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St John's has served the people of Hurst Green for 100 years and we offer you a warm welcome.

Bradford on Avon was an important religious centre in Saxon times and St Laurence church is an ancient building, thought to be one of the most complete Saxon buildings still in existence.

Built on a prominent hillside at the heart of the village that was created at the same time, St Mary's was designed, built and given to the parish by the eminent Victorian architect, George Edmund Street, in memory of his second wife. It was consecrated in 1879.

Our medieval church was built in the mid 13th century, and has splendid views over the North Downs.

Some of the earliest evidence of habitation here comes from fragments of Roman settlements and discoveries from archaeological digs have revealed the remains of a large Roman Villa decorated with well preserved mosaic on the playing grounds of St Laurence School.

The New Room in Bristol is the oldest Methodist Chapel in the world (originally built in 1739) and the cradle of the early Methodist movement.

The lady lay in quiet repose, medieval mystery of our beautiful woman of Worldham. St Mary the Virgin sits prominently on the crossroads at Worldham Hill.

Christ Church is set on the brow of a hill, in the centre of the parish, but on the edge of the village, surrounded by the old and new well kept churchyard and by farmland.

Thruxton church has been at the heart of village life for over 850 years, many of the church’s treasures are in the form of tombs and effigies of some of the Lords and Ladies of the Manor.

A small Benedictine priory stood here in the year 900 AD and the chancel area of the present church is thought to be the site of its chapel.

The church is Norman with Perpendicular additions.