THE CHURCH

As the people of God at Holy Trinity, our aim is to promote and deepen the cause of Jesus Christ among the people of our parish. To this end, we strive to harness enthusiasm for our faith – nurtured in the context of our historic building and contemporary fellowship.

We seek to keep Jesus at the heart of everything we do and say. We affirm that every human being, without distinction, is created in the image of God, and has a full and equal claim on the love and pastoral care of our church. We affirm that the whole creation is a divine gift, displaying something of the glory and beauty of God, and are fully committed to its nurture and care.

HISTORY

Holy Trinity Church is believed to date back about 1000 years. It is suggested that in the wall behind the altar there exists some traces of Saxon masonry. The Normans were considerable church builders and, whatever might have existed in Cookham before then, a stone church, easily recognisable as ours, was in being by about 1140,

One of Cookham's most famous sons was world famous artist, Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959). Much of his greatest work depicts biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion happening not in the Holy Land but in Cookham, where he was born and spent most of his life. Spencer believed that the divine rested in all creation. He saw his home town of Cookham as a paradise in which everything is invested with mystical significance. He referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" fellow-villagers frequently stand in for their Gospel counterparts, lending Christian teachings an eerie immediacy.

MUSIC

Holy Trinity Church has three robed choirs - Boys, Girls & Men.

The Boys & Men regularly sing together but also as separate choirs.

The Girls sing as a separate choir.

Between these three choirs, each Sunday morning and evening service is led by a robed choir, singin up to seven anthems over the course of any Sunday, as well as hymns, psalms, communion settings and canticles.

The three choirs join together for special services - including the Christmas Day Carol Service and the Easter Carol Service.

BELLS

The 10 bells of Holy Trinity are recognised as, perhaps, the finest in Berkshire. 

The bellringers call to parishioners to worship each Sunday morning and evening. 

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