We shall be holding the popular Christmas Tree Festival again this year at St Mary’s Church starting on Thursday 9 December and continuing through to Monday 27 December. There will be events running in the Church over the first weekend, (more…
We’re Open again
St Mary’s and All Saints have opened again for public worship. The decision was taken at the recent PCC meeeting. Social distancing and sanitisation will of course still be in place, but it was felt that the reducion in cases…
Remembrance service
As a result of the Government Guidelines the Remembrance service will not take place as previous stated. There will now be a remembrance service that will be live streamed without a congregation in church. To view the service on You…
Handbells
Since we can’t ring the church bells at the moment (we need to stand too close together) we are experimenting with welcoming the congregation to church on Sunday mornings with handbells. This is a new venture for us, you can…
Latest Service Recordings
Recordings of the latest service have returned to the church website – albeit in an abreviated form since there are no hymns. Of course you can also get a video of the whole service on YouTube, but the recordings are…
Church Bells
Sorry to disappoint everyone, but we’ve just had the latest from the bellringers organiization, to say hold off a little longer, they are still working on joint statements with the C of E and Public Health England. It seems a…
VE Day
The link for a video of the flowers and bunting in the churchyard is:https://youtu.be/sxLSrTUM9oo See further photos from gallery here
Spiritual Communion
Grant Bayliss, the Precentor at Christ Church Cathedral, has written this really helpful article on the theology behind a Eucharist ‘in absentia’. ‘God chooses sacraments like the eucharist to meet us but he never said he would only meet us…
Holy Week and Easter services – CANCELLED
Compline – Mon 6th Tues 7th Wed 8th April 7.30pm St Mary’s Maundy Thursday – Thurs 9th April 7.30pm St Mary’s Good Friday – all at St Mary’s 9am Holy Communion 10am Messy Church 2pm An hour at the foot…
Lent Talks – CANCELLED
The series of Lent talks is now under way. The first is now available to listen to in recordings section of this website, and others will join it during lent. These interesting and thought provoking meetings take place on Tuesday…