Facilities and features
Accessibility
There are a few car park spaces reserved for visitors in front of the church gates on Hall Lane.
The entrance into the porch of the church is almost flat with only a shallow threshold step at the porch entrance gates and the main door. There are no steps to negotiate on the pathways to the building entrance from the main gate. Wheelchair users are advised to take the left hand path which has just a slight incline as the path progresses towards the church's main door. The path on the right hand side of the church is uneven in parts and could be difficult for wheelchair users.
Our Building
The church is open for private prayer and visitors 24 hours a day outside of service or event times - please check the calendar of events taking place in the church.
St Mary's is a small Grade 1 listed building in Rushall village. The lower part of the round tower dates back to late Anglo-Saxon times and the earliest documentary evidence is in the Domesday Book 1086. The tower which was built onto the nave of the existing 13th century church was extended to house two bells in the 15th century, one bell having since been sold to fund restoration work. In the 17th and 18th centuries the church fell into disrepair and was fully restored in 1878, when the restoration of the chancel was funded by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Today, the church is once again in need of repair work. The nave and chancel roofs were repaired in Spring 2024, following fundraising for the nave repairs and Emmanuel College funded the church's chancel roof repairs. Now that the roof of the church is in good repair we will be looking towards making inside repairs as funds allow.
Rushall Church has registered with A Rocha UK and started it's Eco Church journey, taking action and working through the process of becoming as eco-friendly as possible in order to protect God's creation, improve biodiversity, and address climate change.
Music and Worship
Groups, Courses and Activities
Help for Visitors
The church is open 24/7
Other Features
We have started collecting for the Waveney Foodbank and a box can be found in the church for donations. If you are able, please check https://waveney.foodbank.org.uk/ for their list of current much needed items, otherwise please donate non-perishable items. Thank you.