Sidbury: Holy Trinity

Stottesdon: St Mary

St Mary's may seem a surprisingly big church for a small village, reflecting its history as being the centre of the Mediaeval Stottesdon Hundred. Please see the New and Notices for a description of the church.

A message from Archdeacon Fiona Gibson

We are delighted to be able to announce that, following advertising and interview, the Rev’d Dr Sally Wallace-Jones has been offered the combined post of Rector of the Stottesdon Benefice and Rural Church Missioner in the Severn Borders Deanery, and has accepted.

Sally is currently Vicar of Hartshead, Hightown, Roberttown and Scholes in the Diocese of Leeds, and prior to that served in a large rural multi-parish benefice in the Diocese of Norwich. She is very much looking forward to leading the parishes of the Stottesdon Benefice in the next phase of your life and witness and to working with clergy and laity across the Severn Borders Deanery as Rural Church Missioner. The interview panel was unanimous that God is calling Sally to this combined role, and were delighted when she accepted the offer.

Please be praying for Sally’s current parishes as she prepares to leave them, and for Sally and her husband John as they prepare to move to Stottesdon and start this new chapter for them and for the parishes and wider deanery.

The Ven Dr Fiona Gibson

Archdeacon of Ludlow

Carol Services in the Benefice

Thursday 11th Dec - Stottesdon at 7:00pm (Val Smith)

Wednesday 17th Dec - Cleeton at 7:00pm (local led)

Thursday 18th Dec - Farlow at 6:30pm (local led)

Sunday 21st Dec - Silvington at 6:30pm (local led)

Monday 22nd Dec - Sidbury at 6:30pm (David Poyner)

Services in the Stottesdon Group of Churches for the next few weeks: everybody is welcome at any of our services in any of our churches (for a full list of services through to February please see the services and events tab):

NOVEMBER

Sunday 23rd (Justin Bailey)

Silvington 9:00am Holy Communion

Stottesdon 10:30am Holy Communion

Sunday 30th (Ann Constable)

Middleton Scriven 10:30am - GROUP SERVICE

DECEMBER

Sunday 7th (Neil Dunlop)

Farlow 9:00am Holy Communion

Stottesdon 10:30am Morning Prayer

Sunday 14th - NO SERVICES

Wednesday 24th (Ann Constable)

Middleton Scriven 6:30pm - CHRISTMAS EVE GROUP SERVICE

Sunday 28th - NO SERVICES

JANUARY

Sunday 4th (Neil Dunlop)

Farlow 9:00am Holy Communion

Stottesdon 10:30am Morning Prayer

Safeguarding: this church upholds the right of all to share in church activities in safety; see our Safeguarding notice on the main menu.

Farlow: St Giles

St Giles, Farlow, in the Stottesdon Group of Churches

This Victorian Church was built at the top Farlow Bank above the site of the original older church, and is now, appropriately, next to the Church of England Primary School. It has one of the finest views from the churchyard of any church in the diocese, looking across the Brown Clee Hill towards the Wrekin.

For information about services in all the churches in the Stottesdon Group, please click on this link:

Stottesdon: St Mary - A Church Near You

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Silvington: St Michael

St Michael's, Silvington, in the Stottesdon Group of Churches

This is the ultimate country church: small, ancient and at the heart of its community surrounded by farm buildings! It serves a tiny parish but is actively used - not just for regular Sunday services, but for special occasions for the community as well. As it has been for the last eight hundred years or so.

For information about services in all the churches in the Stottesdon Group, please click on this link:

Stottesdon: St Mary - A Church Near You

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Middleton Scriven: St John the Baptist

St John the Baptist, Middleton Scriven, in the Stottesdon Group of Churches

This Victorian church rebuild is on the site of the original mediaeval church, which was also extended at the same time. It has recently been reordered to provide community space in the nave, where monthly coffee mornings and special occasions like harvest suppers and Lent lunches can be held.

For information about services in all the churches in the Stottesdon Group, please click on this link:

Stottesdon: St Mary - A Church Near You

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Cleeton St Mary: St Mary

St Mary's, Cleeton St Mary, in the Stottesdon Group of Churches

St Mary's church was built by a local philanthropist in the late nineteenth century along with a vicarage, school and alms houses, for the scattered farming community on the north-east slopes of the Titterstone Clee Hill. It is a gem of a building - not much to look at outside, but beautifully finished on the inside in the best of Victorian gothic. It serves as a place of worship for Sunday services and for the life occasions of this little village perched on the edge of the hill, with views across towards the Derbyshire Peak!

For information about services in all the churches in the Stottesdon Group, please click on this link:

Stottesdon: St Mary - A Church Near You

Safeguarding: this church upholds the right of all to share in church activities in safety; see our Safeguarding notice on the main menu.