Welcome to St Mary's Church, Beenham
All Sunday services start at 9:15am. On the 1st Sunday the service is Holy Communion, on the 2nd Sunday Family Communion with a workshop for children, on the 3rd Morning Worship, and on the 4th a Family Service. Coffee and biscuits are served after all services. Services on the 5th Sunday rotate around the Benefice.
St Mary's is a friendly Anglican church in Beenham Parish. There has been a church on the site since medieval times, the present building dating from 1859. As it is the only church in the parish, there are a variety of services to suit all tastes, with all denominations welcome. The church is open every day from 9.00am – 4.30pm.
The pattern may change on special occasions such as Christmas and Easter. For details of services in St Mary's and throughout the Benefice, click here.
St Mary's Beenham is one of six churches in the Benefice of Aldermaston and Woolhampton. For information about the Benefice, including who's who in the ministry team, Benefice news, services in our other churches, and events and activities, please click here and follow the links.
If you wish to enquire about the history of the church, genealogy or the churchyard please contact one of the churchwardens. For weddings please contact Samantha Cave, . For all other contact details while we have no Rector, please click here.
Notes for your diary:
Messy Christingle
Messy Church comes to Beenham!
Saturday 1st December
Victory Hall, RG7 5NT
Messy Church is a way of exploring a Bible story through crafts and activities, hearing a story and sharing food and drink together.
All welcome, suitable for all ages, children please bring a grownup.
And on Sunday 2nd December, join us at 4pm for the Christingle Service at Beenham Church.
For more details contact our children’s worker, Cara Smart on 0118 981 1885 or
Monthly Benefice Communion
This short, quiet service of Holy Communion (without hymns) takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 11.30am at St Matthew’s Church, Midgham and will include prayers for all the Benefice. All welcome. Please note the change to the second Thursday from 2018.
Weekly Benefice Prayers
This 30-minute service, which includes the readings for the coming Sunday, a Psalm and intercessions, takes place on every Thursday – except second Thursdays – at 11:30am and moves around the Benefice as follows:
| Woolhampton: | January, February | |
| Aldermaston: | March, April, May | |
| Beenham: | June, July, August | |
| Brimpton: | September, October, November |
All welcome.
