made this presentation publicly available and you can download it by clicking the links below:

Text of the presentation

Power Point slides of the presentation

All Saints Church was very pleased to welcome members of the Gt Yarmouth Guild of Artists and Craftsmen for a “painting / drawing day” in August. Some members of the Guild had held an exhibition in the church earlier in the year and had been invited to come back for a painting day, if they so wished. It proved to be a useful session for the group, enjoying the sunshine or the shade in the churchyard, or welcoming the cooler interior of the church when it got just too hot outside!
If any other groups might be interested in coming along to draw or paint inside or outside the church, we would be very pleased to arrange that with you. The church always looks lovely, though in spring and early summer the churchyards are full of wildflowers too, so another attraction perhaps! Please contact the churchwarden on (01603) 270 360 or the secretary of The Friends group on (01603) 715 804 if you would like to learn more.

The Friends of Hemblington Church are pleased to announce the return of the Synergy Rock & Blues Band at Heathlands, Woodbastwick Road, Blofield Heath on Saturday December 5th at 7pm. £8 admission, bar at club prices, doors open at 6.45pm. Tickets in advance from Sue: hemblington@gmail.com or 01603 715804.

Unfortunately we have had to cancel the next Make and Mardle on Thursday, 24th October due to circumstances beyond our control.

The next Make & Mardle will be on Tuesday, November 26th from 10am to 12noon at Jennifer’s at 1, High House Lane, Blofield Heath. Come & join us for a tea / coffee, cake, chat with optional craft. All will be very welcome.

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.

There are benefice Morning prayers on Tuesdays at 9.00 am by Zoom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

View outside All Saints, Hemblington Church on Google Tours

This is video shows our beautiful church on a lovely summers day in June 2014. Music by the Octagon Singers of Norwich.