£1 November 2022
Pott Shrigley’s Church & Parish Magazine
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Milsom’s musings: ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ We have had some beautiful October days this year. Days of bright sunshine, highlighting the rich colours of the turning leaves. A wealth of fruitfulness at our fingertips. We are truly blessed and thank God for our beautiful world, especially as we enjoy the countryside in our own little corner of it.
Sandy Milsom It is, however, a world that we cannot take for granted when we think of the many problems associated with global warming. A recent talk, given as part of our Sunday morning worship by a speaker from Tearfund, made us think about our response to these problems. In a world where the poorest people suffer the effects of the climate changes the most, the injustice must make Christians everywhere want to
do something. The Tearfund Let’s Change the Climate challenge, which involves us taking a new challenge every day, gives us some pointers on how we can make a difference. I am up for this but going a whole day without electricity is something I would need to gear up towards. I have managed to limit the water I use, have perfected the fourminute shower and am washing up in a bowl, using the water to water the plants. I walk when I can but have to admit to a great big carbon footprint when I flew halfway round the globe to visit family. continued →
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Content
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Milsom's musings
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Cover story: HotPott triumphs!
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A last reminder…
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An Act for Chantries Collegiate
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A flying start
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And a good time was had...
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Zeppelins over Pott Shrigley!!
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A perfect autumn day…
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Sing carols
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Christingle
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Your vote, Your council
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Mouse Makes
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Coffee Break
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Suffering Church
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Registers
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Missionary Matters
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Flix in the Stix
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Recipe: Double chocolate roulade
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Services
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The challenges are not easy, and we need to reflect and pray. I know I have to make changes in my life choices; perhaps if we all did that we could have a big impact on the world. We all need to be reminded of our responsibilities as stewards of our beautiful planet, and as Christians we need to work towards a fairer world and eliminating injustice in it. We can all make a small change and work towards that goal. Devastating droughts and wild weather and flooding need not be the legacy we leave future generations if we act now. I am grateful to Tearfund for this timely reminder.
Four minute shower
And if you wish to support Tearfund’s work, please do come along to the Tearfund Big Quiz night; details on page 5.
Cover story: the HotPott graphics team triumphs! Every year the Association of Church Editors (ACE) runs a competition to encourage those of us who produce church and parish magazines to set their standards high; those with very long memories (and nothing much else to think about) may remember that in 2017 HotPott triumphed in the ‘Best Front Cover’ category.
Kath Matheson This year it was again the turn of A5 colour magazines to be judged, and we were delighted to be awarded the prize for the best graphics; it’s lovely that all Tess and Duncan’s hard work in laying out HotPott so expertly, and sourcing and editing photographs has been recognised. Without their input HotPott wouldn’t be so easy to read, or so much fun – so thank you both.
Chairman of ACE presenting the award to the editor
And thanks to them for allowing Andy and me to sneak into the front cover photo too…
*** A Sunday School teacher was teaching how God created everything, including human beings. One little boy seemed especially intent when she explained how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill. The little boy explained worriedly: “I have a pain in my side. I think I’m going to have a wife.” Page 4
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A last reminder… I hope you have all reserved your places for the Tearfund BIG QUIZ on Saturday 19th November 2022. If not, why not? Contact Mary Currell (573735) or Anne Murphy (07891953919) to reserve seats for this exciting event; it’s in the village hall, the bar will be open and there will be nibbles on the tables too.
Kath Matheson Last year we learnt of Tearfund’s life changing work in Burkina Faso, where drought means many can’t grow enough food to eat and families can’t afford to send their children to school or pay for necessary health care. Tearfund’s local partners, working alongside local churches, enable community members to farm in sustainable ways adapted to the changing climate; this makes a tremendous, positive difference to their daily lives. Great news, but so much more needs to be done in Burkina Faso and elsewhere! Last year Pott folk raised a magnificent £492 – but let’s see if we can beat this in 2022.
So come along! And bring your friends of course. An evening of great fun is guaranteed.
Cash donations can be given on the night, but online donations can be made at https://www.justgiving.com/ PottShrigleyTearFundQuiz2022
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An Act for Chantries Collegiate (1547) Last month we learned more of the intriguing relationship between Geoffrey Downes and Lady Joan Ingoldesthorpe and the place they had in the upper echelons of Tudor society. Sadly we now come to the final instalment..
