A WIDE range of items will be on offer at a Winchester church's gift fair.

St Bartholomew’s will be hosting the fair on Saturday, November 25 from 10.30am to 3.30pm.

The church will be full to bursting with a display of locally made art and crafts including aprons, teatowels and preserves (GoLD); hats by Deirdre Wood, calendars and cards by Tracey Sheppard, and a whole array of gifts to buy from Hyde WI, Hyde900 and Wilder Hyde. 

St Bartholomew’s will have a table of gifts and decorations, plus its popular homemade cakes for sale, as well as offering coffee and cake, mulled wine and mincepies.

The fair will also feature the unique Jdryer Company, Kingsgate Books & Prints, Fab Wine (Italian wine importers) and Toscanaccio, the Parchment Street Italian delicatessen.

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Christmas trees and wreaths can be ordered for collection from the church a couple of weeks following the event.

The star of the show will be the raffle, with prizes such as meals for two at restaurants in the city, main course for two and wine at The King Alfred, a beer tankard with tokens for drinks at The Hyde Tavern, a day’s tandem cycle hire, £25 worth of shopping vouchers at Cornflowers and more.

The fair is being held in support of the Giving for Living Appeal at St Bart’s.

Its ambition is to revive and restore St Bartholomew’s as a cherished, medieval, landmark building for the benefit of visitors to Winchester, the local community and the congregation.