St Edmund's Parish Church, Seaton Ross is part of the Holme and Seaton Ross Group of Anglican Parishes. It is a beautiful Georgian Church, which has served the people of Seaton Ross and its surrounding area for centuries. It is very much a village Church, where you can be assured of a warm welcome.

Services

There are two services always held at St Edmund's each month:

9.00 a.m. Holy Communion on the 2nd and 4th Sundays.

In addition there is a Sunday School for all the Churches and the children of the group held on the 1st Sunday of the month at 10.30 a.m. at All Saint's Parish Church, Holme Upon Spalding Moor.

For further information you can always contact a member of the clergy on 01430 860379.

For the Future...

Future events and services will be listed here as soon as we have the details.


... and a little history

The Church in Seaton Ross is a brick construction with stone details, built in 1788 to replace an earlier church. It is dedicated to St Edmund, a King of East Anglia whose death is depicted in the Preston memorial window.

On the board in the Church, displaying the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, is a Memorandum which says 'This Church was rebuilt at the Expence of the Parishioners of Seaton Rofs, and the Chancel by William Haggerston Maxwell Constable Esqre: The same was furnished with a new pulpit and Reading Desk, and properly ornamented by the Minister of the said Parish in the year of our Lord 1789.' (sp)

On the Tower, which contains a single bell, is a stone tablet which reads 'H. Nottingham raised the steeple at his charge from this stone,1788.'

The congregation originally sat in box pews under a plaster ceiling with an ornamented cornice with a Minstrels Gallery at the west end. The original Norman font is in use today as are the eighteenth century pulpit and communion rail.

In 1901 Temple Moore, undertook the restoration of the church, which cost £600. He bricked up the lower part of the nave windows and put a new one in the chancel. The gallery was taken down and the panelling of the box pews was used to make the dado and reading desk and new pews were installed. A reredos with curtains either side was erected in front of the east window.

In 1953 George Pace reorganised the chancel by removing Temple Moore’s reredos and a window, designed by Harry Stammers, was inserted in the unblocked east window.

A sundial, signed "William Watson, 1825" is positioned over the entrance to the church.