About St Peter's Church, Church Langton, Leicestershire
St Peter's church is set in the village of Church Langton, in south Leicestershire, near to the town of Market Harborough.
Worship is Church of England (Anglican). St Peter's is one of the churches forming the Benefice of the Langtons and Shangton in the Diocese of Leicester.
St Peter's serves three villages, Church Langton, West Langton and East Langton and has friends and visitors from all over.
We love to meet new people and visitors. Everyone is welcome! Contact us on info@churchlangton.org.uk and follow our story on www.churchlangton.org.uk
Langton Community Hall, Stonton Lane, Church Langton, Market Harborough LE16 7SZ
Cinema in the Langtons presents ‘Juror #2’ (12A), a film directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Nicholas Hault, Toni Colette and Kiefer Sutherland. A legal thriller in the vein of ‘Twelve Angry Men’.
Join us on Tuesday 11th February, at the Community Hall, 7:30pm,
Tickets on the Door £8.00 Parking onsite
All proceeds to support the upkeep and maintenance of St Peter’s Church, for which we are most grateful.
Further details on the Community Hall website, click the button below.
The Cream Teas were held in St. Peter’s, Church Langton during July and August and raised £1,040 for improvements to the church.
We are very pleased to have had some new volunteers to help and the increasing numbers who came along to sample the cakes and scones. Thank you to all those who helped serve, those who made the delicious cakes and those who came along to have a Cream Tea.
A Community Summer Treat
St Peter’s is a community church in the truest sense of the word. A Sunday afternoon Cream Teas offer homemade cakes and scones made by the local community, along with tea and coffee served by local volunteers and worshipers. Everyone involved gives their time freely to this longstanding community summer treat. We hope to see you next year.
A time of community and communing
Enjoying a Cream Tea together
Visitors to Cream Teas have a lovely opportunity to spend time together; to chat, catch up and enjoy the unique peace the church space offers. There is a lovely atmosphere as people enjoy each other’s company in this special place.
Helping to fund a bright future
St Peter’s has a rich and long history, dating back over 800 years. However, it is a church that lives and works very much in the present, with a lively association with its parish villages and the local school.
Ride & Stride 2024
Leicestershire Historic Trust’s major annual fund-raising activity, Ride + Stride, took place this year on Saturday 14th September. Half the money raised from sponsorship goes to the church. St. Peter’s raised. We had 10 visitors and raised £156. A big thank you to congregation member Chris Beere who stayed all day to register the visitors.
Ride and Stride
This is a lovely family event that takes place every year. Families can walk or cycle to all our local churches to get their sponsorship forms signed and raise money for their village church. We hope to see more people joining in next year.
Looking ahead to 2025
Together, we aim to keep the church viable to serve its community for many more years by developing the building and adopting processes that better serve the wider environment. We are a newly established Eco Church looking to improve the carbon footprint of the building. Read all about it here. However, we appreciate that times are hard for many people just now; money and time are more precious than ever.
Our heartfelt thanks go to everyone who gives their time and money to support the building itself and also the charities and causes St Peter’s also supports.
We look forward to the next of the church winter seasons, called Epiphany, which follows Christmas. A little background to the seasons and festivals follows below the worship pattern.
Services at St Peter’s Church Langton, St Andrew’s Tur Langton and St Leonard’s, Thorpe Langton
JANUARY AND FEBRUARY SERVICES
JANUARY 5th No Service 12th 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway 12th 4.30pm Tur Langton Family Service Jonathan Dowman 19th 10.30am Tur Langton All Age Worship Maxine Johnson 26th 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway
FEBRUARY 2nd 6.00pm Thorpe Langton Holy Communion, Candlemas Martin Hathaway 9th 4.30pm Tur Langton Family Service, Jonathan Dowman 9th 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway 16th 10.30am Tur Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway 23rd 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway
We hope you can join us for these services but also wish our friends and followers here who live further away, a very peaceful, prosperous and healthy 2025.
The Church Winter Seasons and Festivals
Background INFORMATION
Christmas follows Advent and is the season that begins on December 25th.
Twelfth Days The 12 days between Christmas Day and January 5th, also known as Epiphany Eve. Shakespeare’s play, ‘Twelfth Night Or What You Will’ celebrates this special evening and last day of Christmas. Shakespeare wrote the play as a Twelfth Night entertainment around 1601–1602.
Epiphany The feast of Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th, and is also known as “Three Kings’ Day”. Many countries, including Spain, Italy and Mexico, celebrate the giving of Christmas gifts on King’s Day, (El Día de los Reyes) in recognition of the time when the Wise Men traveled from the East and brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.
Woolly Nativity of St Peter’s Church
Our Nativity scene in St Peter’s see us bring the Wise Men inside the stable on that day. Until then, they are outside, traveling and following the Star.
The season of Epiphany continues with the Sundays of Epiphany, and ends with the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) on 2nd February.
Candlemas is traditionally the 40th day of (and the conclusion of) the Christmas/Epiphany season. Candlemas is celebrated on 2 February to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary (after childbirth, according to Jewish law) and the presentation of Christ in the Temple. Candles are traditionally blessed at this festival, hence the name.
After these seasons, the church changes to Ordinary Time, until the season of Lent.
St Peter's Church, Church Langton 
