Welcome

Thurrock Deanery is situated within the Bradwell Episcopal Area of the Diocese of Chelmsford, in the South East of England.  The Deanery is one of 9 within the Bradwell area.  It stretches from the London Borough of Havering in the West to Hadleigh in the east and also borders Brentwood and Basildon.  The Southern boundary is the River Thames.

The Deanery is home to approximately 145,000 people.  Despite much of the area being protected Green Belt land, Thurrock provides localised opportunities for further industrial and commercial development. The deanery is also within the Thames Gateway regeneration area, a corridor of opportunity that has been identified by central government as the area with greatest development and commercial potential in the country.   The Thurrock Development Corporation has recently taken over much of the borough's planning functions since 2005.  Much of the population and commercial activity is centred along the riverfront.  This includes many large and important industrial sites, including two large oil refineries, manufacturing industries, a container port, cruise liner terminal, distribution warehousing and one of Britain's largest refuse disposal sites at the appropriately named settlement of Mucking. Thurrock is also home to the Lakeside Shopping Centre.

The Deanery comprises of 13 Parishes and 1 Team Ministry covering 21 individual church buildings.  Each church has its own web page on this site, please "click" for further details, including their address and times of regular services pls relevant contact details. 

Rev'd Ed Hanson is the Rural Dean further information will follow..