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Church of St Benedict
Stratton-on-the-Fosse is our oldest local parish.
The mission established in 1814 has Baptismal registers
dating back to 1818. The present church and parish
centre were built to the designs of Charles Hansom
and completed in 1857. It was extended in 1913
when the present spire was built. Its interior,
which reflected the tastes of the longest serving
parish priest, Dom Ethelbert Horne, was for the
first half of the 20th Century an exuberant Mediaevalist
experience complete with Rood Screen. Dom Ethelbert
served Stratton for fifty years and other parish
priests included the first two Archbishops of Sydney,
Dom Bede Polding and Dom Bede Vaughan, as well
as Dom Gregory Murray whose post-Vatican II taste
produced the present liturgical arrangements. Baron
Friedrich von Hugel (1852-1925) is buried in the
extensive Churchyard.
Sunday Masses:
8.00 a.m.
6.00 p.m.
Holy-day
Masses:
7.30 a.m.
Confessions are heard
before Mass.
Parish Priest:
Right Rev. Dom Aidan Bellenger
Tel 01761 235119
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