Heritage Open Days 2025

History Display and chance to look around – Architecture students re imagining of the church!

We are open Saturday 13th 1pm – 4pm after our monthly free organ concert . Take a look inside this traditional and atmospheric church, which as an Anglo-Catholic Church of England Place of Worship is home to statues, vestments and processional banners similar to Roman Catholic churches. The original 1769 Whitehurst clock from the clock tower is also located on the ground floor and in full working order.

A history display charts St Peter’s journey from the 18th Century to the 21st, and includes pictures from inside the tower which is inaccessible to the public.
In keeping with the theme of architecture, 2 students from Manchester School of Architecture have used St Peter’s for their thesis and the imaginative results will be on show along with their model of the church.

Saturday is the date of our free Organ Concert too so pop along earlier if you like (1000-1300), and listen to guest organists play our church and theatre organs, or piano.

Hot and cold drinks available, and if you’re lucky there may still be cake left from the concert!

VJ Day Tea Party

St Peter’s will be open from 10am – 1pm for a 1940s themed tea party, and take part in the national two-minutes silence at 12noon at our war memorial.

Union flags hang in abundance celebrating the Allies vistory over Japan in 1945

Enjoy tea, coffee or cold drinks and cakes in our cafe area with 1940s music and traditional games.

Share memories of days gone by at our new ‘memories chat’ table with old pictures/books etc to spark conversations with new friends.

Wooden wall mounted list of those who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars

Read the harrowing stories of church members who never returned from the horrific Japanese prisoner of war camps, and whose names are forever remembered on our war memorial.

Take time out for quiet reflection/prayer or light a candle in the peaceful, traditional church.

Apart from a worthy date to remember, we hope the event will act as a successful pilot with a view to reopening our cafe area on a permanent basis. Volunteers wuld be most welcome to help us to achieve this and provide a cheap & cheerful space for people to socialise and take time out for prayer/reflection.

Have your say on the future of St. Peter’s

St. Peter’s is looking forward to an exciting future within the centre of regeneration in Stockport, with hundreds more residents destined to live in the parish for the first time in many years. We’d like to know what you would find useful, interesting, and worth coming to the church for. This is an opportunity for you to give us your suggestions so we can incorporate them into our fututre plans and activities. We previously ran a similar questionnaire five years ago but plans were interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now we can start to move forward again, and need your help to make sure we provide what you want.

Your responses to the survey monkey questionnaire below will help us arrange events but also guide our major plans for the future. Thank you!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HBLPMX6

The questionnaire is also avaliable in a paper version from the church.

VE Day 80th Anniversary Party

Come and join us for a VE Day 80th Anniversary celebration on the day

Thursday 8th May
4.30pm – 7pm

Bring a picnic & your own cold drinks – hot drinks available.

Music from the period, traditional games and a wartime kitchen display.

Sample some ration busting 1940s party recipes with quirky sandwich fillings and cakes including a ‘War Cake’ from an original recipe.
We will be ringing the bell as part of the national bell ringing celebration at 6.30pm

Wooden wall mounted list of those who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars

New research into our war memorial names will be revealed, with just three communicants from St Peter’s remembered on our memorial for World War Two. Nothing has been remembered or written about them until now.

Also, our free monthly organ concert will follow a VE Day 80 theme, so come along on Saturday May 10th May 10am – 1pm to continue the party!

Free indoor event, please contact us with any enquiries and to give us an idea of numbers attending.

Easter 2025

With the end of Lent and the celebration of our Risen Lord fast approaching, here are our Easter service times for you to make a note of and hopefully come and join us – all are welcome!

  • Palm Sunday 13th April 10.30am service with distribution of Palm Crosses
  • Maundy Thusday 17th April 7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper with footwashing and Watch until 9.30pm
  • Good Friday 18th April 1.00pm Stations of the Cross, 2.00pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
  • Easter Sunday 20th April 10.30am service with Easter Ceremonies
Colourful painting of the last supper
Luke 22:20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
 Psalm 33:20-22 We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.
A Lego model of the empty tomb with the large round door moved to one side, with an angel upon it. Two female figures look inside with a bottle of oil stood on the floor. Happy Easter!

Stations of the Cross

A man kneels in prayer silhouetted in the sunset infront of three crosses on a hill
Join us for Stations of the Cross this Lent

During Lent Stations of the Cross will take place on 28th March and 11th April at 12.30pm

A reading and prayer is said at each of the stations around the church, with a different theme each session. It is a deep spiritual and contemplative experience during this time of Lent. All are welcome to join us.

Visiting Priests

We have booked priests to take services on the following dates:

Sunday 23rd March 2025

Sunday 27th April 2025

Sunday 4th May 2025

Sunday 29th June – Patronal Festival

If you or someone you know is a priest of our tradition and would like to take a service, please get in touch.

Graveyard Tidy Day

Tuesday March 4th 11am – 2pm

Working with Groundwork who will be holding an event in St Peter’s Square at the same time, we will be holding a graveyard tidy event for anyone who wants to get involved and spruce up St Peter’s graveyard. Free refreshments will be available for volunteers, and onsite toilets of course.

Many gravestones are unreadable at the moment, but are fascinating to see and research. The earliest stone is from 1768 when Mary Wolstoncroft was buried on the 19th June. We hope this event, if successful will be the first of many so we can make the local area look better, and rediscover some of the fascinating hidden tales the churchyard has to offer.

Poster for St Peter's Graveyard Tidy event, St Peter's Square, Stockport on Tuesday 4th March 11am - 2pm All welocme, free refreshments for volunteers

Christmas Services at St. Peter’s

A traditional painting of Mary gazing into the manger a Baby Jesus surrounded by light.
Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Join us over Christmas for our traditional services – all welcome:

Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 10.30am Sung Mass of the Nativity

Friday 27th December St. John Apostle & Evangelist 12.30pm Mass

Sunday 29th December “The Holy Family” 10.30am Sung Mass

Mary Joseph and baby Jesus in a crib - lego figures
Image by Jonathan Fahrny from Pixabay

Heritage Open Days 2024

It’s that Heritage Open Days time of year, and we are happy to be a part of the festival again this year. We are open Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September from 1pm to 4pm. Take a look inside this atmospheric church, pause to light a candle or peruse our church history exhibition. The original 1769 Whitehurst clock from the clock tower is also located on the ground floor and in full working order.

Iron frame containing the Whitehurst clock mechanism in St Peter's church

A new history display will chart St Peter’s journey from the 18th Century to the 21st, and include pictures from inside the tower which is inaccessible to the public.

Saturday is the date of our free Organ Concert too so pop along earlier if you like (10am-1pm), and listen to guest organists play our church and theatre organs, or piano.
On Sunday we will remain open following 10.30am Mass.

Hot and cold drinks available on both dates, and if you’re lucky there may still be cake left from the concert!

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