Holy Saviour Church’s Annual District Church Meeting is on Wednesday 27th March at 8:00pm in the church hall. This is our chance to hear reports of church life from the past year, and help to plan for the year ahead. Do come along!

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when Anne Rowe, landscape historian, will give an illustrated talk about Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire.

Humphry Repton was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century and is often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown.

Anne Rowe’s talk, focussing on Repton’s work in our county, will be an ideal opportunity to learn more about the life and work of Britain’s first “landscape gardener”.

Sunday 24th March at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road.

Tickets cost £10 (Friends £8) including tea after the talk; contact Clare Fleck (01462 646257) or visit the Hitchin Initiative Office, 1A Churchyard.

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when William Whyte, Professor of Social & Architectural History, University of Oxford, will give an illustrated talk about the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space.

The Victorian built thousands of churches – including Holy Saviour – and restored still more. Professor Whyte’s talk will explain how and why the 19th century changed the way churches look and sound, and what they were meant to do – changes which still shape our experience of the church today.

Sunday 27th January at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road

Tickets cost £10 (Friends £8) including tea after the talk; contact Clare Fleck (01462 646257) or visit the Hitchin Initiative Office, 1A Churchyard.

“Sing We Now of Christmas”

Friday 7th December (doors open 6.30pm; concert 7.45pm)
Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin SG5 1QG

As usual we launch our Festival weekend with this ever popular evening event – a chance to enjoy a leisurely look at the display, before “Sing We Now of Christmas” – a concert of popular Christmas music in mellow jazz arrangements, performed by Holy Saviour Church Choir, The Radcliffe Singers, The Buccinate Brass Ensemble, with Janet Tothill (double bass), directed by Trevor Hughes.

We are delighted that Pam Rhodes, popular broadcaster and author, will compère the concert.

*Tickets, £12, are available now from Tory Kitchiner (01462 712212) toryevans@greatgreen.plus.com

*(mulled wine and light refreshments included!)

Come to the Christingle Service in aid of The Children’s Society on Sunday 6th January at 11.30am at Holy Saviour Church.

Everybody will be involved in making their own Christingle during the service and then lighting it. All are welcome!

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when Dr Emily Manktelow, of Royal Holloway, University of London, will talk about the realities of life for missionaries and their families in far flung outposts of the British Empire. How did starched and corseted middle class Britons cope with insects in the cot, strange men under the bed and cow dung as household polish? Come along and find out!

Sunday 23rd September at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road

Tickets cost £8 (Friends £7) including tea after the talk; contact Clare Fleck (01462 646257) or visit the Hitchin Initiative Office, 1A Churchyard.

The Friends of Holy Saviour are holding an evening event during the Hitchin Festival:

The Restoration Of Kew’s Great Pagoda

Dr Lee Prosser, Curator of Historic Buildings , Historic Royal Palaces, will talk about this recent major project, and other aspects of his work at Historic Royal Palaces.

Tuesday 17 July at 7.30pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin.

Tickets £12 (“Friends” £10), including light refreshments, are available from Clare Fleck (01462 646257) or the Hitchin Festival Box Office, 1A Churchyard, Hitchin.

Bridget Kerrison (soprano), Tom Caldecott (clarinet) and Trevor Hughes (piano) present an attractive programme of music, including Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock. Classic songs, arias, and popular items from the clarinet repertoire combine in a delightful conclusion to our series of three summer evening Festival soirées!

Tuesday 10th July 2018 at 7.30pm at Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin, SG5 1QG.

Tickets available from:

Trevor Hughes (01462 675496), and Hitchin Initiative, 1A Churchyard, Hitchin (01462 453335); also online from eventbrite.co.uk.

Adults £12.00 Concessions £8.00 Students free

Holy Saviour Church Choir, and The Radcliffe Singers, directed by Trevor Hughes present a light and varied selection of music, from loved sacred music, through folk, to swing . . . something for all tastes! A programme including instrumental items from Gillian Hughes (clarinet), and guest artist James Risdon (recorders) – a musical garland for a summer’s evening!

Friday 6th July 2018 at 7.30pm at Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin, SG5 1QG.

Tickets available from:

Clare Fleck (01462 646257), and Hitchin Initiative, 1A Churchyard, Hitchin (01462 453335); also online from eventbrite.co.uk.

Adults £12.00 Concessions £8.00 Students free