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A large, Perpendicular Gothic church,
serving the
Parish of Thirsk in the Diocese of York
The Benefice of Thirsk
Rector: Rev Richard Rowling |
St Mary's Church Thirsk: Events
Exhibitions : Margaret Hunton,St. Mary's Tourism Officer, organises four of the five exhibitions held annually at St. Mary's. In 2009 we had "Cross Purposes"an exhibition of crosses from all over the world,an Easter Exhibition of Flowers and the children's Easter Garden,"4T4/U3A" textile and craft exhibition and "Bear With Us" which featured over 400 Bears of all kinds.The year ended with the Community Christmas Exhibition "Cribs ,Crackers & Chriastmas Trees" organised by Julia Smith.
| EXHIBITIONS FOR 2010 : This year’s exhibitions have been decided but are mostly at the planning stage. Textile exhibitions are always very popular and there will be another this year.
Easter Bank Holiday week – Saturday 3rd April to Saturday 10th April -there will be an exhibition of Easter flowers and the children’s Easter Garden. Visitors on Good Friday afternoon will see children from the Little Ark Club and the Ark Club with their leaders and parents working on the Easter Garden.
Early May Bank Holiday – Saturday 1st May to Saturday 8th May - An exhibition of art by Wendy Gibson Brown’s students. NO TITLE AS YET.
Late Spring Bank Holiday – Saturday 29th May to Saturday 5th June - Textile art, embroideries, patchwork etc. by ‘Textile Art Pool’. Freda and Anne requested a return visit to St Mary's as they seem to alternate their main exhibition (held at Daleside Country Museum in Hawes in 2009) one year and St Mary's the next. NO TITLE AS YET.
August Bank Holiday – Saturday 21st August to Saturday 4th September "Bells of St Mary's”. This exhibition will celebrate the 600th anniversary of the casting of one of the eight bells in the tower and will incorporate many different artistic and imaginative interpretations. It promises to be a free-for-all on the theme of bells.
Saturday 4th December to Saturday 11th December St. Mary’s will host the seventh annual Community Christmas Exhibition which will be entitled “All the Trimmings”.
| 2nd April. Good Friday Easter Garden Creation : Ark Club, Little Ark Club, friends and helpers will be in church on Good Friday creating a hill of compost over a stone ‘tomb’ and planting it with moss, grass and spring flowers. Donations of small plants such as saxifrage, violas and primroses will be very welcome. Care to join us? There will be drinks and hot cross buns afterwards
| Home-grown Harvest. Calling All Would- be Growers : We are hoping to fill St. Mary’s with home-grown produce and make this year’s Harvest Festival Service extra special. Now is the time to be thinking,planting and planning ahead. Ark Club and Little Ark Club are enthusiastic about the prospect of growing plants in plots, pots, and tubs and we hope that there will be a great response and that lots of people will take part and grow something especially for Harvest Festival.
Promises of produce will be gratefully received.
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