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St John the Evangelist, Mortimer

Parish church

EveryVillage Partner

The church on Victoria Road, with a sung Eucharist and a robed choir on Sunday mornings.

About

St John's is the church in the middle of Mortimer Common, on Victoria Road. It was built in 1881 by Richard Benyon of Englefield, as the village grew up on the common, and enlarged in 1896, in red brick with stone dressings. The main service is a sung Eucharist with a robed choir at ten on Sunday morning, and there are said services on weekday mornings. It shares a benefice with St Mary's, and the benefice office is open on weekday mornings.

What’s here

  • Sung Eucharist with a robed choir, Sundays at 10am
  • Weekday Eucharist, Monday and Wednesday at 9.15am, Tuesday and Thursday at 7.30am
  • Benefice office open 9am to 12pm, Monday to Friday

Venues and community places are listed as EveryVillage partners. We wrote this page ourselves, from information St John the Evangelist, Mortimer and others have published. Compiled 30 September 2026 from the church's entry on A Church Near You and the Mortimer benefice's own service list, and the Victoria County History for the building's dates. Not yet plotted, as no position for the postcode has been established. If you help run it, send us a correction or ask us to take the page down.