Paul Bowden Remembering Geoffrey and Joan By the time the first flowers of the spring of 1495 had appeared, Geoffrey Downes and Lady Joan Ingoldesthorpe, whose lives and fortunes had been so closely connected for over 30 years, had both passed away. But neither had passed out of memory, in no short measure due to Geoffrey’s will. In this he specified that the Great Bell in the tower of the chapel at Pott Shrigley should be tolled in dirge, then sounded out every Tuesday in his and Joan’s memory. In addition, each day Father Richard and Father John, the two priests of the chantry, were to sing Mass for Geoffrey and Joan after reciting De Profundis (Psalm 130) and exhorting the congregation to pray for their souls; each Whit Sunday Geoffrey’s will was to ‘be read in the … Chapple between Mass and Mattens in the hearing of the People’. And this continuous cycle of ritual, prayers and remembrance
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would have been followed, led by two more generations of chantry priests (the successors to Fathers Richard and John), for the next 54 years. During these years, the ‘Brothern and Sistern’ of the Pott chantry and their social gatherings, the chantry school and library and Geoffrey and Joan’s charity, which loaned out cows to the poor, were the foundation of daily life for those who lived in the extended rural community around Pott Shrigley. No one would have imagined that this would ever change. But it did. Reformation: change but not an ending In 1533 Pope Clement refused to annul the marriage of King Henry VIII and his Queen, Catherine of Aragon. It was at a time of tumult - religious, political and economic – across the whole of Europe that we now speak of as the Protestant Reformation. It was, however, King Henry’s ‘Great Question’ of his marriage to Catherine and subsequent stand-off with the Pope that triggered the first phase of the Reformation in England. In 1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, which made Henry the head of the Church in England and ended the Pope’s authority, thus setting in train the decades-long and tortuous process that resulted in the Church of England emerging as the established, Protestant, national church. Along the way there were dramatic religious and social changes, one of the greatest being the dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales. Their vast land ownings and wealth were effectively confiscated by the Crown, with much of their property being sold off to the highest bidders from amongst the rising HotPott - November 2022
class of local gentry around the country. In Christian religion…[comes from] …devising 1545, two years before his death, King Henry, and phantasysing vain opinions of purgatory needing to finance his plans to renew his war …the which doctrine and vain opinion, by with France and following his nothing more is maintained ‘…It is now ordained and upholden, than by the ‘success’ in asset-stripping and enacted the monasteries, turned his abuse of trentals [Masses said attention to the chantries, …That all manner of for the dead], chantries and many of which, like Pott, colleges, free chapels other provisions made for the were endowed with land and continuance of ….blindness and chantries property to fund their religious and ignorance’. …and all manors, and social works. The first Disposing of the spoils, and lands, tenements, Abolition of Chantries Act was the deposed passed to seize the assets of rents The Act was implemented, many of the several thousand …belonging to them under the authority of the chantries in England and ...shall be adjudged Court of Augmentations (a Wales. This Act was never fully and deemed also to body devised by Thomas implemented but in 1547 his be in the very real and Cromwell when the son, the young King Edward VI, passed another more actual possession and monasteries were dissolved), quickly, systematically and detailed and wide-ranging seisin of the King our ruthlessly; by Easter 1548 Abolition of Chantries Act sovereign Lord…’ everything would belong which eradicated virtually all An Act for Chantries to the King. A commission chantries and appropriated all was established to survey, their assets, even the stipends Collegiate, I take an account of and of the chantry priests, their Edward VI c.14 (1547) certify everything owned by vestments, church ornaments every chantry and religious and the money raised by the fraternity in the country. The property seized chantry fraternities such as the ‘Brethren was to be converted to ‘good and godly of Our Lady and St John’ at Pott. Edward’s uses'. No doubt conscious that much of the motive was more ideological. He and his government were avowedly Protestant in aim and ambition and therefore determined to expunge aspects of Roman Catholic belief and practice, notably the doctrine of purgatory, which held that for many there was a mid-state after death in which God’s love would, over time, purge their remaining earthly sins and thus prepare their souls for their entry into Heaven. The prayers of the living for the dead were believed to ease and speed that process; that, of course, was what chantries were for. Little wonder that the chantries became targets of the radical Protestant reformers. The Act of 1547 is clear in its purpose. It begins by stating ‘…a great part of the errors and superstition in continued → Edward VI HotPott - November 2022
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country’s educational system was run by the chantry priests, one of the main uses of the appropriated funds was to continue existing schools or establish new ones; this explains why there are so many King Edward’s Grammar Schools across the country today. Another ‘good and godly’ use was deemed the relief of poverty by non-religious charities and institutions. This was achieved by the Crown selling the confiscated chantry lands and property for the benefit of the Exchequer to the country gentry and to urban entrepreneurs and speculators at knockdown prices. By 1547 the English Reformation had become ‘Brexit on steroids’ and there was no turning back. So what became of the chantries and the chantry priests? Chantry chapels in churches and cathedrals were stripped and simply merged back into the church estate in which they were located. Free chantries, particularly in towns, were deconsecrated and became shops and houses, sometimes to the disbelief and despair of the local community. Those chantries that had always been closely connected with regular worship within a broader parish setting, such as the chapel at Pott Shrigley in the ancient Prestbury parish, were incorporated into the
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emerging parochial structure of the Church of England. The chantry priests, by and large, lost their homes as well as their positions. The 1547 Act provided for those chantry priests rendered jobless to be paid small pensions out of the proceeds of the disposals of chantry property. A number of chantry priests, however, maintained their personal ministry by becoming full-time teachers in what had previously been their chantry school; others became lay pastoral assistants with a stipend; yet others became members of the mainstream clergy as curates and assistant ministers and, in very few cases, as incumbents with their own parish. The fate of Geoffrey’s chapple What happened in 1548 to our chantry and chapel at Pott? The Cheshire County Rolls hold the record taken of the survey done by the Commission established under the 1547 Act of ‘all chantries, free chappells, fraternities, brotherhoods and stipendiary priests in the county of Chester’; this includes a return for the chapel at Pott. The entry tells us that in 1548 there were then three chantry altars and three chantry priests: Richard Thurland, aged 60, Ralph Raynshaw, aged 54, and Hugh Curryer (or Turner), aged 52. Their total stipends came to £13 14s (around £40,000 today), leaving a surplus from rents and other chantry income of £12 14s (about £37,000), a considerable sum that was probably used for the Pott chantry school and for relieving poverty in the local community. There were plate and jewels in the chantry and the chantry goods and ornaments were valued at what HotPott - November 2022
