St Andrew’s Church website | www.standrewstapleford.org | Sunday: | 8.00 a.m. Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion
9.45 a.m. First Sunday of the month: All Age Communion Third Sunday of the month: Parish Communion in church and Messy Church in the Johnson Hall All other Sundays: Parish Communion in church, with Junior Church in the Johnson Hall in termtime 5.30 or 6.30 p.m. First Sunday of the month: Book of Common Prayer Evensong
Various other evening services – please check the church website | | | Weekdays: | First Wednesday of the month: 9.45am Communion at Cox's Close Community Centre | | | Parish Priest: | Simon Taylor Tel: 01223 840256 | Curate: | Clare Coates Tel: 07818 618795 | | | Churchwardens: | Mary Cooper Tel: 01223 842127 Alastair MacGregor Tel: 01223 843021
| Director of Music | John Bryden Tel: 07803 706847 | Children’s Ministry | Sue Brown Tel: 01954 264246 | Youth Worker | Zac Britton Tel: 07599 024210 | Parish Safeguarding Officer | Lisa MacGregor Email: staplefordsafeguarding@gmail.com Tel: 07523 668731 | Administrator | Gillian Sanders Email: admin@standrewstapleford.org Tel: 07752 373176 | | | Friends of St Andrew’s Church | Chairman: | Tony Hore Tel: 01223 843796 | Treasurer: | Fergus Read Tel: 01223 842585 |
The oldest part of the grade two listed Church is the late Norman chancel arch. In the main, the building is 13th and 14th century, with some 15th century additions, but its appearance has been much affected by later events in history.
No mediaeval glass remains. It may have been lost among the “three popish inscriptions, 20 superstitious pictures and two crosses” which were destroyed in March 1644 on the orders of William Dowsing, Cromwell’s “Parliamentary Visitor”.
Further alterations were made during the Victorian restoration of 1866, which closed the church for six months. Major work was carried out to the roof, floor and pews, with the result that the three-decker pulpit and the box pews were lost, several memorial slabs were covered up and seem to have been removed. One brass, however, does survive between the choir stalls. It commemorates William Lee who was Vicar 1574-1617 and who, in 1612, was founder of a grammar school at Batley in Yorkshire where he had been born.
A special feature of the church is the set of hassocks, designed principally by Ruth Mantle and worked by women of the parish as part of the celebrations in 1970 of what was believed to be the millennium of the existence of a church in Stapleford. The subjects are imaginative and cover a wide field, illustrating incidents and scenes from Stapleford’s history from early times to the present day. The churchyard was closed to burials in 1879. The old vicarage was in Bar Lane, beside Vicarage Lane, but was scarcely ever occupied by the vicar. The present Vicarage was built beside the Church in 1910.
Link with Nachingwea
Nachingwea is a town in southern Tanzania, East Africa. It lies in the Region of Lindi and in the Diocese of Masasi. Very few tourists visit this part of the country. Even Tanzanians hardly know where it is. Nachingwea has a hospital, a teacher training college, a secondary school, four primary schools, a nursery school and a day care centre. It was one of the centres for the ground nut scheme in the 1950s, and has an airstrip and an army barracks. The Anglican Parish of St. Andrew has been linked with St. Andrew’s Church, Stapleford, for over 25 years. The link is involved with projects concerning education, health and technology. Find out more on the website.
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Christ Church South Cambs, Sawston
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Sunday
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(formerly
at Stapleford Community School) now at 9.30am in Lower School at Sawston
Village College
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Minister
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The
Revd. Timothy Chapman 01223-820116
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www.christchurchsouthcambs.org
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Free Church (Baptist)
Free Church, High Street,
Great Shelford
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Sunday:
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10.30
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Pastor:
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Revd
Mike McDade, 27 High Street, Great Shelford Tel: 840343
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Church
Administrator:
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John
Sweasey, 29 High Street, Great Shelford Tel: 842181
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Youth
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Paul Joel
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Roman Catholic
Our Lady of Lourdes, High
Street, Sawston
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Roman
Catholic
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Our
Lady of Lourdes, High Street, Sawston
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Sunday:
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8.45am
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Priest
(part-time) Father Raphael Esteban Tel: 01223-350787
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Inter-Church Group
Shelfords and Stapleford
Inter-Church Group
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Chairman:
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Rev.
Robert Beardsley, 27 High Street, Great Shelford
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