English Heritage sites near Leckhampton Parish
PORTH HELLICK DOWN BURIAL CHAMBER
1000 miles from Leckhampton Parish
A large and imposing Scillonian Bronze Age entrance grave, with kerb, inner passage and burial chamber all clearly visible.
HALLIGGYE FOGOU
1000 miles from Leckhampton Parish
Roofed and walled in stone, this complex of passages is the largest and best-preserved of several mysterious underground tunnels associated with Cornish Iron Age settlements.
INNISIDGEN LOWER AND UPPER BURIAL CHAMBERS
1000 miles from Leckhampton Parish
Two Bronze Age communal burial cairns of Scillonian type, with fine views. The upper cairn is the best preserved on the islands.
HARRY'S WALLS
1000 miles from Leckhampton Parish
An unfinished artillery fort, built above St Mary's Pool harbour in 1552-53.
GARRISON WALLS
1000 miles from Leckhampton Parish
You can enjoy a two-hour walk alongside the ramparts of these defensive walls and earthworks, dating from the 16th to 18th centuries.
CROMWELL'S CASTLE
1000 miles from Leckhampton Parish
The castle stands guarding the lovely anchorage between Bryher and Tresco and is one of the few surviving Cromwellian fortifications in Britain.
Churches in Leckhampton Parish
CNC - Cheltenham Network Church
Emmanuel Church
Naunton Park
57 Emmanuel Church Footpath
Cheltenham
GL53 7NT
01242 465698
https://cnc.church
We are a new kind of Church of England church. We work across the Cheltenham Deanery with particular connection to the South Cheltenham team. We are relaxed and informal and unashamedly family friendly with a membership made up from a wide range of backgrounds, ages and stages.
In many ways the heart of what we do is in our Network Groups. These meet during the week all over Cheltenham. Some are about coming together for fun, some are based around social action, others are mutual support groups, teaching groups, prayer groups or places of friendship where we work out what it means to live as followers of Jesus.
Networks are initiated and led by church members. Some might be weekly, some monthly, some quarterly and some seasonally. Members are able to take part in as many or as few networks as they wish. People do not need to be members of CNC to be part of one of the networks and there is no assumption that those who attend a network should automatically attend a Sunday gathering.
Networks are incarnational – they ‘go and inhabit’, building what they do where the people are and every network is shaped primarily by the people that connect into them.
Sunday mornings include contemporary worship led by a band, time to pray, and a talk that is usually interactive. Groups for kids from creche to 16 year olds meet for an hour alongside the service. On the first and third Sundays we meet for prayer at 7pm in the URC in Warden Hill.
St Christopher's Church, Warden Hill
Lincoln Avenue
Warden Hill
Cheltenham
(01) 242 242831
St. Christopher's was built in 1961 as a dual purpose church and community centre. Later halls were added and the original building became a full-time church. In 2000/01 as a Millennium project the front was extended, a spire and bells added, to 'make it look more like a church'.
The church has a set of 10 Tom Denny windows depicting 10 different parables (there is a leaflet in the notices area), a liturgical 'East' window by Sebastian Compere and 2 new etched glass windows by Nicholas Mynher.
The 6 bells are the lightest ring of bells in a church in the world.
The church is open every day from 9am to 4pm.
St. Christopher's is part of the South Cheltenham Team. The other churches in the group are St. Philip & St. James Leckhampton, St. Peter's Leckhampton, St. Stephen's Tivoli and Emmanuel. There is also a working partnership Cheltenham Network Church (CNC).
The vicar is Revd Gary Grady, who is also vicar at St. Peter's, Leckhampton and Area Dean for Cheltenham.
Pubs in Leckhampton Parish
Double Barrel
Double Barrel, Cheltenham