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St Mary
Frittenden
Kent
TN172DD
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Who we are
Welcome to St Mary’s Church, Frittenden.
St Mary’s Church is part of the benefice of Sissinghurst with Frittenden. It is in the Weald Deanery of the Archdeaconry of Maidstone, in the Diocese of Canterbury.
We provide a range of services using both traditional and modern forms of worship over a monthly cycle. There is a weekly Sunday Club for children, an active choir and a dedicated team of bellringers.
St Mary’s Church is part of the benefice of Sissinghurst with Frittenden. It is in the Weald Deanery of the Archdeaconry of Maidstone, in the Diocese of Canterbury.
We provide a range of services using both traditional and modern forms of worship over a monthly cycle. There is a weekly Sunday Club for children, an active choir and a dedicated team of bellringers.
Location of worship / Church Address
Church Pastor
Rev Fred Olney
Rector
The Street
Frittenden,
Kent
TN172DD
United Kingdom
Phone: 01580 852275
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Quote of the Day
Psalms 31:3
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
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Church of England
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Rev Fred Olney
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Rector
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John Stansfeld
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St Mary Frittenden Service Times
S.P.A.C.E. for Lent
27th March 2019
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Silence Prayer And Communion Ending by 9.30.
School Mother’s Day Service
28th March 2019
2:30 pm
Mothering Sunday Celebration
31st March 2019
9:30 am
School Easter Service
4th April 2019
2:30 pm
Holy Communion (BCP)
7th April 2019
9:30 am
This service follows the traditional Book of Common Prayer wording and uses traditional hymns with the occasional modern one, led by the organ and choir.
Funeral Service for Gordon Murrell
10th April 2019
11:00 am
Holy Communion (BCP)
14th April 2019
8:00 am
This service follows the traditional Book of Common Prayer wording. There is no music or Sunday Club at the 8.00 am service.
All Age Worship
14th April 2019
9:30 am
This is a less formal and shorter service catering for the whole family.
Maundy Thursday Holy Communion with simple meal
18th April 2019
7:00 pm
The Holy Communion Service on Maundy Thursday will include a simple meal and commemorate The Last Supper. Please let Tony or Judy Staples know if you will be attending, tel: 852226.
Good Friday Service of Meditation (Sissinghurst)
19th April 2019
10:30 am
Easter Sunrise Service and Breakfast
21st April 2019
5:45 am
Easter Family Communion
21st April 2019
9:30 am
With Sunday Club for children.
Service Times last updated on the 24th of March, 2019
27th March 2019
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Silence Prayer And Communion Ending by 9.30.
School Mother’s Day Service
28th March 2019
2:30 pm
Mothering Sunday Celebration
31st March 2019
9:30 am
School Easter Service
4th April 2019
2:30 pm
Holy Communion (BCP)
7th April 2019
9:30 am
This service follows the traditional Book of Common Prayer wording and uses traditional hymns with the occasional modern one, led by the organ and choir.
Funeral Service for Gordon Murrell
10th April 2019
11:00 am
Holy Communion (BCP)
14th April 2019
8:00 am
This service follows the traditional Book of Common Prayer wording. There is no music or Sunday Club at the 8.00 am service.
All Age Worship
14th April 2019
9:30 am
This is a less formal and shorter service catering for the whole family.
Maundy Thursday Holy Communion with simple meal
18th April 2019
7:00 pm
The Holy Communion Service on Maundy Thursday will include a simple meal and commemorate The Last Supper. Please let Tony or Judy Staples know if you will be attending, tel: 852226.
Good Friday Service of Meditation (Sissinghurst)
19th April 2019
10:30 am
Easter Sunrise Service and Breakfast
21st April 2019
5:45 am
Easter Family Communion
21st April 2019
9:30 am
With Sunday Club for children.
Service Times last updated on the 24th of March, 2019
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Children are an important part of the life of St Mary’s Church…
Each week church members lead an “Open the Book” morning assembly in Frittenden school. In these assemblies we act out a bible story followed by a moment of reflection, a prayer and a song.
On the second Sunday each month we have a family-oriented service, All Age Worship, which starts at 09.30 am. On all other Sundays we have Sunday club during church services for children of primary school age. There is also an attractive toddlers’ corner at the back of church, equipped with suitable toys and books.
