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Heritage weekends to be celebrated at St Nicholas

Date Posted: 20.08.2018

Heritage weekends to be celebrated at St Nicholas

Extraordinary Women: Celebrating the heritage of St Nicholas, Sutton:

This exhibition and series of events in September celebrate the lives of some of the Extraordinary Women who are connected with St Nicholas.

The exhibition is supported by funds from the Sutton Heritage Action Zone. Historic England and Successful Sutton are fully supportive of this project and we need your help to greet and welcome visitors.  Please see the attached sheet for Exhibition opening times.

Let Jeff Richards (020 8770 1075) know if you can give time to welcome people to St Nicholas.

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This year, to mark the centenary of when women first gained the right to vote, St Nicholas will be hosting an exhibition and series of events celebrating the lives of some of the Extraordinary Women who are connected with St Nicholas.
There has been a church on the site of St Nicholas since before the Norman Conquest. The current building dates from 1864 but the monuments from the old church were moved into the new building. They allow us to tell the story of how the lives of women have changed from the 17th century to the 21st century.
The story will start before the First English Civil War and take us right up to today. You will meet the daughters of London merchants, famous court beauties, heroines of war and peace, the first women priest and a bishop. It is a story that takes in religious persecution, the arrival of the first printing press in the Americas, slavery and charitable donations and scandals of a very intimate nature.
There will be self-guided tours, talks, storytelling and activity trails for children that will take in the monuments of the church and the many grade II listed tombs of the churchyard.