Priest in Charge

The Revd Mike Leverton

The Rectory,

Warren Lane,

Cottered,

Buntingford

Hertfordshire

SG9 9QA

Tel:         01763 281 218

E-mail:    Michael Leverton

Day off:   Saturday

Wife:       Carol

Times of church services

1st Sunday     9:30am  Parish Communion

2nd Sunday    No Service

3rd Sunday    11:00am Family Worship

4th Sunday     9:30am   Parish Communion

5th Sunday     Group Service (contact Mike Leverton)

On the 5^th Sunday in the month there is a group service at 10 am in one of the three churches of the benefice.

Church History

The church is 14^th century with an 18^th century spire, which forms a local landmark.  Opposite the main door is a large mural of St Christopher with a medieval backdrop dating from around 1500.  The Reverend Anthony Trollope, grandfather of the novelist of the same name, was a rector here.  The nave has large perpendicular style windows and a fine oak roof.  The font, erected in 1739, is made of Derbyshire marble with intriguing fossils.  There is a Queen Ann coat of arms and a memorial tablet to surgeon Sir James Cantlie, whose tomb is in the churchyard near the porch.  In the Lady Chapel are grave slabs to former lords of the manor of Broadfield and Cottered.  There is a carved windmill on the tower arch inside the church.  The west millennium window was installed in 2000 and depicts important stages of the spreading Christian message during the first two thousand years of Christianity.  The church was originally dedicated as St Mary's.

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