ST MARY’S CHURCH, HITCHIN

ST MARY’S CHURCH, HITCHIN

A Warm Welcome to

ST MARY’S CHURCH, HITCHIN

Our regular Sunday Communion Services are at 8 am and 10 am in Church. Midweek communion takes place at 11am on Wednesdays. After our services at 10 am on Sunday and 11 am on Wednesdays do stay and join us for a coffee and a chat. Our ‘One Bread’ inclusive service on the first Sunday of each month is a more relaxed version of our worship.

Evensong with our choir is held twice per month and there are also early evening services and monthly meetings of our ‘Theological Society’ in between.

For updates and more details please follow our Facebook and Instagram pages each week as listed below and see our posters.

Flower Festival 19-22nd September 2024:

After the Grand Opening at the Preview Evening, attended by over 100 people, we welcomed nearly 1600 visitors through the doors during the following three days to view 42 stunning displays, listen to wonderful music and enjoy delicious refreshments. Through entry fees, refreshments, donations, raffle, the Preview Evening and a Saturday night concert, a grand total of £16,000 was raised towards the Appeal. Friday evening’s event in aid of the Philip Veale Centre was also very successful and details will be reported later. We offer our grateful thanks to Margaret, Anne and Lois, who have worked so hard over many months and also to everyone who contributed in so many ways to make this such a successful and happy event. See photos and more about the Flower Festival HERE.

You can read more in our Bulletin HERE about the profits, most of which will go to our ‘A Million for St Mary’s Appeal’, more details HERE (https://www.stmaryshitchin.co.uk/a-million-for-st-marys…/)

We also support our Orphanage charity in Malawi, the Philip Veale centre, for which we held a special fundraising evening during the Festival. We will be collecting donations for this during our Harvest Festival next weekend. All details in the Bulletin.

LIVESTREAMED Services on Sundays are available to watch live at 10 am, 6.30 pm or anytime afterwards on our Youtube channel available on this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/stmaryshitchin

Further updated details of our services, opening times and events are found on our public Facebook page @StMarysChurchHitchin    .

You can follow us on the following platforms:

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https://twitter.com/stmaryshitchin_

https://twitter.com/@stmarysBFL

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A Million for St Mary’s

St Mary’s is launching a new appeal to raise funds for important facilities to be built into the Church. Currently we have a lovely medieval church but we need to upgrade to a 21st Century level in some key ways!
To provide toilets inside the building, with water and drainage for the first time in 1200 years and a small servery area plus some infrastructure like better heating we need to raise almost £1 million. As a Grade 1 historic building costs are high because of the fundamental work that is needed

For full details please follow the link HERE https://www.stmaryshitchin.co.uk/a-million-for-st-marys-renewal/ and this is the special link to donate direct to the appeal HERE https://givealittle.co/c/6omADxD1YQCEVd6QobXnrm . We hope it will enable St Mary’s to provide a better service to the community who use the building for many and varied uses as well as its primary purpose of worship.

Support St Mary’s Church Restoration: Help Modernise Historic Hitchin Landmark

Our Bulletin

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Services

Looking for a church service to attend? Check out the schedule for our church services and join us to worship and connect with our community.

What’s On?

Looking for the latest events and happenings in your area? Check out our What’s On” to stay up to date on local concerts, festivals, art shows, and more.

Donate

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Safeguarding

Learn how St Mary’s take action to promote a
safer culture for the welfare of children, young people and adults.

Activities

Know more about the activities that we do here at St Mary’s

ST MARY’S OPENING TIMES

Except when special services occur, we are open for all visitors from 9 am until dusk in winter or 5 pm in Summer. Morning prayer will be said at 9 am. on Mondays to Thursdays only

Please note: There may be no entry at these times where this coincides with weddings or funerals, maintenance, or any unforeseen events. If so, this will be indicated by signs outside the main doors. Do check with the Parish Office well ahead if you are making a special journey.

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We would love to meet you, why not pop along to one of our services, or get in touch.