Friends of St. Oswalds

Friends of St. Oswalds

What you can do

A healthy membership will…

·         Provide the income needed for restoration projects.

·         Help to preserve this historic building

·         Increase the number of legacies to St. Oswald’s, with the specific intent that money should go towards restoration and maintenance work.

·         Enable the Friends to put in place an on-going maintenance programme.

Above all, with your help as a Friend, we can ensure that this historic Church is preserved for future generations to come!

Friends of St. Oswald’s will receive a periodic newsletter, with news, a social calendar, updates on work to the building and an invitation to the annual Friend’s Reception.

Please fill in the form and return to:

The Friends Administrator
The Rectory
Golborne Road

Winwick

Cheshire

Membership

Bronze Friend      £20.00 per annum

Silver Friend         £40.00 per annum

Gold Friend           £60.00 per annum

Life Friend            £350.00

Young Friend        £5.00  per annum

(under 16)

I do not wish to join, but would like to make a donation              £_____________

I would like to remember St. Oswald’s in my will. Please send further information.

If you are a UK taxpayer, you can increase the value of every £1 you give by 28p

AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU

History of St Oswald Winwick

For over a thousand years, people have worshipped here. The earliest Christian associations are with St. Oswald, King of Northumbria from 634 – 642 AD.

The present building dates from about 1358, although the Legh Chapel and the Tower  are older. Over the centuries much of the church has been rebuilt or restored. Oliver Cromwell stationed his troops in the Church after the Battle of Red Bank in 1648, and caused serious damage. Until 1849, the Chancel and Sanctuary lay derelict, when it was restored by the famous architect A.W. Pugin.

Today, the Church is a vibrant part of the community of Winwick. It is now the only Church in the village, and as such, has signed a “Declaration of Ecumenical Welcome”, inviting members of all other denominations, and none, to use it as their own.