Category: Church
Schedule Church Services in July and August
Services Readings St Mary’s Abbotts Ann All Saints’ Upper Clatford St Peter’sGoodworth Clatford Zoom Praise Sunday 3rd July Trinity 3 Thomas the Apostle Ephesians 2:19-22 John 20:24-29 0930 Morning Worship Peter Eastwood 0930 Parish Communion Teresa Townsend 0800 Holy Communion Teresa Townsend 1100 Morning Worship Peter Eastwood 1800 Zoom Teresa Townsend …
Your Life Events
If you are interested in marking a special occasion such as a baptism or wedding with us please contact our Anna Benefice administrator, Danielle Lloyd, at officeannabenefice@gmail.com.
Projects, Plans & Missions
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 Rector 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 07468 …
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 …
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