BATCOMBE
REP & DISTRIBUTOR: Johnny Gibbs jg@intramar.co.uk 83187
Batcombe – Wardon Hill
Batcombe Church
Bolster the Beams
We have been having a monthly service recently, including the christening by the Rev Richard Kirlew of Ava-May Eleanor Gordge, pictured below with her parents, Peter and Louise Gordge, and her brother Charlie.
Jan Pahl has kindly suggested that we should publish a poem written by her grandmother with a further request for donations to Bolster the Beams fund. If you wish to help repair St. Mary’s church roof, please contact PCC Treasurer, Julie Gibbs (julie.m.gibbs@gmail.com) or donate directly to https://justgiving.com/ batcombepcc
The Batcombe Road by Catherine Whetham There’s a road climbs onto the Batcombe Hill Where the sky and the bare downs meet, ‘Tis washed by the tears of the salt west wind And trodden by dusty feet. It leaves the church with the golden tower. With the green mounds under the grass, And goes upward away through the thornstrewn slopes, Where the nibbling down sheep pass. 5
