Bondleigh Country Flower Festival

A harvest themed Country Flower Festival will take place in Bondleigh Church from Friday, September 14th at 2pm until the Harvest service at 3pm on Sunday, September 16th.   In addition to the floral displays there will be refreshments and a local produce stall to include jams, chutneys, fruit and vegetables and hopefully locally baked bread and possibly a brew or two.  

The harvest themed displays will be loosely based on lines taken from Harvest hymns, organisers aim to have slightly different and occasionally quirky versions of the usual Harvest festival displays.  One of the displays will feature the famous Bondleigh Treacle mines and produce from this year’s harvest, including treacle tarts, will be on sale!  A competition for children to make a harvest themed display will be held and these will be on show over the weekend

On Saturday evening, September 15th, Mariners Away, a local folk band, will sing and play in the church and wine and cheese will be served.  Entry covers a glass of wine and cheese and nibbles.  Tickets are £8. Booking is essential. Please ring Jane Semorad 01837 82319 or Caroline Stokes on 01837 82240 to book no later than September 7th.

There is free car parking and admission to the flower festival is free but donations would be most welcome. To find Bondleigh church follow the signs from A3124 Cadditon Cross, 2 miles south of Winkleigh or Sat Nav: EX20 2AN.

The event is in aid of Devon Historic Churches Trust.  The DHCT provides grant funds for church repairs and the installation of modern facilities such as kitchens, heating, lighting, toilets and disabled access.  Bondleigh church warden Danny Semorad said: ‘Raising money to repair our church roof the year before last was a daunting task. The DHCT was very supportive and encouraging and thanks to them and many other funders and village events we managed to reach our target of £90,000.  We felt we would like to give something back to the DHCT to go towards helping other Devon churches.  The money raised from our flower festival will go to the DHCT but it has been agreed that half of funds raised will be returned to Bondleigh for our current lighting and heating project.’