Eco Award Winning Church – Bronze

St Matthew’s, New Waltham

St Matthew’s is a welcoming and inclusive congregation that is small enough to make friends and get involved quickly, but large enough to offer privacy and space if that is what you seek.

Worship is relaxed and prayerful. Children and young people are always welcome. The congregation has a good relationship with the local Methodist Congregation.

St Matthew’s has a wonderfully flexible building that offers both sacred space and space for community use. If you would like to use the church for a community event or class, please contact us for more information.

Worship Pattern

1st Sundays – 10 am Eucharist

2nd Sundays – Joint service held at All Saints, Waltham 10am

3rd & 4th Sundays – 10 am Morning Prayer with hymns

5th Sundays – Joint service held at All Saints, Waltham 10am

Cake, Quiet & Compline – Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm

On Tuesday Evenings, St Matthew’s offers respite from all the pressures of the week.

7pm – 7.30pm, we gather for cake and conversation.
7.30pm – 8.30pm there is silence.
8.30pm re-gather for Compline (night prayer).

The experience of shared silence is rare and can be very powerful. You are welcome to bring a book to read, or some quiet crafts, or just sit and enjoy the peace.

Coffee Mornings – Every Saturday 10 am – 12 pm 
Coffee, cake and conversation. 
There is no admission price, but donations are welcome.

40th Anniversary Celebrations & A Brief History.

St Matthew’s Church New Waltham

A brief history

In July 1932 a decision was taken to raise the money to build a mission hall/church to serve the needs of the villagers of New Waltham. The foundations were laid in the autumn of 1933, and on 3rd May 1934 the chancel was dedicated by the Bishop of Lincoln. The Mission Church was built entirely by voluntary labour at the instigation of the Rector of Waltham, Rev.G.F. Holme who also personally made bricks in the garden of his home in Waltham and brought them to New Waltham in his wheelbarrow.

The building was always known as the Mission Hall until September 1959 when at a service of Festal Evensong on St Matthew’s Eve it became St Matthew’s Church still within the ecclesiastical parish of Waltham.

By 1982 the Church was showing signs of disrepair, and it was agreed that a new church would be built. The budget cost was £165,834 and the PCC agreed to raise the sum of £25,000 towards that cost. Between 1982 and 1989 over 150 fundraising events were organised together with 52 schemes and donations. By 3rd May 1989 which was the 55th anniversary of the Mission Church the sum of £25,000 had been raised by the parish.

The foundation stone for the new church was laid on 21st September 1984. Work then commenced on construction. By it’s Common Seal the Church Commissioners on 5th September 1985 “approved as suitable to be a parish church the church of Saint Matthew which has been erected within the parish of New Waltham in the diocese of Lincoln.” Thus, the ecclesiastical parish of St Matthew New Waltham came into being.

On the eve of the feast of St Matthew Friday 20th September 1985 a service of the Dedication and Consecration of St Matthew’s Parish Church New Waltham and the Induction of Rev Andrew Way by the Bishop of Grimsby the Right Reverend David Tustin was held. Today, forty years on,  we celebrate the contribution in so many ways which this church and its members have made to the community of New Waltham and the wider diocese of Lincoln.