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
We are delighted to offer two Christmas card designs featuring St Peter’s church, both images taken on a gloriously snowy day last year by our super photographer parishioners Melissa Johnston and Dave Baxter. Thank you both for giving us permission to use your photos.
The front cover wording is ‘Christmas Greetings’ and the wording inside is ‘Wishing you Peace, Love and Joy’
The Christmas cards are on sale now – £1 each. Place your orders with Roz Folwell by email r.folwell@btinternet.com or phone on 01858 545160. Thanks to Roz for kindly organising these beautiful cards and overseeing the sales and production.
The Langton Churches and Welham (see Christmas Day) – This listing also includes carol services and the Nativity/Crib service. All services on Sundays except where indicated. We look forward to welcoming you!
Advent and Carol Services
4th December, Holy Communion 6pm Thorpe Langton, Martin Hathaway
4th December, Family Evening Service 6pm, Tur Langton, Jonathan Dowman 5.30pm Refreshments
11th December, Holy Communion, 10.30am, Church Langton, Martin Hathaway
18th December, Carol Service, 6pm, Tur Langton, Jonathan Dowman
18th December, Carol Service, 6pm, Thorpe Langton, Philip Norwood
21st December, Carol Service, 7.30pm, Church Langton, (Wednesday) Martin Hathaway/Maxine Johnson
Christmas Worship
23rd December Nativity, 4.00pm, Tur Langton, Jonathan Dowman (Friday)
24th December, Midnight Communion, 11.30pm, Tur Langton, (Saturday) Martin Hathaway/Maxine Johnson
25th December, Holy Communion, 9.00am, Welham, Ian Gemmell
25th December, All Age Worship, 10.30am, Thorpe Langton, Maxine Johnson
New Year – 2023 – No services on January 1st – Happy New Year!
8th January, Holy Communion, 10.30am, Church Langton, Martin Hathaway
COVID GUIDANCE: All services are now live in church, observing the current UK Government guidance: Masks/face coverings are now optional, but we ask that if you have symptoms, please do not attend. Please check updates onLeicester Diocese’s website
Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day are as important this year as ever, as we remember everyone who has sacrificed so much in continued difficult times, but especially this year, the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Remembrance Sunday service for the Langton villages
Remembrance Service: Sunday 13th November, 10.30am, St Peter’s Church, Church Langton
The service will take place in St Peter’s Church in Church Langton, starting at 10.30am and lasts for about an hour. The service will be lead by Rev Martin Hathaway and Lay Incubment, Maxine Johnson, with contributions from our church members from Tur and Thorpe Langton.
The collection taken at the service in St Peter’s will support the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
Act of Remembrance and Two-Minute Silence: 11am
The Act of Remembrance and two-minute silence at 11am take place inside the church as part of the Remembrance Service, when the names of our local war dead are read and the wreaths for the Langton villages are blessed.
Laying of wreaths at the War Memorial: 11:45 – 12noon
After the service in church, the congregation will process from the church to the village green where where the wreath for Church Langton will be laid on the War Memorial.
The wreaths from our sister villages will be returned and laid at their village memorials separately.
We hope you can join us for the service in St Peter’s and the laying of the wreath at the village green.
“When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
St Peter's Church, Church Langton 