Church Tours & Excursion to Lichfield Cathedral 2012

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The CHCT Church Tours Programme for the 2012 is completed and once again we will be making visits to all four corners of the county. This will be our 29th year of church tours and remarkably we have never visited over half of these churches before.  To see a list of all the churches we have visited since 1984 please click here.

If you would like a poster to see or print off a list of all the tours please click here.  Please pass this information on to your friends and fellow church enthusiasts.  If you would like a booking form and details of the joint trip to Lichfield Cathedral  with Revd. Dr. Lynne Broughton and the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Please click here.

This year we will once again have our two expert guides to enhance our Sunday afternoon visits.  They are our long serving and always full of information, Revd. Dr Lynne Broughton, who is an expert on church furnishing and symbolism, and once again this year she is joined by Dr. John Maddison, is an invaluable expert in church history and architecture.

Each tour starts at 2.30 pm at the first church named.  On arrival at the third and final church, our hosts are kind enough to provide us with tea, and toilets are available.  Those who wish to can stay after the tour of the final church, for a short service of Evening Prayer, or join the congregation for their evening service if there is one. 

There is no charge for participation in these tours, which are open to all, but those attending are asked to donate generously to the churches visited, and especially for the teas.

Listed below are the dates and the churches we are going to visit in 2012 and some additional information available online, its postcode, the VCH (Victoria County History), a new website with the British Listed Buildings information and other details for each church.

After we have visited the churches you will be able to find a selection of photographs taken at the churches by clicking on the parish name.

Each church dedication has been linked to various websites that will provide you with some background information, this will vary depending on what is available online, if there is any additional information available this will follow the dedication and will be marked add. info.

For your convenience our Secretary has found all the postcodes, they are listed below and on this special flyer

On Sunday 13th May 2012

For Map and Travel directions - click here and here

Archangel St Michael at St Peter & St Paul Wisbech

we will visit:

Archangel St Raphael

at St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech

dates and places correct

St Mary, Fowlmere

On Sunday 10th June 2012:

For Map and Travel directions - click here

All Saints, Offord Cluny

we will visit:

St Peter, Offord D'Arcy

St Peter, Offord D'Arcy -Friends website click here

On Sunday 8th July 2012:

 Click on the relevant item for Map and Travel directions

St Nicholas, Landwade - Cotton Family Memorials

we will visit:

St Andrew, Soham

St Andrew, Soham in 1797

Nave at St Andrew, Soham

On Sunday 12th August 2012, we will visit:

For Map and Travel directions - click here

St Mary, Marholm

St Michael & All Angels, Sutton in 1902

Using the Listed buildings OS Map

Map example

(click on the link above to see OS Open Space map at the British Listed Buildings website of Holy Trinity, Hildersham. 

If you change the scale on the left, you can move from viewing a detailed street map, through to a standard OS Map image to a road atlas of a wider area. 

This can easily be achieved using the roller wheel on your computer mouse. If you click your cursor in the smaller map, you can change the centering of the main map)