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St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent.

(Church of England)

[www.stmildreds.org]

(with St John the Baptist Smallhythe and St Michael’s)

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(Photo – Nick Hudd)

To find us, for a map (red arrow indicates church) – click on

Street map of Tenterden    or     Ordnance survey style map

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Listen to the 9.30am gospel & sermon for 29^th January

For a list of sermons and some additional service material (in audio file format) - see here

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Vicar

Revd. Canon Lindsay Hammond Tel. 01580 761591

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Associate Vicar

The Revd. Margaret Roylance Tel. 01580 762332

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Churchwardens

Chris Teesdale Tel. 01797 270366

Shirley Docker Tel. 01580 762492

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Child Protection

Jenny Webb Tel. 01580 765721

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Emanate Youth Club

Annette Parkin Tel. 01580 766245

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Sunday Club

(3 – 10 years)

Shirley Docker Tel. 01580 762492

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Choirmaster

Michael Freer. Tel. 01580 765786

Organist

Geoffrey Davison ARCM.  Tel 01580 241685

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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.

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Services

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

Sundays

8.00 am Holy Communion (Common Worship – traditional form - said)

9.30 am Holy Communion – Common Worship (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 (CW) 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.

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

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Church Calendar

Weekly Newsletter

We have programmes of Women’s breakfasts and Men’s breakfasts

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

A small selection of photographs can be found here

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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

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Our church has a branch of the  Mothers' Union

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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 nineteenth century.

HORATIA NELSON

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There are PHOTOGRAPHS of the church if you click here

Our church has some graves of the family of JANE AUSTEN

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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 Infants School

St Michael’s Church of England Primary School

Tenterden Town Website

Church of England

Diocese of Canterbury

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Thank you for your visit.

Go in Peace!

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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.

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Page amended and published by Nick Hudd on 29^th January 2012