in modern money would be about £6,000. The bells in the tower and the lead on the roof were also noted, no doubt with an eye on the chapel being demolished and these being sold for scrap; they are mentioned again, with specific reference to three bells which would have included Geoffrey’s Great Bell, in a later Cheshire County record of account for 1549-50. This second document also details the lands and endowments that belonged to the Pott chantry, which included property on the Isle of Thanet in Kent which is likely to have been given by Lady Joan Ingoldesthorpe. For the small rural chantry chapel that it was, Pott, on the eve of its abolition, was flourishing and financially very well placed. But everything (apart, thankfully, from the bells and the roof lead) was sold off. The chantry’s land holdings were marketed in small lots and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a number of these were bought by members of the Downes family, namely Geoffrey Downes’ great-great-grandnephews, for whom the chantry that Geoffrey had laboured to found was clearly more a business opportunity than a source of reverence or family pride. Pott’s reprieve Perhaps the most significant record in the entire history of St Christopher’s, however, is a small note, a brief memorandum that appears at the end of the 1548 Commissioners’ report. It reads: ‘ …the same chappell [of Pott] is a chappell of ease, having four hundred houslying people belonging to the same, and is distaunt from their parishe churche [St. Peter’s Prestbury] three myles, and it is necessary to have a Curet appointed to the same.’ This was a sort of deliverance. Had the Commissioners not written these few words for the attention of those in the Court of Augmentations everything would probably have been erased, including the church building that is now St Christopher’s. What the Commissioners were saying, whether or HotPott - November 2022
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not the hard line Protestant reformers on the Court and their more worldly lawyers and business managers wanted to hear it, was that there were 400 observant and regular communicants (that is what ‘houslying people’ means) who, with their families and dependants probably numbered over 1,000, had become a community whose lives and faith was centred on the chapel at Pott and the chantry life that Geoffrey Downes and Joan Ingoldesthorpe had created half a century before. This was an unusual plea from the Commissioners for the Pott community and its centre of worship and social fabric to be maintained, particularly when we can assume that most of the congregation and community of Pott still thought of themselves as Catholics, or were just hopelessly confused. There could be no more chantry priests or masses for the dead, no more meetings of the formal ‘Brethren of Our Lady and St John’ and no more ringing of the bells throughout the day, but the Pott chapel would survive as a chapel of ease and daughter church of St Peter’s Prestbury. As it was to become solely a place of ordinary and regular parochial worship, and no longer of chantry devotion, Page 9
teaching the children in what had been the chantry school, or they may just have taken their small pensions and lived out the rest of their lives tending a few sheep. Reflections
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it should have its own curate, wrote the Commissioners. This happened. We do not know who, of Father Richard, Father Ralph and Father Hugh, became the first curate of Pott, but undoubtedly it was one of them. It is an extraordinary thought that the first in what today is a long and unbroken line of curates, vicars and priests in charge of Pott Shrigley began his ordained ministry as a Roman Catholic priest who served in a chantry. Whoever it was, we do not know what became of the other two priests. They may have continued to serve the Pott chapel community in a pastoral role or by
The story of our church and community in Pott Shrigley, as sketched out in this series of articles, is historically rich; some aspects will have been unexpected – not least perhaps the connections between a small chapel and its folk in a far corner of rural Cheshire and some of the greatest personalities and national events of the late Middle Ages. We can draw our own conclusions from the narrative. A personal reflection, in researching and writing these articles, has been how a community such as Pott can, in its character and ways of working, endure across many generations and many centuries, whatever events and history present, particularly where the community is one founded on faith. Perhaps this remarkable continuity at Pott should nudge us to reflect a little on the relationship and connection between those of us who are alive today and those who have lived before us, whether or not we see that relationship between the living and the dead in quite the same way as our forebears for whom death was ever-present. ‘Orate pro bono valence Galfridi Downes, que istam caellam fieri fecit.’ (Pray for the dignity of Geoffrey Downes who had this chapel built.)
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Who would have thought that a chance remark, made after vicarage dog Belle appeared at the Pet Service in summer 2021, that the will of Geoffrey Downes in 1492 specifies that ‘…the Priest keep noe Horse, ne Hawke, ne Hound, …’ would lead to such a fascinating and illuminating series of articles. Thank you so much to Paul for all the many hours he has spent researching, collating and writing, thus making this history accessible to all of us. HotPott - November 2022
A flying start… Class 2 at Pott Shrigley Church School got off to a flying start this term with a trip to Runway Visitor Park at Manchester Airport. The children were treated to a tour of a Monarch DC10 and had the chance to dress up as a number of different airport officials, identify the fundamental parts of an aircraft and look at some examples of different planes. It was particularly exciting to visit the flight deck as well as watching aircraft take-off and land from the outdoor viewing area. Class 2 teacher, Rachel Millington, commented: ‘It’s been a fabulous visit and really cemented what we’ve learned so far this term in our topic Up, Up and Away. The children have enjoyed every aspect of the day, but the highlight was definitely seeing the world’s largest Emirates plane come in to land.’
And a good time was had…
September and Dennis’s 90th birthday on 14th October. Rhona and Dennis are faithful members of the St Christopher’s church family, usually worshipping with us online these days. Dennis learnt to ring shortly after we installed three additional bells in 1986 and rang with us until his health prevented him from continuing.
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We understand that Rhona and Dennis had a lovely couple of days; lots of cake was consumed, together with a suitable amount of fizz… Not sure if they have received their congratulatory card from King Charles yet – he has somewhat of a back log apparently! Very many congratulations to them both. Page 11
Zeppelins over Pott Shrigley!!
Believe it or not there was a Zeppelin raid over Pott Shrigley during the First World War!
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor and retired army officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin first formulated his ideas in 1874, but didn’t develop them in detail until 1893; this flying weapon was lighter than air, filled with hydrogen, and held together by a steel framework. After the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the word ‘zeppelin’ came to be commonly used to refer to all rigid airships.
