A festival of flowers celebrating creation will take place in Wrexham this month.

St Giles Church will be open from 19-21 September to showcase the floral spectacle with every window in the church decorated to celebrate creation.

The festival and theme were devised by Wendy Davies, a former chair of the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS) and member of Llangollen Flower Club.

Half of the windows will feature the story of creation from the book of Genesis in the Bible. The other windows will include displays depicting literature, music, art, technology and recycling. Each window is being created by someone different, with some flowers being donated.

The Vicar and Mission Hub Leader of St Giles’ Church, the Revd James Tout said: “We are delighted to be hosting a flower festival in the church. FLOWERFEST25 is more than just a gathering of flowers. It is a celebration of the beauty of Creation, the creativity of people, and the strength of our community. Over the festival, St Giles’ will be filled with colour, fragrance, and imagination, as talented arrangers and designers bring their artistry to life. Each display tells a story, offering us all a chance to pause, reflect, and wonder.

“We look forward to welcoming visitors from far and wide to the church to enjoy this festival. We hope they will be uplifted by the beauty of the flowers, as they wander among the arrangements. We hope they remind visitors of the wonder of the natural world, and of the God who, in love, created it.”

The festival is open on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September from 10am until 6pm. On the Saturday, weather permitting, Tower Tours will be available at 11am and 12noon. The cost is £5 per person, and booking is by turning up 10 minutes prior to the tour time.

On Sunday 21 September the festival will close following a service featuring the Bishop of St David’s, the Rt Revd Dorrien Davies, as the guest preacher.

Entrance to the festival is £5 which includes a brochure telling visitors about the displays. Refreshments will be available in the church and there will be a treasure hunt for children.

FLOWERFEST25 is the latest theme for St Giles’ occasional festivals. These have included an Angel Festival, a Mouse Festival and, for the late-Queen’s Jubilee, a Crown Festival.

St Giles is Wales’ largest medieval church. There is documentary evidence of a church on the site as early as the 11th century, though the building in its present form dates mainly from the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries.

The church is home to the chapel of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Outside the church is the tomb of Elihu Yale, the benefactor of Yale University, who lived in Plas Grono on the Erddig estate near Wrexham.

St Giles is part of the Wrexham Mission Area, a collection of churches working together to serve the city. It is part of the Diocese of St Asaph, one of the six dioceses in the Church in Wales, an autonomous province of the worldwide Anglican Communion.