The Vale of the White Hart


Bishop's Caundle, Caundle Marsh, Folke, Glanvilles Wootton, Holnest, Holwell, and Pulham.

Rector:             

The Rev'd Ronald Hart.
The Rectory, Crouch Hill, Holwell, Sherborne, DT9 5LJ
(01963 23035)

 

 

 

 

 
 Rev R Hart

 

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The Parish Churches 
The descriptions below are mostly taken from The Dorset Historic Churches website, others by a parishioner.  
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Bishop's Caundle 
"This a most attractive roadside church serving the village around it."

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Church of the Assumption, Holnest 
"This little church lies almost all alone in a large graveyard on the western side of the main Dorchester to Sherborne road."
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St. Peter & St. Paul, Caundle Marsh 
"A simple chapel style church built in 1857"
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St. Lawrence, Folke 
"There is a trace of a Saxon door in the tower, but the first real reference is of 1292, when mention is made of the building being a chapel belonging to the Mother Church at Sherborne."
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St. Laurence, Holwell 
A Grade 1 listed mid-fifteenth century building.  It has a wagon roof to the nave whilst the north aisle has a finely decorated seventeenth century wooden ceiling. Following major restoration work St Lawrence reopened fully in Summer 2007.
St. Mary the Virgin, Glanvilles Wootton
"The earliest part of this delightful little church is the 1344 chantry chapel, which was endowed so a priest would say mass for the departed every day for ever." 
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St. Thomas à Beckett, Pulham 
"This attractive church, with its associated 18c rectory nearby, sits a little apart from the village it serves."
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News Items and Forthcoming Events:    Benefice Events Diary

01.08.10  Open Garden  -  2.00 p.m.  -  Pulham Rectory
22.08.10  Open B-B-Q - 1.00 p.m. - The Rectory, Holwell
23.08.10 to 27.08.10  - Holiday Club for children (5-11 yrs) - All Saints Primary School, Bishops Caundle
11.09.10  Dorset Historic Churches Cycle Ride - all day.
26.09.10  'Back to Church' Sunday  -  Bishops Caundle 8 a.m.; Glanvilles Wootton 9.30 a.m.; Folke 11 a.m.; Holwell 6.30 p.m.


SERVICES TIMETABLE FOR AUGUST 2010

 

2010

1st August

8th August

15th August

22nd August

29th August

Bishop's Caundle

    9.30 am.
Communion with hymns
C.W.
   

Caundle Marsh

        11.00 a.m.
Communion with hymns

Folke

      11.00 a.m.
Communion with hymns
C.W.
 

Glanvilles Wootton

11.00 a.m.
Communion with hymns
C.W.
 

 

   

Holnest

6.30 p.m.
Evensong
with short Communion

 



 

Holwell

  11.00 a.m.
Communion with hymns
C.W.

 

   

Pulham


  11.00 a.m.
Communion with hymns
   

Morning Prayers each Tuesday and Thursday in Holwell Church at 8.15 a.m.

 

Notes:
(i) Communion
, Matins and Evensong services are in the Book of Common Prayer format unless CW is shown.  CW services are in Common Worship style. Other services will use an appropriate form of worship.
(ii)  Morning Prayer is said each Tuesday and Thursday at 8.15 a.m. in Bishops Caundle Church.