News & Events

We have assembled a choir of over 40 singers from a wide area, to sing this special service of Choral Evensong in St Mary’s, with very special music. Please come along and hear some of the most complex and beautiful Tudor church music to be performed there for many years. The service starts at 5 pm and will last about 45 minutes. We will be rehearsing from 2pm and you are welcome to drop in on that too. More at https://rossparishes.uk/great-round-byrd

The Safari Supper on 8th July is edging ever-closer and we now need to start working out who will host courses and who their surprise guests will be. We still need volunteers to offer to host starters (at your home), main course (at home) and desert in St Mary’s Church. We will then need to work out a master plan to identify who will go where.

If you would like to participate do please pass your details to Rachel, Mark, Freda or Janet Nelson or send an email to Paul. The booking deadline is 25th June after which we will write to everyone to confirm details.

On the night we meet in the Church for ’sundowners’ and then head off to our first hosts. We are not looking for fine-dining but some fun and an opportunity to share fellowship with one another. Further details can be found on the St Mary’s website: https://rossparishes.uk/safari-supper/.

Heather Hurley gave a very popular local history talk last year; she’s back for part 2. Come along and hear the stories from the lives of some of the people buried in St Mary’s Churchyard. Join us for a glass of wine and Heather’s talk. After that bring your glass out into the churchyard as we search for the graves of the people featured in the talk.

Wednesday 28th June – 7.30 pm – St Mary’s Church – A Friends of St Mary’s event.

It’s nearly time! 20+ gardeners, all around the town, have been putting the finishing touches to their gardens today and tomorrow (Saturday 3rd June) and Sunday you can go to see them between 12 and 4 o’clock. You can pick up your brochure (also your entry ticket) from St Mary’s Church at Coffee tomorrow & Sgwrs (10.30) or later, St Joseph’s School (our main car park) or the Market House. If you already have a ticket you can exchange it for a brochure at those places. Don’t miss t, it’s been 4 years since the last one.

This is Friends of St Mary’s event, our big one, all money raised goes to the upkeep and development of St Mary’s Church.

Dear Friend,

We have a garden, close to church, all set to open over the weekend of 3rd / 4th June but we need some help in supervising it. There is nothing to do but be there and sit in the garden to welcome people when they arrive. If you could help for a couple of hours (12-4pm) on either of those days please contact Mark (01989 565386)

We could also do with a few more people to help serve teas in church.

We are in the season of Ascension. If you listen carefully on Sunday (21st May) at about 10.50 (after the 9.30 service) you may hear St Mary’s adult and youth choirs singing from the tower.

These are a couple of archive pictures. Who can you spot? Guess the dates. Remembering especially Christine Wheatley RIP.

A chance to declutter? – Do you have mismatched and incomplete sets of China? I bet you do! I f so, we’d like them all at St Mary’s. We’d like cups, saucers, tea plates, milk jugs and sugar bowls (even tea pots). The more mis-matched the better. Sets also welcome and we’ll mismatch them! If you can help, please leave your contribution in the kitchen in church whenever convenient. 

Thursday (18th May) is Ascension Day, it used to be considered such an important festival that schools closed; not so much now. There’s a quiet, short said service in St Mary’s at 10am and a Sung Eucharist at 7.30. All are welcome.

Can you spot the Ascension in this window (from the Markye Chapel in St Mary’s) and what else is going on?

Saturday 29th April, 7.30 pm- Ross Choral Society. Tickets (£15) available on the door:

Sunday 30th April, 7.30 – The Einaudi Experience Tickets (£17) available on the door.

And, of course there are a few services, the main Sunday Eucharist is at 9.30 am, or join us online: https://youtube.com/live/392eWsEOpYo?feature=share

Following the popularity of last year’s talk and walk here is another evening of local history, stories from St Mary’s churchyard. Wednesday 28th June 2023, 7.30 pm.

We’ll begin the evening in church with a presentation from Heather, over a glass or two of wine to hear about the development of the churchyard and its surrounding buildings and who is buried in it. After that, weather permitting, we’ll wander out (glass in hand) for one of Heather’s guided walks (a short one) to see it all in context.

This event is preceded at 7pm by the Friends of St Mary’s Annual General Meeting.

There is much more on offer at St Mary’s over the course of the Bank Holiday weekend.

Details at https://rossparishes.uk/coronation

This Saturday (22nd April) we are pleased to be welcoming the Hereford Police Choir to St Mary’s once more for a St George’s Day Concert the concert is at 7pm. This time they also feature a choir from Cornwall – so two for the price of one. Details below.

Here’s another chance to hear the music of Ludovico Einaudi played by local pianist Ross Macmillan when he returns to St Mary’s on Sunday 30th April at 7.30 pm.