Our main Sunday morning worship is a Holy Communion service suitable for all-ages, featuring the Common Worship liturgy and The Choir of St Mary's. We look forward to welcoming you.

Please note that the choir is on holiday during August.

A traditional service of choral Evensong as per the Book of Common Prayer, with preaching, hymns, and music from The Choir of St Mary's.

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If you enjoy exchanging ideas about the books you’ve read, or if you’d like to start, you’ll find a warm welcome over coffee at St Mary’s Book Group. We meet in the church at 11 am on the first Thursday of the month but there is no expectation that members attend every meeting. Books are chosen by the participants and authors have included Muriel Spark, Alan Sillitoe, Sidney Poitier, Daphne du Maurier, Abi Daré and Khaled Hosseini.

Parry: Blessed Pair of Sirens
Mozart: Symphony 41, Jupiter
Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet

Three composers who did much to bring about the English musical renaissance at the turn of the twentieth century, Wood and Stanford reminding us that we are a seafaring nation, while Parry, who was a keen yachtsman, is represented by the sort of choral writing that would go far towards inspiring Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. Parry’s piece sings of being “in tune with heaven”, while Poulenc used to refer to Mozart, represented with his final symphony popularly named after the king of the Roman gods, as “God the Father.” Theologian Karl Barthes observed that when the angels are in the presence of God they perform Bach. When they are on their own they perform Mozart: and God comes along to listen.

William Burn (bass-baritone)
The Choir of St Mary’s
The Orchestra of the Restoration

Come and hear our fantastic Choral and Organ Scholars perform a selection of sacred and secular music at their annual end-of-year concert!

Free entry; with a retiring collection in aid of St Mary’s Choral Scholars’ Trust.