Little Thurlow 2000 - Part 5 Village Life and Work

20. The Church

IRIS ELEY

(Continued)
The pews and woodwork were restored in 1996 and the old bier was placed in the church in 1997. A new lectionary was given in 1998 by Len and Sylvia Robinson to celebrate forty years of marriage.

The 18th century chandelier which was stolen on 8 April 1997 and returned later that year now has a new brass dove on its top for which the Parochial Church Council paid £900.

The bells are to be re-hung for the millennium. There are five, and they were last re-hung with new fittings for chiming only in 1965. Now they can peal out once more.

The following are the costs of church services at the present time:

Verger £16	Banns of marriage £4
Heating £16	Marriage Certificate £67
Funeral Service £28	Organist for weddings £42
Organist for funerals £31	Use of video in church £52
Burial following funeral £111	Burial on separate occasion £33
No service in church burial £111	Cremation £33
Monuments range from £7 for a small wooden cross to £63 for a memorial stone.

St Peter's, Little Thurlow

Taken from page 104

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