The Parish Church of Weston-sub-Edge – St John the Baptist and St Lawrence
Vale & Cotswold Edge Benefice
The Northern Group of the Vale and Cotswold Edge Benefice includes the parishes of Willersey with Saintbury, Weston-sub-Edge and Aston-sub-Edge, Honeybourne, Pebworth and Dorsington. The parishes lie along the B4632 Cheltenham to Stratford road, just west of Chipping Campden and north of Broadway, and along Buckle Street through the Vale of Evesham. Before 2011, Saintbury was a separate ecclesiastical parish but St Nicholas is now no longer a parish church and is vested in the Churches Conservation Trust.
The four churches of St Peter, Willersey and St Nicholas, Saintbury, St Peter,
Pebworth and St Ecgwin, Honeybourne are Grade 1 Listed buildings. St John the
Baptist and St Lawrence, Weston-sub-Edge and St Andrew, Aston-sub-Edge are
Grade 2*. The church of St Peter in Dorsington is unusual in being built of red
brick. The benefice is in the Diocese of Gloucester, the archdeaconry of
Cheltenham and the deanery of the North Cotswolds. Services are held in each of
our churches at least on one Sunday each month, and in Honeybourne and
Willersey on almost every Sunday of the year. On two Sundays each year, St
Peter Willersey foregoes its own services to join in Methodist worship; on two
others, the Methodists join us.
Northern Group Services
The majority of our services are ‘eucharistic’ (i.e. Holy Communion) though there
are three non-Communion services each month in the mornings.
Our services generally alternate between BCP and Common Worship (CW), the
majority being the latter. During the course of the year, a number of special
services take place. St Andrew’s, Aston-sub-Edge hosts services for Plough
Sunday, Rogationtide, Lammas as well as Harvest, which all the churches
observe. The Easter Ceremonies (‘Dawn Mass’) are sometimes celebrated in the
open on Dover’s Hill.
As of 1 August 2022, the Vicar responsible for the Northern Group in the Vale and
Cotswold Edge Benefice departed, and the position is currently in vacancy.
For further information please contact Liz, the Chipping Campden Church Office
Administrator, telephone: 01386 841927 email:
admin@stjameschurchcampden.co.uk
Visitors are always welcome