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If you are interested in finding out about our activities for children and young people visit these links:   Junior Choir or Young People

You will find a lot of information about the Church on our History page - Click here.

Homework Help Frequently Asked Questions:

Many thanks to Anna Martin for compiling these answers to these frequently asked questions she has received from school children about their homework.

Here are some pages to help with your National Curriculum Religious Education homework:

Click on the question to read the answer.

  • Question 1: What are the uses and location in a church of the following objects: font, pulpit, altar, chalice, lectern, banners, vestments?
  • Question 2: What are the different parts of a church building?
  • Question 3: Why are some churches built in the cruciform shape, and why are more modern churches being built in other shapes for example circles?
  • Question 4: What are the following things in a church: a vestry, crossing, transept, sancturary and other artefacts in a church?
  • Question 5: Why do Christians go to church?
  • Question 6: What are the uses and places of the reredos, stained glass windows, church bells, sanctuary, lamp, organ, tabernacle, bishop's chair, candles and steeple in a church?
  • Question 7: What are the uses of a, communion table and a communion rail?
  • Plan of St Mary's Church Saffron Walden

Homework Help Index: (Click on the word to read the answer.)

 Altar  Nave
 Artefacts in a church  
   Organ
 Baptism page of St. Mary's Church  Organ loft
 Banners  
 Bells  Plan of our church
 Bishop's chair  Parts of a church building
   Pulpit
 Candles  
 Chalice  Reredos
 Rood screen
 Chapel of remembrance  Round churches
 Church bells  
 Circle shape (church building)  Stained glass windows
 Communion rail  Sanctuary
 Cruciform shape (Shape of a cross - church building)  Steeple
 Communion table  Tabernacle
   Tower
 East Window  Transept
   
 Font  Vestments
   Vestry
 Lamp  
 Lectern Why do Christians go to church?
   

Click here to go directly to the Answer Page

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