Hopkinson Wootton Lovatt

01/12/2025

The decorations are up and Hopkinson House is looking festive! 🎄🎩

09/11/2025

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

31/10/2025

24/10/2025

Join us for an open day as part of gift weekend on Saturday 1st November

The church will be open 10-3 and you can learn the history of the church and take in the stained glass windows. We will also be having another coffee morning that day 10-12 so pop along and we’ll pop the kettle on. See you next week!

22/08/2025

The office will be closed for the upcoming Bank Holiday, but as ever, the team are available 24/7 should you require our services 01782 715152 🎩

04/07/2025

A short trip over the road has the team overseeing proceedings at the beautiful St. Margaret’s Church. A place of worship is referenced on this site in the doomsday book! 🎩

03/07/2025

The site of a Roman fort, Chesterton plays host to today’s farewell 🎩

16/06/2025

Thank you to everyone who has created an online remembrance candle to help honour the memories of your loved ones this Father’s Day. Below, we have the final candles that were submitted.

15/06/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who has submitted a remembrance candle so far. The opportunity to create a candle will come to an end today (Sunday 15 June).
Candles submitted before 5pm today will be shared on our page on Monday 16 June.

https://gbnf.online/308770

12/06/2025

We’d like to thank everyone who’s created a candle for their loved one so far. Don’t worry if you’ve not seen your post yet. We’ll share it soon.
Here are some more memorial candles. If you’d like to submit a candle for a loved one, you can do so by clicking the link below.

https://gbnf.online/308770