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Sunday Morning Services 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am Choral Eucharist with Sermon 1st Sunday of the Month 8.45am Parish Breakfast in the Boniface Centre 9.30am Family Communion in the Boniface Centre Sunday Evening Services at 6.00pm 1st Sunday Choral Evensong 2nd Sunday Evensong 3rd Sunday Talkback in the Boniface Centre 4th Sunday Evensong in St. Lawrence Chapel Weekday Services During the week Holy Communion is celebrated at the following times: Tuesday 8.15am Thursday 8.15am Friday 10am and Wednesday 12 noon in St. Lawrence Chapel, Threshers, Crediton Notices about special services can be found in Forthcoming Events Baptisms and Weddings Please see our section on Baptism and Weddings
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A Short History Crediton Church has a history which is as long as that of any church in Devon, including Exeter Cathedral. It can be traced continuously in written records back to the early tenth century, and if an eleventh century copy of a charter of 739AD is accepted as authentic, to almost two centuries earlier. Before the Conquest The Bodleian Library holds a copy (from just after the Conquest) of a charter of 739AD by which Aethelheard, king of the West Saxons, granted land to Forthere, Bishop of Sherborne for the foundation of a monastery at Crediton. The Diocese of Sherborne was split into three smaller dioceses in the early 900′s: a reduced Sherborne, Wells and a separate see for Devon and Cornwall. Crediton was chosen as the site for the cathedral for the latter – probably in part because St Boniface had been born there in around 680, and in part because of the presence of the monastery. It seems likely that the monastery building was used (and enlarged) for the cathedral, and that this was sited a little to the north of the present church, in the area of the modern car park. Like many Saxon cathedrals…
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