Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Thorverton

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Thorverton church is open daily 9:00am to 4:00pm. [if you intend to make a visit to any of our Churches, please contact the Churchwarden in advance to ensure the Church is open].

A warm welcome awaits you!

Bubble Church is at Thorverton! Please join us for our next Bubble Church, on the third Sunday of the month. For under 7s and their families. Arrive 9:15 for breakfast, or join us at 9:30 for the main event.

The largest and by far the oldest building in the parish, the Church overlooks the former Saxon ‘burgh’ and later market place now known as ‘the Berry’ or ‘Bury’. The Church is dedicated to Thomas Becket, the 12th century archbishop who was murdered in his cathedral church.

Click here for a visitors guide to the church.

Click here for more information about the church including interior photographs.

More general information about life in Thorverton is available in the parish magazine Focus on Thorverton and Wikipedia’s history of the parish of Thorverton.

East Devon Arts Festival – We won’t be running the Festival again, but hope to have some smaller scale fund-raising activities in the future. Click here to find more.

We have a church choir of 15 or so members who enjoy singing music from many ages and of many styles. This includes canticles, psalms and responses at services such as Evensong and Mattins, anthems in four parts and hymns at regular Sunday morning communion and informal services, as well as worship songs, spirituals, rounds and music from Taizé.

We sing at a morning service usually twice a month and occasionally at weddings and funerals when invited. Membership is open to anyone – there are no auditions. The choir practises on Thursday evenings at Thorverton Church. We are always happy to welcome new singers. Just before Christmas, extra singers often join the choir for our Service of Lessons and Carols.

Our church instrumental group plays at most informal services and some special services such as baptisms. Again, there are no auditions. We have instrumentalists of all ages. We usually practise just before each service. New members are always welcome – all types of instruments included.

More information about the choir from:
Heather Kershaw  Choir Director and Accompanist/Organist  01392 860419
heatherpkershaw@gmail.com & heather@kershaw25.eclipse.co.uk

More information about the instrumental group from:
Lorraine Colebrook 0780 4924627