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St Mary's, Ashendon
The calendar
Sunday, 8 December
10:30 am:
Family Communion (CW)
Ashendon
Sunday, 15 December
4:00 pm:
Carol Service with Christingle
Ashendon
In church and on livestream on Facebook
In church and on livestream on Facebook
Tuesday, 24 December
10:30 am:
Carols for Christmas Eve
Ashendon
Wednesday, 25 December
9:15 am:
Christmas Holy Communion (CW)
Ashendon
In church and on livestream on Facebook
In church and on livestream on Facebook
Where to find us
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Address:
Lower End, HP18 0HD
What3Words:
Parking:
40m or 45 yds along Lower End on the left (before you start descending the hill)
Parish activities
Coffee morning: 1st Tuesday of the month in the Village Hall between 10.30am and noon. Contact Jenny for more details.
Local websites
Ashendon Women's Institute
Ashendon village website
Ashendon village Facebook
About the church
The Church is open
The Church is open from at least 10am to 4pm (often earlier and later in summer) throughout the year. You are invited to come in and enjoy its peace and quietness.
The building
St Mary's church stands on high ground on the southwest side of the village. The earliest part of the church is the nave, built in the 12th century and having, at that time, a narrow south aisle that was lengthened, together with the nave in around 1200. About 90 years later the chancel and the old part of the south aisle was widened. Towards the close of the 15th century the west tower was built and a clerestory added to the nave, which had, at that time, a northeast chapel. The chancel was rebuilt in the 19th century.
In the 800 years it has stood here, many changes have taken place in our national history: plague, civil war and industrial revolution have all played their part and during all that time people have turned to it for spiritual comfort.
Churchwardens
The chancel.
The nave looking west to the tower.
Looking across the nave from the south door.