Priest in Charge
The Reverend Carol Kimberley
The Vicarage
Great Hormead
Buntingford
Herts SG9 ONT.
Tel: 01763 289258
E-mail:
Carol Kimberley
Day off: Saturday
Husband: John
Times of church
services
There are only
occasional services during the summer held in this
church, but regular services are held in the other five
churches of benefice each Sunday, with a group service
at 10 am rotating around them on the 5th
Sunday in the month.
Church History
This small church, beautifully
situated, was built in the 11th/12th
centuries. It is no longer required for regular worship
(St Nicholas church at Great Hormead is less than half a
mile away), and it is cared for by the
Churches Conservation Trust. A priest was recorded here
in the Domesday Book, when Hormead (no 'Great' or
'Little') had 550 inhabitants, much the same as now.
The church has one remarkable feature, its original 12th
century wooden north door with its original
decorative metal strap work including a dragon and a
bird and rough-headed nails. In 1925 the entrance was
blocked and the door preserved inside. It has been
cleaned and exhibited several times, the last time being
in 1984 in the Haywards Gallery in London in an
exhibition of English Romanesque art (1066-1200). The
12th century chancel arch has a coat of arms
of Charles I dated 1660 hanging over it, indicating
royalist sympathies at the time of the civil war.
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