Mike Akerman When the war started in 1914, the German armed forces had several Zeppelins, each capable of travelling at about 85mph and carrying up to two tonnes of bombs. Initially they were used for reconnaissance, but with military deadlock on the Western Front the Germans decided to use them against towns and cities in Britain. Although by the end of the war, Zeppelin raids had killed more than 500 people, injured over a thousand and destroyed property and vital infrastructure, such as around London docks, their main value seems to have been in terrorising the population: for the first time Britains were being attacked from the air whilst sleeping; death not only happened on the battlefield, but in people’s homes, and this was terrifying, especially as the Zeppelins came out of the dark so couldn’t be seen; it was impossible to know where the bombs would fall. The propaganda value was enormous. The first Zeppelin raid on Britain targeted the eastern coastal towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on 19 January 1915, and attacks Page 12
Zeppelin L21 in hangar
continued largely along the eastern side of Britain, which was more easily reached from Germany. Germany's most successful Zeppelin commander, Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Mathy, led the most destructive attack of the war on 8th September 1916. London was set alight, buildings were destroyed and by the time the attack was over 22 people were dead, 87 had received horrific injuries and the Zeppelin had escaped into the night completely unharmed. The raid on Pott Shrigley by Zeppelin L21 began on 27th November 1916, when 10 Navy Zeppelins set off from Germany; one group was heading for the North East and the second for the north Midlands. Three of the airships failed to cross the English coast and another, after inflicting damage on the surrounding area, was shot down off Hartlepool by a Royal Flying Corps pilot; all 20 of the Zeppelin’s crew was lost. Zeppelin HotPott - November 2022
L21 crossed the Yorkshire coast at Atwick just north of Hornsea. Her commander, Kapitanleutnant Kurt Frankenburg, steered towards Leeds but was attacked by antiaircraft fire. Just after midnight he dropped a high-explosive bomb and two incendiaries near Dodworth, Barnsley. Despite passing over several industrial areas he followed a southwest course over the largely uninhabited Peak District, passing over Edale at 12:35am before reaching Pott Shrigley where Frankenburg dropped an incendiary which narrowly missed the brickworks; presumably he was attracted by the light of the kilns. Frankenburg then headed south, harmlessly dropping a single high-explosive bomb near another brickworks at Kidsgrove before moving on to Stoke on Trent, where the Zeppelin’s bombs and incendiaries injured a man and caused damage to property. Frankenburg then turned for home, but the Royal Flying Corps caught up with him over Lincolnshire. Skilful manoeuvering helped him to evade attack initially, but after crossing Norfolk, as he passed over the Suffolk coast, the brightening sky allowed three aircraft from the Royal Navy Air Service to pursue Zeppelin L21 and shoot it down with the loss of all her crew.
bullets; the government also became acutely aware that they needed an effective aerial defence system and this ultimately led to the formation of the RAF. The last ever attempt to bomb Britain by a Zeppelin was over the Norfolk coast on 5th August 1918.
As death and destruction from Zeppelin raids increased, the government developed anti-aircraft systems, including explosive
The source of the above information is acknowledged with thanks: 27/28 Nov 1916 (iancastlezeppelin.co.uk) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27517166
My mother tells me that her maternal grandmother witnessed Zeppelin L21 coming over the north end of The Potteries (she lived in Burslem, directly under its flight path from Kidsgrove to the southeast of Stoke). Apparently, everyone in their street came out of their house to stare up at it, more in curiosity than horror. I remember my paternal grandmother (nan) telling me about seeing the Zeppelin over Fenton; she was just 12 years old. The eerie throbbing noise the ship made was frightening, but despite this everyone came out of their houses to look at the spectacle. Nan remembered the bombs dropping, but no one was hurt and two of the bombs didn’t explode. The airship seemed to be following a train on the Kidsgrove to Derby line – presumably the pilot could see the fire box, and the sparks that showered in their thousands from steam trains. Unfortunately for the pilot, the train disappeared into the Meir tunnel and, realising that they were being followed, stayed there until the Zeppelin had drifted off! Editor.
*** A curate took his rather old car to the garage for an oil change. After the mechanic had briefly inspected under the bonnet, he turned to the young man and said: “If I were you, I’d keep the oil and change the car.” *** Zeppelin bomb damage; Imperial War Museum HotPott - November 2022
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A perfect autumn day… Yvonne has been busy and, helped by Sheila, has created a new route for us to try – number four in our prayer walk series. On Saturday 22nd October the weather was perfect: dry with glorious autumnal sunshine. Six of us met at The Coffee Tavern to complete prayer walk number four. In addition, David and Paul met with us in the car park; although they were unable to join us to walk, they prayed with us before we set off.
Anne Murphy Our route took us across the field footpaths just opposite The Coffee Tavern, following the North Cheshire Way and Heritage Walk paths which led us round the back of the Eastwood End caravan park. We continued until we reached the small pool with the wooden bridge where we lingered for a while to enjoy the beauty all around us and the warmth of the sunshine. We then headed to the canal, joining it at the Adlington Basin and walking past the marina. The towpath was popular with walkers and the canal was being well used by several groups of geese swimming in formation. The geese soon lost interest in us when they realised we had no bread to feed them! Leaving the canal at the next bridge
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we followed the path towards Simpson Lane before climbing the stile to rejoin the North Cheshire Way back to The Coffee Tavern. We stopped at regular intervals along the route and prayed for a variety of things, people and situations that our surroundings brought to mind, asking God to speak to us through what we saw and heard. We finished our walk with words from Psalm 146: ‘Praise the Lord! Let all that I am praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath’ and the reminder from Matthew 7:7 that the Lord who loves us says: ‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you’, before closing with a final prayer and repairing to The Coffee Tavern for some very welcome refreshments; it was super to have Glen and David join us
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there. The filled oatcakes, chocolate cake, coffee and tea are highly recommended! Thank you to fellow walkers Yvonne, Ros, Madeline, Ed and Annette for your company, fellowship and prayers. Prayer walking was introduced to Pott Shrigley Church as part of our response to Festival Manchester's Love Where You Live
initiative. We plan to organise a prayer walk approximately every couple of months. The leaflets for all four of our suggested prayer walk routes around Pott Shrigley are available in St Christopher’s Church, The Coffee Tavern and Shrigley Hall Hotel and can be used at any time. If you want to find out more about prayer walking, please contact Yvonne or Anne.
Christmas is coming ... ... and with it the opportunity to sing carols!
