The Friends of Little Gidding

This year's addresses were given by Dr Bridget Nichols and the Revd Canon Tim Alban Jones, who took as their theme “An Exploration of the Psalms”.

The 2017 Pilgrimage is on Saturday 20 May and will be led jointly by Canon Tim Alban Jones and Dr Bridget Nichols. For more information, follow the link.

Advance notice of 2017 events. For a list of dates on which events are planned, please follow the link.

The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on the Saturday closest to his feast day, Saturday 3 December 2016, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am. The Rector, the Revd Mary Jepp, will preside and afterwards Canon Jessica Martin will give the address. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch. For more information, follow the link.

This year's Little Gidding Pilgrimage is just a few weeks away, on Saturday 21 May. Further details of the programme are now available and we invite you to let us know if you are coming.

The 2016 Pilgrimage is on Saturday 21 May and the leader will be the Very Revd Frances Ward, the Dean of St Edmundsbury and Chair of the Little Gidding Trust. For more information, follow the link.

The November 2015 Newsletter contains reports on this year's Pilgrimage and Eliot Festival and details of the forthcoming AGM and celebration of Nicholas Ferrar Day (5 December). There are also articles on: the forthcoming Ferrar Conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge; the discovery of a map of Little Gidding dating from 1596; watercolours of Little Gidding Church from 1851; Michael Hudson, chaplain to Charles I, who brought the defeated king through Little Gidding.

• Newsletter page spreads for screen reading (721kB)

Magdalene College Cambridge is to host a conference on The Ferrars of Little Gidding from Monday 5 September to Wednesday 7 September 2016. The College has been the custodian of the Ferrar family papers and portraits since the late eighteenth century when Martha Ferrar was married to Peter Peckard, who became Master of Magdalene College.

The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on the Saturday closest to his feast day, Saturday 5 December 2015, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am. The Bishop of Huntingdon, the Rt Revd David Thomson, will preside and give the address. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch. For more information, follow the link.

Little Gidding
Saturday 18 July 2015

We are pleased to announce that the Tenth Annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding will take place on Saturday 18 July 2015.

The Festival is a major literary celebration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). We are delighted to welcome again this year visitors from the T S Eliot International Summer School.