Welcome to the Basingstoke Team Parish Website. We hope you will find the site interesting and informative. Please use the navigation above and on the right to visit the various parts of the site.
About the Team
As a Team Parish we are five churches with a shared history, and we are committed to discovering God's will for our life together in the future. We believe that within our distinctive ministries and different contexts we depend on one another as members together of one body. The Team Parish includes St Peter's, South Ham; Christ the King, Brighton Hill; St Michael's in the Town Centre; All Saints at the Top of Town; and St Gabriel's, Popley. We are in the Diocese of Winchester.
The Parish of Basingstoke was served by St Michael’s parish church for centuries until, following the expansion of the town in the 19th century, All Saints Church was built at the “top of town” in 1917. Temporary “mission churches” came and went in Reading Road and May Street. Housing was concentrated in the town centre area of the parish until the London overspill created the new housing estates of South Ham, Brighton Hill and Popley, and the districts of Oakridge, Kings Furlong, Black Dam, Cranborne and South View. This has always been a single parish, even after the building of the three additional churches of St Peter’s, Christ the King and St Gabriel’s. In 1974 the Basingstoke Team was created, and in 1996 a formal scheme was put in place dividing the work of the parish into “districts” under the pastoral leadership of team vicars and team rector.