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What’s Happening at St Mary’s
There is a service every week at St Mary’s, and these take a variety of forms. For details you can visit A Church Near You. or the Anna Benefice website: Welcome to Anna Benefice – Home page
Graveyard Index
Archive Transcriptions
Please click on the following external links to view archive transcriptions at Abbotts Ann Church – Baptism’s in 1700 & 1800’s Marriages in 1700’s Burials in 1700 & 1800’s
Who’s Who at the Church
Benefice Team Priest in Charge Revd Teresa Townsend Rest Day normally Thursday revdteresaannabenefice@gmail.com 01264 571213 and 07464 272894 Assistant Priest Revd. Nicky Judd Rest Day normally Wednesday revdnickyannabenefice@gmail.com 729075 Licensed Lay Minister Tim Tayler llmtimannabenefice@gmail.com 710201 Licensed Lay Minister Peter Eastwood llmpeterannabenefice@gmail.com 353320 Benefice Administrator Danielle Lloyd officeannabenefice@gmail.com 0739 -944245 …
List of Rectors
Rectors of Abbotts Ann 1379-138? Walter Philippe 1541-1544 John Adamson 1570-1587 John Bonamie 1554-1569 Stephen Tennannt 1587-1595 Thus. Pembridge 1595-1599 Martin Heaton 1599-1633 John Johnson 1633-1666 Thos. Hyde 1667-1709 Samuel Stone 1710-1717 James Lambert 1718-1726 Robert Willis 1727 James Wendey 1728-1730 Charles Sutton 1730-1774 John Burrough Hon & Revd Samuel Best Revd Philip & Mrs Nancy Tidmarsh Revd Alan & …
The Virgins’ Crowns
Abbotts Ann is one of the very few parishes in which the medieval custom of awarding Virgins’ Crowns has survived. In the early days of Christianity, funeral garlands were emblems of Virgin Martyrs and the practice of making maidens’ garlands presumably derives from that. Shakespeare, in referring to the burial of …
Church Bells
The earliest reference to the bells occurs in 1607 when they were re-cast. The memorandum says that: “The foure Bells in Abbatts An church were altogether new cast, by Mr. John Wallys of Salsbury in November, Anno 1607. We had but three belles, and did cast them into 4 adding to them 127 li. of …
Church Property Documents
Various documents list property belonging to the Church At various times the church authorities made a “Terrier” or inventory of their property. A Terrier of the Glebe Lands of the Parsonage, AD 1638, lists holdings of strips in various fields as does another dated 1766. This second one lists in detail the buildings that went …
History of St Mary’s
The early church in Abbotts Ann The Christian faith came to southern England during the Roman occupation, but did not long survive their departure. The waves of Saxon invaders who sailed up the local rivers brought their own pagan; gods with them. Cerdic the Saxon, who ruled Hampshire by AD. 500 claimed descent from …
Church
Our vision is to be a joyous, welcoming, caring church family in the heart of our village community, open to all and working together to bring the good news of Jesus to everyone. Our church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, is a tranquil place where residents and visitors can worship God at …
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