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Thanks be to thee, Our Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits which thou hast given us,
for all the pains and insults
which thou hast borne for us.
O most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother,
may we know thee more clearly,
love thee more dearly,
and follow thee more nearly. Amen.

Here is our church back to its old self having had 122,000 pounds spent on it. There has been a good deal of work done on the roof, much of the stonework has been re-pointed. A new lightning conductor has been fitted with new earthing rods and a Faraday Cage surrounds the church to protect the building if the lightning should strike a part of the building away from the spire. The clock has been refurbished with automatic winding gear for the clock and the chiming mechanism. A state of the art time keeping system changes the length of the pendulum to keep the clock chiming to within about 10 seconds of true time at Greenwich.
We are all justly proud of all the work that has been done.
All praise to those who contributed their time and money to the project. Our thanks are due to Richard Harrison, our previous Churchwarden who completed all the forms so that we could get the very substantial grant from English Heritage. He has also liaised with the Church Architect and all the firms who did the work.
We can take pride in the knowledge that we pass on the church to future generations in tip top condition.