Calling all 10-14 year olds. Come and join the youth group for dicussion, games, chat and fun at St Mark’s, Sunday Evenings 4:30-6:00pm
Patronal Festivals – 22/4 at St George’s and 29/4 at St Mark’s
This year we are celebrating St George’s Day at St George’s on 22nd April at the 10am and 11:30am services and St Mark’s Day on 29th April at St Mark’s at the 11:00am service, followed by a bring and share meal and then a congregational meeting. Please come and join the celebrations…
Healing and Wholeness Service – 26/4
There will be a service of healing and wholeness at St John’s on 26 April at 19:30 Please come along, there will be the opportunity to receive prayer and anointing with oil.
Exploring Faith Through Art – 10/4, 17/4, 24/4
Come and explore faith through art at St Mark’s on 10, 17 and 24 April between 19:30 and 21:00. We will be exploring the ‘Stations of the Resurrection’ – the events that occurred after Jesus’s resurrection.
Annual Report on Church Activities – 15/4
Sunday 15th April at St Mark’s we have the Annual Meetings. Please try and attend to hear about how much our Parish has achieved over the last year. All may attend the Annual meeting of parishioners, but only those on the electoral roll may attend the APCM. This year we will be introducing material from a course “Leading your Church into growth”.
Please find below the annual report on church activities.
Thursday Morning Art
“Oh, I wish I could draw …” I look at other people’s art, see they get so much pleasure out of doing it and I envy that. My efforts are feeble. Ah, but help is at hand at St Mark’s on a Thursday morning. Dave and Helena, both brilliant artists in their own right, are very supportive of all attempts by those trying to channel their inner artist. I found it doesn’t matter whether you are a budding Picasso or if you barely know one end of a paintbrush from the other, everyone is welcome to have a go.
I believe in Creator God, God who speaks through our creativity and sets our spirits flying free through our art. It doesn’t matter how good you are, whether the result looks like you’d imagined it or not; it’s the process, the taking part, the giving it a go, which is important.
And it’s sociable. There’s tea, coffee and cake and plenty of folk to chat to: St Mark’s really is the place to be on a Thursday morning from 10.00. Come along and see for yourself.
Lesley Shatwell
Calling all Detectives – mural detectives!
We urgently need information regarding the paintings at St. Marks.
These were painted by Kitty (Eleanor Catherine Wallace) Milroy, the daughter of the Vicar of Carisbrooke when the family relocated to The Oast House in Hale in the early 1900s.
Did you know that the figures in the murals were all local people from Hale? But who are they?
We have found out that ‘the third cherub from the right’ is Percy Hook.
Even this is a bit vague as it depends which way you happen to be looking as to which is right.
Hilda Mary Butler was a figure ‘dressed in blue’.
Can you remember anything that your Gran or Grandad said about the paintings or whether they were one of the figures or if they mentioned who was?
Anything at all will help us build up a picture so we can have the information when we apply for grants to stabilize the wall paintings.
Percy Hook recalled in the Farnham Herald (publ. Nov 30th 1990)
‘it was done by Miss Milroy, who lived at a big house on the corner of what they call Boxalls Hill. I remember sitting in a hut behind her house while she painted it, but not how it came about’
The paintings themselves are painted directly onto the wall so he must have been referring to her preliminary sketches and paintings not of which seem to have survived. The church paintings were painted with a modified version of the technique known as spirit fresco. It is recorded during the major restoration carried out by Evelyn Caesar in 1946, that she used Kitty Milroy’s technique employing a walnut of beeswax.
Indeed the two figures of Moon and Cloud are part of this restoration. But did you know that the small face above the window was also part of this restoration? Evelyn used her niece for this portrait, Josephine Jones (nee Caesar).
Apparently a Violet Common assisted Kitty with the paintings. Does anyone know if this is this true?
Unfortunately all the parish magazines from 1900-1983 are missing. If you know any that still exist before you dump them please hand them on as they provide a great insight as to what was going on and they may even mention the paintings.
These paintings are a unique part of our heritage and represent an important piece of the history of the short lived church decoration at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century.
What can you find out?
Thanks for your help detective.
Please contact
Nick Seversway
nick.seversway@outlook.com, 07954693191
Love your Church Sunday
Pictures of Love Your Church Sunday at St George’s
Love your church Sunday
We’re having a party on 11th February to show that we love our church – come and join the party, we were going to have balloons and cake and the opportunity to ask any question you want to ask during the sermon. Please put it in the diary and make it a priority.
Healing and Wholeness Service
There will be a service of healing and wholeness at St John’s on 10 February at 16:00 Please come along, there will be the opportunity to receive prayer and anointing with oil.
The Parish of Badshot Lea and Hale 