Landwade

	St Nicholas, Landwade is a 15th Century Church adjacent to Landwade Hall.C[CB8 7NF]
The chancel/sanctuary (Photo: Colin McCarty)
	It is used occasionally for weddings by special permission (Photo: Colin McCarty)
It is used for Services on Sunday afternoons during the Summer (see below) ....and for some special services: Carol Service by Candlelight
	More information about St Nicholas, Landwade is on the Suffolk Churches website
ST. NICHOLAS - LANDWADE Our Spring/Summer Evensong Services start again in April 2013 with a Visiting Preacher together with well known hymns Last Sunday in each month April - September at 3.00 p.m. 28th April The Rev. Barbara Garwood Methodist Superintendent for the circuit that includes our parish. Barbara is the Superintendent of the Ely and Newmarket Methodist Circuit. The circuit covers the area from Chatteris in the north to Wickhambrook in the south and out to Red Lodge in the east. Barbara lives in Ely and has been there for nearly five years. There are 16 churches in the circuit and she has pastoral oversight of their ordained and lay ministers. Barbara has a special role of pastoral concern for a number of the churches, currently including Exning. Before coming to Ely, she served in the Lowestoft and East Suffolk circuit, so has been in the�rural� ministry in parts of Suffolk for many years. As part of her work here, she values the time spent in local care facilities and regularly worships with residents at Exning Court. 26th May Revd. Dr. Eleanor Williams Vicar of St. Mary�s Church, Burwell The Revd. Dr. Eleanor Williams has been the Vicar of Burwell with Reach since April 2011, having been a GP in Cambridge for over 20 years. Her husband is also ordained and is Vicar of Christ the Redeemer, Cambridge. They live in Burwell and have two sons age 18 and 16, plus two rather naughty dogs called Boomer and Echo. Eleanor enjoys music and has recently discovered that she really enjoys growing vegetables. 30th June The Venerable Ian Morgan The new Archdeacon of Suffolk �Ian has been Archdeacon of Suffolk since September last year, before that he was Rector in the South West Ipswich Team Ministry for 17 years and following 3 years as Vicar of All Hallows in Ipswich for 3 years, this followed a stint of 6 years working for the BBC as a producer and senior producer in both network and local radio. He served curacies in Hereford and Shoreham by Sea, is married to Tracey and has three children. He began his working life as a professional musician following graduation with a music degree. He supports Welsh Rugby, England Cricket and Brighton and Hove Albion; he is very disappointed that Manchester United do not loose far more frequently. He cooks extravagantly, doesn�t walk the dogs often enough and wastes far too much time playing games on his iPad.� 28th July Revd. Brian Raistrick The original Head of St. Felix Middle School I was appointed to St Felix in 1975 and succeeded the first headmaster, who stood down after the school had been opened for 6 months. I remained Head until 1982 when I became head of a larger school. In 1990 I returned to work in the church in Northern Tanzania for two years. It was during this time that I was called to be a priest, trained at Westcott, Cambridge and served a curacy in Haverhill. I was priested, alongside Colin, in Exning Church in 1994, and later I was Priest at Horringer and Rural Dean of Thingoe. For the last 10 years I have served in the Chaplaincy Team at St Nicholas Hospice, Bury St Edmunds, but my main focus within the church has been in the field of Spiritual Direction and leading Retreats. The theme of �Spirituality in the Second Half of Life� has been central to much of my own spiritual journey. 25th August The Very Reverend Dr Frances Ward Dean of St. Edmundsbury Cathedral The Dean moved to Bury St. Edmunds from Bradford Cathedral in October 2010. Before working in Bradford she worked in the Diocese of Manchester as a parish priest and in theological education, teaching adults. Frances was one of the first women to be ordained priest in the Church of England in 1984. She is now one of four female Deans serving in the 42 English Cathedrals. Being a Dean means she runs the Cathedral with its core staff of twenty and a army of 1000 or so volunteers. Cathedral life is fascinating and varied with no day the same. She is a governor of the local state grammar school and heavily involved in education with links to many schools through her work and the work of the Cathedral. Frances is married to Peter, who is a consultant paediatrician and they have four children: Matilda who is 26, Jonty who is 24, Theo who is 22 and Hugh who is 15. Frances enjoys walking in the Lake District and reading. 29th September (Harvest) The Very Reverend Michael Higgins, OBE A previous Dean of Ely Cathedral The Very Reverend Dr. Michael Higgins OBE, Dean Emeritus of Ely, was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School , Cardiff, the University of Birmingham and Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge. A lecturer in English Law at the University of Birmingham before preparing for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Was a curate at Ormskirk Parish Church from 1965-1968, then Selection Secretary for the Advisory Council for Church Ministry until 1974. He was Vicar of Frome, the Rector of Preston, before his appointment as Dean of Ely in 1991, a post he held for 12 years.