From January to Easter 2026 the church will be closed while a new heating system is put in. For alternative venues see Sunday Services and Daily Use.

The Victorian restoration left the church with poor quality obscure glass in all the windows. The east window and one in the lady chapel had stained-glass figures added in C20th, but the nave remained dull until three new windows were installed into the mediæval tracery in 2016, 2018 and 2025. The artist is Pippa Blackall. The south window depicts Creation, with an Out of Africa theme. The morning sun spreads the colours over the inside of the church. Most stained glass windows are merely painted glass; they look brown from the outside. These windows are not only made of coloured glass but are fused with 3-d applique, giving them a wondrous sparkle as the sunlight moves behind them. They are the best set of C21 windows in England. You can visit at any time. 

God moves in mysterious ways. Our chaplain had said rude things to the rural dean about her service plans and fled to Norfolk. Still feeling guilty, he attended Mileham church and was amazed at its east window by Pippa. He came back refreshed and inspired to tackle the gloom at Clawson. Something similar happened in 1 Kings chapter 19.

The west window portrays Christ being baptized by John Baptist in the River Jordan, but with vignettes of the village, St Remigius baptising King Clovis, the Annunciation, and other Christian symbolism in the margins. When the sun sinks in the west, it shines through the face of Christ, and is glorious.

The font stands under the west window.

St Remigius? It's the Latin name for the Bishop of Rheims. When the church stopped speaking Latin, its patrons got translated into English: Jacobus became James &c, but some like Leodegarius and Remigius got stuck in Latin. In English they are St Leger and St Remy, one being a horse race and the other a cheap French brandy. So best stick with the Latin. Remigius was made a bishop at the age of 21 with no priestly experience. With the connivance of Queen Clothilde he converted the King, thus christianising France, and becoming very rich. Legend connects him with the Holy Ampoule, a self-filling bottle of oil used to annoint French kings from the Middle Ages. His badge is an angel bearing the ampoule.

There are six churches dedicated to him in England, the others being Water Newton on the Great North Road near Peterborough, and Roydon, Dunston, Hethersett and Testerton (ruin) in Norfolk.

Simon Peter was down in the dumps and said to his friends “I’m going fishing”. He and his friends toiled all night on Lake Galilee and caught nothing, when at dawn a fellow called from the shore saying "cast the net on the other side of the boat." The net filled, Simon recognised it was the risen Jesus calling, and jumped into the sea to reach him.

Jesus stands on the shore with the breakfast he has prepared. He holds a lamb, and another lies in front of him, for after breakfast he will ask Simon to tend his sheep for him. The sun rises over the dark hills across the lake which reflects its brightness. A beam appears to strike Simon on the head as he exclaims, “It is the Lord!” James and Andrew, perhaps it is them, remain in the boat holding the net full of fish. 

Bishop Saju of Loughborough says "I’m struck by its Trinitarian design—three panels, one vision, each distinct yet deeply interconnected. I love how the human figures, in the midst of their daily work of fishing, lean toward the Good Shepherd. Their journey isn’t solitary; they move together, reaching and searching—perhaps for meaning, belonging, and home. The winding path through water and land evokes baptism, exodus, and the crossing from old life to new.