The Church Hall
The Church Hall is available for hire and is on the corner of Brook Lane and High Street Flitton.
To hire the Hall please call their dedicated booking line on 07865 828673, or email them at
(They will ask you to provide your name, contact details and how long and why you want the hall for so they can check their booking system before they get back to you.)
The Parish Council Meetings are held at the Church Hall.
St John the Baptist Church
A beautiful country church with a hidden secret….. see below
Mausoleum, Wrest Park: 01525 860000 or www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/de-grey-mausoleum-flitton
Organist, Church Choir and Bell ringers – please contact Churchwarden
Church Flower Rota – Leslie Arthur 01525 713325
Church Cleaning – Margaret Butt 01525 862170
Friends of Flitton Church Jo Holt Jo Holt 01525 792777
Flit’n’More Quarterly Parish magazine (as below)
Editorial: Jo Holt Jo Holt 01525 792777
Advertising: Simon Sadler 01525 861727
Distribution: Pamela Buckley 01525 860306
Special Services
To arrange weddings, baptisms etc, or if you would like someone mentioned in our prayers, please call the Vicarage. If you need transport to get to church, please call the Church Warden.
Home Visits
If you would like one of the vicars to call or if you are unable to get out and would like home communion please get in touch with them as above.
Weddings
Our weddings continue into the autumn, and it’s always lovely to welcome families on their special day. If you are interested in getting married at Flitton, call the vicarage to talk it over. If you have some connection with the village you can probably have your wedding in Flitton Church, and even if you have been married before it is often possible – don’t be afraid to ask!
Baptism Window
When visiting the church, maybe you have seen our unique baptism window next to the font. Periodically we arrange for the next set of panes to be engraved, although we are running out of spaces, If one of your family was christened at Flitton Church, even a long time ago, perhaps you might be interested in having a pane engraved to remember the date or maybe to mark a special birthday.
For more details on this, please contact the Church Warden Jo Holt. If you do not know your baptism date, we can look it up for you.
If you are interested or would like to come and see the window, please contact Jo Holt. Alternatively you can have a look if you come to one of our Services, please see Church website for details.
We are always looking for people to help with the work at the Church because we love volunteers Some of the things you help us with are as follows:
- Help at a Church cleaning or a gardening working party
- Flower arranging (no skill needed just a few simple flowers in a vase)
- Joining the bell ringers or the choir
- Delivering the Flit’n’More magazine quarterly
- Children reading at services
- Serving coffee after services
- Organising a fund-raising event
- Supporting fund-raising events
- Financial support through standing order of gift aid envelopes.
Just make contact and why not do it whilst you are thinking about it!
The De Grey Mausoleum Flitton
The De Grey Mausoleum at the Church (see video) is a hidden gem in the heartlands of rural Bedfordshire. It is in the guardianship of English Heritage and is open to the public, click here to visit the website for opening details or see the Village events calendar.
It is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country and is a Grade I listed building. The Mausoleum contains over twenty monuments to the de Grey family who lived in nearby Wrest Park.
The cruciform Mausoleum has its nave set against the north side of the chancel of the church and its south transept overlaps the east end. The oldest part of Mausoleum was built circa 1614, the eastern parts were added in 1705. The architect Edward Shepherd worked on the building during 1739–40.