THE PARISH CHURCH OF STOKE DAMEREL
(ST. ANDREW & ST. LUKE)

Email:   info@stokedamerel.church                                          
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personal information to third parties.

Sunday 21  June                3rd Sunday after Trinity

  Merciful God,
we entrust to your tender care
those who are ill or in pain,
knowing that whenever danger threatens
your everlasting arms
are there to hold them safe.
Comfort and heal them,
and restore them to health and strength;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

PLEASE PRAY FOR:-
The sick:-
Maureen, Margaret W, Graham, John S, Kathy, Mo, Matt,
Bertie, Morwenna, David J.
The long term sick and infirm:-
Diana, Liz & Keith N, Rob.
The Ministry Team:-
Ruth and Marilyn.

BLESSED SACRAMENT CANDLE

If you would like to have the candle lit for a week
for a particular prayer / thanksgiving /
commemoration, etc., please send a £5 donation to
Debbie Smith, clearly marking your donation as
being for the candle. Details of your intention can
be emailed to:- sarah.lundstrom@virginmedia.com
so that a mention of the commemoration, etc., can
appear in the Sunday Sheet.

SERVICES THIS WEEK
Stoke Damerel Parish Church is a hybrid church
open for public worship and private prayer and all
services will be live streamed.
By attending a live streamed service, you give
implied permission to have your image captured
on CCTV and to be broadcast as participant in the
liturgy.

Watch our livestreamed services
Please follow the link to make your way to our YouTube page: 

 STOKE DAMEREL YOUTUBE CHANNEL  Sunday 21 June            3rd Sunday after Trinity
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Mike Harman
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Mike Harman

Wednesday 24 June
1000 Morning Prayer

Saturday 27 June
1500 Fiona’s Ordination at Exeter Cathedral

Sunday 28 June            4th Sunday after Trinity
0800 Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Brian Wood
1000 Sung Parish Eucharist
Celebrant: Rev’d Sue Nicholas
1130 PCC Meeting

WELCOME BACK
To Rev’d Mike Harman, who joins us after a busy
week at the Clergy Conference.


FIONA’S ORDINATION
Just a reminder that this event is next Saturday
if anyone is free to support Fiona.
There is also a facility for booking tickets via the
link below:

https://www.ticketsource.com/exetercathedral/t-oeerdnl

The service will be streamed live, via either the
Cathedral’s website or the diocese or Cathedral
YouTube pages. Links to these below:

Exeter Diocese YouTube page:
https://youtube.com/@cofedevon?
si=mNb3X57tl8NHu-gH

Cathedral YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@exetercathedral?
si=azOFHyvpk5AkUbXp

Cathedral website:
https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/
If, on going onto any of the YouTube pages, you
can’t find the service, try looking on the ‘live’ tab
as that’s where you might find it.

MARILYN'S MEMOS

SUMMER FAIR 4th July
11 am to 3 pm
Only two more Saturdays before the big day.
Please speak to Debbie Smith if you can help
at any time. She is in charge of allocating tasks.
Thank you.
It is one of our big fund raisers and we need a
total team effort. PLEASE.

21st June Raffle prizes, good quality bric-a-brac, books, plants

28th June Plants, cakes etc

FRIDAY 3rd JULY Physical help at 2-3 pm (tables)

SCAFFOLDING

As you can see, part of the scaffolding was taken
down on Monday. I was assured it was coming
down “when time allowed”. I explained that we
urgently needed access to the bell tower as the
boarding has prevented any bell ringing.
If anyone would care to nag in tandem, it might
make a difference or perhaps the opposite!!
DRAKE Scaffolding. 01752 719515.
The FLAG POLE can only be installed when the
scaffolding is down apparently. The new door is
being specially made and will be put in place when
ready. Those who climb the tower will need to
check the step onto the roof, please.
Those who might like to volunteer as 2ic flag
flying could present themselves to John S. It could
be helpful for others to know or have an official
visit to the roof... maybe a group visit could be
arranged for the interested brave and fit narrow
step climbers. The workings of the bells are
fascinating along with a rather super view from the
top!

