St Mary's Church

St Mary's Church, Cogges has been serving the community of Cogges for at least 900 years, and its building dates from the late 11th Century to the late 14th Century. Today the church is a thriving Christian community with extensive links into the parish and the wider Witney area.

Normal service pattern

Please see the weekly Update to confirm details of this week's services.

8:00am Holy Communion

A quiet service of Holy Communion following the Book of Common Prayer. There is a short sermon but no hymns.

11:00am Morning Service

St Mary's main service of the day, with a mixture of modern and traditional music, scripture readings, preaching and prayer. Children leave for Junior Church after an opening time together (except when it is an All Age service, usually on the third Sunday of the month). Holy Communion is celebrated on the second Sunday of the month. Tea and coffee, served in the Church Centre after the service, provide an opportunity to get to know people.

6:00pm or 7:30pm Evening Service

There is a service of Evening Prayer (from the Book of Common Prayer) at 6:00pm on the first Sunday each month (April to October). Usually when there is a fifth Sunday in the month, there is a Healing Service at 7:30pm.

Church leader

Vicar:

Rev Andrew Sweeney

Activities

• Parish activities

Other information

• St Mary's Church, Cogges: Past and Present
• Memorial Inscriptions
• A history of the church (from British History Online)
• God's Acre: The Churchyard at St Mary's
• Restoration project (first phase now completed!)
• 360° Photographic Panorama of the church interior (before the recent building work!) from Pan 3Sixty Ltd