Father Jeff shares a message. .. My dear Friends, As we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birth and then embark upon a new year, I have asked...

Dear Friends, "War has a way of distinguishing the things which matter and the things which don't." It was a line I heard recently in a...

My Dear Friends, "Think all a mother should be, she was that." As I mentioned to those of you who were at church last Sunday, this is...

Edward (Ted) Morris* recalled in 1991 how the problems caused by the pigeons were handled in the 1930s… ‘While Assistant Tower-Keeper in...

The work to renew the wooden louvres on our church tower has been completed! The internal photographs show the new tower louvres with...

An intriguing enquiry was received in 2021 via the Parish website: “My mother who is 90 is stuck with a memory of her uncle Cecil (Bore)...

Alexander Pope died in 1744 and was buried in St Mary’s by the chancel step, probably below a square stone incised “P”

Heating the large space enclosed in stone walls and with metal-frame windows has been a cause of much angst and expense in most church...

Father Jeff introduces you to The Reverend Donna McDowell... 'We are soon to be joined by a new Assistant Priest who will also act as...

A lively correspondence began on the letters page of the Richmond & Twickenham Times on 11 December 1954, the details of which were...

As you sit in church your eyes may be drawn upwards above the altar and the Victorian reredos with its Corinthian pilasters to light

Father Jeff sends you this letter: Dear Friends, I was listening to some people being interviewed on the lunchtime news on the radio a...

This Sunday, 10th March, we celebrate Mothering Sunday and mark the work of St Mary's branch of the Mothers' Union at the end of over 130...

And so we begin the great journey though Lent to Holy Week and Easter. As those of you who were there will recall, on Ash Wednesday you...

James Martin of The Woodland Trust is just one voice in the many that encourages us all to think about using a carbon footprint...

After the excitement of the November Armistice and four long years of war the contents of the Parish Magazines returned very quickly to norm

Last Sunday Sarah Wilson spoke about the work of Mission for Vision, one of the charities that we, as a church, supports. She told us...

St Mary's has achieved the Eco Church Silver Award! Well done team, this is great news. I'd like to copy the email received from Eco...

Have you heard about ‘The Great Big Green Week’? This a national week of community action from the 10th to the 18th of June to tackle...

As I sit and write this I am wondering how my old lawn mower is going to cope with the first cut of our lawn after it has gone wild...