Our Parishes
At Kington there is a regular act of worship every Sunday at 10.00am. This is normally a Common Worship Order One Service of Holy Communion when we follow Christ’s command to “do this in remembrance of me”. We are fortunate to have the services of Philip Sell, our very fine organist and a talented choir to lead the music. The ambition behind all of our worship is that it should provide the best that we can to God in thanksgiving whilst retaining a sense of awe that is both welcoming and engaging.
St. Mary’s : Kington
St. Peter’s : Titley
At Titley we aim to provide a welcoming balance of the traditional and contemporary. Our early morning Communion is from Common Worship Order Two with the beautiful language as used by Shakespeare and loved by so many.
On the third Sunday of the month we use Common Worship Order One. We are normally fortunate to be welcomed by Tony and June at “The Old Priory” next to the Church for coffee and fellowship after the Services.
St. Stephen : Old Radnor
At Old Radnor our worship uses the Common Worship Order One for our Communion Services. We are privileged to possess an extremely fine organ with the oldest free standing organ case in the U.K. Ruth, our talented organist who we share with Kinnerton provides beautiful music to accompany our worship and lead the singing.
On the third Sunday in the month our Evening Worship is called “Junior Praise”. This is less formal and designated to be relevant and accessible to the young and young at heart.
St. Mary’s : Kinnerton
We are a very small church down in the Radnor Valley, surrounded by hills and we are firmly over the border. Ring the bell to call our handful of worshippers to church and you can hear the ewes and lambs just over the churchyard wall. It's handy to be praying for the farm when you can hear it going on all around you. We are small but there is life here!
St. Thomas A Becket : Huntington
At Huntington there is a service of Holy Eucharist on every second Sunday and Evensong on the fourth Sunday of the month. Both of these services use the Book of Common Prayer. We are particularly fond of the familiar cadences of the traditional language but our aim is to welcome all and encourage those in our Community to join with us in thanksgiving to God.
On alternate Wednesdays we have a half hour of silence and prayer which is open to everybody.
Find our service times for all our churches here
Our Benefice
After spending 36 years as a parish priest in rural Hampshire, we returned and settled in Kington. It is a great privilege and joy to help in the Kington Group of parishes as part of the team with Ben at the helm. Each parish in the group has its own distinctive character and this diversity has a unifying link through regular worship and support for community activities throughout the benefice.
Tony Jardine
Paul Buckingham
I am a self-supporting minister who works as a vet within the local veterinary practice and is licensed as a deacon to the Kington Parishes.
The area served by the practice includes all of our parishes, our deanery and beyond and my sense of calling to ministry grew out of bridging the links between community and church.
My wife, Sue, and I have been delighted to raise our daughters Emma and Clare amongst the congregation of St Mary’s and the wider local community.
Rob MacCurrach
I'm in the pews most Sundays where I admit to occasional wanderings of the mind to the hills and the woods. And when I am in the woods and the hills I am often in my own conversation with the Creator of those much-loved hills. So I don't come to church just to meet God; I know he is everywhere, and life itself, even on Monday morning is worship. But I do come to St Mary's to share with others, to celebrate and give thanks together for God's goodness, and of course to be taught and encouraged.
I especially enjoy worshipping in the other little churches. As a Reader I sometimes lead a service and have the privilege of climbing into the pulpit to pass on in 10 short minutes what God is saying to us in scripture. Indeed, what is he saying to us? It is always a lot! Not only is it looking into a mirror to see ourselves, but crucially we discover how we should relate to God our Father and Saviour and Spirit. And with a hand on the old polished pew we apply that to life itself as we find it.
A church pew sounds very passive, as if we come and “attend” before departing for another week. But in reality it is a starting point and breathing place in life's pilgrimage. It is far from passive. Church is where I am refreshed and share, but life beyond, the pilgrim path, is the adventure with its sure destination to which we are all called.