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Sign Up for Our Weekly Newsletter

Each week, the Rector prepares and distributes a newsletter that, inter alia, lists the services due to take place during the coming week and outlines other forthcoming events in the Benefice. Click here if you would like to subscribe to this newsletter.


New Pop-Up Cafe - Charlton

Why not join us at the new Pop-Up Cafe in Charlton Church on the second Tuesday of the month, starting in September 2021?  Click here for more details.


Coffee Morning - East Knoyle Church

Do drop in for coffee (or tea !) and meet friends new and old at the Coffee Morning held on the the fourth Tuesday morning of each month in the Church Cafe at St Mary's Church, East Knoyle. For more information, click here...


Pastoral Visiting Team

We have a trained team of visitors, both ordained and lay, who are available to visit anyone who would like a visit. For more information, click here....


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The Benefice of St. Bartholomew

Welcome to the website for the Benefice of St Bartholomew

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Written by Tony Gowers

The Benefice of St Bartholomew covers almost 30 square miles in the south west corner of Wiltshire. The Benefice is located in the Diocese of Salisbury and includes the following Church of England parishes: Donhead St Mary with Charlton, Donhead St Andrew, East Knoyle, Semley and Sedgehill.

Most of the Benefice lies within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with its exceptional landscapes and superb scenery.

This website will tell you about our six Churches: St. John the Baptist Church in Charlton, St. Andrew's Church in Donhead St. Andrew, St Mary's Church in Donhead St. Mary, St. Mary's Church in East Knoyle, St. Catherine's Church in Sedgehill and St Leonard's Church in Semley.

The site also describes:

  • The services and events which have been arranged for the whole Benefice.
  • The activities organised for children and younger people in the Benefice.

You can also find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/benofbart/

If you have an item that you would like to be included on this website or have suggestions on how we can improve the site, please click here.


*** IMPORTANT - CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) ***

Latest COVID Update - March 2022  With the Government having removed most COVID-19 restrictions, it is no longer mandatory to wear face masks in church or to take a lateral flow test before attending a service. However, if you feel more comfortable wearing a mask, please continue to do so.

Latest News And Forthcoming Services & Events

Benefice Summer Lunch - 19th July 2022

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Written by The Rev'd Kate McFarlane

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Benefice Summer Lunch

on

Tuesday, 19th July 2022 at 12.30 pm

in

St Leonard’s Church, Semley

Please join us for a free buffet lunch and raffle. Everyone welcome. Please book your place with The Revd Kate, tel: 01747 830 174, or click here to send Kate an email - when the new window opens, click on the ‘Contact Form’ tab to send your message.

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From the Rector - July 2022

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Written by The Rev'd Kate McFarlane

Free-For All!

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In these unsettling times many of us are increasingly aware of rising prices and financial uncertainty. Anyone who can look at their bill for petrol, oil or the supermarket, without feeling their anxiety levels also start to rise, is fortunate indeed. Demands on Foodbanks are undoubtedly rising. Even by January and February 2022, before the worst increases hit, a 22-percent rise was recorded in foodbank use.

As politicians debate how to respond to the current situation the phrase 'There's no such thing as a free lunch' has been used; and, of course, we're well aware that our need to alleviate the impact of the rising cost of living, is resulting in heated debates about how this can best be done.
Fortunately, Christianity offers something more life-giving and open-handed than the need to balance the books. It is a faith rooted in stories of plenty and generosity. In Christ's company we encounter 5,000 people fed, with 12 baskets left over, or a wedding feast which positively overflows with water turned to wine; and, above all, the universal, free invitation, to eat at the Lord's table.

So let us be signs of that Godly generosity out in our community. Very fittingly, St Mary's Church in East Knoyle is a foodbank collection point. Please do stop by and leave a gift there which will benefit a struggling family. And when you do so, please stop awhile and enjoy the peace, beauty and solace of our church. Our churches in both Semley and East Knoyle are 'free to enter', open every day; and all our Benefice churches offer regular open invitations to come to our Sunday services - no 'Christian qualifications' needed, no regular commitment assumed, no previous experience required. Simply come as you are - No Charge!

And this month we are literally offering a 'free lunch' at St Leonard's, Semley, at 12.30 on Tuesday 19th July - an opportunity to make up for some of the isolation brought by covid and to share food and conversation in a beautiful place. (We ask you to book simply to ensure there will be enough for everyone.)

So please use your churches; come in, you are welcome - it is genuinely 'free-for-all'.

Revd Kate McFarlane


Prayer Cycle and Prayer of the Month - July 2022

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Written by The Rev'd June Lane

Please do continue to make your requests for prayer known to us. Prayer changes things. Contact any of us: The Rev’d June (tel: 01747 828427), Julia (tel: 01747 829166), or Theresa (tel: 01747 829188). There are many of us in need of that extra help and comfort that comes from knowing someone is praying for us.

Your prayers for my dear friend Michael Buckley were so much appreciated by his widow and my Godchildren. Prayer, even for someone whom we only know by name, is powerful.

We all need someone to look to for help and guidance. Here are two simple prayers which may help us this month.

Father, thank you for the thrill of finding something new.
Thank you for the joy of discovering something we didn't know before.
Thank you for the discoveries we make,
about life,
about love,
about ourselves.
Thank you for other people's new ideas,
and all the inventions which add to the joy of our lives. Amen.

Roy Chapman & Donald Hilton

A Prayer of Bishop Richard Harries:

Lord,
You are the deepest wisdom,
the deepest truth,
the deepest love,
within me.
Lead me in your way.


Church Services

Friday 8th July

Friday Eucharist - East Knoyle
Date 10:00 am - 10:30 am

Sunday 10th July

Family Service with Baptism - Semley
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Sung Eucharist - Donhead St Andrew
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Matins - East Knoyle
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Evensong - Sedgehill
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Friday 15th July

Friday Eucharist - Donhead St Andrew
10:00 am - 10:30 am

Sunday 17th July

BCP Communion - Donhead St Mary
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Sung Eucharist - East Knoyle
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Matins - Donhead St Andrew
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Family Communion with Baptism - Charlton
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Evening Prayer - Semley
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Friday 22nd July

Friday Eucharist - Charlton
10:00 am - 10:30 am

BCP = Book of Common Prayer
CW = Common Worship

Forthcoming Events

Tuesday 12th July

Pop-Up Cafe - Charlton Church
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday 19th July

Benefice Summer Lunch - Semley Church
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Tuesday 26th July

Coffee Morning - East Knoyle Church
10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tuesday 2nd August

St Andrew's Community Coffee Morning - Donhead St Andrew Church
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday 9th August

Pop-Up Cafe - Charlton Church
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday 23rd August

Coffee Morning - East Knoyle Church
10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Monday 29th August

St Andrew's Church All-Weather Summer Fete - Donhead St Andrew
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Tuesday 13th September

Pop-Up Cafe - Charlton Church
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday 20th September

Joint PCC Meeting - Location TBA
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Friday 11th November

Donhead St Andrew PCC Meeting
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Click on any of the events listed above to find out more about it.......

The Benefice of St Bartholomew - Churches in Charlton, Donhead St Andrew, Donhead St Mary, East Knoyle, Sedgehill and Semley; welcome, wonder and worship.

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