News
Historic photographs
We have secured permission from English Heritage to reproduce historic photographs of St. Mary's Church taken in August 1903 and part of the collection of negatives from the Alfred Newton collection. These are a wonderful companion to the parish magazine reproductions from the same period - a project which continues albeit slowly!
Charities Commission registration
In common with many large churches across the country St. Mary's is now required to register as a charity. this process is now complete and St. Mary's registered charity number is 1132319
There are online details of the charitable status, aims, accounts,, trustees and more
St Mary's at the Wave

A group from St Mary's Church joined members of Transition Thame and District and more than 50,000 other people who came together to demand action on climate change on Saturday December 5th at 'The Wave', the biggest ever UK climate change march. 'The Wave' called for the Government to take much more urgent and effective action. People from all over the country dressed in blue encircled Parliament, calling on the UK government to settle for nothing less than a climate deal in Copenhagen that avoids dangerous climate change and protects the world’s poorest who are already feeling its effects. As a Christian church, the politics of climate change is something with which St Mary's believes it should be involved because it concerns our stewardship of the earth and justice for the poor.
More archives online
At long last another 6 months of parish magazines from January to June 1901 are now available online - please look under Heritage and then Archives in the menu on the right of this page. We hope to press on with adding more magazines over the next few months - those with families who were resident in the village during the first decade of the 20th Century may wel find reference to their ancestors in these pages.
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