Church of St. Andrew & St. Mary, Grantchester Grantchester Church
About the church St Andrew and St Mary is the parish church of Grantchester. We are part of
Cambridge South Deanery, in the Diocese of Ely. Among our regular worshipers, we have Christians from almost all the main-stream denominations, from Quakers to Roman Catholics. We consider this to be source of strength, not least because our many visitors and tourists can feel more at home in such an eclectic assembly.
Parish Priest The Reverend Dr Stuart Mews was licensed on
16th July 2007 as house for duty Priest in Grantchester. Click here for his Christmas letter "Christmas Comes But Once A Year".
Church Building The oldest part of the church - the chancel - dates from the
14th century, the nave and tower are
15th century, whilst the south aisle
was added in the 1870s. The font is believed to be Norman, and the
17th century pulpit probably came from the chapel of Corpus Christi College.
 Church of St. Andrew & St. Mary, Grantchester
Church News Christmas Services
Sunday 10th January
10.30am Christingle
Family Service
Evensong and Holy Communion
From November there will be a change in the pattern of 8am Holy Communion and Evensong
services as shown below. This issue has been discussed at length in the
PCC meetings with the main reasons for the change due to the shorter,
colder days and lower attendances at the services.
1st Sunday 10.30am Parish Communion - 6.30pm Evensong
2nd Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion - 10.30am Family Communion
3rd Sunday 10.30 am Parish Communion
4th Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion - 10.30am Matins
5th Sunday 10.30am Parish Communion
Communal Room Communion
There will be a short Communion
service on Wednesday 13 January at 1000 hours. There will be coffee afterwards.
Everyone is welcome.
The Annual Carol Service The annual Carols by Candlelight
Service again attracted a large congregation. The choir, conducted by Rachel
Walters, was augmented by a number of visiting music therapists. The collection on this occasion also went to
Music as Therapy International, a London-based group that aims to use music
therapy ‘as a means to relieve those living in conditions of need, hardship or
distress, suffering from mental or physical disability and the effects of
poverty or sickness'. The group runs a variety of small, intensive projects in
this country and overseas. You can find out more about their work by visiting www.musicastherapy.org.
The Family Gift Service The service held on December 12 this year centred on the Open
Hands Community
School just outside Lusaka, housed in a former piggery. The
generous congregation donated bagfuls of writing materials & paper, books,
children's clothes & shoes, eating utensils and cash
which will buy further locally-sourced items. I'm
hoping to send the items out by air with a colleague on January 3rd
and I know the recipients will be truly overwhelmed with people's generosity;
thank you so much to everyone who supported this cause. One shipment of three
large boxes of donated goods already went out last week, courtesy of British
Airways, and the Sunday School Fund which very kindly
covered the transport to Heathrow. The school was absolutely
thrilled to receive the boxes! At the Gift Service
an astonishing £267 was raised and along with other recent donations including
one extraordinarily large one from a most benevolent parishioner, I now have a
really substantial sum of £800 ready to send them. All of this will go direct
to the school which we have a personal connection with and will have a major
impact on its poor rural community. Our previous donations, raised through the
village apple pressing, have already been used to put in 3
windows and a door so as to keep the elements out during the current rainy
season. Kutemba,
the school's director, sent a lovely email today asking me to convey their most heartfelt
appreciation to our Church and all the donors. She will send pictures of the progress of the
school early next year.
There was an excellent turnout at the service where the
children proficiently acted out a little play telling the story of how we came
to support the school (complete with a marvelous large pigsty backdrop
ingeniously constructed out of a futon box!). The play illustrated the power of
support from our community to theirs in terms of improving children's life
chances in a context where education makes a huge difference. Photographs of
the school were on display. A big thank you to Margaret
Barwise and Mary Shaw for yet again organizing everything so smoothly, to
Stuart and his inspiring guest Patrick from Ghana who was drafted in specially
for the occasion and told us about African Christmas traditions, to all the
children who performed wonderfully in the presentation, and to everyone in the
church community and the WI for their fantastic support over recent months.
I'm especially grateful to Liz Neville who first set
the ball rolling after hearing my enthusiastic reports of visiting the school
during a chance meeting in the pub back in August, and who is keen to keep up
the momentum. If anyone else missed the service and would like to make a
financial donation, it's never too late! Just drop it
in to me at 5 Stulp
Field Road please and I'll
make sure they get it. A little goes a long way in Africa
so donations of any size are most welcome.
Sara Hennessy
Church Cleaner Needed
A Church Cleaner is needed for a few hours a week.
For more details please contact the Grantchester PCC
Secretary Liz Neville or Hazel Offord
Pattern of Services The following is the general pattern of Sunday services.
For full details, see the diary for the month.
| 8.00 |
Holy Communion |
(Book of Common Prayer) |
| 10.30 |
Parish Communion (1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays) |
(Common Worship) |
| |
Family Communion (2nd Sunday) |
(Common Worship) |
| |
Matins (4th Sunday) |
(Book of Common Prayer) |
| 18.30 |
Evensong |
(Book of Common Prayer) |
On the 4th Sunday, "Godly Play", a Sunday school for children under twelve, takes place in the Reading Room.
Church Services
|
10.30am
|
Readers
|
Lessons
|
Sidesmen
|
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3 January
Parish Comm
|
Sarah Walters
|
Jeremiah
31. 7-14; John 1.1-9
or 10-18
|
Sarah Walters
Lorna Walters
|
|
10
|
Mary Shaw,
Margaret Barwise & children
|
Christingle
|
|
|
17 Parish
Communion
|
Livia Mitson
|
Isaiah
62. 1-5; John 2. 1-11
|
Livia Mitson
Marion Beeby
|
|
24 Matins
|
Margaret Marrs
Alma Cullen
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Psalm
19; Nehemiah 8. 1-3,
5-6;
Luke 4. 14-21
|
Margaret Marrs
Alma Cullen
|
|
31 Parish
Communion
|
Jonathan Graffy
|
Ezekiel
43.27-44.4; Luke 2.
22-40
|
Jonathan Graffy
Clare Graffy
|
|
7 February
Parish Comm.
|
Bill Everett
|
Isaiah
6. 1-8;
Luke 5. 1-11
|
Bill Everett
Ann Larner
|
|
14
|
|
|
|
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6.30 pm
Evensong
|
|
During the
winter months Evensong will be held only on the first Sunday of month
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|
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3 January
|
Piers Recordon
Hazel Offord
|
Psalm 87;Isaiah
12;
1
Thessalonian 2. 1-8
|
Piers Recordon
|
|
7 February
|
|
Psalms
3; Jeremiah 26. 1-16;
Acts
3. 1-10
|
|
Church and Churchyard Rotas
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Date
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Flowers
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Brasses
|
Memorial
|
Doorkeeper
|
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3 January
|
Offord/Turner
|
Hazel Offord
|
Mrs
Harte
|
Piers Recordon
|
|
10
|
Liz Neville
|
Offord
|
Mrs
Huckle
|
Recordon
|
|
17
|
Rosemary Monk
|
Offord
|
Huckle
|
Recordon
|
|
24
|
Monk
|
Offord
|
Mrs
Buxton
|
Recordon
|
|
31
|
Ruth Guy Smith
|
Offord
|
Buxton
|
Recordon
|
|
7 February
|
Ruth Guy Smith
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Molly Brown
|
Mrs
King
|
|
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14
|
|
|
King
|
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January 2009 Diary
(This is copied from the parish magazine, and contains village activities as well as church activities)
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Date
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Time
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Place/Details
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3 Sunday January
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Parish Communion
Evensong
|
|
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4 Monday
|
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Black bins
|
|
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9 Saturday
|
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Green collection
|
|
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10 Sunday
|
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Holy Communion
Christingle Family Service
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|
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13 Weds
|
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Communal Room
Communion
|
Tabrum Close
|
|
14 Thursday
|
|
Mothers Union
WIG talk on
magistrates
|
Reading Room
Communal Room
|
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15 Friday
|
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Black bins
|
|
|
17 Sunday
|
|
Parish Communion
|
|
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18 Monday
|
|
Parish Council
meeting
|
Reading Room
|
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19 Tuesday
|
|
Cubs restart
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Barton School
|
|
21 Thursday
|
|
Over 60s Games
Afternoon
|
Tabrum Close
|
|
22 Friday
|
|
Green collection
|
|
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24 Sunday
|
|
Holy Communion
Matins
|
|
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26-29 Jan
|
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Pinocchio
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Barton Village
Hall
|
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29 Friday
|
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Black bins
Magbind
|
|
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30 Saturday
|
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Pinocchio
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Barton Village
Hall
|
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31 Sunday
|
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Parish Communion
|
|
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5 Friday February
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Green collection
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|
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7 Sunday
|
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Parish Communion
Evensong
|
|
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11 Thursday
|
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WIG talk
|
Communal Room
|
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12 Friday
|
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Black bins
|
|
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14 Sunday
|
|
Holy Communion
Family Service
|
|
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15 Monday
|
|
Parish Council
meeting
|
Reading Room
|
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