Celebrating, Connectedness, Worship
We’re so proud of our special connection with Holy Trinity Church in Apperley ! It’s a fantastic resource right in our community that helps bring our learning to life.
The church is an important place for our children’s Religious Education (RE) and Worldviews learning. The children often visit to explore the building and its history, helping them understand what they learn in the classroom in a real-world setting.
Holy Trinity Church was built during as a special place called a ‘Chapel of Ease’. That just means it’s a smaller church built within a parish (our main parish church is at Deerhurst) so that people who live further away don’t have a long, difficult journey to attend services.
It was built primarily to help the wonderful residents of Apperley avoid the long, cold walk to Deerhurst in the winter!
The church was built by Henry Eustatius Strickland of . The person who designed it was his clever nephew, Francis Cranmer Penrose. He was an important architect who was even the Surveyor of the Fabric for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London (Sir Christopher Wren was the very first).
We are so proud of our local church’s history and its connection to our community.
Apperley and Deerhurst Village Community Website
Please click the link to share videos from our Harvest Festival at Holy Trinity 14.10.22 with Richmond Villages.