Facilities and features
Accessibility
You will find a welcome, we don't turn anyone away, but we are not signed up to to any network. For us, inclusivity is honouring those who wish to change things, and those who believe things should stay as they are.
Oh yes, the bog is big enough for a wheelchair pirouette.
It's on the blink, it might get fixed, but the vicar doesn't mumble.
We'll change your baby for any other than gets left here. Seriously, we have the padded shelf etc.
Our Building
Grade II*. Saved from demolition by SPAB in 1890.
We are putting in underfloor heating, and it's going to use a gas boiler. Despite the more simplistic campaigns of eco-warriors, such projects are possible and deemed responsible if the case for them are presented properly.
The best 21st century stained glass in the county, if not the country. Come and look!
We were told to put one in by Archdeacon Burnaby in the eighteenth century, and got round to it about 25 years ago, with a somewhat unsympathetic conversion of our north porch. The Chaplain was given the old medieval floor slabs to put in his house.
Music and Worship
Eight bells, with the third longest ropes in the country
Occasional, but don't expect to find details posted on this website. There's nothing worse than finding you favourite oratorio or pop-band was performing here last week, or seven years ago, and you've missed it
It's a "never mind the quality, feel the width" instrument c.1900.
Twice a month
This is a worship-band free zone for now.
Groups, Courses and Activities
We do one on Thursday mornings. The two village chapels are smaller and warmer and also do them weekly.
Sometimes the church gets messy, but we have a dedicated team of cleaning gentlemen and ladies-wot-do.
And we usually have craft sessions and such like at our monthly Family Service.
That's pretty well most of us, most of the time, but we try regularly to fail to act our age.
Help for Visitors
Zechariah 5:1&2
There are welcome leaflets of various sorts, usually near the jam and marmalade.
You can tour the church now, at http://www.clawson.uk
Pretty well always, except Jan to March 2026
Always open, except Jan to March 2026
Other Features
The Castle Field, the Church, the Old Manor House and the Old Vicarage all form a group, with fishponds going back maybe to 1070.
Some would say we are not, as we are putting in a new gas boiler. The difference is that this boiler, using the same amount of gas as the old one, will heat the church all winter not just for one hour on Sundays.