St. Peter's Church, a forward-looking church, offering new ways of worship alongside traditional services. The Church of St Peter Harrogate is a parish church in the Church of England, dioceses of Rippon and Leeds.
St Peters is a church with a Heart, in the Heart of the City.
A caring City centre church, that serves hot breakfast to the homeless every morning, and food parcels to the poor every evening.
The Stained glass windows in this church, are not stained glass, they are all paintings on glass. You would never know unless you are told, or an expert. One of the most famous windows features a cartoon from the punch magazine. It shows St Peter standing at the pearly gates, the shrine of honour, asking "Who Goes there? - Answer, I have no name, I died for my country. St Peter, - Pass Unknown Warrior."
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"Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the building of St Peter’s is the painted glass by Burlison and Grylls. The glass itself is not particularly notable, but each window in St Peter’s is by the same firm and
completed within half a century, which gives a symmetry and unity to
the windows and indeed to the church itself. One of the features of
Burlison and Grylls’ work was that photographic likenesses could be
incorporated into the windows to make a more personal memorial if the
donor so chose. The rear side aisle window on the precinct side of the church is perhaps the most easy to see, where three of the first Vicar’s sons are pictured. There are two photographic likenesses in the large rear window of the church and the face of the nearest soldier in the small window on the same wall can also be spotted.
The most unusual window is one copied from a cartoon in the Magazine “Punch” – “Who goes there?”." Text Source: (
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"St. Peter's Church (C of E) stands right in the heart of Harrogate. Its geographical parish consists largely of shops and offices, and our ministry extends to the many people who come in to the town each day for work, for shopping, on conferences, or for leisure. We have a fine Victorian church building which is well known for its painted glass windows.
St Peter's welcomes visitors every day of the week.
From Monday to Saturday the doors are generally open from 8.00 am until about 5.30 p.m.. Many people come in to pray, relax or simply to look around. Others visit for special events such as concerts, coffee mornings and a range of mid-week worship services. Of course on Sunday opening hours are even longer, finishing with Choral Evensong from 6.30 - 7.30 p.m.." Text source: (
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"A subscription for the erection of the church was commenced and the foundation stone was laid in April, 1870. The church is of the decorated style of architecture, from a design by Mr. Hirst, of Bristol, and consists of a nave of five bays, 70 feet in length by 27 feet in breadth, with north and south aisles, each 15 feet 9 inches wide; the last bay at the eastern end of the aisle on each side projects outwards to double its former breadth, in the form of a transept, which is gabled outwardly; the chancel will be about 35 feet in length by 22 feet in breadth, terminating in a circular apse, the interior of which will be arcaded." Text Source: (
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