We will be holding our Carols by Candlelight services (indoors) on Sunday 18th December at 10.45am and 6.30pm and on Thursday 22nd December at 6.30pm. As in previous years, we will be forming a group to lead the singing of the carols. If you enjoy singing, you are most welcome to join - no previous experience needed.
The rehearsals will be at 8pm on the following Tuesdays and Thursdays:
- Thursday 27th October - Tuesday 1st November - Thursday 10th November - Thursday 15th November. Please note the change of date! - Tuesday 22nd November - Thursday 1st December - Tuesday 6th December - Thursday 15th December
Christingle… looking forward to the Light of the World How lovely it will be to start our seasonal services with Christingle on Sunday, 11th December at 10.45! The sight of candles lighting up the darkness is such a powerful symbol of Jesus coming to bring His everlasting light to a world which so needs His guidance and hope. As usual, we will be collecting for The Children’s Society, a Christian charity that does such amazing work with the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the UK. Unfortunately, the need for The Children’s Society’s work has increased exponentially over the last few years, but their income has not – so HotPott - November 2022
please give generously. So – please pick up a Christingle candle collecting box from the back of church (available from mid-November) and fill it with whatever cash you can. The boxes will be collected at the Christingle service, or if you can’t come to that (though we hope you can join us then!), they could be left at other services too. Donations can also be made online at https://www. justgiving.com/fundraising/ pottshrigleychristingle Please contact Liz Arrowsmith for more details: 01625 875219. Page 15
Highways
Your Vote Your Council
New/Updated/Completed: Damage to village hall roof by articulated lorry: A meeting between Cheshire East Council (CEC) Highways and Cllr Saunders, David Garton and Joyce Burton on 30th September discussed possible modifications to the road layout. The simplest solution is for the kerb to be extended for a short distance. Cllr Saunders offered to fund it with the ward councillors’ allocation in the next financial year. The cones are to remain in situ.
Alison Greenwood Double yellow lines on the Pott Hall and Spuley Lane bends: Full permission for the work is now in place and the yellow lining will be completed within the next eight weeks; specific dates to be confirmed.
Pending:
Remedial resurfacing of Shrigley Road from Green Close to the aqueduct. Modifications to the Shrigley Hall bend. Repair of fingerpost at junction of Street Lane and London Road. Collapsed wall on Bakestonedale. Delay to planning applications: CEC has responded to David Rutley MP following Pott Shrigley’s complaint of the slow processing of planning applications. Their response indicated reasons for the delay. Telephone kiosk Following the purchase of the village phone kiosk, a notice is now displayed in the kiosk indicating the change of ownership from BT to the parish council. An additional document outlines the methods and materials required for the telephone kiosk maintenance. Village green A member of the public complained to both the parish clerk and Fields in Trust, the organisation which helps protect parks and green open spaces in the UK, regarding the grazing of sheep on the village green which they felt prevented them from using the area. Fields in Trust responded: ‘You will now have heard back from the Parish Clerk. I'm very happy that the way the Parish Council is managing the space is in accordance with our objectives and trust that you will be able to liaise with the Parish Council in the future.’ This resolved the issue; the complainant subsequently wrote to say that they agreed with Fields in Trust that the parish council are doing a great job. Gas lamp
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previously involved in the repair/servicing of the gas lamp as the lamp is permanently on. A reply was received which contained instructions for fitting new batteries and an offer of Facetime help should it be required. The faulty valve has been repaired Gas lamp and new batteries installed but to no avail. Cllr Wray will make contact again for further advice. North East Cheshire Community Partnership (NECCP) Cllr Johanna Maitland from Bollington is now the chair of this group. A new Facebook page is operational and requires interaction so please find and ‘like’ it if possible: https:// www.facebook.com/nec.community. partnership/ Cllr Boulton presented the priorities for this area; these will be discussed during the production of the new plan. One idea was to create a new Pott Shrigley website (in addition to the parish council and church sites) containing information on all that Pott Shrigley has to offer; this would be like the directory produced by the parish council in 2014 but would obviously be easier to add to and update. Planning Appeal 21/4435M Heatherdale Farm, SK10 5RZ Conversion of an existing agricultural barn to a single dwelling. The original application and the resubmission were not accepted by the HotPott - November 2022
parish council and refused by CEC. Action: The clerk will make a representation to the appeal resubmitting the same comment as before. Pending 21/1251M (08.03.21) Nab Quarry, SK10 5SD Resubmission for the regularisation of warehouse storage buildings and demolition of existing shed and replacement with two storey office building. 21/1283M (08.03.21) Separate application for warehouse for MRI Polytech. 21/6312M (21.12.21) Shrigley View, SK10 5SE Enclosure of existing external staircase, conversion of garage to living accommodation and single storey extension. 22/0078M (11.01.22) Woodside, SK10 5SA Two storey rear extension, new photovoltaic array on south facing roof, detached workshop / storage area and works to highway to create a dropped kerb to provide vehicular access to driveway. NP/CEC/0222/0213 Keepers Cottage, SK10 5RZ New agricultural barn. NP/CEC/0122/0080 Keepers Cottage, SK10 5RZ Demolition of existing property and rebuild NP/CEC/0322/0436 Moorside Quarry, SK10 5RZ Siting of one residential caravan following removal of plant and container storage. Erection of three additional stables following removal of the existing caravan. 21/6042M 11 Normans Hall Mews, SK10 5SE 22/2809M 10, Normans Hall Mews, SK10 5SE Rear extension along the party wall boundary to give a garden room to each property. Re-submission of application. Next meeting The next meeting will take place at 8pm on Monday 7th November 2022. Page 17
