Festivities for priest Lindsay

The Reverend Lindsay Dew, priest-in-charge of the Benefice of Dunton, Eyeworth and Wrestlingworth marked the event at the St Peter’s Patronal Festival earlier this month.

Mr Dew celebrated the occasion at a festival service at St Peter’s Church in Wrestlingworth on Sunday, July 3.

Appropriately he was ordained as a minister at Wakefield Cathedral on St Peter’s Day in 1986.

Family, friends and parishioners from the three villages packed into the church for the service and such was the demand extra chairs had to be brought in.

The celebrations continued at Wrestlingworth Memorial Hall where the congregation was invited to enjoy a buffet lunch afterwards.

Representatives from the benefice – which is made up of St Peter’s Church, All Saints Church in Eyeworth and St Mary Magdalene Church in Dunton – presented Mr Dew with a 400th anniversary edition of the King James Bible and a cheque.

A bouquet of flowers was also presented to his wife Melanie.

For the full story see the Biggleswade Chronicle of Friday, July 15.