Editing Wymondham Abbey (section)

==Present day==
[[File:Sunday service, Wymondham Abbey.jpg|thumb|Sunday Sung Eucharist]]
[[File:St Benedict's display and social facilities.jpg|thumb|New facilities in St Benedict's meeting area]]
The Church of St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury serves as the parish church of Wymondham. The Parish also incorporates the Victorian church of Holy Trinity in Spooner Row village nearby.  A wide range of services for worship take place at the Abbey, including Sunday Sung Eucharist, Daily Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer.<ref name="diocese">[https://www.dioceseofnorwich.org/mission_and_ministry-mission_and_ministry/mission__ministry-churches/mission_and_ministry-churches-churches_of_notewymondham_abbey/ "Wymondham Abbey", Church of England Diocese of Norwich]</ref> In 2016, with financial support from the [[National Lottery Heritage Fund|Heritage Lottery Fund]] and local donors, new extensions were built at the east end. These provide display areas, comfortable social and refreshment facilities and vestries.<ref name=":2" />

It is an active parish with a Friends group and a large group of welcomers and volunteers.<ref name="diocese" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Wymondham Abbey |url=https://www.wymondhamabbey.org.uk }}</ref> There is much interest in the history of the building and parish, with a Preservation Trust and Hon. Archivist. The Parish Archives, some dating back to the 13th century, are housed in the [[parvise]] chamber above the porch.<ref name=":0" /> Early items include deeds, wills, inventories, a royal market charter of 1460, wardens' accounts, the parish [https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/bede Bede Roll] of 1524 and records of the town's medieval religious gilds.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Garrard |first=Brenda |title=Wymondham Parish Gilds in the early Sixteenth Century |publisher=G R Reeve Ltd |year=2003 |isbn=0-900616-68-7 |edition=1st |location=Wymondham}}</ref> The church also has a 1613 edition of the [[King James Bible]]. Selections of documents, artefacts and silver are displayed at the back of the church.