St. Mary's Church

Welcome to St. Mary's Church, North Tuddenham

Welcome. For service details and other events happening here, please see pages elsewhere on the website.

Recently restored, this Grade 1 listed building, recognised as a ‘Treasure’ by the Church of England, is open again to visitors.

With its massive nave, high well-preserved roof and uniquely tiled walls, beautiful east window, recently restored tower window containing medieval glass (from 8th July), rood screens depicting martyrs and saints, and Victorian windpipe organ, this church has plenty of features to marvel at.

Come and see for yourself!

Visits can be organised through the Church Office on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays between 9 am and 1 pm by telephoning 01362 858873.

Alternatively, you can contact the churchwarden, ‘Jools’ Smith, directly, on 01362 850641.

P.S. Please try to give sufficient warning if travelling from afar.

Coach parties welcome by appointment only.

During the Summer weekends the church will be open 10 am - 4 pm Saturdays and Sundays.

St. Mary's now has its own page on the National Churches Trust website at North Tuddenham St Mary the Virgin | National Churches Trust.

We are currently introducing the ability to easily donate online to the churches in our benefice using the Parish Giving Scheme. If you wish to donate to St. Mary's, North Tuddenham, please scan this QR code.

 

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Installation of new far infra-red heaters in All Saints, Mattishall

The project for installing new heaters at ASM is about to start. Last summer the old infra-red heaters (from back in the 1970s?) were condemned and taken down. Since then we have relied solely on the oil-fired boiler to keep us warm and we had severe problems with that for many weeks. The new heaters work in a different manner to "normal" infra-red heaters in that significantly more of the power gets radiated. They are also better at heating objects around us. Unlike when we use the boiler when we either have the whole church heated or not at all, the electric heaters will be split into 5 zones (chancel, nave, side chapel, north aisle and south aisle) which can be turned on and off individually. Though running all heaters for an hour is significantly more expensive than running the boiler for an hour, we should need to turn the heaters on for a shorter time before events start and will only use the zones we need at any one time. This winter we have been turning on the boiler some 3 hours before events. Exactly how long we will need to turn on the heaters before events we don't know yet, but it should be significantly less than with the boiler. There will be a lot of trial and error getting the right balance, so please bear with us.

Work is due to start on 18th March for 3 days and then the following Monday 24th March through to Easter. We will meet in ASM for worship as normal on Sunday 23rd, but thereafter will be meeting in the Methodist Church for the next 3 Sundays. Easter Sunday itself we will all be at North Tuddenham anyway for the Benefice Holy Communion service. Thus, we won't be back in ASM until Sunday 27th April. We don't know yet whether we will have one or two services each Sunday at the Methodist Church.

During the time work is being carried out in ASM there will be no access except for people authorised by the churchwardens or PCC and the main door key held at Victoria Stores will be withdrawn.

The cost of the project is £27k, of which £17k has been given by the ASM congregations and the remaining £10k is a grant from the diocesan nett-zero carbon initiative.

 

 

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How To Find Us

To reach St. Mary's Church, we recommend you have a good look at it on Google Maps! If coming from the Dereham direction, bear left off the A47 at turn off marked "N. Tuddenham". Turn right as soon as you are off the A47 then next right into Fox Lane and follow the road over the top of the A47. After passing North Tuddenham village hall on your left, turn right at the crossroads then immediately left. After a short distance on your left side is a sign marking the entrance to a land leading to St. Mary's. There is a small amount of parking space at the end of the lane on your left, but you may wish to swing round at the end and head back out slightly and park on the left side of the lane.
If coming from the Norwich direction, leave the A47 at the exit marked "N. Tuddenham" then turn left onto Fox Lane. Pick up the instructions from that point from those above.
If coming from the Mattishall direction, head down Burgh Lane from Mattishall and at the end, turn left onto an unnamed road marked towards "North Tuddenham". Follow the road, bearing right. Keep on this road until you head slightly down a hill to cross the river Tud and ascend the other side. The entrance to the lane down to St. Mary's is at the top of the hill on your right.

Click on the link to find a map of the area on Google maps. (Please note that we have no control over the content of external websites).

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