The award-winning BBC TV series The Vicar of Dibley is being immortalised in a set of Royal Mail stamps.

The 12 stamps include photographs of actress Dawn French playing Rev Geraldine Granger along with fellow cast members including James Fleet who played Hugo Horton and Gary Waldhorn who played his father David.

The series, which was written by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, ran for three series from 1994 to 2000. Four special episodes followed between 2004 and 2007.

The stamps show memorable scenes from the sitcom, including a Dibley parish council meeting and an image from the  wedding of Hugo and Alice, played by the late Emma Chambers.

The series, which was written after the Church of England’s decision in 1993 to allow the ordination of women was named Britain’s third-favourite sitcom of all time in a BBC poll in 2020.

The Royal Mail’s director of external affairs and policy, David Gold, said: “The superb writing and the warmth and idiosyncrasies of its characters made The Vicar of Dibley one of the most loved TV comedies of all time. We celebrate the series with new stamps revisiting some of the show’s classic moments.”