- Location only
- For postal address see contacts page
- Honor Oak Park
- London SE23 3LE
020 8699 0172
Welcome to St. Augustine Forest Hill
Sunday Worship
10:30 am every Sunday 
Our Sunday service follows a traditional format with a mixture of traditional hymns and hymns from various traditions. We are an informal and friendly worshipping community of people of all ages and from all parts of the world.
Click here to find out more about our regular pattern of worship.
We want to welcome you on this virtual visit to
Office phone: 020 8699 0172 or click here for contacts page.
Use the menu bar above to find out more about St Augustine's.
For full details of our Festival programme please click here for a pdf file.
One Tree Hill Festival
Building on our growing reputation for high quality, professional performances and exhibitions, St Augustine’s is very excited to be launching the first One Tree Hill Festival. We hope this will be an annual event as a way of gathering together local creativity in SE23. We’ve joined forces with lots of local artists, musicians and organisations to bring you a really fantastic line up. Do come to our launch party at the Hop Scotch Café on 18th May, a great way to meet festival contributors, local residents and artists. The festival has a wonderful range of music from classical to jazz, folk, contemporary and musical theatre. We will be celebrating the spoken word with poetry and readings as well as an amazing children’s show presented by Pirate Productions who’s sell-out production of Cinderella ran at St Augustine’s earlier this year. There will also be a community art show, including a children’s painting competition which will run throughout the week. And if that wasn’t enough come and also enjoy our annual spring fair, community picnic and festival celebration service on the final weekend. For more information see the events page.
Booking and Tickets
We have kept ticket prices as low as possible to encourage you to come to several events. Our amazing contributors are offering their talents free so please support them and make sure that we have a full house throughout the week. All proceeds (with the exception of the European Doctor’s Orchestra (EDO) concert) will benefit the St Augustine’s Living Heritage fund to enable us to proceed with the essential repairs to the high stonework on the tower. The EDO concert will benefit both the church and the Children’s Society
All ticketed events can be booked online or purchased on the door on a first come first served basis, subject to availability. For more information call the parish office on 0208 699 0172. Direct link to ticket sales website: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/augustine1treehill
All the events below are at St Augustine’s church, One Tree Hill
Sat 19th 11am & 2pm (£5, £3 concessions – 0 – 4year olds free)Pirate Productions Present: Jason Mavrick goes bananas! A fun show for age 5-11s
Sat 19th 7.30pm (£5, £3 concessions)
Entente Chorale: A singing celebration. L’Air de Rien supported by Raise the Roof
Sun 20th 3.30pm (£5, £3 concessions)
Chamber Music Recital: Orlando Jopling and friends
Tue 22nd 7.30pm no pre sales - free entry with retiring collection
Fairlawn Singers Present: Come and Sing! (clue in the title!)
Wed 23rd 7.30pm (£5, £3 concessions)
Epiphanies with Patricia Doyle (Poems/Readings)
Thurs 24th7.30pm no pre sales - suggested donation £5
An Evening with Nunhead Community Choir and friends
Fri 25th 7.30pm (£5, £3 concessions)
Kaleidoscope: An evening of folk music & original songs
Sat 26th 10am-4pm
Spring Fair: stalls, craft, food, games, art, music...
Sat 26th 7.30pm (£5, £3 concessions)
The Hills are Alive! All Souls Orchestra & West end singers
Sun 27th 10.30am
Festival Service to celebrate St Augustine’s
Sun 27th 12-2pm
Community Picnic (bring a rug and your favourite food!)
Sun 27th 3pm (£10, £5 concessions)
European Doctors Orchestra: (Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Schubert)
Urgent fundraising appeal.
Latest News (April 2012)- we are hopeful that we have raised enough money for our most important repair work. More news when we have permission to publicise the details. Please don't stop your efforts to raise funds to preserve this beautiful listed building. This fundraising effort is on-going and necessary if we are to continue to serve the community in this place.
St Augustine's urgently needs to raise a significant amount of money by the end of March in order to release funds promised by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Can you help?
(the following text comes from our printed leaflet. For more information click here to see the leaflet and here to go to our donations page.)
Imagine if…A familiar view ceased to exist?
St Augustine’s is a well known local church but it is in danger of decay and closure leaving only trees remaining on One Tree Hill.
It is not only a place of worship but also a local:
Landmark view
Beautiful building
Community venue
Historical archive
So what if something you loved just disappeared?
Here’s why we need your help!
St Augustine’s is in danger of being lost if key structural work is not completed to secure its future and today the need is more critical than ever.
The tower on the south side of the church has been a beacon for nearly 130 years. A symbol of community, local presence and faith. If left untouched this iconic landmark will be lost forever. However time is short with a fundraising deadline of March 2012.
Essential works include:
The tower structure
High level cracking & stonework
Upper eroded stonework
The total cost in the region of £300,000
So far we are proud to announce that through our Living Heritage campaign we have received a pledge of £180,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund subject to raising the remaining balance. We have also managed to raise just over £30,000 from local fundraising events and successful grant applications.
That still leaves a short fall of approx £90,000 to be found by the end of March.
Secure Future?
We want to open up this amazing space further offering the building to the local community by continuing to develop it as a local arts hub with high quality concerts and workshops, to use our unique location to provide a place for reflection, quiet and prayer and to engage with our beautiful natural environment. However, this can’t happen without your help!
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Who's Who at St Augustine's:
Vicar:
Reverend Ed Olsworth-Peter
Honorary Assistant Curates:
Revd Dr. Michael Brooks
Revd. Sara Scott
Churchwardens:
Michael Mawby
Richard Thomson
To contact the vicar, the churchwardens, the office administrator or the assistant curates please go to the contacts page for links to their email addresses.
What Now ?
Please click the links above for information about the church, how to get here, what's on offer or any other inquiry. There are a multitude of reasons why you might like to contact us. Here are a few of the many questions and requests we deal with every day. You may find yours among them or perhaps yours is a unique situation. Whatever the case may be, we would like to hear from you.
I would like to know more about the Christian Faith...
I would like to inquire about getting married in the church...
I would like to know more about having a marriage blessing after a civil ceremony...
I would like to make arrangements for Baptism for myself (or my child)
Someone close to me has just died and I need to talk to someone...
Where can I go for help for…
Events
Find out about our programme of Arts events and to buy tickets click here.
Contact Us
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Parish Profile
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Where are we?
St Augustine's church is located in the nature reserve known as One Tree Hill. Our main entrance is from Honor Oak Park but you can also find us by walking over the hill from Brenchley Gardens. The Church of England parish of St Augustine's Forest Hill reaches from Peckham Rye to Honor Oak Park station and from the Horniman museum to Camberwell Cemetery. To find out whether you live in the parish have a look at the website www.achurchnearyou.com.