2016 promises to be a momentous year for all who are connected with, value and appreciate St. Nicolas church, Pevensey. It is the churches 800th anniversary year: completed in 1216, 400 years before Shakespeare, 500 years before JS Bach was in his prime, St. Francis of Assisi was yet to be born and the world hadn’t been circumnavigated.
2016 will see the start of the second part of the church’s restoration with two new roofs, upgraded electrical system and renewed windows ironwork (‘ferramenta’). This will be financed by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant announced last September, and from our own continuing fundraising.
A further £80,000 is needed to complete the much needed internal redecoration of the church. Applications will be made to hopefully supportive grant funding bodies early in the New Year who, without exception, always want to know what we are fund raising ourselves!
The church has an ambitious Events programme planned for 2016. Tickets will generally be on sale about four weeks before the concert date. Some events may be booked earlier on line through ‘wegottickets.com’.
The first 2016 concert is on 23rd January at 7:00 PM with NOTEWorthy, an accomplished Eastbourne based ‘a cappella’ choir of mixed voices several of whom have sung in major London choirs (Bach Choir, BBC Chorus to name but two). Their programme will be a selection of sacred and secular music, with some familiar pieces. One of the pieces, an ancient chant ‘O Mysterium Magnum’ from Christmas Matins was sung by King’s College Choir on Christmas Eve this year. It has become a favourite, arranged in this contemporary version in 1947 by an American, Morten Laurisden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ch7uottHU. Come and hear more! Tickets are £6.