English Heritage sites near Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
FLOWERDOWN BARROWS
8 miles from Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
Three Bronze Age burial mounds, once part of a much larger 'barrow cemetery', including two bowl barrows, and the largest and finest disc barrow in Hampshire.
WOLVESEY CASTLE (OLD BISHOP'S PALACE)
9 miles from Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
Wolvesey has been an important residence of the wealthy and powerful Bishops of Winchester since Anglo-Saxon times.
MEDIEVAL MERCHANT'S HOUSE
10 miles from Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
A residence and place of business, this former merchant's House stood on one of the busiest streets in medieval Southampton.
NETLEY ABBEY
12 miles from Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
The most complete surviving Cistercian monastery in southern England, with almost all the walls of its 13th-century church still standing, along with many monastic buildings.
OLD SARUM
14 miles from Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
Site of the original Salisbury, this mighty Iron Age hill fort was where the first cathedral once stood and the Romans, Normans and Saxons have all left their mark during 5000 years of history.
BISHOP'S WALTHAM PALACE
14 miles from Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
The ruins of a medieval palace (together with later additions) used by the Bishops and senior clergy of Winchester as they travelled through their diocese.
Churches in Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
St Andrew's Timsbury.
We are a living Christian Community that wants to cheerfully share our faith and bring others to a relationship to the deep mystery that is God:- Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To that end, we hope that we are welcoming to all. We have a service most Sundays. At the moment, as an experiment, we share the first Sunday Service in each month with St Mary's Michelmersh, alternating venues. 10am. We base this upon Common Worship, so the language used is modern. The second Sunday is Family Service at 11am. A relatively informal service again, using modern language. The Third Sunday is Holy Communion using the traditional language of the Book of Common Prayer. 10am. The fourth Sunday is Evening Prayer, using the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer again. 6pm. When there is a fifth Sunday we have a United Benefice Service, which rotates though the churches if the Benefice.
Since the fire of March 2014, we have been able to re-order the church inside, so that usually we have tea and coffee after services. We have a decent heating system and our lighting is good. We encourage lay-involvement in services and occasionally services are lay-led.
We have a house group which usually meets on alternate weeks. Once a month we have a coffee morning in church, usually on a Tuesday. Other social events happen from time to time. We also have a Facebook Page. "St Andrew's Church Timsbury."
We are not to be confused with our big sister, the church at Timsbury, near Bath. (It HAS happened!)
St Mary's, Michelmersh
There has been a place of Christian worship in Michelmersh for over 1000 years. In 1985 we celebrated 1000 years of the parish of Michelmersh. Our current building dates from the 12th century, and includes a 13th century font carved from Purbeck stone. It is amazing to remember, as we baptise children today, that this font would have been in use when soldiers camped in the fields nearby as they prepared for the battle of Agincourt in 1415. Please see the calendar for details of our regular Sunday worship and other events.
Pubs in Michelmersh and Timsbury Parish
Bear & Ragged Staff
Stockbridge Road, Michelmersh, SO51 0LB
(01794) 368602
bear-and-ragged-staff.co.uk/
Goat
Stockbridge Road, Timsbury, SO51 0NG
(01794) 337777
thegoatpub.co.uk/