St. Mary’s, Farleigh

16/06/2026

Sunday 21st June 2026.

Tonight Clive Lewis-Jones will speak about:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN.

Benedictine Abbess and writer, composer and theologian. We will be guided by Clive through her varied and multiple contributions to the spiritual life of the 12th century.

08/06/2026

Sunday 14th June 2026 at 7:15pm we welcome Revd Kwame Adzam to St.Mary’s to speak about:

PHILIP QUAQUE, the 1st African Church of England Minister.

Hear about his story, from his birth on the Cape Coast, studying theology at University of Oxford and ordination as a priest and then his return to Africa as a missionary.

01/06/2026

7th June 2026 at 7:15pm.

Tonight at St.Mary’s Farleigh, we welcome John Hawks who will speak about

“Guy of Merton”.

Guy of Merton was a Canon at Merton Priory, what today we know as Merton Abbey in modern South London, it was one of the more important Priory’s in England in the 12th century.

John Hawks is the acknowledged expert on Merton Priory and its history. For those interested in the history of the church in England this a talk not to be missed.

26/05/2026

Sunday 31st May at 7:15pm we have the ancient monastic service of Compline at the medieval jewel which is St.Mary’s, Farleigh.

This week our speaker is the Venerable Dr.Geoff Dumbreck who is Archdeacon of Reigate and an acknowledged theologian. His talk is titled:

CHATEAUBRIAND AND THE GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY.

We look forward to welcoming you this Sunday.

23/05/2026

Sunday 24th May 2026 at 7:15pm we have our service of Compline with a talk about some person or aspect of faith.

Tonight we welcome Bernard Wi******er who will tell us about:

Edgar Mitchell, the lunar module pilot on Apollo 14 and the 6th man to walk on the moon.

13/05/2026

11/05/2026

Sunday 17th May at 7:15 pm we have our service of Compline at the medieval jewel of St.Mary’s.

This week we welcome Barbara Rowe from All Saints Warlingham and her subject is
NUMBERS.

Numbers are important in the bible and have particular meanings within scripture. Barbara will tonight decipher their use and significance.

04/05/2026

SUNDAY 10th of MAY at 7:15pm.

Our Compline speaker tonight is Tony Roberts and his subject is:

“The Churchwarden, a figure through history”

A brief look at the origins of the position, which predates the formation of the Church of England, and some of the responsibilities that churchwardens had.

29/04/2026

COMPLINE SEASON RETURNS TO ST.MARY’S, FARLEIGH.

Every Sunday evening from beginning of May until end of August at 7:15pm we will have a short talk about some aspect of faith followed by the old monastic service of Compline.

Come and enjoy our medieval church by candlelight.

SUNDAY 3rd May we start the season with Nigel Platts speaking about Robert Raikes.

Raikes supported the Sunday School movement in a time before there was state education.

Come and hear his story.

23/03/2026

TEAS AT ST.MARY’S FARLEIGH.

We are looking for someone, perhaps a small team, to manage the Teas at St.Mary’s.

If you are interested please contact us.

Last year the couple who have been managing the Teas for some years let us know that they are unable to continue this task.
Previously it has been handed down within the St.Mary’s family, but there is no one able to take on the role at St.Mary’s.

The role would require management of the volunteers, organising that we have sufficient tea, coffee, sugar, milk and of course cake, that there is a float for cash sales and that the hall is set up and broken down afterwards amongst other tasks.

This is obviously not a Sunday afternoon role as it requires some time in the week to organise all this. The dates and times of Teas would be down to the manager, there is no requirement to run every Sunday as we have historically done.

When we have interested people we will arrange a meeting where we can meet them and their proposals.

I hope that this will attract some interest because as I write we will not run Teas this year unless this role can be filled.