Petersfield
Deanery
St Mary's, Buriton
Monthly Cycle of Services:
1st Sunday:
10:30 am Family Communion (with a talk for children)
2nd Sunday:
8:00 am Holy Communion (BCP)
10:30 am Matins (BCP)
3rd Sunday:
10:30 am Holy Communion (Order 1) and Sunday School
4th Sunday:
10:30 am Holy Communion (Order 1)
5th Sunday:
10:30 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Weekday Service:
Thursdays:
9:30 am Holy Communion in traditional form - at Heatherfield.
Buriton: St Mary
Every evening, working horses
came to wade through cooling water;
now the pond is just for show -
Horses come, horses go.
John Bonham-Carter cut the turf
to bring a railway through the valley;
post-horn waggons ran too slow -
Coaches come, coaches go.
Edward Gibbon, born and bred
beside the church, within the Manor,
warned against a status quo -
Romans come, Romans go.
But old St Mary's,
through it all,
with ironstone roots
declines to fall.
From Photo-verse,
by John Owen (Jo) Smith
