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All Saints' Parish Church, Hertford

Welcome to the All Saints', Hertford website.

We hope you enjoy your visit and look forward to seeing you in person at one of our regular or special services or at one of our many concerts. We are known for the quality of our music, the preaching and the friendly welcome! All Saints' is usually open on Wednesdays between 12:00 and 2.30 pm (Concert 1.00-1.45) and Saturdays between 10:00 am and 2.00 pm if you would like to drop in.

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Service Pattern

	1st Sunday	2nd Sunday	3rd Sunday	4th Sunday	5th Sunday
8.00 a.m.	Holy Communion	Holy Communion	Holy Communion	Holy Communion	Holy Communion
10.00 a.m.	All the Family Service	Parish Communion	Family Eucharist	Parish Communion	Parish Communion
6.30 p.m.	Choral Communion	Choral Evensong	Choral Evensong	Varies see below	Choral Evensong

This pattern changes slightly at special times of the year, such as Christmas and Easter. The Fourth Sunday evening service cycles between a Service of Healing, a Taizé Service and a Praise Service. You can check which in our diary. Full details of all services, current and historic, are available in the service lists.

Holy Communion is also celebrated on Thursdays at 11:00 am.

Junior Church meets in St John's Hall on the Second, Fourth and Fifth Sundays. There is a crèche in the meeting room at the back of church, along with (supervised) activities for younger children. On the First Sunday we all come to the Family Service at 10.00 a.m. which is a shorter service with special activities for children. Similarly the Family Eucharist on the Third Sunday is designed with children in mind.

Members of our adult choir sing evening services by candlelight each Wednesday at 7:15 pm. during term-time. (Choral Evensong on first, and Compline on the rest).

There is a special service for the under fives, along with their mum, dad, grandparents or carer, Prayers and Bears, on the first Tuesday of each month at 10:30 am.. The service lasts approx 20 minutes and is followed by time for coffee, a chat and play.

We also hold regular Bible Studies at 10:00 am on the second and fourth Thursday of each month before the 11:00 Communion. These also run on Monday evenings at 8:00 pm. Although each term has a theme, this Spring St. John, each session is self-contained and you are welcome to join us for any or all of them. Please check the diary for exact dates.

Holy Baptism (Christening)

We are delighted to be able to arrange this service with families and this can be either as a special service of baptism or within one of our 10.00 services with all of our congregation to welcome you. Please contact Kay on 01992 587125. Every child who is born in the parish is entitled to be baptised at All Saints.

Weddings

As we have such a great musical tradition, a large peal of bells, and a magnificent building, All Saints is an ideal place for weddings. Please contact Jo ( 01992 584 899) for further details.

What we stand for

When we first join the church family at baptism we declare our belief and trust in:

God the Father, the source of all being and life.
God the Son, who was human like us, died for us and rose again.
God the Holy Spirit, who gives life to us and makes Christ known in the world.

We believe that God loves all people and calls us to love and serve him and also to love and serve other people.

We believe that God calls us to be a community growing in faith.

We celebrate diversity and strive for a fair and just world.

We are part of the Hertford Team of Churches, part of the Diocese of St Alban's and a committed member of Churches Together.

Current events

As well as our regular concerts, we have a number of special events over the coming weeks including:

Our next Family Service will be at 10:00 am on 7th March; this will be on the theme of Ecology.
A Thanksgiving Service for the life of Katie Pratt on Sunday 7th March at 2:00 p.m.
The PCC is holding an open 'Vision' evening at 7:30 p.m. on 9th March; do come along - more information can be found in the Magazine.
On Wednesday 10th March, members of our Adult Choir sing Compline by Candlelight at 7:15 pm.
We will mark Mothering Sunday with a special Family Eucharist on 14th March at 10:00 a.m.
The Marriage of James Hiscock and Angela Bryant will be celebrated on Saturday 27th March at 2:00 p.m.
Hertford Choral Spciety will perform St John Passion Bach here on Saturday 27th March at 7:30 p.m.
On Sunday 28th (Palm Sunday) we will have a special Communion service with a dramatic presentation of the Passion narrative spread throughout the service along with several special choral items sung by the choir.
The evening service that day will be an extended compline by candlelight at 6;30 p.m.
On Maundy Thursday (April 1st) there will be a Choral Communion with stripping of the Altars at 8:00 p.m..
On Good Friday (April 2nd) there will be a Family Service at 9:30 a.m. followed by an Act of Witness at Bircherley Green.
Later, there will be An Hour at the Foot of the Cross from 2:00 p.m.
There will be a Vigil Service from 8:00 p.m. on Easter Eve (April 3rd)
We celebrate our Lord's resurretion with a Family Eucharist at 10:00 on Easter Day (April 4th)
Our next Prayers and Bears Service will be at 10.30 am on 13th April; do join us, with or without Teddy!

We are following the Bishops' Lent Course as part of their 2010 Challenge (Words of Challenge, Words of Life) with weekly sessions on Thursdays at 10:00 am (Starting 18th February) and on Monday nights at 8.00 pm (Starting 22nd February). More information on the Challenge, including the course materials can be found here.
Our Art Group meets on Thursday evenings 7:30-9:30 p.m - outside as the weather allows. More information here.
The regular series of meetings of the Mothers' Union continues throughout the year.

About us

All Saints' ministers to the people living in the south side of Hertford and to a fair number from wider afield who choose to worship with us. In total we have some 300 active members. We encourage a thoughful approach to the Christian faith based on a sound knowledge of the Bible. We are a friendly church where all are welcome and Holy Communion is celebrated each Sunday.

This map shows the parish boundaries as held by the Church Comissioners:

All Saints' is also the civic church of the Town and County and hosts a number of special services for them each year. The church itself was built in 1895 replacing an earlier building destroyed by fire in 1892. We have a number of regular groups which meet throughout the month. More information about us can be found in the specific pages in this website.

Music and concerts

We are fortunate in having a strong and long established musical tradition. Our choir is one of the finest in the home counties and we have recently restored our 'Father' Willis organ. We enjoy a regular series of: Wednesday lunchtime and Saturday concerts given by local and internationally known musicians. We are also fortunate to have been able to establish Choral Scholarships in conjunction with the University of Hertfordshire

How to find us

Like most churches we don't have a postal address. The nearest postcode is our vicarage which is SG13 8AE, this is on Churchfields just east of the churchyard. The church itself is situated alongside Gascoyne Way with road access off Queen Street. It can be found on Google maps here. St John's Hall is just to the East (left) of the church and has its own Google maps entry here.

Gascoyne Way is the A414, running from the A10 in the East to the M1 in the West via the A1(M) at Hatfield. All Saints' Church is a large red sandstone building, with a large tower, just south of Gascoyne Way (marked with a + on the map linked below). Turn off the A414 at the roundabout to the west of the church, turn left immediately into Hale Road, left again into Queens Road, turn right at the end and pass though the gates into the church car park. Alternative parking is available in the multi-storey car-park directly opposite the church - accessed via a slip road off the eastbound carriageway of the A414. Pedestrian access to the church is via Fore Street, Church Street (alongside the Salisbury Arms) and then via an underpass directly to the gates of the churchyard.

Click here for a map.