WELCOME TO THURSTABLE & WINSTREE CHURCHES
Thurstable and Winstree is a Team Ministry which was formed by the joining together of nine church parishes
We are made up of All Saints Inworth, All Saints Messing, St Luke’s Tiptree with All Saints Great Braxted, St John the Baptist Layer de la Haye, St Mary Easthorpe, St Mary Layer Breton with Birch, St Mary Layer Marney, St Michael & All Angels Copford.
Each of our churches has its own distinctive character and we have built strong relationships over the years. More details about each of these churches may be found by clicking on the drop-down menu on this Homepage: ‘Our Churches’.
We are in the process of becoming part of a larger
new Blackwater Benefice formed of 18 churches within
the Witham Deanery.
We are looking to recruit more clergy for this and to form stronger bonds between us all.
We will be working more closely together as a team and sharing our talents and strengths.
These 18 churches are divided into four distinct parishes, which are as follows:
The Heathland Parishes (in vacancy): Tiptree with Tolleshunt Knights & Gt. Braxted, Messing, Inworth, Layer Marney & Layer Breton
The Roman Road Parishes, Led by Revd Simon Garwood:
Kelvedon & Feering, Copford & Easthorpe
The Waterside Parishes, Led by Revd Jo Wood:
Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Tolleshunt Major, Tollesbury, Salcott, Layer de la Haye
The Beacon Parishes (in vacancy): Wickham Bishops, Gt. Totham, Lt. Totham & Goldhanger
This is an exciting time to join us as we move together into this new stage of our common life. Our parishes are all committed to the Chelmsford diocesan strategy “Transforming Presence”. We seek to be a Christian presence in each of the communities we serve and all of our churches are keen to welcome new people and to grow spiritually and numerically
Join us at St Mary the Virgin, Layer Breton
for our Advent Carol Service:
resources for services:
Weekly News Sheet
This includes news and information about services and events in our churches in:
Great Braxted, Inworth, Messing, Layer Breton with Birch, Layer de la Haye, Layer Marney and Tiptree
For the Copford, Easthorpe, Feering & Kelvedon group of churches you can find out more from their newsletter by clicking here As well as being included on our news sheet Layer de la Haye have recently become part of the Waterside Parishes, and their newsletter may received by contacting Rosie Pollack, Administrator in the Blackwater Benefice.
About us
Find out about who we are and what is going on in our churches for children, young people and families, as well as services and events by following clicking the drop-down menu ‘About us’. Also, details about the Foodbank.
To find out what we do, click link here:
WEDDINGS
Just one of our beautiful churches, St john the baptist, Layer de la Haye
Are you thinking of getting married in one of our churches?
Click on the button below to find out more about how to go about this.
Our church at Great Braxted is only open for visitors by appointment, you can watch the video below to see the church before arranging this:
A short video about weddings at our church, All Saints Great Braxted. Thank you to our lovely couples for helping us with this.