| Friends' Trip to Ely Cathedral April 2022 | | Above photo taken on Friends of the Parish Church's day trip to Ely Cathedral on Thursday 28th April 2022. Find out more about our next outing to Bury in June and how you can support our church by joining the Friends of the Parish Church
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| Scything the wildflower areas of the churchyard | | Scything the wildflower areas of the churchyard is now complete, and the grasses or ‘windrows’ will be raked and removed next week. This is all part of our work as an Eco Church, which is also why we are taking part the Great Big Green Week.
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| Ascension Day Sunrise Photos | | Many thanks to Celia Bartlett Photography for these very atmospheric photos taken from our church rooftop at sunrise on Ascension Day 13th May 2021.
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| New Team Rector Installed | | We are delighted to announce that the Rev’d Jeremy Trew has been appointed Team Rector of the Saffron Walden and Villages Team Ministry and Area Dean and will start his ministry here in early March 2021.
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| David's Farewell 23/24th November 2019 | | A great barn dance at the Chesterford Community Centre on the Saturday evening and a very moving Eucharist and farewell at St Mary's Saffron Walden on the Sunday morning attended by over 400 parishioners.
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| 10am Holy Communion at St Mary's | | Photos taken to give a feel of what our 10am Holy Communion service is like, but slightly different to normal as it was Advent so no altar cloth and the Junior Choristers were not singing that morning.
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| Lay Funeral Minister | | Judith Hasler has been authorised by Bishop Stephen as one of the first Lay
Funeral Ministers in the Diocese. She was commissioned on 12th October 2019, along with three others in a Celebration of Lay Ministry at Chelmsford Cathedral.
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| Harvest Festival 2019 | | St. Mary’s celebrated Harvest Festival at a special family service on Sunday 15th September. Members of St Mary’s Church Guides and Brownies attended the service and the church junior choir led the singing of traditional and contemporary harvest hymns.
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| Soul Survivor Photos 2019 | | A selection of photos from the last Soul Survivor camp at the Peterborough showground from 17th to 21st Aug 2019 which 5 members of our Aftershock youth group attended.
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| St Marys Flower Festival Photos 23-26 August 2019 | | St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden, was thronged by around 2,000 visitors enthralled by a grand Flower Festival during the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There were over 40 splendid exhibits by local flower arrangers, each representing a saint.
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| U3A Photoshoot at St Mary's | | Here is a selection of photos taken by members of Saffron Walden U3A's Photography Group in April 2019. Many thanks to Brian Eascott, David Powell, Graeme Cowling, Hugh Herdon, Martin Hugall, Tony Marks and Tony Treglown and to Gill Caswell for her help.
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| Songs of Praise 1986! | | BBC Songs of Praise at St Mary's Church in Saffron Walden in 1986. There are a number of familiar but younger faces that you might recognise!
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| There but not there... | | The seated silhouettes in the church and in the memorial garden are a commemorative installation to the fallen of the First World War who were linked to Sewards End, as part of a project called "There But Not There".
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| Soul Survivor 18-23 August 2018 | | 5 young people from our church joined with another 15 people from the Colchester area to attend Soul Survivor at the Peterborough Showground for 6 days in August 2018.
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| Ordination to the Priesthood - 29 Sept 2018 | | Ordination to the Priesthood on 29th September 2018 at St Mary’s Church Saffron Walden. Rachel Prior and John Saxon and others were ordained priests by Rt Revd Roger Morris, the area Bishop of Colchester.
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| Harvest Festival 16 Sept 2018 | | On 16th September 2018 – St. Mary’s celebrated Harvest Festival at a special family service. Members of St Mary’s Church Guides Section attended the service and the church junior choir led the singing of traditional and contemporary harvest hymns.
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| Christmas Fayre Nov 2017 Photos | | In achieving the much needed funding of £6,770, your contribution to the event, whether large or small, added much needed variety to attract people into our church. The mix was vital! Your co-operation was amazing! Thanks again!
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| Flower Festival September 2016 | | Selection of photos from our Flower Festival from 30 September to 2 October 2016. Flower arrangements on the theme of 'Songs of Praise' depicting familiar hymns.
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