by editor | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog, event
The initial details of the Flamstead Arts Festival have been announced via our poster. It will take place on 6th to 9th June 2024. The full programme will follow in March and ticket sales will start in April. For now, save the dates.
by editor | Jan 26, 2024 | event
Re the previous post on Feb 15th, there will not be an event on Feb 15th to replace the expect lecture, except that the church will be open to view the newly returned bells: arrangements & times tbd. There will also be a bells blessing service on Sunday afternoon...
by editor | Jan 24, 2024 | event
The expert lecture by Mark Regan “Bells and the Landscape of English Memory” scheduled for February 15th has unavoidably had to be postponed. We are trying to arrange a replacement event on this date to co-incide with the return of the St Leonard’s...
by editor | Dec 11, 2023 | event
The third of the Flamstead Heritage / Flamstead Society expert lecture series for 2023/24 is on Monday December 18th at 7:30 pm in St Leonard’s Church, Flamstead. It’s to be given by Dr Irving Finkel and entitled “Board Games Old and New, Up and Down”. Dr Finkel is a...
by editor | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog, event, press & social media
From October 23rd to 25th, St Leonard’s bells were removed from their tower for the first time in 100 years. This event was newsworthy enough to be covered by both the BBC and ITV. ITV Anglia covered the story in their evening news broadcasts on October 24th....
by editor | Oct 24, 2023 | press & social media
The six bells at St Leonard’s are off for refurbishment for the first time in 100 years. The story was covered by Anglia TV in the 6 o’clock local news and can be viewed here. Look for “Watch the latest ITV News Anglia West programme”....
by editor | Sep 12, 2023 | event
Do you enjoy stories, drama and local history (some of it is Tudor gossip)? Are you free on Friday this week? (Please note that there is now no Saturday performance.) Come along to St Leonard’s to enjoy, ‘The Flamstead Files’: the Redbourn Players...
by editor | Sep 12, 2023 | event
Flamstead Heritage is pleased to provide further details of the “expert” lecture series, taking place in St Leonard’s Church, Flamstead between October 2023 and June 2024. Individual lectures are listed in the events calendar or you can view or...
by editor | Jul 18, 2023 | press & social media
Article by Carol Gibson first published on social media, 2023 The recent detailed study of the graffiti inside St Leonard’s has proved even more exciting than was anticipated. The leading archaeologist and historian Matthew Champion, who carried out the survey, has...
by editor | Jul 18, 2023 | press & social media
Article by Carol Gibson first published in Church and Village News, November 2022 Flamstead has had a great deal of press coverage recently due to the wonderful news that St Leonard’s church has been officially removed from the ‘Heritage at Risk’ register which is...