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We are Church of England and belong to the Diocese of London but welcome people from a variety of Christian denominations and traditions.
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Visitors are always welcome, and so are people who would like to make this their new home. The Sunday morning services at 10am are “Holy Communion” unless this is the 3rd Sunday in the month, in which case this is an informal child friendly service in which some of our uniformed organisations “parade”. In the Holy Communion service all are welcome to come forward to the rail. If you have been a communicant member of a Church elsewhere you are welcome to receive the bread and wine. If you are not communicant we are pleased to pray with you for God’s blessing; just keep your hands at your side when you are invited to the rail. |
Our Address: The Parish Office, St. Aldhelm’s Vicarage, 2 Windmill Rd N18 1PA |
Parish Office open between 9am and 12pm Monday - Thursdays Vicar: David Bolster Applications for Weddings, Banns of Marriage and Baptisms: Please contact The Vicar for details. |
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Should you wish to contact any of the people below please ring the Parish Office and we will put you in contact with them. Children’s work: Peggy Cooper, Bob Tweddle Prayer Requests: Glenys Cooke Church Cleaning Roster: Jennifer James-Ghoomun Friends of St.Aldhelm’s: Nina Tweddle Flowers in Church: Julie Willoughby Giving Envelopes: Pam Sinclair Churchwardens: Terry Benjamin, Merlene Nurse Deputy wardens : John Ogbonna, Betty Schofield
Treasurer: Nina Tweddle PCC Secretary: Betty Schofield Deanery Synod: Gwen James Parochial Church Council: Glenys Cooke, Peggy Cooper, Alan Cooper, Val Gleave, Carline Ikoroha, Dorothy Nnene, Chucks Okoye, Pam Sinclair, Christine Williams, Julie Willoughby |
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St. Aldhelm's Church is on the corner of Silver Street and Windmill Road, Edmonton, London,opposite Millfield Theatre and Arts Centre.
Our Postcode for GPS is N18 1PA.
Buses running down Silver Street are: 102, 144, 34, W6. Buses 444 and 491 serve North Middlesex Hospital, which is approx 15 minutes walk.
Silver Street is the nearest train station, with the closest undeground stations in Turnpike Lane (444) or Wood Green (144).
Sunday 21st March - Family Parade 10am
Sunday 28th March - Holy Communion Service
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Church Hall Lettings:
Contact the Halls
Centre Manager:
(Usually available between
8am and noon,
Monday to Friday)
Chris Littler
Tel: 020 8807 6559
Church Hall details
Our work with Young People
Christian teaching for Children Our Sunday morning children’s work is restarting with a new name ‘Youth Church’ with an open morning on September 7th. The young people are launching a new mid week group on Thursday evenings. Let us pray that this new venture will succeed. On Sundays we have teaching prayer and worship in the Halls for all age groups from infants upwards, called Urban Saints (previously called Crusaders). Christian teaching and prayer is given in small group activities which is bible based, related to their lives yet lively and good fun. The children usually rejoin the congregation for the last 10 minutes of the Holy Communion service.
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Parents are welcome to bring children under 4 into the Church on Sunday mornings. If the child needs separate activity, there is a crèche in the side chapel. Talk to Gwen James for details. Sundays 9:45am |
Aldhelm
Aldhelm's Window, St. Aldhelm's Church, Edmonton
Aldhelm was born in Wessex in 639. When he was a young boy, he was sent to Canterbury to be educated under Adrian, Abbot of St Augustine’s, and had soon impressed his teachers with his skill in the study of Latin and Greek literature.
Aldhelm returned to Wessex some
years later and joined the community of monks in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
He embraced the monastic life and, in 680, became the monks’ teacher.
His excellent reputation spread far and wide, and scholars from France
and Scotland came to learn from him. By this time, Aldhelm is said to
have spoken and written fluent Latin and Greek, and was able to read
the Old Testament in Hebrew. He wrote poetry, composed music and sang
– King Alfred the Great placed him in the first rank of poets
in the country and his ballads were popular even as late as the 12th
Century. Aldhelm excelled at playing many different instruments, including
the harp, fiddle and pipes.
In 683, Aldhelm was appointed Abbot of Malmesbury. Under his leadership, the Abbey continued to be a seat of learning and was given many gifts from kings and nobles. Aldhelm enlarged the monastery at Malmesbury and built the Church of St Peter and St Paul. He founded monasteries in Frome and Bradford-on-Avon, where he also built St Laurence’s Church which still stands today.
During his time as Abbot, Aldhelm noticed that instead of attending to the monks at Mass, the local people preferred to spend their time gossiping and could not be persuaded to listen to the preacher. So one day, he stationed himself on a bridge, like a minstrel, and began to sing his ballads. The beauty of his verse attracted a huge crowd and, when he had caught their attention, he began to preach the Gospel
The historian William of Malmesbury observed that if Aldhelm “had proceeded with severity … he would have made no impression whatever upon them.” But by seeking out people where they were and speaking directly to them, Aldhelm had succeeded in “impressing on their minds a truer feeling of religious devotion.”
In 705, the Bishopric of Wessex was split into two dioceses and Aldhelm was made Bishop of Sherborne. In his time as bishop, he rebuilt the church at Sherborne and helped to establish a nunnery at Wareham. He also built churches at Langton Matravers and the Royal Palace at Corfe.
On 25th May 709, just four years after his consecration, Aldhelm died at Doulting in Somerset. His funeral procession travelled 50 miles from Doulting to Malmesbury and stone crosses were planted at 7-mile intervals, to mark each place where his body rested for the night. Today we celebrate 25th May, the date of Aldhelm’s death, as a feast day to remember the first Bishop of Sherborne - a true evangelist and an inspiring Saint.
Records show that Saint Aldhelms Church was attended by 668 people on one Sunday in 1903., that was 407 in the morning and 261 in the evening.
St. Aldhelms Church, Edmonton taken over a hundred years ago. (Before we had pews!)
Do you or somebody you know have memories of St. aldhelm's church in years gone by? If you would like to share these email claire@aldhelms.co.uk