Tickets are now available for our
Festal Evensong on All Saints Sunday
6:30pm, 2nd November 2025 ticketsource.co.uk/turkdean
We ticket larger services to prevent overcrowding and to make sure we
have about the right amount of seats
and, crucially, sausage rolls.
Refreshments will be particularly lavish as we are surprised and delighted to have received a grant from the Choral Evensong Trust.
Canticles: Sir Herbert Brewer – Evening Service in D
Anthem: Henry Balfour Gardiner – Evening Hymn
For all the saints who from their labours rest
Immortal, Invisible, God only wise
Angel-voices ever singing
Postlude: Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Chorale Improvisation Nun danket alle Gott
Matins with Holy Communion (BCP)
10:30am Sunday 12th October
Led by Revd Canon Tim Sedgley
The Turkdean Choir
Director of Music: Steve Winwood
Choir Director: Dominic Hamilton
Assistant Organist: Theo Mountford
14th September, 2025
is welcomed by the congregation and choir of All Saints Church, Turkdean
at his first service in the Benefice on 14th September 2025
1st June, 2025
Having studied Theology at Durham, Charlie was ordained in 2009 and served in Berkshire as a Curate at St George’s, Britwell and then at the Stoke Poges Churches, before he was appointed Rector of the four Leicestershire churches of the Wycliffe Fellowship in 2013. Having served as Rector for 9 years, Charlie was appointed Chief Executive of The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA) in 2022 where he has worked to restructure this organisation’s academic and leadership courses aimed at evangelistic ministry.
You might be interested in seeing (and, indeed, hearing) Charlie interviewing Dr Darrell Bock and discussing how to talk about faith in our sadly polarised world as part of an OCCA interview series. Or reading more about Charlie’s bio here.
23rd June, 2025
The church floor was a-polishéd,
it shone as glass beneath a stone.
Where priests may now in silence tread,
a golden light through windows shone.
All Saints as glass did brighter gleam,
its floor now crowned with hallow’d glow.
The stillness held a newer dream:
in mens’ minds God’s glory sow.
No, we won’t be giving up the day job
(which clearly should not involve polishing!)
Easter Gravel Arrivals at All Saints Church, Turkdean
Revd Canon John Ovenden greets the arriving congregants at Turkdean on Easter Morning in blazing sunshine, with the “new” old bells…
All Saints Church
installs new infra-red heaters
in the Nave
Choral Evensong – All Saints Church, Turkdean
17th November 2024.
25th May, 2025
A sensational service of Choral Evensong was led by the Revd Canon Gary Grady (at left in choir picture) with beautiful renditions of Thomas Tertius Noble’s Canticles, a Gibbons hymn and a fine Wesley anthem.
The congregation enjoyed champagne and canapés served in the Nave after the service on this truly beautiful early Summer evening and lingered to discuss the possible installation of a third infra-red heating and lighting chandelier in the Chancel later this year. This wonderful service generated just over £1,000 – a splendid Sunday evening!
8th March, 2025
We were sad to hear that Giles Daniels, a former Warden of this Parish, farmer and cricketer, died suddenly in Turkdean on Saturday 8th March. We will be thinking about Giles and his children, grandchildren and many farming friends throughout Gloucestershire and beyond.
A memorial service will be held at All Saints Church on 30th April.
9th December, 2024
Sadly, long-term parishioner, author and countryman James Fleming was buried at All Saints Church on Monday 9th December..
17th November, 2024
Following our celebratory Choral Evensong on Sunday 17th November, which welcomed our new infra-red chandeliers, our Heating Appeal now stands at £16,800 of the £20,000 total needed.
£3,200 to go!
July, 2024
Fame at last with an article dedicated to All Saints in the latest (July) edition of international bestseller the Northleach Benefice Magazine, available at all good newsagents for the princely sum of £1.50
23rd June, 2024
Floral Choral Evensong
6:30pm
26th April, 2024
We have now been joined, photographically at least, by HM The King, a picture of whom has now been hung on the South Aisle wall.
Gigaclear Community Hub since 2022.
This enables our free wifi availability,
contactless payment operation and
even the ringing of our medieval bells!
20th December, 2024
We celebrated a beautiful candlelit carol service and enjoyed mulled wine and mince pies in the newly toasty Nave afterwards to kick off our Christmas celebrations.
The newly hung infra-red heating and lighting chandeliers came in to their own for this very well-attended service to which we were delighted to welcome guests from as far afield as Birmingham and Wales!
30th June, 2023
Turkdean’s four repaired and restored bells returned from
the bellhangers, Whites of Appleton, and were briefly displayed in the Nave.
The bells have now been re-hung on the newly strengthened bell-frame
An Eventide Communion Service featuring Willliam Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices was held on 19th November 2023 in the 400th anniversary year of the
composer’s death at which the bells were blessed (and rung!)
September, 2023
A new headstone has now been erected for Joan Radband (ob 2017), who was for many years a redoubtable hand deliverer of our Parish and Benefice magazine,
19th November, 2023
An extraordinary choral end to our fund-raising for the restoration of Turkdean’s bells with Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices sung by the Cantores Chamber Choir
