GIMINGHAM
PARISH COUNCIL

Village Land/Allotments​

Gimingham Parish Council owns allotments and these are rented out at a nominal charge to parishioners and other residents external to the village. Please contact the Clerk who will assist and guide you.

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Play Area​

The Play area is located at Gimingham Playing field and was purchased via funding obtained by the Council.  The area is regularly checked and if you find any issues with the equipment please let the Clerk know. ​

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All Saints Church

​It is within the lovely Trunch Team Ministry group of churches, and as you would expect this makes them lively, welcoming places.

 

All Saints is a fairly modest, mostly Perpendicular church set in a lovely graveyard. The chancel is earlier, and Pevsner records quite a lot of money being spent here in the late years of the 15th century and the early years of the 16th. The star of the show of this time is the magnificent porch with its upper storey, the windows echoing image niches.

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That the church is in such fine fettle today can be put down to a rather overwhelming restoration in the 1860s, and you step into what is, to all intents and purposes, a Victorian church. But it is a pleasant one, and there are some old bench ends preserved and still in use. One of them, intriguingly, features a gryphon guarding the head of a man, similar to a surviving bench end at Neatishead.Also still in use is the font, which probably dates from about the time of the chancel.

 

But let us not dismiss the 19th century features, because the glass in particular is very good indeed, with its evangelistic symbols, although it must be said that St Mark looks a little like the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz. Pevsner says it is by the Kings.

I also like very much the moulded arms of the House of Hanover. They look as if they were bought off the shelf and then painted locally, which is probably exactly what happened.

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All Saints is exactly the kind of pleasant, ordinary church which should be kept open as an act of witness, so that pilgrims and passing strangers can pop in on the off-chance for a spot of spiritual refreshment. That is surely one of the major roles of a building like this in the modern age, and an open parish church is one of the finest acts of witness that the Church of England possesses.

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Contact: Revd Andrew Jones

Licensed clergy - Incumbent: Rector, Trunch Group (Benefice); ​

The Rectory
Knapton Road
TRUNCH
NR28 0QE
01263 722218
revandrewjones@gmail.com

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The Church is responsible for the management and upkeep of the grounds and the Parish Council contributes financially to this work on a yearly basis from the precept.

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