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Worship at St Matthews

The regular pattern of services is as follows:

1st Sunday:	8.00am Book of Common Prayer Communion service
	11.00am Family Service (a simple service with no Communion - see below).
2nd Sunday:	11.00am Parish Communion
3rd Sunday:	9.30am Parish Communion
4th Sunday:	9.30am Parish Communion; 6.00pm Evensong
5th Sunday:	9.30am Songs of Praise

Recent Events
Over the last year, there has been a lot of work going on in church to improve the facilities, adding a toilet and small kitchen, which will make it easier to host events in the church. We have regular coffee mornings, which provide an opportunity to look around the beautiful and historic building. We also serve refreshments after many of the more informal services.

Music is an important part of the worship at St Matthews.  For most services there is a mixture of traditional and more modern hymns.  Once a month there is an Evensong service, where in addition to hymns, psalms are sung. For Family Services, on the first Sunday of each month, the hymns used are simpler and easy for children to join in with. On the fifth Sunday of the month we have just introduced a Songs of Praise service, the aim of which is to feature hymns which people particularly enjoy singing.

The main aim of the choir is to give a lead to the singing in church, and encourage the congregation to join in. However, we usually sing the communion hymn on our own; and often perform an anthem for special occasions. As well as singing for regular services we are often asked to sing at weddings, which we always enjoy.