Community Archaeology Project – reminder

A reminder that next Saturday (1st July) there’s a Community Archaeology Day at St Leonard’s. You can join professional archaeologists to carry out a geophysical survey of the churchyard. You’ll be shown how to use ground penetrating radar to uncover...

Community Archaeology Project

Planning is underway for a community archaeology project in Flamstead. Dr Kris Lockyear senior lecturer at University College London has visited St Leonard’s church to assess its potential for a geophys survey. Watch out for a volunteer call later in the year....

Slides from Open Evening 13th October 2022

If you were unable to attend the Heritage Project’s Open Evening on 13th October – or want to see them again – you can download them here (a low resolution version to keep the file size down). To register interest as a volunteer, just download the...

Open Evening Thursday 13th October

Come and find out about the year long building works that repaired the nave roof and much more besides. Along with all the other work carried out before and since, St Leonard’s has indeed been saved. This will be explained in a talk, together with the plans for...

Community Events at St Leonard’s

It has been wonderful seeing St Leonard’s being used for community events again. Last week it was the Young Person’s Puppet Theatre and “The Spirit of St Leonards”. It told the story of a young girl who travelled through nine centuries of church and village history....

Delivering a heritage project during a pandemic

In early March (2020) we heard the fantastic news that the National Lottery Heritage Fund had decided to award us the funding for the Delivery Phase of our project to repair the medieval nave roof and clerestory windows of St Leonard’s Church in Flamstead, and...