St Martin’s Church, North Nibley

Welcome to St Martin’s pages. This page acts as our focus and summarises our events and activities, providing links to more details about them, about our church, our people and how to contact us.

OUR WEEKLY RECORDED SERVICES CONTINUE.  The church is open during the day and the churchyard is always open and provides a place for quiet reflection and prayer – with benches. Please do make use of it.

We send out a weekly email regarding forthcoming services and events and giving relevant updates. To subscribe, please see this document and send us an email

The latest changes to these pages:
*Blog for 16th March 2025 has been added.   Please see the latest blog for details of services and forthcoming events, the recorded service and some links we hope you will find useful.

Thanks to Christian Eley for the wonderful sunset picture.

Summary of Regular Services

The church is now open daily for visitors and private prayer

The monthly pattern of services in St Martin’s is as follows:
Week 1.  Service specifically for families and children  at 0930
Weeks 2 and 4. Communion at 09.30
Week 3. varied types of service at 09.30 – not communion
5th Sunday, A  service for the whole benefice in one of its churches

Every Sunday – a recorded service is available on this website.

 

Forthcoming ‘Events’

Sun 30th March- Mothering Sunday
Benefice communion service at 11am at Alderley
Round the Font informal service in church at 4pm

18th April 2025 – Good Friday –
Walk of Witness from chapel to church for hot cross buns. Time to follow
2pm in church – Hour before the Cross

Saturday 19th April – There will be a pilgrimage walk over the weekend starting from Coaley Peak at 10am and arriving in North Nibley for an overnight stay at around 5pm. There will be a option for a shorter walk by joining at Cam Peak. There will be an evening meal in the chapel followed by a talk by Andrew Hope who is an authority on the life of William Tyndale.   On Sunday, after the sunrise service, the walk will continue via Tortworth church and St James church in Charfield to Kingswood Abbey, where there will be a chance to visit the gatehouse and listen to Cello music. A meal will follow.
If you are interested, please contact Jill Stephens. For obvious reasons, this pilgrimage is for adults only without dogs.

20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday – Sunrise service on the knoll at 6.30 am. There will be transport from the bottom of Wood Lane if the weather permits. Bacon Butties will be served afterwards in the chapel. All are welcome!

 

 

The Church of England web site gives more information and will signpost Christian resources available on line.

Donations to St Martin’s can be made via the link in the QR code below. Thank you!

About us

The Benefice
The parish of North Nibley is part of the Tyndale Benefice.   We are  delighted that Rev Lesley Hewish is now licensed (22 May 2022) as our Priest-in-Charge  for a period of 4 years. The Benefice Profile gives an overview of the churches, their aspirations and the environment in which they reside.

Churches Together
We work closely with the Chapel in the village, sharing services and other events throughout the year

‘Life Events’. Please contact the benefice office in the first instance. We have produced a leaflet about weddings in St Martin’s and one specifically related to flowers.

Music
We have a dedicated choir which sings at all the 9.30 communion services, as well as at ‘special’ services. It is always keen to welcome  new members.

The church has excellent acoustics for musical performances

Bells
The bellringers are looking for new ringers!

Village School
We have very close links with our village C of E primary school, which holds many services in the Church, as well as ‘experience’ events, supported by members of the congregation. We help with ‘open the book’ and hold joint fundraising events with the Friends of the school – FONNS.
We also work with the village nursery and playgroup.

Safeguarding
Please see our safeguarding page for more information and the policies page for formal documentation

Sunday 13th December 2020

The service this week is with music and led by Rev Peter Marsh

The service sheet and pew sheets can be found by following the links

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Sunday 6th December 2020

‘Ramblings’ this week are led by Rev Peter Marsh.

The pew sheet is usually uploaded sometime on Friday and available here.

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Sunday 29th November 2020 – Advent Sunday

It is the advent carol service this week

These links take you to the order of service and pew sheet

Looking ahead to the Christmas Carol Service by Zoom. Please send an email to  stmartins.northnibley@gmail.com to book your place and request the relevant codes.
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Sunday 20th November 2020

Rev Peter Marsh is back from his ‘holiday’ and gives us his ‘ramblings’ this week.

As always, this is the link to the pew sheet. Apologies that last week’s sheet was not available in time. It is there now!

Looking ahead to the Christmas Carol Service. David.. →

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Sunday 15th Noveber 2020

This week’s service with music is led by Rev Morag Langley.

Please select the links for the pew sheet and order of service

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Sunday 8th November 2020 – Remembrance Sunday

This week’s ‘ramblings’ are led by Rev Morag Langley and there is a pew sheet

There is also a Remembrance Day service. If you start listening at 10.50am, you will reach the 11am silence at the same time as the rest of the country.

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Sunday 1st November 2020 – All Saints

This is today’s service, led by Rev Peter Marsh.
Follow the links for the  pew sheet and order of service.

Next week is Remembrance Sunday. There will be no local poppy collectors this year.
If you wish to donate on line, you can do so by following this link

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Sunday 18th October 2020

There will be a service in church this week at 9.30am, which has also been recorded.

The order of service and pew sheet can be found by following the links

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Sunday 11th October 2020

This week’s ramblings  are led for us  by Sue Plant and the pew sheet is available here.

James Marchant and Rev Peter Marsh will be undertaking the Forest of Dean cycle challenge on Sunday 11th October.  It is 62 miles long, with 1676m of climbing, some it 1 in 4! This is to support.. →

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