You will be pleased to have noticed that our exterior perimeter wall is in the process of being restored, thanks to the generosity of both The Friends of St Anne’s and the residual funds from the Tercentenary Appeal. Starting this week, work on replacing our ancient Victorian church heating system will begin. In the first...
Category: Celebrate300
ACE Awards, 2015
The Font, which formed part of the Celebrate300 works for St. Anne’s, is our proposed submission for the ACE Awards, 2015: The ACE Awards are designed to celebrate the successes and diversity of architectural and artistic projects in religious buildings throughout Britain and its award for a book which explores the dialogue between the visual...
Tercentenary Celebrations on 7th September 2014
A memorable Tercentenary Sung Eucharist was led by The Rt. Revd. Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark to an enthusiastic congregation. Celebrations afterwards continued with the releasing of balloons on Kew Green and wound up several hours later with tea and cakes, by way of a hog-roast and a stirring rendition by Ars Eloquentiae of Vivaldi’s...
Songs of Praise – Sacred Gardens – 2014
A piece on ‘Sacred Gardens‘ as part of ‘Songs of Praise‘ on 10th August 2014, featuring Fr Nigel
Celebrate300 – Patronal Festivities
For the Saint’s day of St. Anne & St Joachim, 27th July, The Rt. Revd. Dr. Richard Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston, led the Sung Eucharist service and set festivities rolling by cutting a cake aptly decorated for the occasion.[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] [/ezcol_1half_end]
300th anniversary of the consecration of St Anne’s
The Parish Church of St Anne, Kew Celebrate300 – Worship 1714-2014 Sunday 11th May 2014 Clergy and churchwardens, past and present, together with the congregation commemorated the 300th anniversary of the consecration of St Anne’s on the 11th May, with a sung eucharist to give thanks for 300 years of Christian witness in Kew. Above Fr. Peter McCrory...
The New Font at St. Anne’s
As part of the Celebrate300 programme, the new font was installed during January and February and consecrated by the Bishop of Kingston on the 3rd March 2014 at the service to confirm 12 members of the congregation. Sue Mason discusses the design in greater detail here.
Celebrate300 Artwork goes on Show
Some of the special artwork for Celebrate300 went on show at the Nature in Art Museum outside Gloucester. More photos to follow from Sue Mason in due course.
St. Anne’s Church Restored – July 2013
Many congratulations and thanks to all those talents who worked on such an inspiring result. With thanks to Tony Vince for the excellent photographs of the church interior in it’s new celestial glory.
Church Restoration Progress – May 2013
Some excellent views of the interior of St. Anne’s as work is underway. Work to the nave ceiling is particularly eye-catching. The gilding has, apparently, been cleaned up and not renewed. Many thanks to Tony Vince for the photographs.