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A record breaking day!
We had a fantastic day last Sunday with the first of our Open Days for 2012. We had a record breaking 115 visitors! It was lovely to welcome back old friends and to make lots of new ones. We had a long day on Saturday clearing away our clutter to enable access to the altar, as a new feature this…
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Door finds its home.
The house ‘end’ of the church is becoming more defined as the partition wall has become plaster boarded. Its great to see the details within the wall, such as the window and door reveals, emerging. The door that we got from a salvage yard a couple of years ago has constantly been in the way, so its a relief for…
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Dates for Open Days 2012
Our Open Days this year will be: Sunday 13th May Saturday 7th July & Sunday 8th July Sunday 19th August 10am – 4pm
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A busy summer…
The last pieces of the giant jigsaw puzzle of the downstairs floor have been completed by Karl relaying the Minton encaustic tiles. They originally surrounded the Font. We have compacted the original design to fill in the gap in the centre and kept to laying the tiles diagonally. We are thrilled with the results and it makes an interesting feature…
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Powis Castle garden party
We were given the opportunity to have a stand at Powis Castle garden party to celebrate the Royal Wedding. It was a lovely day organised by The National Trust and Welshpool Town Council. We displayed information and photos on the historic connection between Powis Castle and Christ Church, as well as the explaining all the work we’ve done here. We…
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Open Days 2011
Click on the Open Days page (tab at top of home page) to view the dates of this years Open Days. We are also having a stand at Powis Castle as part of their Garden Party to celebrate the Royal Wedding on Friday 29th April.
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This year’s Open Days as part of Welshpool Town Council’s ‘Be a Local Tourist Week’ were a huge success. Thank you so much to everyone who came to visit us, over 160! It’s lovely to see familiar faces from previous years and the support is very uplifting. It is also so interesting meeting new people, some with a personal connection…
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Open Days
We have again been invited by Welshpool Town Council to open Christ Church for the public to view its interior as part of the annual ‘Be a Local Tourist Week’. This has previously been a great success for us as it is always uplifting to talk about our work here and to hear peoples reactions about the beauty of the…
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A little bit open…
During this lovely spell of spring sunshine, we have the church doors open to warm up the chilled air after the winter. Inevitably a church with open doors will draw in people! Therefore we have now dedicated the porch area for passing visitors to view the works from a safe distance and read about some of the work we have…
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Open Days 2009
By the invitation of Welshpool Town Council we opened Christ Church as part of the ‘Be a Local Tourist Week’. We cleared a small area adjacent to the South entrance and put up an informative exhibition on the history of Christ Church and the work we have done so far. Thanks to all 80+ of you who came! It is…
