November & December @ St Mary's |
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An update from the teams at St Mary's Church, Ross-on-Wye
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Book Talk - Heather Hurley - Railways |
| | | Thursday, 29th October, 7.00pm - St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | Join local historian and author Heather Hurley for an illustrated talk on railways in Herefordshire and the southern Marches. A richly detailed and illustrated account of the railways formed between 1845 and 1900 across Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire and Radnorshire. A joint event for Rossiter Books and The Friends of St Mary’s. |
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| | | Saturday 31st October, 5.30 - 7.00pm |
| | | | | | Here's and idea, come along to St Mary's for a festival of light and fun to celebrate the brighter side of All Hallows' Eve for children and young families. |
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Exhibition: Nursing in World War I |
| | | Tuesday 3rd - Tuesday 24th November - St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | This is an exhibition of large pictures and artefacts curated by Derrie Edge who provided the much admired exhibition on the Battle of the Somme in July. Well worth a look as we enter the season of remembrance. |
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| | | Wednesday 4th November - 1.00pm |
| | | | | | The last of this year's FREE lunchtime concerts - our friends from Northwick Baroque return. The full programme is available on the website. |
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| | | Wednesdays 4th November & 2nd December 3.30 - 4.30pm |
| | | | | | An after school drop-in club for all young people. We have masses of LEGO (thanks to all the kind donors). A FREE session, just come along and be creative, refreshments available, no pressure. Families very welcome. Children are welcome to stay on for a sing with St Mary's Youth Choir afterwards until 5.30pm |
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Remembrance in The Ross Parishes |
| | | Multiple dates and events |
| | | | | | As usual, an excellent programme of events all organised by our local RBL branch with The Ross Parishes and Ross Town Council. In particular, join us at The Prospect and afterwards in St Mary's Church on Sunday 8th November for 11am. |
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Coffee & Sgwrs @ St Mary's |
| | | 7th November & 5th December - 10.30am - Noon |
| | | | | | Our regular coffee session with excellent homemade cake. As usual there is an opportunity to join Welsh speaking tables for a good old natter. You can do that in English too, of course! |
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| | | Wednesday 11th & 25th November, 9th 23rd December, 10.30 - Noon.
And every second and fourth Wednesday of every month. |
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| | | 6.00pm - Sunday 8th, 22nd November, 13th December (second and fourth Sundays) - St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | St Mary's choir have returned to their base after a summer of "Out and About" evensongs around the Deanery and beyond. It's a beautiful service in a sumptuous setting and the perfect way to bring the weekend to a close. |
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Book Talk: Paul Coldwell - Ink Paper Chisel Grain |
| | | Thursday 12th November, 7.00pm |
| | | | | | Join Paul Coldwell for a dazzling journey through 500 years of art, ideas and human imagination, told through one of the most enduring and versatile artistic mediums ever created – the woodcut.
Part history, part travelogue, part meditation on art and making, Ink Paper Chisel Grain reveals how woodcut has survived every technological revolution thrown at it, celebrating the enduring human impulse to leave a mark. Paul will sign copies of his book after his talk.
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Concert: Sing Out Strong Siver Jubilee Celebration |
| | | Saturday 21st November, 7.00pm |
| | | | | | Founder of Sing out Strong and its mental health choirs, conductor Emma Rowland-Elsen, is celebrating 25 years as a conductor in 2026. And YOU are invited to come and join us for a one-night-only celebration concert! Featuring The Border Belles, Harmony Singers, Wye Not Sing? and The Sing out Strong Global Choir. |
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Concert: Ross-on-Wye Singers Christmas Concert |
| | | Saturday 28th November, 7.00pm |
| | | | | | The Ross-on-Wye Singers (formerly The Ross Penyard Singers) present their pre Christmas concert, with a number of guest artists and youth choirs. |
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| | | Sunday 29th November, 5.00pm (please note earlier time) |
| | | | | | This is one of the most magical services of the pre-Christmas season, full of hope, expectancy and movement not to mention some first rate music (Advent seems to have the best liturgical tunes). If you're around at the town Christmas Fayre and the switch on of the lights at 4.30, this would be an ideal way of rounding off your day. |
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Service: Inspire Worship Christmas |
| | | Saturday 5th December, 6.00pm |
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Concert: Oriel Singers (Wye Valley Music) |
| | | Sunday 6th December, 3.00pm - St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | Wye Valley Music's regular Christmas choral concert. The Oriel Singers are a Cheltenham-based chamber choir who perform largely a capella choral music, to exacting standards, covering many different styles: early and modern, sacred and secular, serious and light-hearted. On the anniversary of his death, the programme will include Benjamin Britten’s famous ‘A Ceremony of Carols’, composed in 1942 while he was on a sea voyage to the USA. |
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Concert: Ross Choral Society |
| | | Saturday 12th December, 7.30pm - St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | Join us for an inspiring evening of choral music as we celebrate the spirit of the season with two magnificent works inspired by St Nicholas. Benjamin Britten's vibrant and much-loved St Nicolas tells the story of the saint's remarkable life through music with great drama, warmth and joy. Joseph Haydn's radiant Missa Sancti Nicolai ("St Nicholas Mass") is one of his most joyful and uplifting settings of the Mass. We’re thrilled to invite the Crypt School Choir to join us. And of course, we couldn’t hold a winter concert without including some festive carols too! |
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| | | Sunday 13th December, 3.00pm - St Mary's Church |
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| | | Sunday 20th December, 4.00pm - St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | For many, this is where Christmas really begins. Join us at 4.00pm on the Sunday before Christmas, in a packed St Mary's, lit my candles, for this service which has been attracting a larger congregation as each year goes by. The choir will be at full strength and well prepared to lead the usual popular carols as well as a few carefully selected, exciting new ones. |
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| | | Tuesday 22nd December, 5.30pm - outside St Mary's Church |
| | | | | | Just one of these this year so don't miss the date. As usual, a quick romp through all the well-loved carols out in the churchyard than free refreshments in St Mary's Church. |
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| | | | | | The Anglican churches in the parishes of Ross, Walford & Brampton Abbotts |
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| | | | | | | | Supporting and developing the fabric of St Mary's and building partnerships. |
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