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 after the normal AGM business. Non members are most welcome to attend. Please come! Would anyone like to join our committee to help plan our…

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 Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road. Dr Mark Knight is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Mark specialises…

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…

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…

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 stereotypes to discover her as a creative woman in her own right. Sunday 19 May at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church. Tickets £10 (Friends £8)…