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Regular prayers

There are many regular prayers in the UK which started by contact with Taizé. The ones on this list are only a selection: those prayers with which the community remains more closely in touch through personal contact.

Aberdeen

- Every Wednesday, 7:30 pm; St John’s Church, St John’s Place (off Crown Street); Tony Broderick, 01224 584645, tonybroderick gmail.com

Bath

- Monthly in term time, 6.15 pm; The Chaplaincy, Bath University; catholicchaplain bath.ac.uk.

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Prayer in Bath

Birmingham

- 1st Sunday of month, 8 pm, St Francis of Assisi, Sycamore Road, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 2AA. Rev. Susannah Rudge, 0121 603 2284, susannah.rudge gmail.com

- 3rd Sunday of month, in different churches in Birmingham; Rev’ds. Stephen and Kathryn Willey willeyas aol.com

Bradford

- 2nd Sunday of month (except August), 6:30 pm, Bradford Cathedral, BD1 4EH; Sue McWhinney taizebradford gmail.com, 01274 777720

Bristol

- 2nd Monday of month, 7:30 pm, St. Mary Redcliffe, BS1 6RA; Chris Duncan taizebristol gmail.com
- 1st Friday of month (except August), 8 pm, Elsie Briggs House, 38 Church Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS9 3EQ; Caroline Price carolineshalom.price googlemail.com

Cambridge

- Every Monday in Full Term, 9:00 pm, with occasional shared meal beforehand; Church of St Edward King and Martyr, CB2 3PP; Patrick McKearney pm419 cam.ac.uk

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Prayer in the Bridge Chapel, Derby

Cardiff

- Wednesdays in term time, 4:15 pm; The Multi-Faith Chaplaincy, 61 Park Place, CF10 3AT; Rev. Delyth Liddell liddellda cf.ac.uk

Carlisle

- Tuesdays in term time, 6:15 pm: bring and share meal; 7:00 pm: prayer;
Quaker Meeting House, Fisher Street (opposite Carlisle Castle); Anna Walker anna equestra.net, 01228 808 654.

Durham

- Mondays in termtime, 9:00 pm, College of St Hild and St Bede, in the chapel; Jonathan Lawson, j.h.lawson durham.ac.uk

Edinburgh

- 1st Wednesday of month, 7:00 pm, Christ Church, Holy Corner, Morningside. Nick Bowry, edinburghtaize googlemail.com

Exeter

- Monthly, usually 2nd Friday of month, 7:00 pm, St Pancras Church, Guildhall Shopping Centre. Nigel Walsh nigel ncw.eclipse.co.uk

Gloucester

- 1st Sunday of month, 6:00 pm, Chapel of Gloucester Royal Hospital, Gt Western Road; Diane Carter carterdiane121 gmail.com

Huddersfield

- 1st Sunday of month, 6:00 pm, St Johns Church, Golcar, Huddersfield; Kathryn Sykes, kasykes yahoo.co.uk

Jersey

- 1st Monday of month, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, The Oasis of Peace http://www.oasisofpeacejersey.com; Mary Cahill, m.cahill catholicchurch.org.je

Leamington Spa

- 2nd Thursday of month, 8:00 pm, St Peter’s Parish Centre, Dormer Place, CV32 5AA; Eleanor Perkins leamingtonspataize hotmail.com

Liverpool

- Every Wednesday in university termtime, 7:00 pm, Catholic Chaplaincy, St Philip Neri Church, Catharine Street, L8. Fr Ian McParland imcp cathchap.org.uk, 0151 709 3858

London

- Every Wednesday, 6:00 pm; All Hallows by the Tower, Byward Street, London EC3R 5BJ; nearest tube: Tower Hill; Martin Carr martin ahbtt.org.uk

- Every Thursday, 7:00 pm; King’s Cross Methodist Church, Crestfield St. WC1H 8AT. See map. Directions: From Kings Cross Underground, follow signs first towards Kings Cross mainline station, then the Euston Road (South Side) exit. Take the 2nd set of steps (round to the left) and you should emerge opposite a Bureau de Change. Turn right onto Crestfield Street Church (passing a Macdonald’s). The church is about 30 metres along on the left. The entrance has a Taizé poster in the window. Joanna Lewis Google group