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Coffee Break Across 1 and 20 Down ‘Lord of all _, Lord of all _, whose trust, ever child-like, no cares could destroy’(11,3) 9 Moses' question to a fighting Hebrew labourer: ‘Why are you _ your fellow Hebrew?” (Exodus 2:13) (7) 10 Acclaimed cellist who contracted multiple sclerosis at the height of her fame, Jacqueline _ (2,3) 11 ‘At even _ the sun was set, the sick, O Lord, around thee lay’(3) 13 A descendant of Gad (Numbers 26:16) (4) 16 ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but _ for the gift my Father promised’ (Acts 1:4) (4) 17 Clambers (Jeremiah 48:44) (6) 18 Peter’s response to questioning by the Sanhedrin: ‘We must _God rather than men!’ (Acts 5:29) (4) 20 Christian paraplegic author, artist and campaigner, _ Eareckson Tada (4) 21 Bird partial to the nests of other birds (6) 22 ‘Such large crowds gathered round him that he got into a boat and sat _ _’ (Matthew 13:2) (2,2) 23 Infectious tropical disease (4) 25 Tree (3) 28 ‘No fear of me should _ you, nor should my hand be heavy upon you’(Job 33:7) (5) 29 For example, to Titus, Timothy or Philemon (7) 30 Week beginning with Pentecost Sunday, according to the Church’s calendar (11) Down 2 ‘O Jerusalem... how _ I have longed to gather your children together’ Matthew 23:37) (5)
3 Way out (4) 4 Exhort (Romans 12:1) (4) 5 Done (anag.) (4) 6 Highest of the four voice-parts in a choir (7) 7 Concerning the study of God (11) 8 Uniquely, it has Abbey, Cathedral and Chapel (11) 12 Admonish (Matthew 16:22) (6) 14 Frozen (3) 15 Established form of religious ceremony (6) 19 Inscription often found on gravestones (7) 20 See 1 Across 24 Behaved (Joshua 7:1) (5) 25 Time (anag.) (4) 26 Lists choice of meals (4) 27 ‘For the wages of sin is death, but the _ of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord’ (Romans 6:23) (4)
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The Suffering Church
It was good to have Canon Trevor Green from Open Doors, an organisation which gives practical and spiritual support to persecuted Christians, lead our 10.45 service recently. He introduced Open Doors’ work by speaking from 1 Peter 1: although Christian testing (persecution) is real, it is only temporary, it refines our faith, and it means encountering more of Jesus. Trevor brought lots of literature for us to learn more about Open Doors, but if you missed this, please look at their website (www.opendoorsuk.org) and please consider supporting their work. Trevor mentioned the Bishop of Truro’s report on the persecution of Christians, which was produced at the request of the government; although the latter promised to implement all the report’s recommendations and appointed Fiona Bruce, MP for Congleton, to lead their programme, nothing seems to have changed. Trevor reports Open Doors are leaning on both the government and Fiona Bruce; please pray for effective action to result from this. Trevor reminded us that there are 360 million Christians worldwide suffering for their faith. In 2021 2,000 Christians in Nigeria lost their lives at the hands of militant Muslims simply because they were Christians; unfortunately, this appears not to be newsworthy in the UK. The media reports other atrocities, such as the recent murders at a Thai nursery, so why are they silent about the slaughter of 2,000 Christians? Are we just too accustomed to these atrocious figures? Is it old news? Are the media reluctant to report black on black violence for fear of being accused of racism or
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Brother Andrew; Christianity Today
Islamophobia? Those of us Christians who are free to worship without fear should not be afraid to make a big noise about the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Christ. The recent death of Brother Andrew is a salutary moment for all those who support and champion the cause of persecuted Christians throughout the world. This brave Christian was perhaps better known as God’s Smuggler for his work delivering Bibles to the underground church behind the Iron Curtain; his work and inspiration resulted in the the founding of Open Doors, an organisation he led for decades. The tribute in Barnabasaid mentioned three particularly inspiring aspects of Brother Andrew’s life: firstly, he loved others so much that he was prepared to take great risks for the people he served. Secondly, he prized the Word of God greatly. He did not just smuggle Bibles to feed the faith of those who were persecuted, but he read the Bible, studied it and preached from the Word of God. Thirdly, he lived a brave life, trusting only in the Lord for his safety. Brother Andrew’s life exemplified Joshua 1:9: ‘Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.’ Give thanks HotPott - November 2022
Iranian-Armenian pastor & 4 christian converts, Iran; Barnabas
for the ministry of Brother Andrew and his outstanding commitment, in so many ways, to alleviating the suffering of persecuted Christians throughout the world. We hope to have a further tribute to Brother Andrew next month. Editor. And so to some of the latest problems for Christians around the world. A Christian who converted from Islam four years ago whilst at university has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal in Misrata, north-west Libya. He has been arrested several times by Libyan militias, which serve as law enforcers in this chaotic country, but more recently he was sentenced to death for apostasy after refusing to return to Islam. The complex political and legal situation in Libya means it is unclear whether this death penalty can be enforced legitimately, but the Maliki school of Sunni Islam, which is dominant in Libya, teaches that the death penalty is mandatory for sane male and female apostates from Islam.
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In Iran an Iranian-Armenian pastor and four female Christian converts lost their appeals against jail terms and fines imposed because of their involvement in house churches of converts from Islam. All five were convicted in 2020 of 'forming and operating illegal organisations (house churches) with the aim of disrupting the security of the country’. The pastor was also found guilty of propagating evangelical Christianity and of having ‘established a group to attract Muslims’. The Christians’ lawyer condemned the appeal court’s ruling as it was reached 'without an actual hearing, and with a complete disregard of the extensive and well-reasoned defence offered’. In Burma the Myanmar military (the Tatmadaw) shelled the town of Moebye in Shan State in early September; 100 homes were destroyed and a seven-year-old boy was killed. The Tatmadaw occupied the local church for several days, abandoning articles
Church in Moebye, Myanmar; Barnabas
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of military uniform inside and leaving mines laid outside the church building. Townsfolk were warned not to approach the site until mines had been cleared from the area. Moebye was attacked repeatedly in June 2021 too, leading more than 5,000 people to flee their homes. The Tatmadaw, which seized power in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in a coup in February 2021, has for many years persecuted the Christian-majority Chin, Kachin and Karen ethnic groups, as well as
the large Christian communities in Kayah and Shan states and the Muslim-majority Rohingya. Please pray for all our persecuted Christian brothers and sisters, that they will remain resolute in their faith, and that their suffering will be relieved. Thank you to Trevor Green, Open Doors and Barnabas Fund for the information contained in the above article.
Congratulations to Ed and Joe Swales on their weddings; Ed to Ellie in September, and Joe to Rebekkah in October. A busy time for David, Kim and their family – no wonder he decided to retire!
From the Registers Baptism We welcome into our church family: 23rd October Florence Mary Carolan 23rd October Felix Arthur Weston
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Missionary Matters Megumi and Helen Fazakerley are so wonderfully regular with their monthly prayer letters from Malawi, which are so useful in knowing how to pray for them and their work.
John Ryley Helen has been able to celebrate three Mother’s Days this year: in the UK in March, in Australia in May, and now in Malawi in October, the latter being based on the birthday of the wife of Malawi’s first president after independence, Hastings Banda. Helen reckons this is only fair as she has raised three children! Otherwise, Helen has had a busier than usual month with meetings, emails, Bible studies, and helping team colleagues who are unwell. She also cooks a monthly men’s breakfast; most of the attendees insist on having their blood pressure checked afterwards! I wonder what she cooks for them! Editor. Things in Malawi are somewhat difficult currently with rotating 10-hour shifts of power cuts every day and a shortage of petrol; although Helen and Megumi are, for climate change reasons, keen to limit their vehicle usage, lack of petrol has also curtailed their ability to support those of their colleagues who live some distance away. Megumi and Helen have attended an international Baptist church in Blantyre for a year now and feel really blessed by
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the preaching, worship and fellowship they find there. They enjoy the quieter, more traditional 7.00am English service but meet up with worshippers at the Chichewa and other English services at the Bible study/care groups the church operates around the city. At the Evangelical Bible College of Malawi, the second semester has now finished; Megumi was able to finish the New Testament syllabus because his 36 students gave up four hours of their free time each week to enable him to catch up! He is now working through issues which surfaced during the course, improving resources and tightening up on time allocation for modules, ready for his next batch of students. Do pray for the students that they will not only learn at college, but that their lives, outlook and calling will be transformed by the working of the Holy Spirit. Megumi is also in regular touch with the Bible Society about the Chichewa translation of the Bible, which is now 100 years old and has many inaccuracies; he hopes to persuade them to produce a thoroughly revised, more reliable text. It was great to have Johnny McClean visit us from Thailand a few weeks ago. Daughter Bethan is safely installed in the University of East Anglia and Johnny is back in Bangkok with wife Ann and son Joshua. Herewith a few gleanings from their Facebook account: Thailand has experienced several serious
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Typhoon Noru, Bangkok
Mourner at day care centre, NE Thailand; NY Times
problems recently. Firstly, torrential rain towards the end of September, followed by typhoon Noru; 150,000 households were affected, and it took Ann over two hours to do the six-mile journey to school during one of the storms. Then in October political turmoil returned with demonstrations and divisions in society becoming ever-more apparent. Later in the month, in north-east Thailand an ex-policeman killed 36 people, including 24 children, and injured many more. Please pray for all those affected by the adverse weather in Thailand (and elsewhere in the world!), for political stability and for everyone injured or grieving following the massacre. Pray too for the Christian Afghan refugee family (A, S and M) the McCleans have supported for several years now, that they would be able to take up the offer of asylum in Australia and move there soon. Pray especially for S, whose close friend was recently killed by a bomb blast in western Kabul. Ann has been very encouraged at the international church she is now attending with Joshua by meeting Gift, a girl she discipled 10 years ago and whom she hadn’t seen for five years. Gift was on a flying visit from Washington DC, where she is now living, married, serving in a local church and working for the United Nations. Gift was accompanied by her mum, at a church for the first time, and wanting to find a Thai church! Pray that Ann will be able to link her with a Thai Christian who will be able to support and encourage her along the road of her Christian
faith. This meeting is a precious reminder of ministry fruit not always seen. Johnny is back working with the Langham preaching clubs, encouraging and teaching pastors from several countries in South East Asia. Some time ago he visited a neighbouring country for a week to lead a teaching seminar but felt the visit somewhat dangerous so did the next course from home online. However, he and a colleague are now proposing to go back in person in November to run a face-to-face course; please pray for their safety, and for all those who seek to spread the Gospel where it is dangerous to do so.
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Recipe of the Month Double chocolate roulade
This is the ‘go-to’ pudding for special occasions in the Matheson household, being an especially good version of the classic chocolate roulade. In keeping with her chocolate obsession, Alex has amassed several recipe books entirely devoted to it; this concoction comes from the best ever chocolate collection.
Kath Matheson Serves 8. Ingredients for cake: 4 eggs, separated 115g (4oz) golden caster sugar 115g (4oz) plain chocolate, melted & cooled 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules, dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water, cooled Icing sugar to decorate Cocoa powder for dusting Fresh raspberries or blueberries to serve
Filling: 250ml (9fl oz) whipping cream 140ml (5oz) white chocolate, broken into pieces 3 tablespoons Tia Maria or brandy, rum or orange juice
Method: Preheat the oven to 180oC/350oF/Gas mark 4. Line a 23x33cm (9x13”) Swiss roll tin with nonstick baking paper. Whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until pale and mousse-like. Fold in the chocolate, then the coffee. Place the egg whites in a clean bowl and whisk till stiff but not dry. Stir a little of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture, then fold in the remainder. Pour into the tin and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until firm. Cover with a damp tea towel and leave in the tin for 8 hours or overnight. HotPott - November 2022
Meanwhile make the filling: Heat the cream until almost boiling. Place the chocolate in a food processor and chop roughly. With the motor running, pour the cream through the feed tube, process till smooth. Stir in the Tia Maria, brandy, rum or orange juice. Transfer to a bowl and cool; chill for 8 hours or overnight.
