Traditional Technique Provides Cutting Edge for Emma
St John’s is teaming up with Emma Gillon, a local estates manager, to return the venerable art of scything to the landscape. Inspired by a recent scything workshop at St…
St John’s gains Eco Church Status
St John’s, Sharow becomes only the fifth church in the Diocese of Leeds to gain an Eco Church Award. The news comes at the end of the church’s Cherishing Our…
Beth Lonsdale, Heritage Learning Assistant, on Cherishing Churchyards Week
Cherishing Churchyards Week What fun! I would really encourage every church to get involved with Cherishing Churchyards week – a week of activities in which the whole community can come…
Cherishing Churchyards Week Newsletter
You can find the summary of our Cherishing Churchyard week celebrating our beautiful churchyard by clicking the link below. [gview file=”https://stjohnssharow.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CHERISHING-CH-NEWS.pdf”]
Cherishing our Church
It is an exciting time to be working at St John’s. With a new parish priest waiting in the wings, exciting new bits of the building about to appear and…
Updated Building Plans for the Vision Project
Work continues apace as we look to begin the alterations to the church. You can find links to the plans below or on the church noticeboard. Porch Door HatchKitchen Layout…
Researching Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth has to be one of the most interesting characters I’ve ever had the privilege to research. A pioneering astronomer, photographer, Egyptologist and, in the words of Sir Flinders…