MESSY CHURCH takes place once a month on the 3rd Sunday of the month from 3.30 to 5.30pm. This is another way of being church, designed to cater for all the family. It is run jointly with Trinity church Sissinghurst and meets in the Parish and John Martin rooms, next to the church, at Sissinghurst. Each month we explore a different theme with crafts, games, activities, songs, stories and food in a relaxed atmosphere.
Details of all these activities can be found in the Church Diary section of this website as well as in the Parish Magazine and on the weekly notice sheets in church.
Children are an important part of the life of St Mary’s Church…
Each week church members lead an “Open the Book” morning assembly in Frittenden school. In these assemblies we act out a bible story followed by a moment of reflection, a prayer and a song.
On the second Sunday each month we have a family-oriented service, All Age Worship, which starts at 09.30 am. On all other Sundays we have Sunday club during church services for children of primary school age. There is also an attractive toddlers’ corner at the back of church, equipped with suitable toys and books.
MESSY CHURCH takes place once a month on the 3rd Sunday of the month from 3.30 to 5.30pm. This is another way of being church, designed to cater for all the family. It is run jointly with Trinity church Sissinghurst and meets in the Parish and John Martin rooms, next to the church, at Sissinghurst. Each month we explore a different theme with crafts, games, activities, songs, stories and food in a relaxed atmosphere.
Details of all these activities can be found in the Church Diary section of this website as well as in the Parish Magazine and on the weekly notice sheets in church.
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St Mary Photo Gallery
St Mary History
Parish History
Origins of Frittenden
Roman influences are suggested by the remnants of the Roman route from Rochester to Hastings via Maidstone which passes through the Parish of Frittenden at Knoxbridge closely following the track of the A229. It was near this route, at Leggs Wood, off of Granshore Lane, that Roman urns were discovered in 1857, suggesting the possibility of a Roman settlement nearby, possibly even…
Tithes
The Tithing system Theoretically, tithes are a tax of one-tenth part of income, in its many forms, and produce which were payable to the clergy. Disputes over tithes grew in number following the Reformation. The majority of complaints about tithes given to the Select Committee on the State of Agriculture in 1833 came from Kent. As a last resort discontented farmers could…
Parish Registers
A Mandate, formulated by Thomas Cromwell in 1538, instructed each parish to purchase a ‘sure coffer’ the parson to have one key and a churchwarden another. It is of note that Thomas Cromwell held manors in Frittenden, at Buckhurst, Bewper and Wallinghurst. Under this Mandate, each marriage, christening and burial was to be registered weekly by the minister with the churchwarden acting…
The Vestry
Until 1894 the Vestry was the main form of civil administration. The Easter Vestry appointed Parish Officers such as the Poor Law Overseers, Surveyors, Constables etc. However, Tuesday 4 December 4 1894, Frittenden saw a meeting for the election of Parish Councillors under the Local Government Act. The Rector presided. Although not elected The Rector continued to be a member of the…
Idenden Charity
Thomas Idenden, or Iddynden, who was also a benefactor of the parish of Hawkhurst, by Will dated 3rd April 1566, directed that, after the death of his wife, ‘the churchwardens of the Parish of Frittenden for the time being, and four honest men of the same parish, chosen from time to time by the discretion of the parishioners, should have authority to…
The Rectories
Frittenden has had several Rectories. The first on record was the ‘Old Red House’ recorded for posterity by John Preston Neale c1830. This watercolour was among several reproduced ‘for the Rector for the time being’ in 1842 at the behest of Edward Moore. Moore found the Rectory in such a dilapidated state that he and his new wife commissioned a new building. …
Sinkhurst Green
The footpath [KM620] between Place Farm, Headorn, and Chickenden, Staplehurst, crosses a bridge, Place Farm Bridge, which contains traces of medieval work and the remains of an earlier bridge lie in the river. In later medieval times, most of the early bridges associated with drove roads, and a number of the remaining fords as well, were replaced by substantial stone structures. Witney…
The Brook
As a pastoral district, the typical Weald unit of settlement was either the hamlet or the single farmstead, having little working association with its neighbours, except sometimes in the use of common grazing grounds. Unusually, at Frittenden, a large multi-occupied area appears to have survived from the 16th century through into the 19th century. A popular walk in Frittenden starts at the…
