After much form filling, site visits, quotations, phone calls, endless paperwork and a few sleepless nights work will eventually start on the replacement of the church roof next month with scaffolding being erected from March 15th and  building work commencing on April 4th.  A small cabin will be placed in the car park for the duration of the works by kind permission of the owners (Friends of St John’s) and Teignbridge council and work is expected to last 10 weeks.  This huge undertaking of replacing  the roof will enable this iconic North Bovey landmark to weather the storms Dartmoor throws at it for many more  years to come, helping to…

The annual act of remembrance will take place at the church memorial lych gate at 10.45 am on Friday, November 11th.   Coffee will be served in the church afterwards. All are welcome to attend.

  Work will be starting on the church roof on April 4th with scaffolding being erected from the middle of March.  Alex Austin, chairman of the Parish Council has kindly agreed to remove the first slate at a small ceremony starting at 4pm at the church followed by tea (and cake!) to which everyone is invited. Come and join us for a piece of village history in the making – who knows what we might find under the present roof over the next few weeks.

One step closer – we now have the Faculty from Exeter Diocese giving us permission to go ahead with the work on the roof so following a bit more paperwork  with the charity giving us the grant we should be able to start work next spring – God willing!

                             Don’t forget This year’s Harvest Festival Service is on October 4th  at 6pm in St John’s Church followed by the Harvest Supper in the Parish Hall at 7pm Tickets, priced at £12 for adults and £6 for under 12’s, are  available from The Ring of Bells, David Hubble 440078 or Sarah Shorthouse 441224

Approval from the Diocese has now been given for the work on the roof to go ahead (although there are still several red tape issues to tackle) and all being well work should be starting at the beginning of April. Although permission will, hopefully, be granted formally by the autumn it will be too late in the year to start work and we have to consider issues such as weather, sourcing the correct materials, roofers schedules and bat habitats! Therefore, April 2016 is the chosen date – watch this space…..

After successfully achieving an award from the Listed Places of Worship for a new roof for our church we now had to apply to the Diocese of Exeter for a faculty (permission) to replace the existing one! After filling in all the forms and carrying out an emergence survey of any bats that may be in residence (none that we could see) and consulting with our architect it seems we still have a little way to go to dot all the i’s and cross the t’s to satisfy all the strict requirements. Then there’s the problem of finding the appropriate amount of reclaimed Delabole slates as they are in much…

  Please join us on the allotments for a short service of blessing this Rogationtide. Monday 11th May at  4pm  followed by tea and cake in the church everyone welcome!