Bolton Priory

17/03/2026

We’d love you to join us for The Cross of Christ on Sunday 22 March at 4.30pm as we begin the journey into Passiontide.

This special service will include selected Bible readings, cherished hymns, and exquisite choral music by Tallis, Byrd, and J.S. Bach, sung by an augmented choir.

Everyone is warmly invited.

14/03/2026

🌼 Easter Lilies at Bolton Priory 🌼

Each Easter the Priory Church is beautifully decorated with lilies. Donations are welcomed in memory of loved ones or in celebration of Easter.

Members of the Flower Team will be in the Tower after the Sunday morning service on:

📅 15 March
📅 22 March
📅 29 March

Donations can be made in cash, by cheque or via online banking.

Cheque payments
Please make cheques payable to Bolton Priory Flower Fund and include your name and telephone number (on the reverse or attached).
If leaving your cheque at the Priory Office, please also include the name(s) of those you wish to remember.

Online banking
If you would prefer to donate via online banking, please call Liz Clayton on 07880 700339 for the details.

🕊 The final date for donations is Sunday 29 March.

Thank you for helping us decorate the Priory for Easter.

13/03/2026

This Sunday is Mothering Sunday 💐

Come and join us at our 10.30am Service when the Very Reverend Catherine Ogle (former Dean of Wi******er Cathedral) will be preaching.

11/03/2026

We're busy getting ready for Easter at the Priory, please see below our list of services.

11/03/2026

Join us this Saturday for a fascinating talk at our Annual St Cuthbert's Lecture at Bolton Priory

2026 St Cuthbert Lecture is Saturday 14th March at Bolton Priory at 4pm.
Free entry for this Annual event, which will be a fascinating insight into the role of visual art and the church.

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Bolton Abbey

11/03/2026

Tickets are on sale now

CHARITY LUNCHTIME OPERA GALA
Kings Hall & Winter Gardens, Ilkley
Sunday 26 April 2026

I’m delighted to be hosting a very special Lunchtime Opera Gala in support of the inspiring charity TeleEEG, whose work is transforming access to neurological care around the world.

I’ll be joined by a wonderful group of artists:
Elgan Thomas, tenor
Katie Stillman, violin (Orchestra Leader, Opera North)
Jonathan Fisher, piano

An afternoon of opera, storytelling and music-making, followed by a two-course lunch, with dessert by award-winning pastry chef Emma Lawson.

The event also includes:
– Introductory talk by Dr Steve Coates, Founder of TeleEEG
– Meet the Artists, in conversation
– Opera Gala, Silent Auction & Raffle

VIP Tickets £110 (including lunch)
Doors open 11.45am | Seated by 12.15pm

Box Office: 01274 432000
bradford-theatres.co.uk

Opera with purpose, in support of a truly vital cause. I’d love to see you there.

LiveOpera ClassicalMusic

10/03/2026

What an amazing way of recreating what Whitby Abbey would have looked like!

Wonder if they could recreate Bolton Priory with drones?

🤩 The ruins of Whitby Abbey, with drones lighting up and showing how it would have looked.

📸 DRIFT/ Cyberdrone

10/03/2026

International Women’s Day was celebrated after the 10.30am service last Sunday, with delicious cakes baked by the coffee team and flowers supplied by Hannah Theakston.

A big thank you to everyone who prepared the room, baked cakes, brewed and served coffee and washed up afterwards.

06/03/2026

This coming Sunday is the Third Sunday in Lent.

We will be remembering the saints Perpetua and Felicity in our service who were martyrs in Carthage in 203AD. They were women who defied cultural and gender norms in the Early Church and who stand as exemplars of the faith to this day.

Their Feast Day comes after the International Women’s Day of Prayer which is celebrated today, Friday 6th March and which will also be remembered in our service.

06/03/2026

2026 St Cuthbert Lecture is Saturday 14th March at Bolton Priory at 4pm.
Free entry for this Annual event, which will be a fascinating insight into the role of visual art and the church.

!

Bolton Abbey

06/03/2026

Friend of the Priory, Alexandra Lowe, has an upcoming event locally at King's Hall and Winter Garden, Ilkley on Sunday 26th April. A charity lunchtime concert in a unique venue in Ilkley.
Tickets including lunch, with dessert from the amazing Baked by Emma Lawson

available now from https://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/charity-lunchtime-opera-gala

CHARITY LUNCHTIME OPERA GALA
Kings Hall & Winter Gardens, Ilkley
Sunday 26 April 2026

I’m delighted to be hosting a very special Lunchtime Opera Gala in support of the inspiring charity TeleEEG, whose work is transforming access to neurological care around the world.

I’ll be joined by a wonderful group of artists:
Elgan Thomas, tenor
Katie Stillman, violin (Orchestra Leader, Opera North)
Jonathan Fisher, piano

An afternoon of opera, storytelling and music-making, followed by a two-course lunch, with dessert by award-winning pastry chef Emma Lawson.

The event also includes:
– Introductory talk by Dr Steve Coates, Founder of TeleEEG
– Meet the Artists, in conversation
– Opera Gala, Silent Auction & Raffle

VIP Tickets £110 (including lunch)
Doors open 11.45am | Seated by 12.15pm

Box Office: 01274 432000
bradford-theatres.co.uk

Opera with purpose, in support of a truly vital cause. I’d love to see you there.

LiveOpera ClassicalMusic

02/03/2026

St David’s day was celebrated at Bolton Priory, with the Lord’s Prayer spoken in Welsh and singing of great uplifting hymns, accompanied by our Organ Scholar, who played her first solo service wonderfully!

We had fantastic Welsh refreshments after the service in the Boyle Room. A huge thank you to this weeks coffee team, who put on a magnificent spread of Leek vol au vents, bara brith, buns with daffodils on, Welsh Cakes and the lightest strawberry cream cake! The Boyle room was decorated with daffodils and leeks!

A huge thank you to Liz, Caro, Rosemarie and Carole. St David was celebrated in style and enjoyed by everyone.




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