Friday, 05 September 2025

History repeating for happy couples

THREE generations of a family have married at a Henley church over the last 61 years. The most recent wedding took place in St Mary’s ...

 

Moving on

REV Romey Poston, the former curate of St Mary’s Church in Henley, is moving on. She is to take up a position in the Saffron Walden ...

 

Service for regatta

MORE than 100 people attended the annual regatta church service at St Mary’s Church in Henley on Sunday. Regatta chairman Richard ...

 

Rower reflects

OLYMPIC rowing silver medallist Alex Partridge will speak at Trinity Church in Henley today (Friday) at 6pm. He will reflect on the ...

 

Meet vicar

THE new vicar for Wargrave and Knowl Hill will hold a series of meet and greet sessions next month. Rev David Chislett is responsible ...

 

Pledge to help fix crumbling church, appeals vicar

THE vicar of a church in Henley has started a fundraising campaign to help maintain it. Father Jeremy Tayler has launched the Friends ...

 

Bishop blesses restored church bells

THE Bishop of Dorchester led a blessing of the bells at St Leonard’s Church in Watlington after they were restored. Rt Rev Gavin ...

 

Vicar’s farewell after 35 years

PARISHIONERS, friends and family of Rev Duncan Carter gathered at Holy Trinity Church in Henley on Sunday for a lunch to thank him for ...

 

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A RESIDENT has appealed to a parish council to expedite repairs on a heritage-listed wooden well which has been in an “unsafe” ...

 

Couple who transformed church take sabbatical after nine years service

A COUPLE who took over the running of a church in Peppard to help develop its links with the community have left after nine years. ...

 

Green light for church rebuild that will be fit for the ‘big occasions’

A CHURCH building will undergo a major refurbishment after it was granted planning permission. Chiltern Evangelical Church in Grove ...

 

Dozens of families take part in interactive Easter trail

DOZENS of families visited Trinity Church in Henley on Good Friday to join its Easter trail, writes Lucie McHugh. A map led ...

 

Four church congregations join together for service

MORE than 100 people gathered in Market Place, Henley, at noon on Good Friday for an interdenominational service led by four churches. ...

 

Ringing success

THE young bell-ringers of St Mary the Virgin Church in Hambleden, who featured in last week’s Henley Standard, have won a national ...

 

Volunteers come together to clean church ready for Easter

ABOUT 15 members of the congregation volunteered to clean St Mary’s Church in Henley on Saturday morning. The Hart Street church is ...

 

Bell-ringing siblings who hope to encourage others

TWO BROTHERS have reduced the age of a bell-ringing group at a church in Hambleden by about 20 years. Sam, 14, and Theo Boughton, 10, ...

 

Running low

THE foodbank at St Mary’s Church in Henley is running low of toiletries, tinned vegetables and fruit, biscuits, tinned meat, long life ...

 

Church meet

THE annual meeting of St Leonard’s Church in Woodcote will take place on Wednesday from 7.30pm via Zoom. To join, email friendsof ...

 

Bikers form funeral procession in honour of charity run founder

MORE than 50 bikers joined the funeral procession in honour of a founder of a charity Easter egg run. Michael Weal, of Hare Hatch, ...

 

Village churches unite for World Prayer Day service with ‘wonderful’ theme

ABOUT 75 people from Sonning Common gathered in the Springwater Church to observe World Prayer Day. An interdenominational service was ...