Church Notices
Notices for 21st June 2026
1. Next Sunday, will be a service of Family Communion at 9.30. 2. Immediately after the service Freida’s ashes will be interred in the family grave. For those who don’t know who I am talking about, Freida was a stalwart member of this congregation for many years. A...
Parish Diary
PARISH DIARY FOR THE COMING WEEKS 3rd June - Church open for visitors, 11.30 – 1.30 7th June - Holy Communion, with Sunday School – Trinity 1 - A meeting of the PCC follows this service 8th June - Bishop’s Visitation (installation of churchwardens) at Holy...
✨🎄 Christmas Services 🎄✨
We’d love you to join us this December as we celebrate the joy of Christmas together: 🕯️ Sunday 14th December – Family Christmas Service - Christingle At our usual time of 9.30am. A beautiful service for all ages. 🎶 Sunday 21st December – Nine Lessons & Carols At...
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...
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...