The Friends of Little Gidding

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.

With just a few days until this year's Little Gidding Pilgrimage on Saturday, here are details for those who are coming, including minor changes to the programme for the day, details of parking and car sharing. We look forward very much to welcoming you all, along with our Pilgrimage leader, the Rt Revd Rowan Williams.

The 2015 Pilgrimage is on Saturday 30 May and the leader will be the Rt Revd Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, now Lord Williams of Oystermouth and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. For more information, follow the link.

The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on the Saturday closest to his feast day, Saturday 6 December 2014, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am. The Revd Paul Skirrow, honorary assistant warden at Ferrar House, Little Gidding, will preside and the Revd George Westhaver, Principal of Pusey House, Oxford, will give the address. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch. For more information, follow the link.

The weather failed to dampen a great day on Saturday at this year's Little Gidding Pilgrimage. We are delighted to be able to share the addresses or sermons preached by Pilgrimage leader Malcolm Guite at the two main services at Leighton Bromswold in the morning and Little Gidding in the afternoon.

We’re looking for someone with the right experience to take charge of the administration and organisation of this year’s T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding in July. Could it be you?