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Nativity Crib Festival

St. Ippolyts Church 29^th& 30th November 11-5

Get into the spirit of Christmas and pay a visit to the St. Ippolyts Church Nativity Crib Festival.

As one or our young contributors says:-

“You should come to the Crib festival at St Ippolyts Church because there are so many different cribs that are put in each year !

You will also be able to have a go at our competition and become a crib owner yourself.

Entry is £2 and children are free.

St Ippolyts Church Sports Quiz Sheets will be on sale, do not miss out on these super time wasters

For more information please contact Barbara 01462 421647This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

There will be a Christmas Fair on Saturday 22 November from 2pm at St Ippolyts Parish Hall.  There will be lots of stalls, face painting and Father Christmas will be visiting.  Refreshments are available. Dancing display by Aspire School of Dance. Prize Draw at 4.30pm.

Over 110 people attended our annual Quiz in the Parish Hall to raise money for the Church. Fifteen teams battled it out answering a wide variety of questions set by Mary Hooper. In the end infiltrators from Clifton and the surrounding area usurped the home teams to win by 1 point. The quizmaster, Michael Hooper, assured everyone he had not been bribed with offers of free drinks to give the winning team the answers. 

A big thank you to everyone who helped and gave prizes for the raffle. Special thanks to the Jane and Jennifer Veasey who, ably assisted by Kath Burt and Jane Guppy, supplied the teams with a sumptuous ploughmans supper and Brian and Hilary Leonard who ran the bar!

Now our annual quiz is over do not forget that the 2014 St Ippolyts Church quiz sheets are on sale for £1 from the village store or Michael Hooper. This years quiz theme is Sport. Buy a quiz sheet and be frustrated trying to unravel the mind of the setter. He certainly has a warped mind! There is a £10 prize for the person who answers the most questions correctly by the end of December.

The Church North porch new permanent disabled access is now in operation although there remains a few finishing touches to complete the work. A big thank yoiu to Roland Bailey who has carried out this new construction as well as installing a new bookcase and notice board at the South entrance.

The disabled access is a welcome addition to the church infrastructure and means that we will not need to lug the heavy ex British Railways ramp from the North porch everytime we have a service or event.

We all receive PAX each month, but where do you read it? In fact where is the most exotic place that PAX has been read? 

Just take a photograph of somebody reading PAX, send it to Michael Hooper at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and your photograph will be published in our picture gallery on this web site.

I wonder how far afield PAX will travel!!?

Just to start things off our PAX has visited the Old Man of Hoy in the Orkneys, surely a PAX will have travelled further than that!! 

If you saw two people crawling on the ground looking at gravestones through a magnifying glass today you will have seen Andrew Harris and Paula Shipway investigating lichens around and on our Church. This intrepid pair having visited over 40 churches and churchyards in Herfordshire recording the various lichens. You may recall Andrew found a particularly rare lichen at Great Wymondley Church. We eagerly await Andrew's report which we will hopefully receive before the end of the year. Have a look at the photos of them exploring our churchyard on this web sites gallery.

St Ippolyts Church at the end of the rainbow

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Beds and Herts Bike 'n Hike Day

A big thank you to all the helpers who manned St Ippolyts Church for this annual event. We had a steady stream of cyclists visiting the church throughout the day, all welcomed the refreshments on offer.

A extra special "well done" to Jeremy and Carol who covered 41 miles to visit 30 Churches and raise money for the Beds and Herts Historic Churches Trust.

The Bike 'n Hike is an annual fundraising event organised by Beds and Herts Historic Churches Trust.The aim is to raise money both for the Trust and for the participating churches. Half of every cyclist’s and walker’s sponsor money goes to the Trust and half goes to the church of their choice. Consequently, the more cyclists or walkers who take part, then the greater the direct benefit to that church.

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Don't spend the Saturday night of 8th November 2014 at home watching so called celebs trying to dance. Come and have some fun in the St Ipployts Parish Hall where we will be having our annual quiz night to raise money for the Church.

Make up a team or just come along and meet others who will either be scratching their heads or being smug that they know the answers (yes, you know who you are!!). There will be a bar and included in the ticket price of £10 will be an absolutely delicious ploughman's supper.

Please purchase tickets in advance from Jane or Jennifer Veasey (01462 434254) or Mary Hooper (01462 457350). 

There will be a prize for the lucky ticket number! One doesn’t even have to answer a question correctly to win this fabulous prize!

This is an absolutely great evening one you just cannot miss.

Look out for the Church 2014 Christmas Quiz Sheets which this year will be sports, sporting terms or sporting venues! You know that there is nothing to watch on the television during the long cold winter nights. Why not cosy up with a hot cuppa of steaming cocoa or something a bit stronger and get those brain cells working. This year's quiz will be just as fiendish as previously and IT IS ONLY £1!! Of course you can donate more if you really enjoy it!!

Quiz Sheets will be on sale from the end of October from the church, the village shop or directly from myself.

All money raised will go to the St Ippolyts Church fabric fund.