Petersfield
Deanery
St Mary's, Buriton
Welcome to this church of St Mary's, Buriton
I hope you enjoy this on-line guide to our beautiful parish church.
Giles Harris-Evans, Rector
A PRAYER ON VISITING GOD'S HOUSE
O LORD,
we thank Thee that Thou has called us as members of Thy family into this beautiful house of God. Grant that here we may feel Thy presence and the beauty of Thy peace, and that as we return to our homes and work we may sense Thy guiding hand and loving care and be used in the service of our neighbours, our nation and the world, through Him who came not to condemn the world but to save it, even Thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
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
