About St Mary's Billingshurst, Transformation Project
We are a 12th century church called St Mary in the heart of a growing village called Billingshurst in West Sussex. The village has a population of some 10,000 people and this number is rising fast with new developments.
St Mary's Church has served this community for over 900 years but its ancient building, although beautiful, is now needing a major re-fit to make itself of better service. To do this we have undertaken what we call St Marys Transformation Project. Our objective is that St Marys becomes a building to inspire our community through social interaction, environmental projects, and awareness of heritage. We want to host schools, clubs and societies and hold concerts, fayres, exhibitions, and festivals. There is so much we can do. We particularly want to encourage and support disadvantaged or vulnerable groups and central to our project are the principles of equality and inclusion.
We are building access doors, access toilets, a café, removing pews and doing so very much more to make St Marys a welcoming place for everybody.
Our vicar writes: “We want to open the doors of St. Mary’s Church building to share the space with the whole community”.
Our vision is St Mary’s Church is a building that the whole community can use and enjoy while maintaining its core purpose of being a place for those who seek to worship Christ.
Find out more about us on www.stmarysbillingshurst.org/transformation. We would be so grateful for your interest and support. Thank you.
Billingshurst Parochial Church Council
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St Mary's Billingshurst, Transformation Project Registered charity number 1132788
