Quick links
Hawstead on film:
To watch a short video made by Andy and Janet Taplin in support of our bid for Suffolk Village of the Year (2014), visit our Picture Gallery page.
Village information:
Visit our Documents page where you'll also find previous copies of the Village Voice and its predecessor, The Hawstead Journal.
Upcoming parish council and community council meetings. For all other village events and updates, take a look at our Events page.
Parish council meetings:
Parish Council meetings are held on the second Thursday of January, March, May, July, September and November in the village hall at 7.30pm. The agenda will be posted here a few days before each meeting
All Saints, Hawstead
Services take place as follows:
St Peter, Nowton
Services take place as follows:
Dates and times of all benefice services can be found on the noticeboard at All Saints, Hawstead.
You can also visit the website: A Church Near You from the Church of England.
Please note that archive material posted onto the website before 25 May 2018 may include limited personal data for which consent to publication has not been given.
This website is maintained by local volunteers, for which thanks.
Any enquiries regarding this website can be addressed to Hawstead Parish Council.
E-mail
clerk@hawstead-pc.gov.uk
Also on the Contacts page you'll find MAPS!
The Westminster Abbey of Suffolk
This insightful video has been produced by Daniel, a church enthusiast with his own YouTube channel, who dubs All Saints' Church in Hawstead the 'Westminster Abbey of Suffolk' and is one of his favourite churches in the country.
December 2021
July 2020 Following the Centenary of the end of World War One in 2018, a contribution has been made to the national 'Roll of Honour' website. Information gathered about those from Hawstead who died in both World Wars - largely by Simon Miller (deceased, former Church Warden) has been posted within the Suffolk section at https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Hawstead.html
August 2021 updated December 2021
The Parish of All Saints, Hawstead is currently in a state of interregnum, but an appointment has been made: for enquiries about weddings and other activities connected with Hawstead Church please contact Rev. Canon Max Osborne (max9@btinternet.com and Tel. 01284-735325)
There is a photo gallery of All Saints Church here!
For a good, colourful description of All Saints Church, Hawstead see the Suffolk Churches website which is a labour of love (or so it seems) by one Simon Knott. Simon has also produced a similar survey of Norfolk churches and it looks like he has now embarked on dealing with Essex churches!
The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) has produced a substantial document "Record of Church Furnishings" relating to All Saints Church, Hawstead. It relates to visits by NADFAS members in 2007 and 2008 and is kept by the Church Warden. Here's the title pages:
Link to the website for the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Link to an amateur video of All Saints Church, Hawstead (mostly the churchyard) made in Spring 2012 and published on U-Tube
Simon Miller, formerly Church Warden, researched the Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at All Saints Church and compiled digitsed versions. He has also created a list of the war dead from Hawstead (WW1 and WW2)