Commemorating Nicholas Ferrar : helping preserve Little Gidding : remembering T S Eliot
Whilst Ferrar House is closed during the pandemic, the opportunity is being taken to undertake major work on the fabric. This picture shows the dining room, looking out over the lawn towards the Church. The floor is being replaced in
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Following restoration work by John Taylor Bell Founders in Loughborough, the church bell at Little Gidding has now been returned and reinstalled in the church above the west door. Unlike the old bell, which could be swung in order to
The 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Little Gidding was held via teleconference on Saturday 5 December. Some twenty members attended and heard the Treasurer present the financial accounts and the Chair and the Membership Secretary give their
Download a copy of the Winter 2020 newsletter from the Friends of Little Gidding.
Now that the roof of Little Gidding church has been repaired, the next piece of restoration work is the bell. The bell has been unsafe to ring for several years. It has been removed and taken to John Taylor’s at Loughborough for conservation work. A new headstock has been fitted which will allow it to be safely rehung and chimed.
This year’s Little Gidding Pilgrimage was held as an online event on Saturday 26 September 2020. This recording follows the Chair of the Friends, Simon Kershaw, walking from George Herbert’s church at Leighton Bromswold to Nicholas Ferrar’s church and tomb
Work on the roof of Little Gidding Church has now been completed, and it can be seen in all its glory in these pictures, taken yesterday, together with one picture taken several years ago for comparison, and a couple of
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This year’s Pilgrimage will be held online on Saturday 26 September 2020, starting at 11am. The Pilgrimage celebrates the life of Nicholas Ferrar and his family, and remembering that they first came to Little Gidding to escape the devastating plague