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St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent.

(Church of England)

[www.stmildreds.org]

Since September 30th 2007, the Parish of St Michael & All Angels, Tenterden is amalgamated with the Benefice of St Mildred's and St John's.

For a map (red arrow indicates church) -

Street map of Tenterden Ordnance survey style map

Listen to the recent 9.30am Communion sermo n

For a list of sermons (in audio file format) - see here

Vicar

The Revd. Canon David G. Trustram. M.A.

The Vicarage, Tenterden, Kent. TN30 6AT

Tel. 01580 763118 or e-mail david.trustram@tenterdencofe.org.uk

Associate Vicar

The Revd. Margaret Roylance Tel. 01580 762332

Churchwardens

Chris Teesdale Tel. 01797 270366

Shirley Docker Tel. 01580 762492

Youth Minister

Annette Parkin 01580 766245

Choirmaster

Michael Freer. Tel. 01580 765786

Organist

Geoffrey Davison ARCM. Tel 01580 241685

St. Mildred's is a medieval church whose tower dominates the market town of Tenterden, Kent, England, with its wide tree-lined street. Our worship is of both ancient and modern types and our worshippers embrace a wide range of Christian custom. Our usual Sunday morning services are an early spoken communion of traditional-language type with a later sung communion using contemporary language. On the first Sunday of each month the latter is replaced by a Family Service intended to embrace all who love the Lord, of whatever individual age or circumstance. On that first Sunday the evening service is a sung communion, with the other Sunday evenings as outlined below.

Services

(Please see the full Calendar for details and variations from the usual services)

Sundays

8.00 am Holy Communion

9.30 am Holy Communion - Sung (Family Service on First Sunday)

6.00pm        1. Holy Communion with Prayers for Healing on First Sunday
                    2. Informal service - "Create Space"
                    3. Choral Evensong (usually) on Third Sunday
                    4. No service on Fourth Sunday
                    5. No service on Fifth Sunday
            (Special Sunday evening services as announced)

Thursdays

11.00 am Holy Communion

Morning Prayer is usually said at 9.00am on weekdays in the Lady Chapel

Other celebrations (such as Feast days) - services arranged appropriately.

Sunday Club

9.30 am on Communion Sundays in the Church Hall (Church Rd. Tenterden, immediately opposite the church's West doors) - there may be a notice at the church door to indicate whether the children are to begin in the hall or in the church.

You can find some sermons and other addresses, with one or two additional audio items here

Church Calendar

Weekly Newsletter

Every two months we have a Men's Breakfast

On Sunday February 29th 2004, we were visited by Archbishop Rowan.

A small selection of photographs can be found here

Our town is twinned with Avallon in France. The twentieth anniversary of the twinning agreement was celebrated in Tenterden , and you can listen to a recording of the service on 31st May 2009 by clicking here

Our church has a branch of the Mothers' Union

St. Mildred's is one of the great town churches of Kent, a county where many rural churches are small and with low towers and spires. The church of this prosperous medieval town (a limb of the Cinque Ports Confederation) had its lofty and conspicuous tower added in the fifteenth century, though our oldest bell is a century older than that.

We have an important association with Lord Nelson, whose daughter Horatia was married to Vicar Philip Ward in the early ninteeenth century.

HORATIA NELSON

Tenterden ancestors?

Click here for family research

There are PHOTOGRAPHS of the church if you click here

Our church has some graves of the family of JANE AUSTEN

St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent.

(Church of England)

Vicar

Associate Vicar

Churchwardens

Youth Minister

Choirmaster

Organist

Services

Sundays

Thursdays

Morning Prayer is usually said at 9.00am on weekdays in the Lady Chapel

Other celebrations (such as Feast days) - services arranged appropriately.

Sunday Club

This page is published by Dr.Nick Hudd,

whom you can E-mail at :-

nphudd@cantab.net

Other links:-

Tenterden Church of England Junior School

Tenterden Town Website

Church Net UK

Church of England

Diocese of Canterbury

O loving Lord, the source of all joy and goodness,

we praise you for the life and example of our patron,

Mildred of Thanet,

who preached the Christian faith in pagan times;

and we pray that, as the radiance of your love was seen in her faith,

her devotion, and her good works,

so we, in this unbelieving generation, may show forth practical love,

generous compassion, and joyful faith.

We ask this for your name's sake. Amen.