St Mary Abbots Parish Church, Kensington
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Welcome to St Mary Abbots Church Kensington


Welcome to our church. We hope you will enjoy exploring our website. 
For further information about what we do here, please contact the Vicar, the Rev'd Gillean Craig, or our Parish Administrator, Mrs Susan Russell.  
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WORSHIP at St Mary Abbots

Morning and Evening Prayer are said by the clergy in church every day who are always glad when anyone joins them. We also have a daily celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Please click here for details about times, which vary with the calendar. 
If you can't join us, but would like to join in the Church's daily prayer, click here for links to today's Services of Morning, Evening and Night Prayer

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www.stmaryabbotsappeal.com

The St Mary Abbots fundraising appeal is now well and truly underway, with our dedicated website now online. Please do have a look at what we are trying to achieve.

And of course, any donations would be hugely welcomed! Over the course of the next 12 months, the appeal committee has a wide range of fundraising activities planned, but we are always looking for new ideas! Please do get in touch with the committee if you have a fundraising plan, however big or small, at ideas@stmaryabbotsappeal.com




A WORD FROM THE WARDENS:
RAISING THE ROOF
- THE WORK BEGINS AT LAST!  

Just before Easter, the scaffolders completed their structure and work was handed over to the stoneworkers who will be removing the old slates and replacing them with new ones.  We anticipate the whole thing to be complete by the end of November, but during this time there will, of necessity, be various disruptions to access to and around the church. 

Inside the church many of our items of furniture have been shrouded in polythene, to protect them from the grit and dust that will be swirling around in the air, as a result of the work on the roof. This will mean temporary arrangements over the next months, with the High Altar out of action, etc.  

But our worship and other activity in church continues with small adjustments--nothing stops us at St Mary Abbots!Meanwhile, plans for the Appeal are coming to fruition--our fundraising supremo for this and the whole renovation project is Piers Hedley
Hannah Stewart and Jamie Dunford Wood
Deputy Church Wardens for St Mary Abbots Church

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OUR MINISTRY TO TOURISTS AND VISITORS - could you spare a couple of hours each week? 
Every day visitors from all over the world visit St Mary Abbots.   Our team of church watchers extends them a warm welcome.
At St Mary Abbots it’s our privilege to keeping our church open every day of the year, an extraordinary resource valued by so many who come in to pray, to give thanks, to find help in despair.  But this is only possible thanks to our team of CHURCHWATCHERS.   We now have serious gaps in this provision and we are eager to find people who will commit to a couple of hours once a week, once a fortnight, once a month.  

Contact the Virger George MacAllan 020 7937 5136 or the Vicar, Fr Gillean, 7937 6032 – we’re always looking for new volunteers.

The PCC of St Mary Abbots is a Registered Charity : Number 1132235

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