Today is the feast of St Lawrence and is one of the oldest feast days in the Church’s calendar. Growing up in Denton I was very familiar with the black and white Church at the top of our road, which was named after today’s Saint. The Church is one of only 29 in the country of Tudor design. Our St Lawrence was granted its charter by Henry VII and was built originally as St James in celebration of the Tudor lineage in 1552. As children we used to scare each other at night running through the Church yard in case we stumbled across what we thought was a pirates grave, because it had a skull and cross bones on it. Amazingly one of Vicars wrote a history of the Church and discovered that originally the Church had been a quarter of a mile further down the Lane and had been put on wheels and hauled into its present situation in the late 17th Century, hence the age of the graves that surround the Church today, the original were found in the field where it was originally built. Perhaps this is proof that recycling is not just a new trend! Now back to St Lawrence, when he was captured by the Roman officials he was given a few days to present all the riches of the Church; he did and he presented the poor, the sick and the needy of the Church; a fitting reminder that indeed “all that glitters is not gold”.