About Us
We have two church buildings - St Lawrence Church in Abbots Langley and the Church of the Ascension ('The Tin Church') in Bedmond, and we are part of the Deanery of Watford. We are also members of Churches Together in Abbots Langley, along with the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church (St Saviour's) and another Anglican Church (St Paul's, Langleybury). We work well together, including worshipping together, especially at Festival times, and we organise various social events together.
There has been a church in Abbots Langley for over 850 years and in Bedmond for 130 years. We try to combine a sense of tradition with witnessing to the dynamic presence of God in his world today, and serving the communities of which we are a part. We are an inclusive church and are pleased to offer hospitality to everyone.
The two separate communities of Abbots Langley and Bedmond both have a good feel about them. The total population of the parish is about 14,000: at one end it merges into Watford and at the other into open farmland. You don't have to be in the area long to realise that it is the goodwill and community spirit which makes both villages good places in which to live, work and worship.
We are a Fairtrade parish and try to buy and to use fairly-traded goods whenever we can, and to encourage parishioners to do the same.
Stay and browse this website and get the feel of the life of our churches, what we do and why we do it - and we hope that one day we shall find you here with us to share our worship and our life.
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The coming week...
Monday 24th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Larence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.45 pm Ringers' practice in St Lawrence tower
Tuesday 25th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Tuesday Coffee in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
10.30 am Home Communion at Margaret House
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Wednesday 26th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Holy Communion in St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.45 pm Choir practice in St Lawrence
8.00 pm Bereavement Visitors meet in the Methodist small hall
Thursday 27th July
8.15 am Early Prayer for the parish and community in St Lawrence
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
3.20 pm Funeral of Janet Roberts at the Crematorium
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.00 Wedding rehearsal in St Lawrence
8.00 pm Wedding rehearsal in St Lawrence
Friday 28th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.00 am Craft Group in Bedmond Church
10.00 am AHAL Coffee in the Henderson Hub, Abbots Langley High Street
12.00 noon Bell Toll for WW1 soldier William Herbert Tippetts
2.00 pm Craft and Conversation in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
3.00 pm Funeral of Julie Lockyer in Bedmond Church followed by Cremation
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Saturday 29th July
9.30 am Churchyard Working Party at Bedmond
2.00 pm Wedding of James Christianson and Emma Lowrie
4.00 pm Wedding of Anthony Brundritt and Stacie Lyle
Sunday 30th July - the Seventh Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Holy Communion in St Lawrence
9.30 am Parish Communion with Seekers and Creche in St Lawrence
6.30 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Monday 31st July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
12.00 noon Bell Toll for WW1 soldiers Percy Coleman and William Leslie Jerram
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.00 pm Battle of Passchendaele Commemoration Service at the War Memorial organised by the Royal British Legion
7.45 pm Ringers' practice in St Lawrence tower
Tuesday 1st August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Tuesday Cofee in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Wednesday 2nd August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.00 am Coffee Morning in Bedmond Church
10.15 am Holy Communion in St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence