St Margaret's Church Fletton

Wonderful place to worship with very welcoming congregation.

This was for our sister in Law's death, quite sad.We gave her a good send off, 30 x people attended.We had an excellent host Jason, within us and had a lot of laughs.

The Church itself is very beautiful outside meaning the building, but it wasn't open as it says online it was locked up. As for the church grounds/cemetery, many of the graves were in a state of disrepair and there was Litter EVERYWHERE, In Graves, Ontop of Graves and scattered all around Graves, basivally the whole church yard was full of rubbish, and old dead christmas tree, even old discarded clothing rotting away. Around the back of the church, there were old cans of alcohol, cigarette buts, even some needles!I actually removed some rubbish myself it was quiet terrible.Even the church bins were left 'Lazily' rite next to somebody Grave, where as it clearly had a place next to the waterbutt on the right of the church entrance.Behind an electrical unit next to the church was severely bags of dumped rubbish, old clothes rotting on the floor and in/on over grown bushes and plants.The Graves mostly looked as though they hadn't been cleaned of overcrowding overgrowing vines, some where completely covered and could be easily mistaken for a Bush.I won't comment on the inside as it was shut when it was meant to be open to the public. (Perhaps needs updating)All in all it was the most 'grotty' church yards I've ever seen, didn't look like it had been raked for a year.I could really imagine this is easy to fix, perhaps a volunteer or 2 could easily clear it and make it nice in a few hours, If trusted with a key I'd probably volunteer myself.Maybe a simple a4 notice on the notice board could easily find a few volunteers and once a week have a clear.Much of the rubbish had been there seemingly so long it was discoloured.Shame but has great potential.

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