Church’s festival of all things art...

Art, music and gardens will all be helping to raise funds for Holy Trinity Church in Dobcross.

The ninth arts festival will be held in the church starting tomorrow until June 14, when original works will be on show every day from 1.30 pm to 4pm.

Evening events also include a floral display with Eden Florists, of Greenfield on Wednesday June 10, and a chamber concert by the Telemann Baroque Ensemble on June 11, both at 7 30 pm.

Gardens will also be open at nine addresses across Saddleworth on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14.

Entrance to all nine costs £5 and tickets can be bought in advance from Saddleworth Museum, the Brownhill Countryside Centre, and at the Holy Trinity Arts Festival.

The gardens range from established large ones to recently renovated sites, small container gardens and informal hill tops.

The garden at the home of Mr and Mrs Norman Jolly at Gatehead Road, Delph, will also be open in aid of Holy Trinity and Cancer Research, from 10am to 4.30pm on June 27.

The church has had a major restoration costing over £600,000, which began in 2003, to make sure the Georgian building, over 220 years old, stands proud for generations to come.

Church official James Scott said: “The gardens opening, plus plant sales and refreshments, raised in excess of £3,000 last year.”




Eight open gardens are in Dobcross, at The Old Vicarage, Street House Lane; 12 Mount Lane; 80 Wall Hill Road; 5 Crib Lane; 9 Woods Lane; 2 and 4 Sugar Lane; and 1 Edge End, Long Lane. The ninth is at Yew Tree Cottage, Huddersfield Road, Diggle.