Church Links
Boxford Primary is a Church of England Voluntary Controlled school. We share a common ethos with our colleagues at the Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich and work to ensure that our pupils have opportunity to reflect on their own beliefs and values within the school setting.
For more information about the Education Team at the Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, and their role in supporting the school, please click here.
Our Local Church:
The Church of St Mary Boxford is part of a group of friendly and welcoming rural village churches, known as the Box River Benefice, which also includes: St Mary the Virgin, Edwardstone; St Bartholomew, Groton; St Lawrence, Little Waldingfield; and All Saints, Newton.
Across the group of five churches we try to provide a mix of services, including:
- A monthly informal family Café Church service at Boxford. Children are especially welcome to this service.
- Mid-week informal short communion services on Wednesdays, which are followed by coffee and time for a chat. These are held in Mary's House, which is a delightful church-owned cottage in the centre of Boxford village, a couple of doors away from the Post Office. It is also open to anyone on the other weekday mornings for tea or coffee for a small donation. More information is available in the link in the Pages and Links sidebar to the right.
- Mid-morning Sunday services, two each week, one in Boxford on the first to the third Sundays, one in Newton on the second and fourth Sundays, and one on the first, third and fourth Sundays in one of the other three churches. These services are in modern language and are usually followed by refreshments.
- Choral Matins and Evensong in traditional language, which are held once a month at St Mary's Church.
- An 08:00 Book of Common Prayer communion service, which is also held monthly at St Mary’s Church throughout the year and monthly at one of the other four churches in the Benefice on a rotating basis during the months April to September.
Boxford has a robed choir and an active team of bellringers, both of which welcome new people, whether adults or young people, and training can be given in bellringing. The choir sings at all main services, except the informal family service. Mid-morning services normally last about an hour, family services a little less, and early morning services last about 40 minutes.
If you are new to the Village and come to one of our services, please do make yourself known to a sidesperson so that you can be properly welcomed.
Details of all the current month's church services, together with information about other church and village events, are available online and in the pages of the local Village Newspaper, the Box River News.