To assemble the roulade: Whisk the chocolate cream until soft peaks form. Cut a sheet of greaseproof paper larger than the roulade, place on a work surface and sift icing sugar over it. Turn the roulade onto the paper, peel away the lining paper, spread the chocolate cream over the roulade and roll up from the short side nearest to you. Transfer to a serving dish, seam side down. Chilling for 2 hours makes the roulade easier to cut but is not essential. Dust with cocoa powder, then serve with raspberries or blueberries. The completed roulade freezes well; remove several hours before it’s needed and defrost in the fridge.
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Services 6th November. 8.30am 10.45am
Holy Communion Holy Communion ‡
2 Thess 2:1-5, 13-17, Luke 20:27-38
Jonny Frost
Holy Communion Morning Worship‡**
2 Thess 3:6-13, Luke 21:5-19
Simon Bessant
Holy Communion Family Service
Colossians 1: 11-20, Luke 23:33-43 John 10:7-10
Nancy Goodrich Anne Murphy
Holy Communion Morning Worship*
Romans 13:11-14, Matt. 24:36-44
Lynne Bowden Wendy Ross
Romans 15:4-13, Matt. 3:1-12
James Gibson
13th. Remembrance 8.30am 10.45am
20th. 8.30am 10.45am
27th 8.30am 10.45am
4th December. 8.30am 10.45am
Holy Communion Holy Communion ‡
Readings are the same at both 8.30am and 10.45am services unless stated All 10:45am services will be streamed live and a recording of each livestreamed service will be available from the services page of the church website: http://www. pottshrigleychurch.org.uk. ‡ Junior Church * Youth Church (during 10.45 service) ** Youth Church (at 6pm) Church Cleaning 4th Nov
David & Joy
11th
Shirley & Christine
18th
Sally & Yvonne
25th
Caroline and Jean H
2nd Dec
Reg & Jean F Prayers
Readers
Sidesmen at 8.30
Sidesmen at 10.45
Coffee
6th Nov
Anne Murphy
Toby & Henry Fraser
Mathesons
Anne Murphy
Liz & John
13th
Audrey Bomford
Carole Taylor
Keith Ardern
Ian Malyan
Meg & Frances
20th
Gill & Sue
Mike & Sue Akerman
David & Joy
27th
Sally Winstanley
David Gem
Keith Ardern
Jean & Reg Ferguson
Lydia & Simon
4th Dec
Anne Murphy
Audrey Meecham
Clare Chasty
Anne Murphy
Gill & Victoria
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Directory Priest-in-charge:
Situation Vacant info@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk
Readers:
Dr John Ryley (Reader Emeritus), 2 Wych Lane, Adlington, SK10 4NB
Parish Assistant:
Gillian Mosley, 129 St Austell Avenue, Macclesfield, SK10 3NY
Churchwardens:
Andy Phillips, 26 Hurst Lane, Bollington, SK10 5LP
829595 829819 07881 358976
andyphillips@totalise.co.uk David Gem, 4 Normans Hall Mews, Pott Shrigley, Macclesfield, SK10 5SE davidgem@gmail.com
476398 07766 880318
Verger:
Situation Vacant
PCC Secretary:
Chris Day
PCC Treasurer:
Peter Kennedy, kennedyp@tuckerssolicitors.com
Gift Aid & Planned Giving:
Sally Winstanley, 3 Green Close Cottages, Pott Shrigley, SK10 5SG
Organists:
Mary Currell, 61 Crossfield Road, Bollington, SK10 5EA
pccsecretary@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk 07850 740335 574545
sjwinstanley.ps@gmail.com 573735
marycurrell61@btinternet.com David Garton, davidgarton2020@gmail.com
573492
Andy Phillips, as above
07881 358976
Weekly Bulletin:
David Gem, as above
Electoral Roll officer
Kath Matheson, Church View Cottage, Pott Shrigley, SK10 5SA
574983
kmmpott@yahoo.co.uk Safeguarding officer:
Kath Matheson, safeguarding@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk
Tower Captain:
Duncan Matheson, Church View Cottage, Pott Shrigley, SK10 5SA
574983
dmmpott@yahoo.co.uk Pastoral Ministry:
Anne Murphy, pastoralteam@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk
Children's Ministry
Situation Vacant
Youth Ministry:
Anne Murphy, 14 Silver Street, Bollington, SK10 5QL
07891 953919 07891 953919
annemurphy1214@gmail.com Praise and Play:
Situation Vacant
Parish Council Clerk:
Joyce Burton, pottclerk@btinternet.com
Wedding Coordinator:
Pam Cooke, weddings@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk
Head Teacher:
Marie Maynard, Pott Shrigley Church School, SK10 5RT
Website:
Tess Phillips, 26 Hurst Lane, Bollington, SK10 5LP
573260
head@pottshrigley.cheshire.sch.uk (please prefix numbers with 01625)
info@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk PCC Members:
Dr John Ryley, Duncan Matheson, Sally Winstanley, Peter Kennedy, Jean Ferguson, Andy Phillips, Pam Cooke, Ian Clarke, Mary Currell, Mike Akerman, Rebecca Roth-Biester Sheila Garton, David Garton, David Gem, Anne Murphy, Kath Matheson, Chris Day, Reg Ferguson.
This directory was updated on 23rd August 2022.Please give corrections and additions to magazine@pottshrigleychurch.org.uk