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Welcome to Berwick Parish Church

Dedicated to

The Holy Trinity and Saint Mary

 

England's Most Northerly Parish Church,

standing within the Elizabethan Walled defences of Berwick-upon-Tweed,

between Edinburgh and Newcastle, on the North East coast of Northumberland,

at the mouth of the mighty River Tweed

 

A DVD has been made of Berwick and its history

see link for extract:   http://www.ness-st.co.uk/video.html

simply send a cheque for £12 (includes p&p) made out to 'Albert Whyte'

together with your name and address to The Vicar at address below.

 

 

You are warmly invited to join in our public worship:

Sundays

8.30am Holy Comunion (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 10am and Thursday 10am are both followed

by refreshments and fellowship in our Parish Centre

 

 

Church is open each day 9am to 5pm

For GROUP conducted tours, with talk on Town and Church, contact The Vicar

 

Clergy:

Vicar - The Reverend Alan Hughes

The Vicarage

Parade

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Northumberland TD15 1DF

  

Telephone and Fax: 01289 306136

e.mail: skypilot60@btinternet.com

  

Associate Priest

The Reverend Richard Carlill

01289 303701

  

Please take a tour around our site by clicking our page links

to the left of this page

and learn about our history and current activities

  

all pages, images and information

copyright @ Reverend Alan Hughes

but "ask and you will receive!"

  

List of Vicars of  Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1291

The Original Church on this site was built before 1233

1291  John de Soules
1299  John de Bamborough
1330  John de Tarent
1340  Robert de Galmton or Gamelton
1356  Robert de Wilmesthorp
1358  Thomas de Kellaw
1360  John de Insula Sacra
1374  William de Sherborne
1384  William de Blackloft
1396  John Pays
1398  William de Werdale
1408  William de Durham
1446  William de Costell
1484  Alan de Hindmerse
1507  William Marshall
1536  Thomas Thompson
1541  Robert Selby
1565  John Blackhall
1567  Thomas Clerk
1585  John Blackhall
1589  Richard Clerk
1607  William Selby
1607  William Clerk
1608  Leonard Rowntree
1610  Richard Smith
1613  Gilbert Dury


The foundation stone of the present Church building was laid in 1650,

 during The Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell.

Completed in 1652 and Consecrated in 1662
following The Restoration of The Monarchy
 The Accession of King Charles II in 1660

1662  William Coxe
1664  John Smithson
1672  William Mitford
1674  Thomas Bourne
1680  John Harper
1685  William Salkeld
1686  Patrick Robinson
1721  Robert Blakeston
1726  Thomas Cooper
1747  Thomas Thorpe
1768  Joseph Rumsey
1805  Joseph Barnes
1854  George Hans Hamilton
1865  John George Rowe
1880  Charles Baldwin
1897  Henry Bernard Hodgson
1914  Richard Willis de La Hey
1938  William Barry Hicks
1952  Robert Morley McCaughey
1960  Aidan William Wilson
1963  Archibald Bell Davison
1971  Donald Allan Macnaughton
1982  Michael Henry Burden
1994  Alan Hughes (Present Incumbent)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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