Collyweston

St Andrews Church, High Street, Collyweston, Stamford, PE9 3PW.
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Everyone is welcome at St Andrew’s where we endeavour to be a traditional source of spiritual guidance and support and a friendly accepting place for quiet reflection in our beautiful little church, open daily to anyone and all.

The annual Church Fete is held in a garden adjacent to the church and is a great place to meet your neighbours and enjoy a truly English Garden Fete.

The Parochial Church Council and members of the congregation also host our parishioners at our St Andrew’s Day Supper each November and welcome even more parishioners to our popular and well attended Candlelight Carol Service.

St Andrew’s church has been at the heart of the picturesque village of Collyweston since Saxon times, the current Perpendicular Grade II * listed building being built by Lord Ralph Cromwell in about 1440/2 allegedly as a thanksgiving for Henry V’s victory at Agincourt. Inside the Lady Chapel added c.1490, described as “my Lady’s Chapel” in a document dated 1499 there is a display dedicated to the history of the village and its Royal connections to the Tudor Royal family – Lady Margaret Beaufort, Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII, and Queen Elizabeth I

The finely carved 19^th century poppy head oak pews and choir stalls are well worth closer inspection, as they are decorated with a variety of flora and fauna including a pair of pelicans, a lionhead or “Greenman”, reptiles and winged dragons. The stained glass is mostly 19^th and early 20^th century but the plainer tall pair of lancet windows on the south-side of the chancel are unusual and much earlier. The charming floor brass dedicated to Elizabeth Follett who died in c.1558 is also unusual as her simple clothing is not that of a fine lady as one might normally expect on a brass of this time.