Welcome to
Berwick Parish Church

from which thieves have just stolen the unique 17thC lead downcomers, the roof (see pic below) was replaced in dangerous to handle and valueless stainless steel in 1996. Sadly, in addition to increasing security measures, the stolen lead, marked with 'Smartwater' chemical code: identification number 7439619.1 (which can detected by any reputable metal dealer) is to be replaced with glass fibre replica.

Dedicated to
The Holy Trinity and Saint Mary

17thC Cromwellian structure on 12thC Church site -Church, Parish Hall and Vicarage pictured here
..........beautiful coastline in background - nearest landfall Denmark!

England's most northerly parish church, founded 1152 present structure 17thC Cromwellian, set within 16thC Elizabethan walls of Berwick-upon-Tweed, equidistant between Edinburgh and Newcastle, on Northumberland's North East coast at the mouth of the mighty River Tweed and 'English' since 1482!

Church is open 9am-5pm each day - for group visits or other enquiries please contact The Vicar on  skypilot60@btinternet.com

bottom centre is a 1633 copy of The King James Bible
from which The Gospel is read in church is each week.
For some notes on the 400th anniversary of KJV see our 'meditation' page

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<.....click on links to left for items which may interest

You are warmly invited to join in our worship.

Christmas Eve 6pm Crib Service,
7pm Candlelit Nine Lessons,
11.30 Midnight Mass
and 8.30 and 10am Christmas Day services.

   *Sunday**: 8.30am Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer)*
10am Parish Communion (Common Worship)
6pm Choral Evensong (BCP) (1st Sundays followed by BCP Holy Communion)

*Thursday**: 10am Holy Communion (BCP)*
   Sunday & Thursday 10am followed by refreshments & fellowship in Parish Centre

thankyou to everyone who has prepared Church for CHRISTMAS

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A Warm welcome awaits at Berwick Parish Church with our

Christmas Eve 6pm Crib Service,
7pm Candlelit Nine Lessons,
11.30 Midnight Mass
and 8.30 and 10am Christmas Day services.

Vicar's Christmas Message .

The Prophet Micah foretold Bethlehem as the place where The Christ would be born (Ch5). He was a morally courageous man, up from the country to confront the big city with God’s word.   Micah challenged the ruling classes, became the spokesman of the poor, called for social justice, people to work together for the common good, to become worthy of God’s protection from the threatening Assyrians, to become a people worth saving before praying for God’s help..

Micah’s words in Ch4 remain a foundation for all who long for God’s peace, “that each should be able to sit under their vine and none shall make them afraid.” As we prepare to celebrate again the fulfilment of God’s word through Micah, the birth of the Prince of Peace at Bethlehem, we must ask why we have the recipe but still don’t we have the peace?

20thC prophet Reinhold Neibhur taught “our eternal problem seems to be that we remain on the battleground between God’s will and man’s self esteem.   Imagine being able to hold a conversation with someone and then relax, knowing that you had been completel understood.   Imagine being able to hold an intense, important debate that ended in a conclusion acceptable to all. To find yourself in a world in which people genuinely listened and respected one another’s intelligence.   A world in which petty points were not forever being scored. That is The Kingdom of God that I long for here on earth.” Wise words for Parliament, G20, UN you and especially me.

May God Bless your prayers for peace at home and abroad this Christmas and into our beloved Queen’s Diamond Jubillee Year of 2012.   A Warm welcome awaits at Berwick Parish Church with our Christmas Eve 6pm Crib Service, 7pm Candlelit Nine Lessons, 11.30 Midnight Mass and 8.30 and 10am Christmas Day services.

May God also Bless your homes and hearts and any whose circumstances give cause for concern.

Canon Alan Hughes CF TD
Vicar of Berwick

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Berwick Parish Church Berwick-upon-Tweed Unique 17thC Cromwellian structure open daily sites pages include:
Sir Edwin Lutyens John Knox Elizabethan Walls 17thC Barracks Vanburgh Oliver Cromwell Coldstream Guards Colours Book of Common Prayer 17thC Flemish Stained Glass Edward I Elizabeth I prayers, meditation, Historic Pipe organ, Church Choir

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