DHS BOYS SUMMER CONCERT
I understand that the concert was a great success.
Emma Luing-Holmes, head of music and drama,
reported that it was very well attended by parents
and all went according to plan. The equipment
remains in church overnight and the team return
the next day to clear and stack chairs. I was sorry
to miss it but was stuck in the back lanes between
Kingsbridge and Buckland Tout-Saints with a hole
in one of my tyres.

THE CONSEQUENCE OF POTHOLES

Unfortunately, my front passenger tyre was
damaged by numerous potholes in the lanes on
my cross country journey (alternative route!)
to Beesands where I was invited to celebrate a
friend’s 85th birthday. You always know that
feeling when you have a puncture, especially
when the pressure indicator says “3”! I was able to
pull into a farmyard where a kindly farmer offered
to put air in for me, which immediately came out
as the hole was quite large! We looked for the
spare and I felt somewhat foolish to discover that
newer cars do not carry spares. Double disaster. So
thanks to the RAC and others, a new tyre appeared
several hours later and I was mobile again. I had,
however, missed lunch and the DHS concert.

ELECTRICAL FAILURE
In the middle of the concert rehearsal and my
subsequent flat tyre, the electrics in the parish
centre failed. I was able to call our electrician
from a distance but no fault could be found.
The problem lay with the service provider, who
was summoned by Rhona (being stranded I was
nervous about not having enough battery on my
phone). The offending fuse was replaced and all
was well!! How very fortunate it had not affected
the church or the concert would have been
cancelled due to the abundance of the electrical
gadgetry. I will hasten to add that this did not
cause the fuse to blow. It happened early in the
morning.

FRIENDLY VISITORS

Many thanks to Russell and Emma who popped
into Derriford to see Margaret Bibby. She was
taken into hospital last Sunday following a fall in
her house. We hope she is recovering and allowed
home soon.

PLYMPTON ST MAURICE
Plympton St Maurice is a hidden gem and many
people have never visited the Norman castle
remains and admired the charming high street.
Over the weekend there is an annual fair with
lots of events. An interesting one is on Sunday
afternoon 2-5pm when there are about 20 open
gardens to visit: ticket around £5 plus map.
Highly recommended with tea in the church hall.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN JUNE
Mac Armstrong, Lesley Morris, Steve Baker, Terry Hewitt,
Marlene Schuster, Anne Tillett, Margaret Wright.

EARLY VIEWS OF STOKE DAMEREL
In last week’s Sunday Bulletin, you will have read
about the generous gift of an old, framed painting
of the church, donated by Teresa and Paul, which
had been stored in their loft for some years.
Having researched the image, they even travelled
down from their home in Essex to safely hand over
the painting. As can be seen in the reproduction
below, the church was painted from a location
somewhere to the northeast, before the
construction of the modern roads and any of the
housing that we see now and which would all
block this view.

I am not sure when the painting was created but
it must have been after the two extensions to the
building were constructed in the early and mid-
seventeenth century.
It was suggested that the work had been painted by
William Payne (1760-1830), a landscape painter
who travelled extensively around the country
producing rural images in different localities.

The painting is now on display in the church, and
two thoughts struck me when I looked closely at
the depiction of our building. Firstly, the image
looked very familiar to me.
Over the years I have downloaded, into the church
archives, many historic items relating to the church
that I might wish to return to at a later date. When
I checked my records, I realised that I already had
four other, very similar, images. Sadly, I had not
recorded any information as to who painted any of
the four. I presume that they were all created
during the same century. The church is always
viewed from the same location in all of the images,
although foreground detail does vary. All are
reproduced below. The detail in the first being the
closest to that in the donated painting.









My second observation is that whoever painted the
work now in Stoke church may have merely
copied one of the other works without visiting the
locality. I say this because of two details in the
image which are inconsistent with any of the other
four, as well as the building as we still see it today.
One is the north porch, which has a ridge running
north to south, not east to west (as can be seen if
you examine the painting when next in church).
The other discrepancy relates to the louvred
openings to the bell chamber, one on each of the
four tower elevations. The painting donated to
Stoke Damerel clearly shows two louvred
openings on the east tower elevation.
I hope to conduct more research and then come
back to this subject again.
Tony Barnard