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St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church rings in 150th year
St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church
St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church will be celebrating its 150th anniversary next year, but its members have already commenced celebrations, as an entire year of activities has already been planned.
Reverend Leslie Edmondson told Kaieteur News yesterday that the church has experienced vast change ever since its existence.
“The transformation has been enormous. We have gotten more members into the church and things are going pretty, pretty okay,” the Reverend said.
Currently, the church which is located at ‘A’ Vlissengen Road, Lodge, has between 500 and 600 members.
“I hope all those people who are not church members can attend. I invite you to St. Sidwell’s…come and see what it’s like so that God can uplift you and make you somebody.”
St. Sidwell’s Church was named after St. Sidwell’s in Exeter, United Kingdom (there is now a third church with this name in Cornwall).
They are named in memory of an eighth century virgin martyr who lived just outside Exeter.
She was the daughter of Lord Perphir of South Wales, who left a large fortune for his children when he died. This made his wife – the children’s step mother – rather jealous and legend has it that she paid a reaper on the estate to kill Sidwell, who just like her father, loved to pray in the fields behind their home.
According to the legend, a holy well sprang up where her head fell and many healing miracles took place there.
The first church was built over her burial site. The church was rebuilt twice.
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