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Order of service including names of bride and groom left inside the church
Member of the public blew the whistle - but MailOnline won't ruin secret
Stars have already revealed final series will have more than one wedding

By Martin Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 01:41 EST, 30 September 2015 | Updated: 06:05 EST, 30 September 2015

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Hapless Downton Abbey bosses may have blown the show's ending for fans.

A wedding order of service involving two of its characters was left in the Oxfordshire church they were filming in.

It included the names of those walking down the aisle, the prayers, hymns and the vows - although MailOnline will not be revealing the identity of the bride and groom.

The pamphlet was found by a member of the public in Bampton, Oxfordshire.

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Error: With fans wanting surprises for Downton Abbey's final series, blundering staff left a wedding order of service in a public place blowing one of its secrets

Downton Abbey is two episodes in to its final series - and is believed to contain several weddings before it ends later this year.

Fans mourning the end of long running series will be annoyed at the blunder.

A show source told The Sun: 'As it's the last one, there are going to be some absolutely massive plot lines. One of them is this wedding.

'It seems a bit ridiculous that all those security measures could be put in place and then someone just leaves an order of service lying around for anyone to find.'

Downton's final series started earlier this month with a feature-length opening episode and can confirm the Crawley family and their servants are bracing themselves for an uncertain future.

Their loyal butler Carson, played by Jim Carter, has said the series may contain several weddings.

He himself is preparing to marry housekeeper Mrs Hughes on Sunday.

He said: 'It looks, as we start series six, that they're about to get together, but under what terms… Twin beds? Double beds? There are lots of negotiations to go on before we hear wedding bells.'

'There are quite a lot of wedding bells in this - but I can't tell you who between!'

Marriage: Carson is preparing to marry housekeeper Mrs Hughes on Sunday - but the star played by Jim Carter says it will contain multiple weddings

According to Carter, 67, the very last scene is set on New Year's Eve, 1925, and features the servants gathered in Downton's Great Hall for a party.

Rather fittingly, many of them are looking forward to a new life outside the house as well as the New Year.

Carter said: 'We don't finish on a climactic note. There are no explosions or charabancs going off cliff edges.

'All the servants are together in the hall. It is New Year's Eve, it's candlelit and there are Christmas decorations left over. It is dark and we quietly sing Auld Lang Syne.

'It is a nice, low-key, rather muted end to the thing. They said it was a wrap and we looked at each other and thought, 'Oh, we've finished.' '