About St Leonard'S Wortley
St Leonard's Church in the South Yorkshire village of Wortley. Everyone is welcome to come to our Sunday Services held at 11am on 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month. Sunday evening services are held on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month at 6. 30pm
St Leonard'S Wortley Description
The Church of St Leonard, Wortley is located in the Parish of Wortley and forms part of the United Benefice of Tankersley, Thurgoland and Wortley within the Diocese of Sheffield.
The church of St Leonard’s stands in the centre of the village of Wortley. The parish includes several small hamlets.
The history of the building is fairly poorly documented with much of its history lost before a fire in 1947 and after gale damage in 1956.
There are records for a small chapel in Wortley during the reign of Henry III (1216) with a definite mention of a church in 1318.
The church was originally a chapel of ease and part of the Parish of Tankersley. Wortley became a separate parish in 1753 the time the church in its present form dates from.
St Leonard’s Church is a place of worship used for religious services, funerals, weddings and blessings. It is also used for coffee mornings, village fetes, concerts, talks, presentations, meeting space, heritage tours, private prayer and contemplation. The church building is used as a polling station for local and general elections. It has and still does play a significant role in the life of the village. The church is the focal point of the village visited by many people for pleasure outside of worship.
The church has a ring of 8 bells and an active team of bell ringers who ring the bells for Sunday morning service, weddings by arrangement and for practice on Thursday evenings.
In 2017 St Leonard’s faced a new challenge. The roof of the Nave was found to be failing in several places and rainwater was entering and endangering both the heritage of this Grade 2 listed building and the artifacts contained inside. During the summer of 2017 the PCC have ensured emergency repairs repairs are carried out to protect the building. These repairs are the first stage in securing the building fabric to enable greater work to be done from the building in the near future.
More information can be found at:
www. wortleychurch.org. uk
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@wortleychurch
@wortleychurchbellringers
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Thank you to everyone who came to our Christmas Fayre today. The church was busy all afternoon with people buying gifts, plants and cakes, playing games, enjoying the refreshments and having a chat with friends. Thank you to our church members, PCC, Len's Friends and bellringers for their help with setting it up, looking after the stalls, baking, staffing the kitchen, providing products to sell, making craft items and moving tables in and out of the church. A great effort and over £800 raised from the stalls and donations for the upkeep of St Leonard's. Well done and thank you all.
Come and praise God with us at St Leonard's on Sunday 25th November at our Morning Praise Service. It starts at 11am and Revd. Paul Ruddlesdin will lead our service of worship. Everyone is welcome to attend, if you haven't been before do come and find out what St Leonard's can has to offer and can do for you, your family and as a community resource for everyone.
It's our Christmas Fayre on Saturday 24th November. Come and take part, buy some Christmas gifts, books, games, toys, crafts and lots of other items. Games to play, plants to buy, cake stall, refreshments and food. Len's Friends members on hand if you would like to get involved, information leaflets about the church heritage. Meet the PCC members, the bellringers will be around, lots to see and do. Please come and join in, opens at 2pm.
A traditional Christmas Service of Nine Lessons and Carols in St Leonard's Church, Wortley. Do come and join in singing carols and listening to nine short Bible Readings.
A concert in St Leonard's Church Wortley by Doncaster Wheatsheaf Singers with Wortley RUFC
A Christmas Concert with Bolsterstone Male Voice Choir at St Leonard's Church, Wortley. Tickets include mulled wine and other refreshments. Tickets £8, 16s and under £4, from St Leonard's Church, Wortley Post Office, Stocksbridge Keys.
Our service on Sunday 18th November is Holy Communion. It starts at 11am and Canon Keith will lead the service. Do please come along and join in as we all worship God together in St Leonard's Church.
WORTLEY REMEMBERS photos of our Remembrance banner and pebbles.
To remember all our fallen heroes a cross has been erected in the churchyard. St Leonard's invites the people of the village of Wortley and the surrounding areas to pay their respects for the fallen, if they so wish please lay a wreath, poppy or cross at the foot of the cross. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Sunday Evening Service at St Leonard's is our Remembrance Service. The service begins at 6.30pm and will be led by Canon Lewis Atkinson. Please come as we remember all those who fought, served and died in the wars.
This year we mark the 100th anniversary of the moment the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War. We have poppies on a special banner in the church, pebbles round the font with the names of the fallen and a cross outside in the ...churchyard where people can pay their respects by the laying of a poppy, cross or wreath.
Our bells will be rung at 12.30pm on Sunday along with thousands of other churches as they did on 11th November 1918 when they announced the end of the most catastrophic war the world had yet seen. At the time, bells were at the heart of the community, marking events of great significance and communicating to people long before modern technology connected us. Bellringing has always had a much wider function than its role in the church, but most of us today are not aware of its broad and inclusive service.
The bells will ring again before the evening remembrance service, this time half-muffled from 6pm to 6.30pm. Then at 7.05pm they will ring again for a short period. This last ringing is Ringing Out for Peace happening at the same time as Tankersley's beacon lighting event and other similar events around the world.
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We were pleased to welcome Helen Reckless from Tankersley Parish Council to the bell ringers practice night last night. Helen was treading in her Great Grandad's footsteps, Jack Parkin. Jack was a ringer at Wortley in the 1880's 1900's. Helen was there with to record Wortley Bells so they can be heard at the WW1 Commemorative Bonfire on Sunday the 11th of November. Helen had a go at ringing with Andrew the same bell as Jack did, and climbed the same ladder around 100 years later.
St Leonard's Church continues to be open for visitors every Wednesday from 11am through to 3pm. An opportunity to look around the church, browse the historical monuments in the building and the information leaflets available inside. Our churchyards are well worth having a look around too. If you are passing through Wortley or staying in the village, do add us to your things to see list.
Our service on Sunday morning 4th November is Holy Communion. Canon Keith will lead our celebration which starts at 11am. Please come and take part. We are always happy to welcome visitors and newcomers to our services. Children and young people are welcome at all our services. We look forward to meeting you as we share in worship at St Leonard's. Have a look at the Remembrance poppy banner and the painted pebbles too.
The church is open as usual on Wednesday this week (31st) and some of the Len's Friends will be making poppies to display in the church for Remembrance Sunday. If you feel like coming along and having a go to help us to make some poppies, please do. 11am to 3pm. As it's half-term bring your children and they can have a go too.
All sorted with the clock, Andrew stopped it last night at 10.30 and set it off again this morning at 10.30 It will have been a quiet night with no chimes every 15 minutes.
St Leonard's Sunday morning service on 28th October is Morning Praise. Revd. Paul Ruddlesdin will lead our worship which starts at 11.00am. Do come and join us as we worship God together at St Leonard's. Don't forget to change your clock back to GMT on Saturday night so you have an extra hour to get ready in the morning.
Apologies in advance, our tower clock will be stopped Saturday evening and re-started on Sunday morning. This weekend we put the clocks back 1 hour but we can't wind the church clock backwards and if you wind it forwards it has to chime every hour and quarter so it's just easier to stop it at 10.30pm and set it going again on Sunday morning at 10.30am.
If you hear the bells ringing on Saturday 27th we have a visiting team of ringers from 1pm to 1.30pm. They are from Dronfield and are having a 'ring and ramble' day out in our area.