Church roof dig 13.10.19
WELL THAT WAS A DAY AND A HALF !!! JUST AS EVERYONE WAS ABOUT TO GO OFF , THE HEAVENS OPENED. I DON'T THINK IVE EVER SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE UNDER 1 SMALL GAZEBO! ! STILL THE DAY PANNED OUT OUT QUITE WELL FOR SOME IN THE END , EVEN THE SUN MAKING AN APPEARANCE.
A COUPLE OF VERY NICE ITEMS TODAY AND PLENTY OF THE USUAL HAMMERED AND OTHER COINS , INCLUDING 3 IRON AGE COINS . HERE ARE SOME PICTURES. ALSO WE RAISED £805 FOR THE LOCAL CHURCH ROOF REPAIRS.
Thank you letter:
St Peter’s Church
Church Road
Pimperne
DT11 8UB
14 October 2019
Mr David Witcombe
Dorset and West Pastfinders
Dear Mr Witcombe
I am writing on behalf of the Parochial Church Council to thank you and the members of Dorset and West Pastfinders for your most generous donation to St Peter’s Church yesterday. I assure you that it will be put to good use as our lovely church is in need of some major repair work. Your contribution is most welcome and timely. I am sorry, however, that the weather was not very kind to you.
I hope that your endeavours were rewarded by some interesting finds. There has been some sort of settlement in Pimperne for many centuries and the village was recorded in the Domesday Book. There is rumoured to have been a Saxon church on the site of the current building but nothing of that remains. We do, however, have some remains of the Norman building which the Victorians kindly included when they built the present church. And our font is the only one in Dorset to have a stone cover. Sadly, this is the result of a ‘marriage’ made sometime in the 16C when a stone cover was found in a nearby field.
Pimperne was among lands given by Henry VIII to two of his queens – Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr. There is no record of either queen having set foot in the village! All this is a roundabout way of saying that we have an interesting history, which I hope might have generated a find or two for your members.
Thank you all for your generosity.
Yours sincerely,
Velda E Andrews
Velda Andrews
Treasurer
St Peter’s PCC
