# St. Leonard's > Stanton Fitzwarren ## Posts - [Family Services 2026](https://stantonchurch.info/family-services-2026/): Stanton Church on the 2nd Sunday of each month is THE place to be. Tea, coffee, squash, cake and biscuits from 11am, and the Family Service starts at about 11:15. It lasts for about 30 minutes, so you can have more cake and still be home in time for lunch! Action songs, Bible stories, activities, prayers and more. We have under 5s, we have over 90s. EVERYONE is welcome. Especially YOU! - [Annual Report 2023](https://stantonchurch.info/annual-report-2023/): The Annual Report for 2023 was presented at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting on Sunday 28th April 2024.   For a copy of the Annual Report, click here. - [Passiontide Service - March 17th 2024](https://stantonchurch.info/passiontide-service-march-17th-2024/) - [Family Services 2025](https://stantonchurch.info/family-services-2025/): Stanton Church on the 2nd Sunday of each month is THE place to be.   Tea, coffee, squash, cake and biscuits from 11am, and the Family Service starts at about 11:15.   It lasts for about 30 minutes, so you can have more cake and still be home in time for lunch!   Action songs, Bible stories, activities, prayers and more.    We have under 5s, we have over 90s. EVERYONE is welcome. Especially YOU! - [Stir Up Sunday - November 26 2023](https://stantonchurch.info/stir-up-sunday/): The church’s year traditionally begins on Advent Sunday, which is the fourth Sunday before Christmas and falls on December 3rd in 2023.  In the old Book of Common Prayer, the Sunday one week before that has always been known as “The Sunday Next Before Advent”.  It’s actually still known as that, although because of the theme of the readings set for that Sunday, its more common title in the church’s calendar these days is “Christ The King”.   However, it also has another more colloquial name, which is Stir Up Sunday. The name comes from the opening words for the collect for […] - [Walking Nativity 2023 - 3:30pm Christmas Eve](https://stantonchurch.info/walking-nativity-2023-330pm-christmas-eve/): Journey with Mary, Joseph, the Shepherds, the Wise Men and the Angels from Nazareth (top of Church Lane), to the stable at Bethlehem (outside the church).   This beautiful – if occasionally slightly chaotic – retelling of the Christmas Story is suitable for all ages, and is a lovely time for the village to come together just before the big day.  We’ll sing some carols as we move between the various scenes.   We start at 3:30pm at the top of Church Lane, and finish in the Churchyard about 45 minutes later.  If children – or adults – want to […] - [Christmas Carol Service 2023 - 7:00pm Christmas Eve](https://stantonchurch.info/christmas-carol-service-2023-700pm-christmas-eve/): We can’t promise you a White Christmas, but we can promise you a wonderful traditional service of seven lessons and carols on Christmas Eve at 7:00pm. The readings from the Old Testament and the Gospels set the scene and then tell the story of the first Christmas, concluding with the wonderful reading from John’s Gospel In the Beginning was the Word… The readings are interspersed with favourite carols such as Once in Royal David’s City, O Come all ye faithful and Hark the Herald-Angels sing, and there’ll be a couple of anthems from the team choir. It’s always a very popular service, so […] - [Christingle - Family Service, December 10th 2023 at 11:00am](https://stantonchurch.info/christingle-family-service-december-10th-2023-at-1100am/): Our December Family Service is our annual Christingle celebration.   Christingles are made using oranges and a few other things. During the service, each person will be given a Christingle and the candles are all lit to create a warm, magical glow symbolising the light of Christ and bringing hope to people living in darkness.  The collection at our service will go directly to The Children’s Society.  Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story: The orange represents the world The red ribbon (or tape) symbolises the love and blood of Christ The sweets […] - [Christmas 2023 in Stanton Fitzwarren](https://stantonchurch.info/christmas-2022-in-stanton-fitzwarren-2/) - [From the Rectory - November 2023](https://stantonchurch.info/from-the-rectory-november-2023/): In November we enter the annual season of Remembrance for our churches and our nation, culminating in Remembrance Sunday on 12th November.  This year, as I write this piece in early October, I do so with a heart heavy with sadness against the backdrop of the dramatic and horrific escalation in the conflict in the Middle East which has become a dreadful reality for many millions of people in Israel and Gaza over the last few days. We are all, I’m sure, grappling with the horrors unfolding day by day which are being relayed through the media and the stark images […] - [The Big Help Out](https://stantonchurch.info/the-big-help-out/): Volunteering on Coronation Bank Holiday-8th May 2023 Two days after his coronation, King Charles is encouraging us all to get out and do our bit for our local communities as  volunteers on May 8th. If you’d be prepared to give an hour (or more!) of your time between 10am and 4pm on that day to help St. Leonard’s, then we would love to see you. OUTDOORS we’re going to be renovating the gravel path and tidying up the churchyard.  