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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. This website may be re-organised to reflect this.
 


For a map (red arrow indicates church) -

Street map of Tenterden         Ordnance survey style map


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


Curate

The Revd. Nicholas Cooper
 


Churchwardens
Andrew Bliss  Tel. 01233 770082

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 School

9.30 am on Communion Sundays in the Church Hall (Church Rd. Tenterden, immediately opposite the church's West doors) - there will usually 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 here


Church Calendar

Weekly Newsletter

Our Youth Group, EMANATE, have a blog
 
 


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

A small selection of photographs can be found 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



 
 

This page is published by Dr.Nick Hudd,

whom you can E-mail at :-

n.p.hudd.64@cantab.net

Other links:-

Tenterden Town Website

Church Net UK

Church of England

Diocese of Canterbury




 
 

Thank you for your visit.

Go in Peace!



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
Trafalgar Day 2008