For the 13th year running, Stone’s Christ Church has worked with local shops, businesses and organisations to put together a community advent calendar
The displays will start to be opened on the 1st of December, and the window openings will take place each day at 11.00am. Here are the details that Christ Church has shared, including the advent calendar map:
JESUS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL
Stone Town Advent Window Trail 2022
A very warm welcome to this, our 13th year of the Christ Church, Stone, Community Advent Calendar. We are excited and ready to see all the wonderful Advent Window displays this year and look forward to meeting everyone who is able to join in with this year’s event. This year the displays will be up for the whole of December for you to enjoy around the town. Do follow the map and see if you can find all the windows!
We will, as in previous years, be ‘opening’ a window each day just like a traditional Advent Calendar, reading a section of our Christmas story and singing a Christmas carol.
The ‘openings’ will take place at 11.00am each morning and the locations for each day can be found on the map overleaf. In addition, we will ‘virtually’ open a window each day on our Christ Church Facebook page, so you can still join in even if you cannot attend.
Do also join us on Christmas Eve – December 24th – from 9.30am when we will ‘sing our way up the High Street’ and revisit all the wonderful displays and sing as many Christmas carols as we can! We will start from Suitcase Dry Cleaners at 9.30am and finish at Christ Church at 11.00am for our final opening.
We would like to thank all the businesses who are allowing us to use their window space and all the schools, nurseries and organisations creating the artwork. Our theme this year is ‘Jesus – The Greatest Gift of All’ – what better gift could we ever have!
The full list of advent windows:
| Date | Location | Created by |
| Thu – Dec 1 | Co-op Funeral Care (1) | St Michaels 1st School |
| Fri – Dec 2 | Vantage Point Creative | St Dominic’s Priory School |
| Sat – Dec 3 | Stone Library | The Hub Craft Group |
| Sun – Dec 4 | Christ Church (1) | St John’s Church, Oulton |
| Mon – Dec 5 | Dunoon | Dunoon |
| Tue – Dec 6 | Woolliscroft Solicitors | Oaktree Farm Project |
| Wed – Dec 7 | BOD Bar and Coffee Shop | St Dominic’s Primary School |
| Thu – Dec 8 | Cats Protection League Shop | Christ Church 1st School |
| Fri – Dec 9 | Suitcase Dry Cleaners | Oulton 1st School |
| Sat – Dec 10 | AED Donate Shop | Christ Church Toddler Group |
| Sun – Dec 11 | Stone Pharmacy | Springfield Out of School Club |
| Mon – Dec 12 | Shear Genius Hair Salon | Christ Church Academy |
| Tue – Dec 13 | John Burtons Solicitors | Pirehill 1st School |
| Wed – Dec 14 | Lock-Keepers Salon | Alleynes Academy |
| Thu – Dec 15 | Children’s Society Shop | Elmhurst House Day Nursery |
| Fri – Dec 16 | Fish Records | Walton Priory School |
| Sat – Dec 17 | Willowsbrook Cards & Gifts | Meaford Day Nursery |
| Sun – Dec 18 | The Mill Restaurant | Christ Church Sunday School |
| Mon – Dec 19 | Co-op Funeral Care (2) | Smarty’s Day Nursery |
| Tue – Dec 20 | Lively Artisan Lifestyle | Manor Hill Nursery |
| Wed – Dec 21 | Just Carla | Meaford Fields Day Nursery |
| Thu – Dec 22 | Millie’s Pie Shop | Mumbles Day Nursery |
| Fri – Dec 23 | Autocare Rentabox | Giggles and Wiggles Day Nursery |
| Sat – Dec 24 | Christ Church (2) | Christ Church |
