St Mary'S, Rydal, LA22 9LR
A very warm welcome to St Mary's, Rydal
The church was built by Lady le Fleming of Rydal Hall in 1824. William Wordsworth was a churchwarden here around 10 years later. The intimate chapel with a luminous stained glass east window has been treasured ever since.
Come and visit us, as well as nearby Rydal Mount and Rydal Hall, all with beautiful gardens. Walk round Rydal Water and stop for tea at Rydal Hall's teashop. We look forward to welcoming you.
Sunday
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Rydal Hall: Sunday Worship
Join us in the beautiful chapel at Rydal Hall for Sunday morning worship. You can expect a traditional service yet with sense of informality and reflection in a special intimate space. We normally share Holy Communion and our music is a mixture of hymns and songs, old and new. Everyone is welcome!
On May 17 the Sunday service will take place at St Oswald's at 9:30am. In Rydal there will be NO Sunday Service this week, and in Grasmere at 11am we will meet for a walk with prayers around Grasmere lake to celebrate Rogation Sunday.
Rogation is a church festival in which we seek blessing for our community and its sustenance. Traditionally parishioners walk the parish boundary, 'beating' the boundary stones with sticks.
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Rydal Hall: Taize evening service
Taizé is a small town in the Burgundy region of France where a monastic community, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger Schütz, has been the focus of worldwide Christian pilgrimage. The community is well-known for its simple, chant-like style of worship and prayer, and is especially popular with young people, with over 100,000 people making pilgrimages to Taizé every year to pray, study and work.
St Mary's Rydal have held Taizé -style services since the 1980s. At the turn of the millennium the Rydal Hall Community and a group from St Mary's visited Taizé. Today we meet on the first Sunday of the month at 7pm, excluding January and August. In winter (November, December, February, March and April) we meet in Rydal Hall chapel and in summer (May, June, July, September and October) in St Mary’s Church. Quiet reflection, Taize chants and readings given by members of the congregation are enjoyed in soft candlelight. Everyone is welcome.
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St Mary's Church Rydal: Taize evening service
Join us for a Taize service at 7pm