All Saints Turkdean celebrates a traditional BCP Matins service with Holy Communion at 10:30am on the SECOND Sunday every month (except August) featuring The Turkdean Choir.

Coffee and refreshments are served in the Nave following the service.

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A special Evensong to celebrate the successful completion of our Heating Project with the installation of our new infra-red heating chandeliers in the Nave.

Led by the ever-enthusiastic Revd Nick Scott.

The Turkdean Choir, directed by Dominic Hamilton, will sing Walmisley's justly famed Canticles in D minor with Preces and Responses in the Ferial setting.

The Anthem will be Anton Bruckner's "Locus Iste".

Hymns
Glory to thee, my God, this night
Words Thomas Ken (1637-1711)
Music “Canon” Thomas Tallis (1505-‘85) adpt Thomas Ravenscroft (1588-1635)

Come down, O Love divine
Words Bianco da Siena (d. 1434) trans. Rev Richard Littledale (1833-’90)
Music "Down Ampney” Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (1878-1958)

Angel-voices ever singing
Words Rev Francis Pott (1832-1909)
Music “Angel Voices” Edwin Monk PRSO (1819-1900)

Postlude
Toccata from Widor's Symphony for Organ, No 5 in F minor, op. 42 No 1
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Lavish refreshments will be served in the Nave after the service.

A traditional service of carols and readings led by The Rt Rev Bishop David Jennings

Mulled wine and mince pies will be served in the Nave after the service.

All will be very welcome indeed, both from within the Parish, the wider Benefice and further afield.

[Image of the Rixon memorial window given in memory of Lady Julia Bolton.]

Our regular Christmas Day Family Service is led with great aplomb by our Assistant Curate, Rev John Hollows.

A solemn Benefice service "in the round" commemorating Christ's Last Supper with the Apostles, led by Rev Sarah Hayes.

[Image is "Jesus Washing Peter's Feet" by Ford Maddox Brown (1821-'93) presented to The TATE by subscribers in 1893.]

A service of Holy Communion kindly led by the Revd Canon John Ovenden, LVO and with coffee, Simnel cake and Easter eggs served in the Nave after the service. There are rumours of Champagne.
ALL VERY WELCOME INDEED!

[The image is of the central panel of a fresco of the Passion of Christ by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Varallo Sesia, Italy.]