Wimborne Minster Curate Appointed To Surrey Parish
January 22 2012
"It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of our curate, the Reverend Derek Tighe, to the living of the Benefice of St Martins Dorking with Ranmore, where he will be the Vicar of St Martin’s, Dorking, and the Rector of St Barnabas, Ranmore.
St. Martin’s is a large shared Anglican/Methodist town church at the heart of the market town of Dorking in Surrey and has a strong civic and community role, much like that of the Minster. It has a daughter church, St. Mary’s Pixham, a Lutyens building dating from 1903, which serves a community with its own distinct identity.
St. Barnabas Ranmore was built in 1859 by the renowned architect Gilbert Scott, as an estate church, and is located in the Green Belt on the North Downs Ridge, drawing three quarters of its members from outside the parish boundaries and offering, in the main, traditional BCP services.
"Derek would normally have left the Minster last summer on completion of his four year Curacy but with the departure of our former Rector he was asked to stay on and help us through the Interregnum", said Anthony Oliver, Minster Churchwarden and Press Officer. Both he and fellow Churchwarden Levinia Griffiths have been very grateful for his help and advice during the Interregnum and we wish him, his wife Maggie and all the family best wishes on their move to Surrey and in their New Ministry in Dorking.
Derek will, all being well, be commencing his new job during the summer.