Welcome to the website of the Parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire.
Here you will be able to find something about the worship, activities, purpose, and the history of the Anglican Church in the Parish of Abbots Langley, which is part of the Diocese of St Albans within the Church of England.
We have two church buildings - St Lawrence Church in Abbots Langley and the Church of the Ascension ('The Tin Church') in Bedmond, and we are part of the Deanery of Watford. We are also members of Churches Together in Abbots Langley, along with the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church (St Saviour's) and another Anglican Church (St Paul's, Langleybury). We work well together, including worshipping together, especially at Festival times, and we organise various social events together.
There has been a church in Abbots Langley for over 850 years and in Bedmond for 130 years. We try to combine a sense of tradition with witnessing to the dynamic presence of God in his world today, and serving the communities of which we are a part. We are an inclusive church and are pleased to offer hospitality to everyone.
The two separate communities of Abbots Langley and Bedmond both have a good feel about them. The total population of the parish is about 14,000: at one end it merges into Watford and at the other into open farmland. You don't have to be in the area long to realise that it is the goodwill and community spirit which makes both villages good places in which to live, work and worship.
We are a Fairtrade parish and try to buy and to use fairly-traded goods whenever we can, and to encourage parishioners to do the same.
Please pray for the parish: give thanks for all that it offers; remember the churches, schools, shops and businesses, and especially pray for the people.
Stay and browse this website and get the feel of the life of our churches, what we do and why we do it - and we hope that one day we shall find you here with us to share our worship and our life.
St Lawrence Church is open seven days a week, from 10.00 am to 5.15 pm on Monday to Saturday and between services on Sundays. Bedmond Church is unfortunately kept locked most of the time but you can arrange to meet someone there if you would like to go into it - please make conact via the contact us page.
If you are in Abbots Langley on a Tuesday morning, pop in to St Lawrence for a Fairtrade cup of coffee, tea or chocolate and a biscuit between 10.15 am and 12.15 pm - or if you are in Bedmond on the first Wednesday of the month, pop into Bedmond Church between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon - you will be made most welcome!
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Monday 20th May
9.30 am Morning Prayer
2.00 pm Breakspear School visiting St Lawrence Church
2.15 pm Tiny Tots
3.30 pm Pastoral Assistants' meeting
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.30 pm Bell ringing practice
8.00 pm Property Committee meeting in the Vicarage
Tuesday 21st May
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.15 am to 12.15 pm Tuesday Coffee
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.45 pm Dynamite youth group
Wednesday 22nd May
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.15 am Holy Communion
11.15 am Home Communion at Abbeyfield
2.45 pm Home Communion at Margaret House
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.45 pm Choir practice
8.00 pm Deanery Synod at St Michael's, West Watford
Thursday 23rd May
8.15 am Prayers for the parish and local community
9.30 am Morning Prayer
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
8.00 pm Housegroup at 6 Kindersley Way
Friday 24th May
9.30 am Morning Prayer with Holy Communion
10.00 am HAL Coffee in the Henderson Hall
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
Saturday 25th May
Sorry - nothing happening in and around the church - but St Lawrence will be open for visitors between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm today - as it is every day.
Sunday 26th May - Trinity Sunday
8.00 am Holy Communion (Prayer Book)
9.30 am Parish Communion with Seekers and Creche
11.30 am Choir meeting in the Vicarage
12.30 pm Sunday Lunch Club
1.00 pm Baptism of Scarlett Clark-Halls
2.00 pm Baptism of Freddie Griffiths
3.00 pm Baptism of Stephanie Buxton
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
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