Three Churches where Wold, Fen and Marsh
A guided tour of three churches, St Andrew’s Little Steeping, Great Steeping Old Church and St Andrew’s Church at Halton Holegate. The tour will be led by Blue Badge Guide Jean Howard and will include an introduction to the surrounding landscape and topography.
Mark Smith will give a talk about Little Steeping's amazing priest, Edward Steere, who left this church to go to Africa where he built Zanzibar Cathedral and worked hard to combat the horrors of the slave trade off Africa's east coast. The Church has a memorial to Edward Steere and an early 14th century figure of a priest.
St Andrew’s at Halton Holegate is a very noble building with beautiful poppyheads and is associated with several members of the clerical Rawnsley family including the author, Willingham Rawnsley; Robert Drummond Rawnsley who conducted Alfred Tennyson's wedding; and Canon Hardwick Rawnsley who co-founded the National Trust.
Great Steeping Old Church is an interesting small Georgian building tucked away on marshland and now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust, and is well worth a visit.
Admission includes tea, coffee, buffet lunch, guided visits to all three churches, a talk and a donation to all Churches. The buffet lunch will include vegetarian options.
