Welcome to the Parish Church of
St. John the Baptist
Axbridge

United with St. Leonard, Shipham and
St. Michael and All Angels, Rowberrow.

Whether you come to worship, to enjoy the peace, or to marvel at the beauty of the building, welcome to Axbridge Church..

Axbridge Church

Welcome to the Benefice of Axbridge, Shipham and Rowberrow, made up of the churches of:

St. John the Baptist, Axbridge
St. Leonard, Shipham
St. Michael & All Angels, Rowberrow.

Our Benefice serves these three places and also the hamlet of Star; the Benefice therefore serves a community of just over 3000 people. A Benefice is a group of churches who work together to serve their local communities. We regularly worship together so services don’t always happen in Axbridge; see Upcoming Services for information on what services are happening where.

We are a community of Christians who seek to follow Jesus’ commandments to love the living God and to love our neighbours. In addition to services and events for the worshipping community, St. John's hosts school and civic services plus traditional community events, such as fetes and fayres. St. John's also hosts a drop-in Warm Spot, providing a friendly space for cake and chat every Monday.

Our church is open daily from around 0930 – 1600 for private prayer and visitors.

We have new Church trails available for children and adults and a Churchyard trail: come and find out more about the history behind our beautiful church.

Weekly In Touch newsletter

So that you can receive the weekly notices and readings, In Touch is now available by email.

To subscribe click on this link, and complete and submit the form. You will receive an email with a confirmation link and a final email with your details. Please sign up by Thursday to receive the next Sunday's sheet.

Subscriptions are being run by Andy Goddard. If you have problems contact him by email: intouch@acgnleg.org.uk. For submissions to In Touch, please contact intouch.asr@gmail.com

Fairtrade Church

The Fairtrade movement aims to changes the way trade works through better prices, decent working conditions and a fairer deal for farmers and workers, particularly in developing countries.

St John’s is registered as a Fairtrade Church with the Fairtrade Foundation and we only use fairly traded tea, coffee and sugar at all church events. We try to raise awareness of fairtrade by encouragement to choose fairly traded goods and by promoting the meaning of fairtrade through our prayers and worship.

In addition to refreshments served at church events, we also sell fairly traded goods through direct sales and through stalls, including a regular monthly stall in the Axbridge Farmers’ Market.

From the small profits made from our sales in 2023 we were able to donate £850 to the fairtrade charity Transform Change and we also made donations to St. John’s.

Buy where you see this logo!

Eco Church

We are a silver Eco Church. This is 'A Rocha UK’s award scheme for churches in England and Wales who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God’s earth.' For more information, please see the Eco Church website.

Safeguarding

We take the safety and wellbeing of everyone seriously. Julie Leader is our Safeguarding Officer for all three parishes in the Benefice. If you have a concern about someone, please contact her on 07514 036134 or j.c.leader@btinternet.com. Alternatively, please contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Team (led by Ben Goodhind) on 07834 514842 or 01749 588917, or ben.goodhind@bathwells.anglican.org.

How to find us

We are in the centre of Axbridge overlooking the north east side of the town square.

The Church Steps
The Square
Axbridge
BS26 2AP

Tel: 01934 732040

email: churchoffice@uwclub.net

A gently sloping walkway at the top of the steps from The Square provides level access to Axbridge Church. Access without steps is available from Church Lane (off St Mary's Street but this is quite steep), Back Lane and Chestnut Avenue. See the map for details.

The Church Rooms are opposite the church entrance, a few steps down from the top of the steps from The Square. There is level access from the public highway to the Church Rooms but note that the 'highway' in this case is The Church Steps.

There is limited 1 hour parking in The Square; note that this is regularly patrolled, including on Sunday. There are two car parks, in Old Church Road and Moorland Street, signposted from The Square.

Virtual Tour of Church

A virtual tour of Axbridge Church is available on Google Maps.

Last Updated by HJF 24 November 2023

Welcome to the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist Axbridge

United with St. Leonard, Shipham and St. Michael and All Angels, Rowberrow.