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Parish Details for Combpyne with Rousdon

Archdeaconry: Exeter
Deanery: Honiton
Benefice: Axminster, Chardstock, All Saints, Combpyne with Rousdon, and Membury
Mission Community: Axe Valley

Clergy in the parish

The Rev Clive Sedgewick
Team Rector

The Rectory, Church Street, Axminster, EX13 5AQ
Tel: 01297 792120
Email The Rev Clive Sedgewick

The Rev Geoffrey Walsh
Associate Priest of Axminster

Thimbles, 70 Flax Meadow Lane, Axminster, EX13 5FJ
Tel: 01297 598361
Email The Rev Geoffrey Walsh

The Rev Preb Cate Edmonds
Assistant Curate

Woodfield, Sidmouth Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3ES
Email The Rev Preb Cate Edmonds

Churches in the parish

St. Mary The Virgin (Parish Church)
Combpyne
EX13 8SX

Parish officers

Churchwardens

Mrs Jill Rosemary Hitchcock
Tel: 01297 442768

Mr Richard Whitworth
Tel: 01297 442493

PCC Secretary

Mrs Jill Rosemary Hitchcock
Tel: 01297 442768

PCC Treasurer

Mr Richard Whitworth
Tel: 01297 442493

Readers

Mrs Su Clark
Tel: 01297 34730
Email Mrs Su Clark

Mr Tony Nixon
Tel: 01297 34006
Email Mr Tony Nixon

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