Welcome to Rutland Water Benefice

We are a group of 10 parishes around the southern and eastern side of Rutland Water. All parishes have beautiful medieval churches where we seek to worship God and grow the Christian community.

The parishes are Edith Weston, Empingham, Lyndon, Manton, North Luffenham, Pilton, Preston, Ridlington, Whitwell and Wing.

Each parish usually has a regular pattern of worship and the services are listed in the Rutland Water Benefice calendar.

On 21st July 2024 Rector Rev'd Pippa Madgwick took her last sunday services for this Benefice so it is now in interregnum until the vacancy is filled.

Calendar

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Safeguarding

Rutland Water Benefice is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults from harm. We follow the House of Bishops guidance and policies and have our own Benefice Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO), Alison Woods, whose details can be found in each church porch.

More on safeguarding

News and Worship

News is usually posted weekly and gives an overview of news and events around the Benefice
Worship includes the Readings for the forthcoming Sunday services and how you can join in worship at Home.

News Worship

Life Events

If you would like to enquire about a baptism (christening) or wedding at a church within Rutland Water Benefice, the first thing to do is to complete the respective form.

If you would like to enquire about a funeral, please contact one of the Ministry team.

Baptism Form Wedding Form

Our Ministry team

Since the recent retirement of the Rector Rev'd Pippa Madgwick, the ministry team is working on a greatly reduced basis during the current period of the interregnum. Rev'd Jo Saunders, is a retired priest assising the Benefice.

Each church usually has a churchwarden, who have many responsibilities including opening their parish church.

Meet the team

 

Rutland Water Benefice Magazine

The monthly Magazine is packed full of events and local services around the Benefice. The Magazine is distributed free of charge to every home in the Benefice, made possible by the generous support of the advertisers and our team of volunteer distributors.

More about the Magazine

Sun
22
Dec
9:30am - 10:30am -
N Luffenham: Holy Communion
Sun
22
Dec
11:00am - 12:00pm -
Manton: Holy Communion
Sun
22
Dec
3:00pm - 4:00pm -
Wing: Carol Service
Sun
22
Dec
4:00pm - 5:00pm -
Ridlington: Carol Service
Tue
24
Dec
11:00pm - 11:55pm -
Wing: Holy Communion
Wed
25
Dec
Christmas Day
Wed
25
Dec
9:30am - 10:30am -
Edith Weston: Holy Communion

Accessibility

Visiting our churches

Visitors can find open times, key contacts and any potential challenges to enter our churches, such as uneven paths, steps etc. You can find this within the New to ... section of each parish

Our parishes

Using our website

We have done our best to make our web content available to as wide an audience as possible. Please let us know if you cannot find what you are looking for.

Web accessibility

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