Notices | St James Church, Altham

Harvest

Sunday 12th October will be our Harvest Festival. If you are planning on bringing a harvest gift please try to include only nonperishable or long dated items as we will, as usual, be taking all the harvest gifts to the foodbank in Clayton. There will be a Ploughman’s...

Notices for 2nd November 2025

Next Sunday is a service of remembrance for Remembrance Sunday at the later time of 10am. The winner of this months lottery is Joanne Barns winning £125 On 7th November at All Saints there will be a concert by St a Christopher's School choir and Jazz band at 7pm....

Parish Diary

PARISH DIARY FOR THE COMING WEEKS 3rd August - Holy Baptism 2pm 6th August - Church Open for Visitors 11.30am - 1.30pm 10th August - All Age Worship - Trinity 8 13th August - Church Open for Visitors 11.30am - 1.30pm 17th August - Holy Communion - Trinity 9...

Richard Thomas Roe Walton Memorial Plaque

Notice is hereby given that work will take place to repair and refurbish the memorial plaque to Richard Thomas Roe Walton, (died 1st April 1845) which is situated on the internal south wall of St. James parish church, Altham. Any person who is a descendant of the...

VE Day Anniversary Concert

On the evening of 10th May the Haslingden Concert Band treated us to fantastic concert to mark the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of VE Day. A fabulous programme of music was enjoyed by all. A fantastic total of £608 was raised which will be added to the Church...

Roof Work

Altham Church roof repaired thanks to grant from the National Churches Trust in association with the National Lottery Heritage Fund The final stage of refurbishing the roof of St James’ C of E Church, Altham – which was built in 1512 – has been completed. The latest...

Roof work – exhibition

Have you see the exhibition at the back of church showing the recent work to the roof?

Holy Week Services

HOLY WEEK SERVICES DURING HOLY WEEK 24th March - Palm Sunday 25th March - Holy Communion with the opportunity to receive prayer and the laying on of hands for healing at 7.30 pm here at St James 26th March - Open the Book Easter worship in St Mary’s church 26th March...