Events: Events

The Kings of Wessex Remembered – An exhibition and Lecture series marking the Centenary of the ‘Rediscovery’ of King Æthelbert of Wessex

Exhibition by Francis Brown, PhD student, Exeter University – do please visit the Abbey to look at the exhibition (free entry).

To accompany the exhibition, the following talks will take place in the Abbey:

Sunday 1 June at 8.00 pm: Talk by Tim Tatton-Brown (cathedrals archaeologist) on The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral, Monastery and City at Sherborne: A Reassessment.

Tuesday 3 June at 7.30 pm: Talk by Professor Barbara Yorke (University of Winchester), entitled ‘Æthelbald, Æthelbert, and Ælfred: Power and Politics in the Mid-Ninth Century.

Wednesday 4 June at 12 noon: Talk by Francis Brown (University of Exeter), entitled ‘A Skeleton in the Closet: The ‘Rediscovery’ of King Ethelbert of Wessex’ in 1925.

If you wish to sign up to for any of the talks (free admission), please call the Parish Office on 01935 713777.

Mondays in The Abbey at 1.30 pm.

On Monday 16 June 2025 by Robert Costin, Head of Academic Music, Sherborne School.

(free entry, retiring collection, all welcome)

James Henderson, Director of Music

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

Mondays in The Abbey at 1.30 pm.

On Monday 23 June 2025 by Arthur Barton, Organ Scholar, Queen’s College, Oxford.

(free entry, retiring collection, all welcome)

James Henderson, Director of Music

Mondays in The Abbey at 1.30 pm.

On Monday 30 June 2025 by Paul Ellis, Organist Emeritus.

(free entry, retiring collection, all welcome)

James Henderson, Director of Music

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

Mondays in The Abbey at 1.30 pm.

On Monday 7 July 2025 by James Henderson, Director of Music, Sherborne Abbey.

(free entry, retiring collection, all welcome)

James Henderson, Director of Music

The Blackmore Vale Scribes are holding their annual exhibition in the Lady Chapel.

Do come in and view their work!

This is not a prayer group – just an opportunity to share half-an-hour’s silence & meditation with fellow Christians and let God speak to us.

The meetings are ecumenical. It is very refreshing – why not give it a try?

Our meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month in the Lady Chapel, Sherborne Abbey from 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm.

2025 Dates (Wednesdays): 8 Jan, 12 Feb, 12 March, 9 April, 14 May, 11 June, 9 July (no meeting in August), 10 Sept, 8 Oct, 12 Nov, 10 Dec.

Shirley Fry (01935 389124)

Mondays in The Abbey at 1.30 pm.

On Monday 14 July 2025 by Charlie Gurnham, Assistant Director of Music, Sherborne Abbey.

(free entry, retiring collection, all welcome)

James Henderson, Director of Music

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

Sherborne Abbey Choir, the resident choir of sixteen boy choristers and twelve adult singers in rural Dorset’s magnificent Saxon and Benedictine Abbey, presents a programme of music by Victoria, Byrd, Palestrina, Bairstow, Wood and Stanford at Hatfield House.

Come to hear gloriously rich polyphonic a cappella music sung by one of the UK’s finest boys and adults’ choirs. Some fragments of plainchant from the Sherborne Missal (an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript missal made for use in Sherborne Abbey sometime between 1385 and 1415) surround Victoria’s sumptuous Missa O Quam Gloriosum and, in their 500th anniversary years, music by John Blitheman and Giovanni da Palestrina. Contemporary church music is represented through music by the choir’s director James Henderson alongside twentieth century favourites such as Ye choirs of new Jerusalem by Stanford.

Director of Music: Mr James Henderson

Tickets: https://hatfield-house.co.uk/event/sherborne-abbey-choir-in-concert/

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

Exhibition by Jim Johnson in the Lady Chapel.

More details to follow.

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

This exhibition is being held in Sherborne Abbey in conjunction with SherborneTown Council.

Gaia is a touring artwork by UK artist, Luke Jerram.

Measuring 7 metres in diameter and created from 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface* the artwork provides the opportunity to see our planet, floating in three dimensions. The installation aims to create a sense of the Overview Effect, which was first described by author Frank White in 1987. Common features of the experience for astronauts are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. When presented indoors, the Earth artwork slowly revolves. A specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award winning Composer Dan Jones is played alongside the sculpture. In Greek Mythology, Gaia is the personification of the Earth.

See: https://my-earth.org/about/

This exhibition is being held in Sherborne Abbey in conjunction with SherborneTown Council.

Gaia is a touring artwork by UK artist, Luke Jerram.

Measuring 7 metres in diameter and created from 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface* the artwork provides the opportunity to see our planet, floating in three dimensions. The installation aims to create a sense of the Overview Effect, which was first described by author Frank White in 1987. Common features of the experience for astronauts are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. When presented indoors, the Earth artwork slowly revolves. A specially made surround sound composition by BAFTA award winning Composer Dan Jones is played alongside the sculpture. In Greek Mythology, Gaia is the personification of the Earth.

See: https://my-earth.org/about/

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

This is not a prayer group – just an opportunity to share half-an-hour’s silence & meditation with fellow Christians and let God speak to us.

The meetings are ecumenical. It is very refreshing – why not give it a try?

Our meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month in the Lady Chapel, Sherborne Abbey from 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm.

2025 Dates (Wednesdays): 8 Jan, 12 Feb, 12 March, 9 April, 14 May, 11 June, 9 July (no meeting in August), 10 Sept, 8 Oct, 12 Nov, 10 Dec.

Shirley Fry (01935 389124)

Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter. The present building was complete by about 1400 and has several notable features, including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted medieval stone vaulted ceiling in the world.

The coach will arrive in Exeter late morning giving you some time to have a wander, do a bit of shopping and get some lunch. Followed by:

• A tour of Exeter Cathedral at 2.00 pm;
• Followed by an afternoon cream tea;
• Evensong at 5.30 pm;
• Only £35.00 each! (Price includes coach travel, cathedral tour and the afternoon tea.)

We look forward to you joining us. All welcome – you do not need to be a Friend of Sherborne Abbey to join this trip!

 For more details and booking form please contact The Parish Office on 01935 713777 or email: Chris.Hamon@sherborneabbey.com.

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie

This is not a prayer group – just an opportunity to share half-an-hour’s silence & meditation with fellow Christians and let God speak to us.

The meetings are ecumenical. It is very refreshing – why not give it a try?

Our meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month in the Lady Chapel, Sherborne Abbey from 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm.

2025 Dates (Wednesdays): 8 Jan, 12 Feb, 12 March, 9 April, 14 May, 11 June, 9 July (no meeting in August), 10 Sept, 8 Oct, 12 Nov, 10 Dec.

Shirley Fry (01935 389124)

On Tuesdays from 10.30 am – noon in the village church of St James.

The café provides tea, coffee (free refills) & great cakes for just £2.50!

All welcome!

The Reverend Lesley McCreadie