UK

Regular prayers

There are many 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.

Birmingham

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

Bristol

- 2nd Monday of month, 7:30 pm, St. Mary Redcliffe, BS1 6RA; Heather Leppard, h.leppard yahoo.co.uk
- Occasional prayers in term-time at Univeristy of Bristol Chaplaincy, 1 Woodland Road, BS8 1AU; Philip Seal, philip_seal hotmail.co.uk

Cambridge

- Every Thursday in Full Term, 10:00 pm; Great St Mary’s Church; David Jefferies djj28 cam.ac.uk, Emma Cardwell ec360 cam.ac.uk

Prayer in the Bridge Chapel, Derby

Canterbury

- Every 3rd Wednesday of the Month, 7:00 pm; Greyfriars Chapel, off Stour Street, behind Greyfriars B&B. Contact: Jenny & Marcus Averbeck, 01227 766734

Coventry

- 1st Tuesday of month, 8:00 pm, Warwick University Chaplaincy; Peter Wygnanski petewygnanski gmail.com, 07527171359

Derby

- Monthly, 7:00 pm in university term-time; St Anne’s Church, Whitecross Street (via Leaper Street), DE1 3NB; Julie Kerr, 07929546779 mimosabutterfly hotmail.com; Ginny Jordan, 01332 591878, v.m.jordan derby.ac.uk

Durham

- Occasional prayers: Anne Harrison, 0191 384 8643, amh.music btinternet.com.

Edinburgh

- 1st Tuesday of month, 7:00 pm, Christ Church, Holy Corner, Morningside. Contact: Alex Baker 0131 229 0054

Exeter

- Monthly, usually 3rd Friday of month, 7:00 pm, St Pancras Church, Guildhall Shopping Centre. Nigel Walsh nigel ncw.eclipse.co.uk

Glasgow

- Every Monday 5:30 pm, Strathclyde University Chaplaincy, John St.; Rev. Marjory Macaskill, 0141 548 4144, marjory.macaskill strath.ac.uk

Gloucester

- 1st Sunday of month, 6:00 pm, Chapel of Gloucester Royal Hospital, Gt Western Road; Diane Carter dazza121 blueyonder.co.uk

Horncastle (Lincs.)

- 2nd Sunday of month, 6:00 pm, St. Margaret’s Church, Thimbleby; Liz and Graham Wood, 01507 527441, cook.wood talk21.com

Jersey

- 1st Monday of month 7:00 - 9:00 pm, The Oasis of Peace http://www.oasisofpeacejersey.com; Mary Cahill, pastoralservices hotmail.co.uk

Leamington Spa

- 2nd Thursday of month, 8:00 pm, St. Peter’s Church, Dormer Place (in the Flint Room, Dormer Conference Centre); Graham Parton, 07747 036785 gap736uk yahoo.co.uk

Leeds

- 1st and 3rd Tuesday of month in university termtime, 7:30 pm, Catholic Chaplaincy, 5 St. Mark’s Avenue; Eve Miles evimarie_86 hotmail.com, Tamzin Simmons tamzinsimmons 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 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. Steven Cooper londonprayer-owner yahoogroups.com

- 1st Wednesday of month, 8:30 pm, with the Slovak and Czech community; Church of Our Lady of La Salette and Saint Joseph, 14 Melior St, Bermondsey, SE1 3QP; Tana tanavel googlemail.com, Juliana, s.juli post.sk

- 3rd Sunday of month, 5:00 pm (song practice at 4:30 pm), St. James’ Piccadilly, on Piccadilly (nearest tube Piccadilly Circus)

- Every Wednesday, 9:00 pm; 44 Augustus Road, SW19 6NB (nearest tube: Southfields); Sister Ruby, 0208 788 9477, struanhouse maryimmaculate.co.uk

- 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

Manchester

- Occasional prayers: Ashley Carver carvera6 cs.man.ac.uk.

- 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

Market Harborough

- 1st Sunday of month, 7:30 pm; St Dionysius ChurchRev. Jonnie Parkin, 01858 469109 jonnie.parkin tiscali.co.uk

Peterborough

- 2nd Friday of month, 7:30 pm; St Peter and All Souls, Park Road, PE1 2RX; Anne Upton, amtu2 tesco.net, Stéphanie stephterrier yahoo.fr.

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

Reading

- 4th Wednesday of month, 7:45 pm; St. William of York Church, Upper Redlands Road, (adjacent to the main University campus); Chris Wakelin, c.d.wakelin reading.ac.uk or chaplaincy reading.ac.uk

Prayer in Broomhill Methodist Church, Sheffield

Sheffield

- 3rd Sunday of month, 8:00 pm; St. Mark’s Church, Broomhill (and also occasional prayers at the Catholic Chaplaincy); Anna Rutherford anna_h_rutherford hotmail.com, Ted Russell ted_russell hotmail.co.uk, Kate Davis artisticcharacter hotmail.com

Southampton

- Alternate Tuesdays in university termtime, 8:00 pm; University Chaplaincy, 41 University Rd, Highfield; Fr. Michael Ryan, 023 8055 9481, mjryan_98 yahoo.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

Walsall

- 4th Sunday of month, 6:30 pm; St Martin’s Church, Walsall; Rev. Simon Bickersteth 01922 611909, simon.bickersteth talktalk.net

Winchester

- Sue Foster suemfoster talktalk.net

Wolverhampton

Last Sunday of month, 7:45 pm; SS Peter & Paul’s Catholic Church, North Street. Claire Swaffield claire.swaffield bcys.co.uk

York

- Last Sunday of month, 6:30 pm; Heslington Church, University of York; Annemarieke de Bruin adb503 york.ac.uk

Last updated: 19 January 2010