Yetminster: St Andrew
Every one of our worshipping communities has its own character, but they all share a desire to welcome anyone who comes through the door. Come in and you will find friendly faces.
Each week in different parts in the Benefice you will find family friendly worship. We aim to provide something for all ages at these services so come and test us out. Feedback is very welcome.
There is a very long history of worship in the Benefice going back hundreds of years. Our worship reflects this with more modern worship living happily alongside more traditional forms.
For all enquiries: contact Jenny Thomas at the Benefice Office open Monday and Tuesday morning from 9:30am to 12:30pm or phone on 01935 872600 or email at [email protected].
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Yetminster is a large village, equidistant from Sherborne and Yeovil, with around 1100 residents of a broad social mix. St. Andrew’s church, in the centre of the village, offers a range of services, including a monthly informal worship, Taizé services, and weekly Compline.
The church’s choir, St. Andrew’s Singers, accompanies services on one Sunday a month and on special occasions. There is a good organist with deputies available. The tower has six bells and its own bellringing group – also a historic faceless clock dating from 1682, one of the oldest in England. The church and extensive living churchyard are kept tidy by many volunteers.
here is a Church of England primary school and a Montessori nursery with a forest school which runs an after-school club at the primary school. The primary school also hosts a monthly Fresh Expressions service known as Second Sunday. Each term a Holy Communion service is held and a small Open the Book team visits. There is a monthly homegroup and a service each month for the nursery school.
The village has its own GP surgery, pharmacy, shop, Post Office, pub, garage and repair shop, Scout hut, sports club and football team. The village hall, known as the Jubilee Hall, is home to many clubs and societies, including Guides and Brownies, bowls, Pilates and gardening clubs, and a history society. It is an Artsreach Dorset venue and also hosts film nights, quiz evenings, and coffee mornings. In common with Chetnole and Thornford, the village has its own halt on the Heart of Wessex railway line.