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Saint Wilfrids Parish Church, Harrogate
St Wilfrid's ChurchDuchy Road
Harrogate
HG1 2EY
North Yorkshire
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Website Redevelopment
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Service Times
Sundays
| 6pm (Saturday) | Vigil Mass |
| 8am | Mass (BCP) |
| 10am | THE PARISH MASS |
| 6pm | Evening Prayer |
Weekdays
| Monday | 7.30am | Mass (BCP) |
| Tuesday | 6pm | Mass |
| Wednesday | 11am | Mass (BCP) |
| Thursday | 7.30am | Mass (BCP) |
| 7pm | Mass | |
| Friday | 12.30pm | Mass |
| Saturday | 9am | Mass |
Welcome to Saint Wilfrid's Church Harrogate
We hope that you will enjoy this on-line visit and explore our pages to learn a little more about Saint Wilfrid's and its people. If travel permits, we hope that one day you will pay a "reality visit" to Saint Wilfrid's and join us for worship. A Visitors' & Newcomers' Pack is available in Church.
Saint Wilfrid's Harrogate, is a Parish Church serving the Jennyfield, Killinghall Moor and Duchy areas of the town. The very fine Grade I listed building by the distinguished architect, Temple Moore, and its tradition of Anglo-Catholic worship also draw people from beyond the parish boundaries.
A wide range of ages, professions and trades is represented among the people who gather Sunday by Sunday to worship God at the Parish Mass, which is our principle act of worship. See the Worship & Young People pages to learn more about the Young Wilf's Sunday School and other things going on each Sunday.
Whilst Saint Wilfrid's has a long-established catholic tradition, it is not aligned with either Affirming Catholicism or Forward in Faith. People of differing outlook are able to worship together in this parish which has passed Resolutions A & B under the Ordination of Women measure but has not opted for alternative Episcopal oversight.
The Parish Church of St Wilfrid, Harrogate is one of the finest modern churches in the North of England. In 1903 the eminent ecclesiastical architect, Temple Moore, was invited to design "a fine Early English church of great dignity and beauty, to be built of stone and to accommodate 900 worshippers". This "exceeding magnifical" building was consecrated in June 1914, and completed by the addition of the Holy Spirit Chapel (1928) and the Lady Chapel (1935) - these two were the work of Leslie Moore, son-in-law of the original architect.
Architect and son-in-law had soaked themselves in the Gothic style of the 13th Century, and the whole building conveys an unerring sense of scale and proportion, with a wonderful power to create vistas and an impression of great space. The glory and majesty of God are truly proclaimed in St Wilfrid's where the Holy Eucharist, the central act of Christian worship, has been celebrated every day for seventy or more years. It is now the only Grade 1 listed building in Harrogate.