All Saints Church, Hemblington

There is to be a churchyard working party on Friday, 20th February. We would welcome your help in tasks such as trimming the tops of the hedges, cutting down brambles, working out where to put some new hedging plants we have been kindly given by the Woodland Trust, and perhaps having a bonfire if the wind is in the right direction. We will be in the churchyard between 10 am – 12 noon, so if you feel you can help and have some spare time that morning, do please join us. Please bring stout footwear and gardening gloves, and any tools you are happy to use. A wheelbarrow or tarpaulin for hauling cuttings away would be useful too.

This annual event is held every year on the first Friday in March. This year it is on Friday, 6th March. The organisation behind this event is led by Christian women from 170 countries, bringing together many races, traditions and cultures to share in a common day of prayer. This year the service is the work of Christian women of Nigeria. The event is not intended just for women, but it is meant as a gift from the Christian women of Nigeria to Christians the world over. The theme is “I will give you rest, come”.
Our local service will be held at St Lawrence Church, Brundall at 2pm. To complement this, we will be holding a morning of prayer, reflection, fellowship and a chance to learn something about Nigeria at Hemblington Church from 10.30am until 12.30pm. This will be followed by a simple lunch and end about 1pm, allowing plenty of time for those who wish to attend the service at Brundall to get there. Everyone is welcome.

It’s time to get your music albums and books out – David Bryant is going to test you on your knowledge of all things musical with another of his popular Music Quizzes ! Friday evening, 6th March, at Heathlands Community Centre, Woodbastwick Road, Blofield Heath. It’s always a fun evening, with live guitar solos as well as dingbats and much else. The Heathlands bar is open, serving drinks at Club prices. Please organise your tickets early, so we know it can go ahead without worrying. Tables of up to 6 people at £5 per person. If you don’t raise a full team, we can seat you with others. Please contact Sue at: hemblington@gmail.com / (01603) 714804 or Linda at: linda_bryant7@hotmail.com / (01603) 715933.

On Sunday 4th January we arrived for the 9.30am service to find the church covered in snow. The service was led by our rector supported by both church wardens and our organist though only a few members of the congregation risked the snow covered roads to attend. But the church looked beautiful in the winter sunshine. This photograph was taken by our organist, Rory Marsden.

There will be no Thursday morning services at Hemblington Church until March. There will be a service at Rev. Sue Shillam’s house in January and February, still at 9am. Please contact her if you need her address.

In December, we are taking a break & meet again on Tuesday, 27th January and then Thursday, 26th February. These are held at Gables Farmhouse, Hemblington Hall Road, Hemblington from 10am to 12noon. Usual format – coffee, cake, chat and optional craft, you will be most 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.

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. The last Morning Prayers in church will be on Thursday 27th November unless the weather turns very cold before then. Hopefully it will then re-commence in March 2026 but again will be weather dependent.

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.