Welcome.

Thank you for visiting the Chet Valley Churches Website. The Chet Valley Churches are part of the Diocese of Norwich

The Calendar contains details of what is on in our churches

Have a look at our Events section which highlights some of what is happening

Our Photos Gallery has pictures of past events

Our latest weekly Church Newsletter can be visited here

You can find the current issue of "Contact", our monthly magazine, here.

and the previous issue, here

The Chet Valley Churches are a group of worshipping communities centred around the River Chet in south Norfolk. Our churches range from a tiny thatched church to a huge 15th century building, and our styles of worship vary too.

Like many rural churches, service times are not always the same every week, so if you’re planning to visit us, check out the calendar to see what’s on.

Our Sunday services encompass both traditional and contemporary styles. Some follow the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), or current versions of the Holy Communion service while others are aimed at being more family friendly, in particular All Together Worship and Xpressions Café.

To find out more about the Church week by week, have a browse through the website, or click on the link at the top of this page to find our Weekly News.

On the rest of the site we'll be telling you about who we are. We hope that you'll like what you find and come and join us for some of the events. To make things easy to start with, here are the main services. It is always worth checking on the calendar however,  to see if there are any changes.

The Churches and their main services

Please note if there is a Festival that the pattern of services vary. On a 5th Sunday there is usually a united service and all the church congregations come together. Do check out the Calendar

Loddon, Holy Trinity, & St John's Chapel

This is a single worshipping congregation (Anglican and Methodist) referred to as the Church in Loddon.

Services from the Sunday after Remembrance Sunday to mid-May are in St John's then in the summer months they are in Holy Trinity. Please check in the calendar

1st Sunday  10.45 a.m.                   Holy Communion (Common Worship)

2nd Sunday 10.45 a.m.                   Morning Worship

3rd Sunday  10.45 a.m.                   Holy Communion

4th Sunday   10.45 a.m.                  Morning Worship

Last Sunday   6.30pm for 7              Last Sunday Praise @ St John's

Chedgrave, All Saints

1st Sunday in each month All Saints hosts  Xpressions cafe. This is a very informal and relaxed  event  designed to help people explore the Christian faith in a relaxed and non threatening way. It starts with coffee, although you don't have to go to anything else if you simply want to hang out with coffee and chat. (10.00 a.m. -12 noon). It is preceded by an informal service of Holy Communion at 9 a.m.

2nd Sunday   9.30 a.m.                 Holy Communion (BCP)

3rd Sunday    9.30 a.m.                 All Together Worship;    moves to

                   11.00 a.m.                in June, September, January & March

                                                  so as to be followed by a shared lunch

4th Sunday    9.30 a.m.                Holy Communion (Common Worship)

Hardley, St Margaret's

2nd Sunday  8.00 a.m.                  Holy Communion (Common Worship)

4th Sunday 10.30 a.m.                  Morning Worship

Sisland, St Mary's

1st Sunday   8.00 a.m.                  Holy Communion (BCP)

3rd Sunday   10.30am                   Morning Prayer (BCP)                                        or                 5.00 p.m.                 Evening Prayer (BCP)

Langley, St Michael's

This Church is often used by the adjacent school.

Hales, St Margaret's and Heckingham, St Gregory's

Both these Churches are redundant however when there is a service such as on their patronal Saints day it will be advertised