St Katharine’s Church, Savernake
Services:
(at St Katharine's, unless otherwise stated). For further service details see Worship & visitor information .
Sunday 15 June
9.30am Holy Communion
Sunday 22 June
11am Holy Communion
NEWS !
Salisbury Cathedral 750th Anniversary: Pilgrimage Walk Saturday 12 July - for more details see Diary dates
Boots, Bikes & BBQ - Saturday 13 September (to coincide with the Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust's annual sponsored cycle ride). More details nearer the date.
St Katharine's School - Special Commissioning Service for our new Headteacher, Andy Perry: 2.30pm Thursday 4 September at the Church. All welcome.
A Hidden Treasure
Surrounded by Savernake Forest, St Katharine’s Church serves a community scattered over two hamlets, six working farms, and isolated houses in the forest. The worshipping community is broadly based, and numbers of people from the surrounding area have chosen to worship in its beautiful surroundings and less frenetic atmosphere. We are a rural church, operating on a small scale that allows for the personal touch.
Next door, the thriving primary school serves a far larger area than the parish, so our “Sunday School" takes the form of “Thursday Club”, meeting at the end of school on Thursdays in term-time.
The Victorian building was originally the “estate” church and is almost unchanged except for the effects of a huge explosion in 1946; the church is much lighter for the loss of much of the original stained glass, and a side aisle became a meeting room. The church is also equipped with toilet and kitchen. St Katharine’s is an oasis of calm, used increasingly for Quiet Days and parish “away-days”.
St Katharine's is clustered with three other churches: St Mary's, Great Bedwyn; St Michael's, Little Bedwyn; and St Nicholas', East Grafton.
For more pictures of the church, see the gallery.
This hidden treasure is worth a journey – you will find a warm welcome.
Revd Rodney Harrison