Welcome

to the website of the Benefice of Stow, Condicote & The Swells in the beautiful Cotswolds, where we always look forward to welcoming worshippers and visitors.

Pew Cushion Appeal

This summer we are planning to install comfortable fitted cushions in the central (Nave) pews.

Good quality fitted cushions are expensive and we depend on donations to help us care for the beautiful building and for projects like this.

Click here for details of how to donate to our pew cushion appeal

New hardstanding at our North Door

Rt Revd Robert Springett (Bishop Robert) with Revd Karen Wellman after he recently commissioned and blessed the hard standing by the North Door.

Thanks were given to the sponsors of the project - The Friends of St Edward's Church, Stow Town Council, The Alexander Trust, Stow Civic Society and Mr Graham Golby. The new hardstanding is a great improvement over the previous surface, which easily became very muddy.

Events

Sun

Apr

9:15am - 10:00am -

BCP Holy Communion, St Nicholas Condicote

Sun

Apr

10:30am - 11:30am -

Holy Communion, St Edward's Stow

Sun

May

11:30am - 12:30pm -

Annual Parochial Church Meeting, St Edward's Stow

Our churches

St Nicholas, Condicote

St Mary's, Lower Swell

St Mary's, Upper Swell

St Edward's, Stow

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Reverend Karen Wellman and members of Stow & District Civic Society at the memorial stone in St Edward's Churchyard (see above).

They gathered early on a clear morning at the memorial headstone, St Edward's Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, marking the anniversary of the Battle of Stow on this day in 1646 - the last battle of the first English Civil War.

Hundreds of Royalist soldiers perished in the Square before the surrender by Sir Jacob Astley at the Market Cross. Over 1500 Royalist soldiers were imprisoned in the church overnight and marched to Gloucester the next day.

The short service was conducted by Reverend Karen Wellman and daffodils were placed at both the memorial and the Market Cross, reflecting the origins of many of the Royalist soldiers recruited at the time from the Welsh Marches.

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