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As all can see, work has begun on the refurbishment of St Mary’s. The tower and spire are scaffolded for external stonework repairs; the chancel will be scaffolded inside for cleaning, relighting and other works. During this term and part of next, all parts of the building will be closed, except for the nave. By June 2012 we hope to have a beautifully restored Old Library, chancel and Adam de Brome Chapel. If all goes to schedule, our businesses will re-open in May. Obviously this work will be disruptive to normal church life and therefore we propose to offer no extra-curricular events this term. Sunday morning worship will be business as usual, but there will be no Sunday evening service or midday service (apart from Ash Wednesday). On Sunday evenings in term the congregation is warmly invited to join Brasenose, Oriel, or Wadham Chapel’s community. Given the hyperactive nature of Oxford life in full term, we have decided not to struggle against the odds to keep up, but to treat this period as a ‘Parish Sabbatical’: a time to take stock and to plan for life after the re-opening. Although the casual visitor might be disappointed to find the church in a ‘mess’, we intend to keep up the community spirit within our regular congregation. The German Lutheran Congregation will meet in St Nicholas, Marston on the first Sunday of the month. The Parish Office will remain open as usual and members of the clergy and lay staff can be contacted there. The last time work was done on this scale in St Mary’s was TG Jackson’s restoration in the 1890s.