This year’s Christmas Tree Festival takes place on 8th-10th December!

• Friday 8 December (2:30pm – 6:30pm), with a Quiet Session (2:30-4:15), a Kids’ Festival Singalong (4:30-5:15) and music featuring Trevor and Gill Hughes.
• Saturday 9 December (11:45am – 6:00pm), with St Andrews School Choir and turning on the lights at 12:00noon followed by live music all afternoon.
• Sunday 10 December (11:45am – 6:00pm), with Codicote School Choir and turning on the lights at 12:00noon followed by live music all afternoon.
• Admission £5 with accompanied children free.
• Do join us to see the church filled with beautifully decorated trees, and enjoy tea, coffee and cake in the Festival Cafe, with hot and cold meals on Saturday and Sunday.

We look forward to welcoming you!

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when David Meera will give an illustrated talk on St Bride’s, the journalists’ church in London.

We greatly enjoyed David’s talk on John Betjeman last year and look forward to welcoming him back.

Sunday 24th September at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road SG5 1QG.

Admission £10 (Friends of Holy Saviour £8) at the door.

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to the second of their two Hitchin Festival events, when we welcome back Kathryn Ferry, who will explore our experience of the seaside through the things that make it distinctive.

Sorry, no candy floss – but we offer a welcome drink!

Wednesday 19th July at 7:30pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road SG5 1QG.

Admission £12 (Friends of Holy Saviour £10) at the door or from the Festival Office.

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to the next “Talk & Tea“ event, when Christine Wagg will give an illustrated talk on the Peabody story. This is the first of two Friends of Holy Saviour Hitchin Festival events.

Sunday 2nd July at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road SG5 1QG.

Admission £10 (Friends of Holy Saviour £8) at the door or from the Festival Office.

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when Dr Jim Lewis will give an illustrated talk on London’s Lea Valley.

Running from its Hertfordshire source to the Thames in London’s East End, the River Lea and the Lee Navigation have both played a key part in the growth of the metropolis.  Dr Lewis’s talk will tell the story of a region that developed more industrial firsts than anywhere else in the world.

Sunday 4th June at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road SG5 1QG.

Admission £10 (Friends of Holy Saviour £8) at the door.

Hitchin, sewage and misgovernment

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their next “Talk & Tea“ event, when local historian, Alan Fleck, will give an illustrated talk on Sewage and Misgovernment in Hitchin.

Nowadays we take clean water supply and sanitation in our town for granted. It was not always so; Alan Fleck’s talk will delve into some murkier aspects of Hitchin’s past!

Sunday 26th March at 3pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road SG5 1QG.

Admission £10 (Friends of Holy Saviour £8) at the door.

Outing: Crossness Pumping Station

Neatly following “Don’t Drink The Water!“, The Friends of Holy Saviour have booked a trip to Crossness Pumping Station on Saturday 1st April. This was opened in 1865 (the year that Holy Saviour Church was consecrated) as part of Bazalgette’s new London sewage system and is now a Grade 1 listed building. It has huge beam engines and extraordinary ornate painted ironwork. We will have a guided tour of the site.
Travel will be by coach, leaving Hitchin c10:00am for the 90 minute journey. Bring a picnic lunch; tea and coffee will be provided on arrival.
Entry and tour of Crossness will cost £20 pp; coach price to be confirmed. 
To book your place, and for more information please email: alan.fleck@ntlworld.com

Enjoy an afternoon of brass band music!

Tickets (£10) on the door, or call 01462 646257

SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY at 3PM

Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin SG5 1QG

This year’s Christmas Tree Festival takes place next weekend (9th-11th December)! 

The Festival is open on Friday 9 December between 3:00pm and 8:00pm, on Saturday 10 December between 12:00noon and 6:00pm, and on Sunday 11 December between 12:00noon and 6:00pm. Admission £5 with accompanied children free.

Do join us to see the church filled with beautifully decorated trees, and enjoy tea, coffee and cake in the Festival Cafe. On Saturday and Sunday there is live music, and hot and cold meals in the Festival Cafe.

We look forward to welcoming you!

The Friends of Holy Saviour Church invite you to their Hitchin Festival event, when David Meara, author and former Archdeacon of London, will give an illustrated talk on “A Passion for Places: England through the eyes of John Betjeman”.

This talk will pick out some of the buildings , especially churches, of which John Betjeman was particularly fond, and will illustrate his particular vision of England and architecture, which shines through in so much of his poetry.

Tuesday 19th July at 7.30pm in Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road SG5 1QG.

Ticket £12 (includes welcome drink on arrival) from Hitchin Festival Box Office, or at the door.

A concert to mark the retirement of Trevor Hughes from the post of Organist & Music Director of Holy Saviour Church

After 27 years of wonderful music-making at Holy Saviour Church, Trevor Hughes is retiring from the role of Organist & Director of Music.
Trevor’s last service will be on Sunday 29 May (9.45am) and on the evening of Saturday 28 May he will direct a concert in the church, featuring both of our choirs.

The concert will be performed by Holy Saviour Church Choir, and The Radcliffe Singers, conducted by Trevor Hughes, with soloists David Butler (violin), Gillian Hughes (clarinet) and James Risdon (recorders).

Holy Saviour Church, Radcliffe Road, Hitchin, SG5 1QG
Saturday 28 May 2022, at 7.30pm
Admission £10; Students FREE (tickets available at the door).