All Saints Church, Hemblington

Great Big Green Week runs between Saturday, 7th June and Sunday, 15th June. The Friends will be organising a small exhibition in church. The highlight of the week will be Saturday, 7th June, when our ‘resident naturalist’, David Bryant will give a free talk starting at 12 noon: ‘Wildlife in a Country Churchyard’. This will be followed by an hour’s wildlife survey in the churchyard. The Annual General Meeting of the Friends group will follow at 2.15pm.

This year is the 80th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War. The 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day falls on Thursday, 8th May 2025. There will be many events to commemorate this important date, including our VE service at Hemblington Church on 4th May at 9.30am which will be attended by Henry Cator, one of our Deputy Lieutenants for Norfolk. He is representing The Lord Lieutenant and ultimately The King, so that will be very special for our little church. Do come and join us – everyone will be welcome. Refreshments will be served after. There will be afternoon tea at Heathlands Community Centre on the same day.

The next Make & Mardle will be on Thursday, 22nd May 2025 at Hemblington Church from 10am to 12noon. Come and join us for a tea / coffee, cake, chat with optional craft. All will be very welcome.

Sunday services now regularly take place in the Churches of Blofield and Hemblington and we look forward to welcoming worshippers.

Sunday services are held in Hemblington Church with North Burlingham at 9.30 am and in Blofield Church at 11.00 am. Services alternate between Holy Communion and a Service of Morning Worship.

There are benefice Morning prayers on Tuesdays at 9.00 am by Zoom.

The Wednesday morning service is at 9.30 am in Blofield Church, alternating between Holy Communion and Morning Worship.

Thursday morning prayers are at 9 am in Hemblington Church.

Our church buildings will remain open for private prayer at published times.

Hemblington Church is open to visitors every day from 9.30 am until 4 pm.

We hope you enjoy the history and peace of our lovely church.

As a retirement project, Andrew Hawkins is building a website which takes a virtual tour of places of interest in and around the historic city of Norwich, presented as a series of interactive 360-degree panoramas in which you, the viewer, can ‘turn the camera’ to look left and right and up and down. He has just added a section about Hemblington Church which contains beautiful views of our church. The Hemblington Church entry can be found at:

http://norwich360.com/hemblington.html

But have a look round the rest of the website for interesting insights into our local heritage.

For anyone who is researching family history in the Hemblington area we have a page explaining how you can access our church records.

This can be found here.

Thanks to Paul Brittain of Norfolk360.co.uk you can now experience a 360 degree tour of the inside and outside of our church by using the following links:

View inside All Saints, Hemblington Church on Google Tours

View outside All Saints, Hemblington Church on Google Tours

This is video shows our beautiful church on a lovely summers day in June 2014. Music by the Octagon Singers of Norwich.