Welcome to St Matthew's Church, Midgham

All Sunday services start at 9.15am. On the 1st Sunday the service is Morning Worship, on the 2nd and 3rd it is Holy Communion and on the 4th Family Service. Services on the 5th Sunday rotate around the Benefice.

The pattern may change on special occasions such as Christmas and Easter. For details of services in St Matthew's and throughout the Benefice, click here.

St Matthew's is the friendly Anglican Church for Midgham Parish. St Matthew's stands on the top of a hill overlooking the Kennet valley. Church services in Midgham date from 1622. From then until 1714 they were performed in a chapel in the park near to the former Midgham House. Mr Benjamin Buck Greene, owner of Midgham House, arranged for construction of the present church which dates from 1869. The architect was John Johnson. The Church is open every day from 9:00am – 4:30pm.

St Matthew's 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.

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.

Donate to the "Restoration of Midgham Church Organ" Fund

Please help us to raise the £40,000 that we need to restore our historic organ.

Every gift matters to us.

You can donate in the conventional way but we can more than double the value of your gift if you are willing to donate via the Greenham Common Trust “The Good Exchange” website.

This is because the Trust will match your donation AND will recover the tax you have paid on it, via Gift Aid, if you are a UK taxpayer. This is how to do it:

Go to the website https://thegoodexchange.com
Select “Donate”
In the “Search for” box type “Midgham”
When the results come up select “Restoration of Midgham Church Organ”
Click on “Donate now” and follow the instructions.

Thank you

Notes for your diary:

ST MATTHEW’S CAFÉ

Do you fancy some company, a chance to meet old friends and make new ones, enjoy a slice of homemade cake and tea, PLUS share stories, and more...?

PLACE: St Matthew’s Church, Midgham

TIME: 3:00 to 4:30 pm – the first Thursday of each month

Next dates: 3rd May and 7th June.

For more information or if you need transport :

Tel: Pat Bhutta 0118 971 0124 email:

Open Garden

The Dell Woodland Garden

will be open on Monday, May 28th from 3.00 – 5.30pm

Lindens, Carbinswood Lane, Upper Woolhampton, sat nav RG7 5UB

Tea will be served.

Donations of £5 or more. Children free.

CROMWELL SINGERS

Sunday 23rd June at 2.30pm

Midgham Park Farm

Tickets £10 with tea and cakes

from Sue Evans – 971 3364 and Francine Gibbs – 971 2944

Inaugural Recital

of the renovated

Midgham Church Organ

to be given by

Gillian Blythman

Programme to include works by J S Bach, P Yon, Ad Wammes, F Mendelssohn and S S Wesley

Friday 29th June at 6.30pm

St Matthew's Church, Midgham, RG7 5UW

NOAH'S ARK TOO
Chat, play, singing and a Bible story!
MIDGHAM

We warmly invite you to come along to our group for babies, toddlers and their carers.

FREE!

THIRD FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH
10:00AM – 11:00AM

Starting on 20th April 2018
then 18th May and 15th June
MIDGHAM CHURCH, SCHOOL HILL, RG7 5UW
Up the hill from the Coach and Horses pub

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: