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St Mary’s Church
St Mary’s Parochial Church Council welcomes you to all services.
One of seven parishes in the Middle Marches Benefice which comprises the parish churches of Bedstone, Bucknell, Chapel Lawn, Clungunford, Hopton Castle, Llanfair Waterdine and Stowe.- find out more
Church Wardens: Christine Oakley 01547 530585, James Middleton 530247
PCC team: Barry Palmer 530106 (Treasurer), Karen Limbrick 530002 (Secretary), Di Cosgrove 530347, Andrew Gibbs, George Roberts, Mark Limbrick and Janet Tudor.
Rev. Quayle left the benefice in September 2024. ST MARY’S CHURCH IS IN INTERREGNUM
BUTTY VAN generally takes place once a month, in the middle of the month. It is hosted by farmers for all who work on the land. BV runs from 10.30 until 12.00 noon, offering a menu of bacon/sausage butties and mugs of tea/coffee with cake. Any queries please call Janet Tudor 01547 520293 or email jetstream4000@gmail.com Always posted on Facebook’s Bucknell and Clun pages.
Prayer group every last Friday of the month at 2.00pm in the church. Come and join our small friendly group for half an hour of prayers and bible reading. Tea and biscuits are available afterwards. Or drop a prayer request into the box in the church and we will pray for you confidentially. Contacts: Eileen (01547 530659) and Karen (01547 530002).
Check the church notice board for upcoming service information.
CHAPEL LAWN SERVICES
Service of Remembrance will take place at 10.45am on Sunday 9th November. 2025
Christmas Carol Service will take place on Sunday 21st December at 11.00am
1st Sunday of the month at 9.30am – Holy Communion led by a local priest. A Holy Communion service generally takes place somewhere within our Benefice every Sunday.
3rd Sunday of the month at 9.30 am Morning Prayer (led by local worship leaders). This service will be Common Worship or from the Book of Common Prayer.
All are very welcome to attend services.
CHURCH NEWS
The national event “Ride and Stride” took place on Saturday 13th September. All sorts of people set out on foot, by bicycle and in their cars to visit churches in their locality. They are sponsored to do so, aiming to raise much needed funds for their local church together with their local Historic Churches Trust (in our case Shropshire’s). Fifteen cyclists and drivers visited St Mary’s that day and enjoyed hot drinks and homemade cake before setting out again. St Mary’s benefited from grant funds from Shropshire Historic Churches Trust when we renovated the church in 2013.
Our annual Ramble and Lunch took place on Sunday 14th September. Intrepid walkers came early at 10.00am to beat the weather warning of high winds and driving rain later in the day. Unfortunately, the rain came down before noon and caught some ramblers out. They and others who braved the weather, were rewarded by a vast array of delicious salads and desserts to choose from, all kindly donated by local people to help raise funds for their church. “We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped and brought amazing food to our ramble and lunch: the workers on the day and the ones behind the scenes. Thank you for everyone coming on such a horrible day and to see the next generation of young farmers gives us good reason to go on.”
We held our Harvest Service and Supper on Friday 3rd October at 7.00pm. Eleven children joined in taking offerings of soil & water, fruit & veg, eggs, milk and bread to the altar to say thank you for the harvest, while parents and friends joined in singing the familiar harvest hymns. This was followed by a ploughman’s supper in the village hall, with some delicious ham supplied by Lance the butcher, homemade puddings to follow and drinks from James’ bar.
Our Service of Remembrance will take place at 10.45am on Sunday 9th November.
Our Christmas Carol Service will take place on Sunday 21st December at 11.00am.
CHRISTENINGS
Dan and Harriet Price’s children, Olivia, Emily and William were baptised on 17th August 2025.
Phil and Zoe William’s son, Jack was baptised on 5th October 2025.
Both services were led by Rev’d. Preb. Christobel Hargraves.
We welcome them all into the family of the St Mary’s Church.
FUNERALS
Mrs Margaret Grubb died on 19th December 2024. Her funeral was held on Saturday 18th January.
Mrs Patricia Hancock died on 10th January 2025 and her funeral service was on Thursday 30th January.
Both ladies contributed greatly to the running of the church over decades as PCC members, reading, leading prayers and cleaning the church. Margaret and Pat could be seen at all fundraising events working hard behind the scenes.
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