A espresso morning and second-hand ebook sale curated by Val Bielby and Lesley Buckley was held yesterday (November 2) at St Lawrence Parish Church in Lawrence Road.
The fundraiser was for the restoration of the church’s First World Battle memorial window.
It was put in in 1931 and designed by stained glass artist Joan Fulleylove as a memorial to Lieutenant Robert Harpley who was killed within the Somme in Belgium in 1916, and males of the Parish who died within the battle.
The morning raised £1,600 for the fund, which organisers hailed as an unimaginable sum of cash on their technique to reaching an quantity of £80,000 to return the numerous memorial to its former glory.
Fundraisers on the parish church have not too long ago celebrated the return to working order of its Victorian clock, following an ‘Attraction for the Peals’ launched final autumn.
A York Normandy Veterans Affiliation stained glass memorial window was put in in St Lawrence Parish Church in November 2020 and devoted by The Most Reverend and Proper Honourable Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York the next 12 months.
