Priest in Charge

The Reverend Dr Simon Chambers

The Rectory, Hodwell

Ashwell

Baldock

Herts SG7 5QQ. 

Tel: 01462 742277 

E-mail: Simon Chambers

Times of church services 

9.15 am               Parish Eucharist, (3rd Sunday: Service of the Word)

Please check the church notice board for any special services and variations.

Church History

There is evidence of a church existing on this site early in the 13^th century, and it may well have been a wooden one.  Most of the building seen from the nave was built early in the 14^th century.  The substance of the nave and tower was built in the decorated gothic style.  There was a porch on the north side, maybe wooden, which had a door able to be locked.  The south door is barred by a beam, which slides five feet into the thickness of the wall.  In 1887 and 1907 the last major restoration was undertaken.  A new roof was put on the church, and the only pieces retained of the 1840 roof were the four carved figures of monks holding shields which can been seen on the beam-ends.  The chancel was altered and a 'gothic' east window replaced that of 1735.  There are several brass monuments in the church, which are given in more detail in the excellent church guide.

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