Cream Teas 2024

St Peter’s Church Welcomes Everyone to Their Sunday Afternoon Teas. 

Served every Sunday in the church from 3pm-5pm – Until 1st September

There are a few weeks left to experience a special Sunday afternoon treat at St Peter’s church. Lovely homemade cakes to tempt the taste buds served in the beautiful environment of this wonderful church.  

A Community Summer Treat

St Peter’s is a community church in the truest sense of the word. A Sunday afternoon Cream Tea serves homemade cakes and scones made by the local community, along with tea and coffee served by local volunteers and worshippers – even encouragement to a local Duke of Edinburgh Award student, as she rolls up her sleeves and washes up. Everyone involved gives their time freely to this longstanding community summer treat.

St Peter's homemade cakes ready to eat
Homemade cakes ready to eat

A time of community and communing

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. 

Enjoying a Cream Tea and time together
Enjoying a Cream Tea and time together

We also now have our prayer tree. For anyone who wishes to have prayers said, they are invited to write their request on a leaf and hang it on the tree. All leaves are read and prayers offered by our lay team privately, at quiet times during the week.

St Peter's Prayer Tree
St Peter’s Prayer Tree

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.

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.

All proceeds from Cream Teas will assist our project to improve facilities at the church.  Our Cream Teas are a vital element of fundraising for this cause. 

Waiting to serve your Cream Tea
Waiting to serve your Cream Tea

When can we come for a Cream Tea at St Peter’s?

There are a few weeks left this year to enjoy a Cream Tea with us. We are open every Sunday afternoon, until 1st September from 3-5pm.

We look forward to giving you a warm welcome in a cool environment at the hottest time of year!

Join us soon!



National Trust Heritage Open Days

Sundays 8th & 15th September 2024, 3pm

St. Peter’s, Church Langton

Stonton Road, Church Langton, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 7SZ

Join our guided tour of the church, highlighting the architectural and historical features. Learn more about the colourful history of St Peter’s Church and discover the intricate carvings and unique features of this remarkable Grade II* Listed building. The tours are part of the Heritage Festival which takes place annually in September.

Admission is free and refreshments served afterwards. Tours start at 3pm and last around an hour.

St Peter's: View to pulpit
St Peter’s: View to pulpit

A taste of the Tour – Some things you’ll discover

St. Peter’s hosted the first performance of Handel’s Messiah in a parish church 27th September 1759. It was performed as part of a festival of music organised by Rector William Hanbury. Visionary, botanist and priest – a unique man whose legacy lives on to this day.

St. Peter’s is the Mother Church of The Langtons, dating back to Norman times and was possibly an Anglo Saxon minster. This medieval church, of amazing proportions has so much heritage of interest dating from the late 13th and early 14th centuries with the tower, clerestory and nave arcades, the work of the 15th century.

Victorian renovations resulted in the elaborate carvings on the pews and pulpit and a reredos in the chancel which is an alabaster representation of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.

And that’s only part of the story! Learn more with a Guided Tour

Guided Tour Details                                                                                          

Sunday 8th September: 3.00pm
Sunday 15th September: 3.00pm

No booking required, just arrive at 3pm. We look forward to welcoming you.

Refreshments

Simple refreshments will be available afterwards.

Access

No direct wheelchair access but prior notice by email here, for assistance for wheelchair users. There is uneven ground in churchyard. Parking on the road outside, toilet facilities by arrangement – please ask for assistance – Further parking at the Community Hall on Stonton Road. Approximately 5-10 minutes’ walk.

Directions

Find us just off the B6047 Market Harborough to Melton Road, 3 miles from Kibworth, 6 miles from Market Harborough. Postcode for satellite navigation systems LE16 7SZ

What three word link: https://w3w.co/cubed.thinkers.upholds

Heritage open days

Cream Teas 2024

Sunday afternoons starting: Sunday 7th July, 3pm – 5pm

Cream Teas  Are  Back in the Church!  

Cream Teas will be held in St. Peter’s, Church Langton by popular demand starting on Sunday 7th July until 1st September  3.00-5.00pm  

Come and sample the excellent cake and scones at very reasonable prices.  We look forward to welcoming you!

Here comes Summer!