NORTH BEDFORDSHIRE
BOLNHURST, St Dunstan Thurleigh Rd
MK44 1RF
1100-1800; sorry, no refreshments because no running water!
- 15th cent wall-painting of St Christopher; small chamber organ; remote setting.
BROMHAM, St Owen Bromham Park
MK43 8HH
1230-1700; Ploughman’s lunches; refreshments; church history exhibition
- 13th cent. with 19th cent. alterations (Butterfield); brass; 21st cent. stained glass.
CARLTON, St Mary Turvey Road
MK43 7LH
1400-1700; refreshments; ‘Treasure’ trail quiz; ample parking
- Building of all medieval dates from pre-Conquest era; interesting furnishings;
millennium stained glass window.
SANDY, St Swithun High St
SG19 1AQ
0815-1800; refreshments, 1400-1745; church guide; children’s quiz
- Beautiful stained glass; statue of Sir Wm Peel; Pym Chapel.
SUTTON, All Saints Church Rd
SG19 2NB
1000-1700; tea & coffee (a.m.); cream teas (p.m.); Flower Festival; stalls
- Monuments (one by Grinling Gibbons); (working) barrel organ; restoration work.
TEMPSFORD, St Peter Church St
SG19 2AT
1400-1630; refreshments
- S.O.E. memorial; plaque to Battle of Tempsford; list of former Rectors.
WILLINGTON, St Lawrence Church End
MK44 3PH
0900-1800; refreshments; bookstall; gifts & cards; N.T. open day
- Church from time of Henry VIII; Gostwick Chapel with tombs & helmet.
COLMWORTH, St Denys Church Rd
MK44 2JU
1400-1700; cream teas; craft stall; Bunny hunt in Country Park
- Built entirely in 1430s; Dyer monument (1641) with first recorded poem in English
by a woman; Timothy Matthews tomb in graveyard.
DEAN, All Hallows High Street, Upper Dean
PE28 0ND
1000-1500
- Mainly 14th cent; medieval screen & pulpit; fine angel roof; ancient pews.
FELMERSHAM, St Mary Church End
MK43 7JE
1000-1700; refreshments 1400-1700
- Magnificent Early English west front; crossing tower; 15th cent. screen.
KEYSOE, St Mary Church Rd
MK44 2JP
1000-1700; cream teas 1500-1700
- 12th cent. features; Early English font with inscription in French; plaque on tower
telling story of man who survived fall from the tower in 1718.
MELCHBOURNE, St Mary Magdalene Park Rd
MK44 1BB
1200-1600; refreshments
- Medieval church Georgianized 1779; Hilditch organ; Verge escapement clock.
LUTON AREA
BISCOT, Holy Trinity Trinity Rd
1200-1600; refreshments; guided tour; exhibitions
- Mid-Victorian church; stained glass; pulpit; font.
LU3 1TR
CADDINGTON, All Saints The Green
LU1 4BG
1100-1800; refreshments; art exhibition
- Norman doorway; memorial brasses; pilgrims’ crosses & ancient graffiti.
LUTON, All Saints Shaftesbury Road (Bury Park)
LU4 8AH
0800-1930 (Services, 0800, 0930 & 1830); refreshments; exhibition; stalls
- 1920s church in a multifaith / multicultural area.
LUTON, St Andrew Blenheim Cres (off New Bedford Rd)
LU3 1HA
0800-2000; refreshments; displays
- 80th anniversary of consecration of church (Giles Gilbert Scott); re-ordered inside.
MILTON ERNEST, All Saints Thurleigh Rd
MK44 1RF
0930-1600; refreshments
- 13th cent. tower with bells of 1611; splendid brass chandelier (1729); 19th cent.
restoration by Wm Butterfield; dole cupboard.
MARSH FARM, Holy Cross Purway Close (off Northwell Dr) LU3 3RT
1300-1600; refreshments; incidental organ music
- Glass cross dominating building; digital organ; pews from former convent.
OAKLEY, St Mary Church Lane
MK43 7RU
1530-1700; refreshments & cream teas; exhibition of church activities
- 15th cent. rood screen; George I royal arms; medieval font.
STREATLEY, St Margaret Sharpenhoe Rd
LU3 3PN
1200-1700; refreshments
- Medieval font; linenfold panelling on pulpit & pews; fragments of wall-paintings