St Mary's Church, Wendover

A church at the heart of the community

Events

Churches Together Lent Meetings Exploring ways to pray, meditate and contemplate. Join us for six Tuesday meetings 7.30pm for a 7.45pm start. The first session is on 21st February when we will enjoy pancakes and coffee.

Big Brew Please come along to the Big Brew at the @st marys shop on Saturday 3rd March where you will be able to sample Fairtrade products.

Sarah Goss on Harp An evening of classical and contemporary music in aid of Ripple Africa and St Mary’s Refurbishment Fund will be held on Saturday 18th February at 7.30pm at St Mary’s church. Tickets are available from @st marys shop or telephone 01296 622707 for further details.

St Mary’s Celebrates 2012 Saturday 5th to Monday 7th May. St Mary’s will be celebrating the Jubilee and Olympics with a festival of flowers, music and arts. All funds raised will go to the St Mary’s refurbishment fund.

Mimi’s Mission Eat Soup Every Monday! 12 noon to 2pm at 158 Aylesbury Road for a donation of £4. Please let Pat (01296 624857) or Carol (01296 612528) know you are coming, or just turn up!

We are holding a number of events to raise money to complete the St Mary’s refurbishment project. For more information on any of the events listed below please click here.

Refurb Project 2010/11

In February 2010 we launched our appeal to fund the essential repairs and redecoration to St Mary’s interior and to replace the flooring and inadequate heating and lighting installations. The aim of the refurbishment is to both repair and preserve this special building but also to enhance it so that it can be more open, accessible and hospitable to all in our community. The main refurbishment work took just over nine months.

St Mary’s reopened on 16th April 2011 and was rededicated by the Rt Revd John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford on 11th May.

There is still work to do to complete the project including installing new noticeboards, updating the St Mary’s Centre kitchen, providing more folding chairs and installing an audio visual system. Fundraising events continue to be held to finance this remaining work. Please click here for further information about these and how to donate.

Refurbished Interior

Refurbishment Done Collage

Some photographs of the interior before the refurbishment

Refurbishment Collage

This vital project can only be made possible if people are willing to generously support it. If you would like to make a donation to the appeal please download our donation form.

If you would like to find out more about the internal refurbishment project please take a look at our fundraising appeal leaflet.

For more details on the appeal, any of the above events or to become involved please contact the Parish Office.

Refurbishment

Refurb fundraising reaches almost £800,000

We are delighted to inform all friends and families of Wendover that almost £800,000 has been raised by the St Mary's Refurbishment Appeal. This has been achieved through your generosity and hardwork. All involved in leading and co-ordinating this work are tremendously grateful to everyone for rallying together to reach this goal. We are still fundraising to raise a further £90,000 to complete the final parts of the project.

To download donation forms or to find out more details on the project and fundraising events please visit our Refurbishment Appeal page.