- 3rd Sunday of month, 5:00 pm. St James’s Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL; Graham Sharpe, grahamtsharpe hotmail.co.uk

- Every other Thursday, 7:30 pm; St. Mary’s Cadogan Street, Chelsea, SW3 2QR ;

- 1st Thursday of month, 7:30 pm; St. Mary the Boltons, The Boltons, SW10 9TB; Graham Sharpe grahamtsharpe hotmail.co.uk

- Every Tuesday, 8:30 pm; 15 Southwell Gardens, SW7 4RL (tube: Gloucester Road);
Sister Ruby, rmilondon btconnect.com, 02073733869

- Last Sunday of month, 7:00 pm; St James Church, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1AY (corner of Crescent Drive and Lakeswood Rd.); Zosia Bajorek taize stjamespettswood.org

- 3rd Sunday of month, 5:15 pm. Church of Mary Immaculate & St Gregory the Great, 82 Union Street, Barnet, EN5 4HZ. Tube: High Barnet; Frances Novillo francesnovillo yahoo.co.uk, 0771 420 4201

Manchester

- 3rd Sunday of month, 6.30 pm; St Elisabeth’s Church, Bedford Street, Reddish. SK5 6DJ; Rev. Angie Stanton, 0161 432 3033, angiestanton27 yahoo.co.uk

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

- 2nd Sunday of month, 6 pm; St George’s Church, Osborne Rd Jesmond, NE2 2TF (directions). Bryan Vernon, b.g.vernon ncl.ac.uk

Northampton

- Occasional prayers, St Peter’s Church, Weston Favell, NN3 3JX; Dates in 2012: 26 Feb, 24 June, 26 Aug, 28 Oct, 30 Dec; Lorraine Bewley or Nick Tippler: 01604 787117, stpeterswestonfavell yahoo.co.uk

Oxford

- On Fridays, 7 pm, alternating between
Catholic Chaplaincy, Rose Place, St Aldates; Nicola Paul nicola.paul clneuro.ox.ac.uk and
St Michael at the Northgate, Cornmarket St.; http://smng.org.uk/wp1/events/, Corinna Grahl corinnagrala yahoo.de

Peterborough

- 3rd Saturday of most months, 5 pm; Peterborough Cathedral; Liz Cundy liz.cundy googlemail.com

Portsmouth

- Last Sunday of month (except December), 8 pm; Anglican Cathedral, High Street, Old Portsmouth PO1 2HA;
Canon Michael Tristram michael.tristram i3a portsmouthcathedra...

Reading

- 4th Wednesday of month (occasional alterations), 7:45 pm; University Catholic Chaplaincy, 29 Upper Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5JJ; Chris Wakelin, c.d.wakelin reading.ac.uk or chaplaincy reading.ac.uk

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Prayer in Broomhill Methodist Church, Sheffield

Reepham (Norfolk)

- A few times a year. In 2013: 21 April, 21 July, 20 October; 6:30 pm, St. Michael’s Church, NR10. Song practice 5:45 pm, Silence from 6:15 pm. Sue Page susan backstreet.fsworld.co.uk, 01603 870886

Sheffield

See here: http://taizeinsheffield.wordpress.com/

Tetbury (Glos.)

- 2nd Thursday of month, 8:00 pm (7:40 pm song practice) in one of the 3 churches; Robin and Susan Ingall: 01666 503180, c.r.ingall farmline.com

Todmorden

- 4th Saturday of month, 7:30 pm in different churches in the town; Rev. Owen and Gill Page 01706 813180, owen owenpage.plus.com

Wakefield

- Last Friday of month, 7 pm; Prayer around the Cross; English Martyrs Church, Dewsbury Road, Wakefield WF2 9DD; Jane & Nick Shields jane laloge.co.uk

Winchester

- Last Sunday of month (usually), 6 pm; Dates for the first half of 2013:
3 and 24 February, 24 March, 28 April, 26 May, 30 June, 28 July ; Sue Foster suemfoster talktalk.net

York

- 4th Sunday of month, 6:30 pm; More House (Catholic Student Chaplaincy building) on Heslington Road, University of York; Annemarieke de Bruin annemarieke.debruin york.ac.uk

Last updated: 5 May 2013