Open Day at St Katherine's Church Chiselhampton

Refreshments available all day with church tours available in the afternoon.

St Katherine's Church will be open for this joint Heritage Open Day/Ride and Stride event. This delightful church is outstanding for the completeness and beauty of its Georgian furnishings and arrangement.

John Betjeman honoured it in verse in 1952 and made a personal appeal for funds to support it. It is a striking, stuccoed building with curious classical details and a clock turret resembling those on stable blocks of the period. Inside it is lit through clear glass in round-headed south windows and, apart from an earlier pulpit, the woodwork, including the altar-piece, box pews and gallery, is all contemporary.

Light refreshments will be available by donation. Free tours will be available from 1 to 4pm provided by a descendant of Charles Peers, the gentleman who rebuilt the church in the 1760s. Come and visit this delightful church and enjoy its Georgian splendor.