Knoxbridge
Hasted refers to Knoxbridge as “Nook Bridge”. The oldest recorded area of Frittenden is Tolhurst, Knoxbridge, which was recorded in a charter of 804. Pre-dating even this is a Moot, also situated in Knoxbridge. Moots were open-air meeting places set aside for use by courts and other bodies who were responsible for the administration and organisation of the countryside in Anglo-Saxon and…
Poor Law
The earliest Tudor Poor Laws were very much focused on punishing beggars and vagabonds to deter idleness. For example, the Vagabonds and Beggars Act of 1494 passed by Henry VII decreed that idle persons should be placed in the stocks and then returned to the hundred where he last dwelled or was born. The Tudor Poor Laws ended with the passing of…
Origins of Frittenden
Roman influences are suggested by the remnants of the Roman route from Rochester to Hastings via Maidstone which passes through the Parish of Frittenden at Knoxbridge closely following the track of the A229. It was near this route, at Leggs Wood, off of Granshore Lane, that Roman urns were discovered in 1857, suggesting the possibility of a Roman settlement nearby, possibly even…
Tithes
The Tithing system Theoretically, tithes are a tax of one-tenth part of income, in its many forms, and produce which were payable to the clergy. Disputes over tithes grew in number following the Reformation. The majority of complaints about tithes given to the Select Committee on the State of Agriculture in 1833 came from Kent. As a last resort discontented farmers could…
Parish Registers
A Mandate, formulated by Thomas Cromwell in 1538, instructed each parish to purchase a ‘sure coffer’ the parson to have one key and a churchwarden another. It is of note that Thomas Cromwell held manors in Frittenden, at Buckhurst, Bewper and Wallinghurst. Under this Mandate, each marriage, christening and burial was to be registered weekly by the minister with the churchwarden acting…
The Vestry
Until 1894 the Vestry was the main form of civil administration. The Easter Vestry appointed Parish Officers such as the Poor Law Overseers, Surveyors, Constables etc. However, Tuesday 4 December 4 1894, Frittenden saw a meeting for the election of Parish Councillors under the Local Government Act. The Rector presided. Although not elected The Rector continued to be a member of the…
Idenden Charity
Thomas Idenden, or Iddynden, who was also a benefactor of the parish of Hawkhurst, by Will dated 3rd April 1566, directed that, after the death of his wife, ‘the churchwardens of the Parish of Frittenden for the time being, and four honest men of the same parish, chosen from time to time by the discretion of the parishioners, should have authority to…
The Rectories
Frittenden has had several Rectories. The first on record was the ‘Old Red House’ recorded for posterity by John Preston Neale c1830. This watercolour was among several reproduced ‘for the Rector for the time being’ in 1842 at the behest of Edward Moore. Moore found the Rectory in such a dilapidated state that he and his new wife commissioned a new building. …
Sinkhurst Green
The footpath [KM620] between Place Farm, Headorn, and Chickenden, Staplehurst, crosses a bridge, Place Farm Bridge, which contains traces of medieval work and the remains of an earlier bridge lie in the river. In later medieval times, most of the early bridges associated with drove roads, and a number of the remaining fords as well, were replaced by substantial stone structures. Witney…
The Brook
As a pastoral district, the typical Weald unit of settlement was either the hamlet or the single farmstead, having little working association with its neighbours, except sometimes in the use of common grazing grounds. Unusually, at Frittenden, a large multi-occupied area appears to have survived from the 16th century through into the 19th century. A popular walk in Frittenden starts at the…
Knoxbridge
Hasted refers to Knoxbridge as “Nook Bridge”. The oldest recorded area of Frittenden is Tolhurst, Knoxbridge, which was recorded in a charter of 804. Pre-dating even this is a Moot, also situated in Knoxbridge. Moots were open-air meeting places set aside for use by courts and other bodies who were responsible for the administration and organisation of the countryside in Anglo-Saxon and…
Poor Law
The earliest Tudor Poor Laws were very much focused on punishing beggars and vagabonds to deter idleness. For example, the Vagabonds and Beggars Act of 1494 passed by Henry VII decreed that idle persons should be placed in the stocks and then returned to the hundred where he last dwelled or was born. The Tudor Poor Laws ended with the passing of…