Please bring spades, rakes, wheelbarrows ,secateurs, loppers  etc. (has anyone got a small roller?) if you can, but chiefly bring YOURSELF! […] - [From the Vicarage - February 2023](https://stantonchurch.info/from-the-vicarage-february-2023/): Dear Friends, February brings heart shapes everywhere – cards, sweets, ornaments, cushions, I’ve even seen heart shaped crumpets. St. Valentine has become the patron saint of love and around his festival on the 14th we are inundated with symbols of love everywhere. Of course, once the 15th arrives all those symbols will have been eaten, recycled, discarded, or perhaps put away as keepsakes – and the remainder in the shops will be sold off at a discount.   Romantic love is a wonderful thing while it lasts, and can be the foundation for lasting, mutual care and relationships, but like […] - [From the Vicarage - November 2022](https://stantonchurch.info/from-the-vicarage-november-2022/): As I sit down to write this month’s letter its very windy outside and there is a definite autumnal feel in the air. The darker nights are drawing in and the ‘C’ (meaning Christmas!) word is being mentioned much more frequently than some of us would like. Last weekend I found myself popping into a craft fair and there were lots of little trinkets and hand-made gifts to buy.   As I browsed, I found myself having similar conversations with two or three stallholders at the craft fair, each said they found the time spent being creative aided their own […] - [Corona Choir Unlocked](https://stantonchurch.info/corona-choir-unlocked/): Corona Choir was formed during the 2020 Covid Lockdown to keep a group of singers singing together when they weren’t allowed to meet together.  Every week each person recorded their own part on their phone or computer and sent the files in to be mixed into a piece of music.     Post-lockdown, the choir got together in person to sing a concert of some of the music that they had recorded remotely.  The concert, which took place on November 12th 2022 in St. Leonard’s Church, featured music from the Renaissance period by composers such as Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Lassus […] ## Pages - [Donate](https://stantonchurch.info/donate/): Donations Donate St. Leonard’s – in common with pretty much every other Church in the country – receives no central funding from Government or from the Church of England.  That’s fine – there’s no reason why it should be any different – but it does mean that all of our running costs have to be met by the donations of our members, by fund raising and by the generosity of our visitors.     If you would like to support St. Leonard’s, to enable us to continue to be a central part of the life of Stanton Fitzwarren, and to […] - [Posts](https://stantonchurch.info/posts/) - [Corona Choir](https://stantonchurch.info/corona-choir/): Corona Choir was formed during the 2020 Covid Lockdown to keep a group of singers singing together when they weren’t allowed to meet together.  Every week each person recorded their own part on their phone or computer and sent the files in to be mixed into a piece of music.   Post-lockdown, the choir got together in person to sing a concert of some of the music that they had recorded remotely.  The concert, which took place on November 12th 2022 in St. Leonard’s Church, featured music from the Renaissance period by composers such as Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Lassus and […] - [Safeguarding](https://stantonchurch.info/safeguarding/): Safeguarding – Keeping People Safe The shared safeguarding policy for all the churches in the Stratton Team Ministry may be found at www.stratton team ministry.co.uk/safeguarding. At St. Leonard’s we want to do everything we can to keep people safe when they use our buildings or take part in our services, groups and activities.  We are especially mindful of the safety of children, young people and vulnerable adults.    Our policy is to ensure that all those in a leadership role working with children, young people or vulnerable adults have an up to date DBS check.   Anne and Chris Pope are […] - [Contact](https://stantonchurch.info/contact/): Contact us You can find us at EMAIL StLeonards@stantonchurch.info PHONE 01793 826505 (Stratton Team Ministry Church Office) LOCATION Trenchard Road, Stanton Fitzwarren, Swindon. SN6 7SD - [Services](https://stantonchurch.info/services/): Services at St. Leonard’s Everyone is always welcome at St. Leonard’s and all of the Team churches. The services listed below are all at St. Leonard’s unless otherwise stated. February 8th 11:00 am – Family Service – Animals in the Bible 2 : The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple as viewed by Two Pigeons February 15th 10:00 am – Team Service at St. Margaret’s (No service at St. Leonard’s) February 18th – Ash Wednesday 7:00 pm – Team Service at St. Margaret’s (No service at St. Leonard’s) February 22nd 9:30am – Holy Communion March 1st 9:30am – Morning Worship March 8th 11:00 am – Family Service – Animals […] - [About](https://stantonchurch.info/about/): About us St. Leonard’s Church Stanton Fitzwarren Who we are Stanton Fitzwarren is a small village of about 200 people situated just to the north of Swindon.    St. Leonard’s is a Church of England church situated within the village, consisting of a small congregation of Christians, some of whom live in the village and others who come from outside, drawn in by the warm and accepting welcome.  The congregation meets in a beautiful ancient building which was founded in Saxon times.   St Leonard’s is part of a group of churches served by a team of ministers based around St Margaret’s, Stratton St […] - [Home](https://stantonchurch.info/): Welcome to ST. 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