All are welcome to attend the AGM of the Friends on Wednesday 19 October at 7.30pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin. The guest speaker for the evening will be Keith Hoskins, Town Centre Manager, who will talk about the work of Hitchin BID (Business Improvement District).

The Friends will hold their Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 11 October 2017 at 7.30pm in Holy Saviour Church. Refreshments will be served. Business includes looking at finances and activities from September 2016 to 31 August 2017. Membership will vote for committee members and post holders. We have invited Andy Gibbs to talk about British Schools Museum projects […]

The Friends of Holy Saviour invite you to their next “Talk & Tea” when Dr Mark Knight will talk on the prominent writer, journalist and thinker – now perhaps best known for the Father Brown detective stories. Mark will focus on Chesterton’s early fiction including The Man Who Was Thursday. Sunday 18 March at 3pm in […]

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 […]

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. […]

A Friends of Holy Saviour “Talk & Tea” event, with speaker Dr Selena Trowbridge Although mostly remembered today as the face of Ophelia floating in the reeds in Millais’ painting and as the wife and muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal was herself an artist and poet. Dr Trowbridge’s talk will go beyond the […]

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when Julie Ashdown, of the Emery Walker Trust, will give an illustrated talk on “Emery Walker and the Arts and Crafts Movement”. Emery Walker, printer and mentor to William Morris, is credited with the revival of the British printing industry […]

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when Tamsin Wimhurst, of the David Parr House Trust, will give an illustrated talk on “The David Parr House”. Decorated in the late Victorian era this house lay undiscovered until a few years ago when its extraordinary story began to […]