Paula Loxton

On Saturday, August 8th, more than 60 parishioners descended on the church armed with buckets, brushes and feather dusters to join together to give our church a really good “Spring” clean.  They were divided into teams and allocated a particular area to clean. Dirt and dust were dislodged from places high and low, the woodwork […]

On Good Friday, 3rd April, the familiar Walk of Witness set out from Mere’s Town Square, organised by Churches Together in Mere and District. People of all ages took turns carrying the cross and sharing readings along the way, with the children carrying it for one whole stage. The weather was bright and dry, and

Candlelit Prayer in our beautiful St Matthew’s chapel. Sundays 1st, 8th, 15th March at 6pm and Monday 30th March at 7pm

A lovely coincidence meant that the beautiful pipe organ in St Michael’s was played as part of the Royal School of Church Music’s challenge to have as many organs as possible performing Handel’s Largo simultaneously on Saturday, 22nd November. The organist was Margaret Green from Frome, who had recently visited St Michael’s and left a

This year, Remembrance Sunday fell on a rather wet autumn morning, but that didn’t stop around 200 people from attending the memorial service by the clock tower. As the clock chimed 11 o’clock, the bugler, Mary Burfitt, played the Last Post to signal the start of the two-minute silence, and concluded with Reveille. The service

Bikers from around the area met at Mere to have a blessing given by the Revd’ Angus Mayhew and supported by our own Revd’ Michael. They held a minutes silence by the clock tower and war memorial.