Join us on Feast Saturday (5th Oct) from 10am for coffee and cakes!
All are welcome!
We would welcome donations of cakes and savouries by 10am on Sat 5th Oct. Thank you, SH & AG
Check out what space4 have in store for you this summer! All sessions include delicious food from White Lion 
. Come join us for fun, friendship, support, and community as we work together to make this summer unforgettable! 
Contact Space4 for more information.
Back with our Annual Summer Concert, an evening concert of beautiful music will take place in Church on Sunday 4th August at 6.00 pm, our music director & choir have been putting together another fantastic evening!
Organ, Piano and Instrumentalists
Soloists and Choirs, it’s not to be missed!
Light Refreshments & Retiring Collection
“Are We Nearly There Yet?”
Travelling with Moses through the Desert
Quiet Day, Led by Rev’d Claire Cullingworth
Sat 3rd August 10am – 4pm. Free admission. Please sign up to book your place.
The Gilpin Singers Summer Concert takes place in Church on Wednesday 17th July at 7.00pm, doors open at 6.40pm, with Refreshments and raffle!
Tickets are available from Kathryn (07731815325) £4 Adults, £1 for under 16s
The Gilpin Singers are a ladies choir formed over 10 years ago when Sue Pinnington was the Rector. In the last few years it has gone from strength to strength led by Laura Parkin. It has around 40 members and presents a show a couple of times a year.
Join us on Saturday 29th July from 7.00 pm in the Kepier Hall
with food, licensed Bar, Raffle, quiz and live band C Saw!
Tickets £10 adult, £5 under 14 available from Alasatair Bradley 07794056161
Church Coffee Morning
Sat 22nd June, 10am – 1pm
All are welcome!
Donations of cakes and savouries by 10am, thank you.
As part of the events in May organised by The Friends of Houghton Parish Church Trust on Monday 13th May at 7.00 pm the church will host ‘The George Whitfield Organ Concert’ Dr Gordon Stewart BEM. Gordon Stewart is one of the UK’s most popular and adaptable organists; he has played Celebrity Concerts in such places as St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral, the Laurenskerk, Alkmaar and at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Leeds Town Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, Pietermaritzburg City Hall and Johannesburg Cathedral. Gordon has delighted his audience here at St Michael’s with a programme of popular organ music.
The Trustees are delighted to inform you this will be a free concert again this year. Please invite your friends
St Michael and All Angels Church will open to the public on Tuesday 30th April until late October.
We are open Tuesday – Saturday 11am -1pm. Please come and visit this wonderful and historic building.
**Update: The last week of Open Church in 2024 will be 8th October, please contact the church office for access until it reopens in April 2025. **
The wonderful church of St Michael & All Angels has been at the heart of our community for centuries. The Friends of the Houghton Parish Church Trust ‘The Friends’ do much to support our wonderful historic building. This year sees the 30th anniversary of The Friends of the Houghton Parish Church Trust. We’ve a wonderful program of events and services lined up in May 2024 for your diaries, details below. All are welcome!
9th May – 7pm Houghton Brass & Houghton Youth Band Concert
11th May – 10-1pm Friends Coffee Morning
12th May – 6pm Friends Choral Evensong & AGM
13th May – 7pm The George Whitfield Organ Concert, Dr Gordon Stewart Free Entry
