About Us

St John's Church is an active parish church with a congregation mostly drawn from the town of Epping and representing and including a wide cross-section of the community and different ways of expressing faith. We work with all the local schools, including the local church secondary school and have several different children's groups for different ages, including a mid-week pram service. We have good community links, acting as a concert venue and hosting an annual Art Exhibition and Christmas Tree and Crib Festival as well as a range of church services.

There are regular services on Sundays and midweek services at 9am Wednesdays (Common Worship) and 12pm on Thursdays (BCP). Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer is said in church Monday - Thursday.   St John's Church also serves the community with baptisms, weddings and funerals.

The organ is one of the finest to be found in a parish church and the current director of music runs several other choirs as well as the church choir. Children are welcomed into the choir and follow the RSCM's Voice for Life scheme. Our monthly informal lay-led all-age worship services are accompanied by an instrumental group.

There has been a place of worship on the site of the church of St John the Baptist for hundreds of years. The present church was built between 1889 and 1909 to the design of architect G.F. Bodley and has three windows and an organ case designed by Charles Eamer Kempe. Kempe was also an architect and had done a lot of work for Ernest Wythes, the owner of nearby Copped Hall – who largely funded the building work for St John's.

The church is open from around 9am to 5pm most weekdays and 10am to 4pm most Saturdays for people to enjoy the tranquility, light candles, pray and add prayers to the board. We offer coffee in the church on Monday,  market day, alongside a very popular second-hand bookstall raising money for church funds.

St John's is part of the Epping District Team Ministry.

St John's Church only holds the most recent registers of baptisms and marriages. There are no records of burials as there is no graveyard. All others are held at the Essex Records Office in Chelmsford.

We'd also like you to know that St John's, Epping is committed to Safeguarding Children, Young People, Victims/perpetrators of Domestic Abuse and Vulnerable Adults.

Our Parochial Church Council has adopted the Church of England’s policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England’s website.

www.churchofengland.org/more/safeguarding

St John's, Epping is part of the Diocese of Chelmsford. Further information about Safeguarding in the Diocese of Chelmsford, their Safeguarding Team and Safeguarding contacts can be found at www.chelmsford.anglican.org/safeguarding/safeguarding-contacts

Our Parish Safeguarding Representative is Nick Wold

Nick can be contacted at church or by email [email protected]

Please see our church website page on Safeguarding for further information: www.eppinganglicans.org.uk