St Paul's Church, Hanging Heaton

13/06/2026

We might be without resident priests, we still like to welcome you whenever we can. Services this Sunday 14 June, second Sunday after Trinity, will be limited to one service: 9.30 AM ST THOMAS`S ONLY - Holy Communion.

The weekly online service comes from Dewsbury Minster in our neighbouring town, highlighting the theme of pilgrimage and the bus ministry Destination 21:1. It will be live from 9am on the CofE website, page or YouTube channel and available for playback immediately after. All of this service`s content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

06/06/2026

NB As we have no priests in residence we are dependent on the availability of clergy from elsewhere for communion services. So if communion is important to you, please be prepared that you might have to travel to a different church, especially as this also means that at times we have to cancel a service at the church you usually attend. Also remember that it is important that we still need to come together as a community of faith to support one another, and to keep on learning how to live out our faith day by day. So ....

Do join us at any of our services this Sunday 7 June, 1st Sunday after Trinity:

9.30am St Andrew's Purlwell - Holy Communion (the only Communion service in the Benefice);

9.30am St Thomas's Upper Batley - Morning prayer

11am St Paul's Hanging Heaton - NO SERVICE

11am Batley All Saints - Morning prayer

The online service comes from St John's church Blackpool and will be live from 9am on the C of E website, page or YouTube channel and is available for playback immediately after. All of this service content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

03/06/2026

30/05/2026

Sunday 31 May is Trinity Sunday celebrating and reflecting on the mystery of God, three persons in one. Do join us at any of our services:

9.30am St Andrew's - Holy Communion and St Thomas's - Morning Prayer

11am Batley All Saints - Holy Communion and St Paul's - Morning prayer

Our online service this week comes from the Woodbridge group of churches in North Wiltshire, and will link in with a series of daily reflections in 'Every Day Faith' on Pilgrimage. It will be live from 9am on the CofE website, page or YouTube channel and available for playback anytime thereafter. All of this service content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

PS Every Day Faith is a CofE App giving about 5 min daily reflections on a short bible reading linking our faith to everyday life. It can be downloaded from the CofE website or through any app store.

23/05/2026

Come, join us this Sunday 24 May, when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit who encourages and inspires us to live our daily lives in the light of God's love. WE HAVE JUST ONE SERVICE AT 10.30AM AT ST ANDREW'S PURLWELL with refreshments afterwards in the church hall.

This service is also our opportunity to thank God and Father Jonathan and Mother Jo for what they have brought us over the past three or so years before Jonathan takes up a new post at Lichfield Cathedral on 7 June.

The weekly online service, coming from Lambeth Palace, will be live from 9am on the C of E website, page or YouTube channel and is available for playback immediately after.

All of this service content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

16/05/2026

As always we stand ready to welcome you at any of our services this Sunday 17 May, the Sunday between Ascension and Pentecost, waiting and praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit. The three services at St Andrew's, St Pauls' and Batley All Saints are Holy communion, whilst the service at St Thomas's is Cafe church, an informal service with an opportunity to learn of God's love for each of us in a different way.
All services are at their usual times: 9.30am St Thomas's and St Andrew's, 11am St Paul's, Hanging Heaton and Batley All Saints.
The weekly online service comes from St Peter and St Paul's church in Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, winners of some national awards for their work of bringing Church and Community together. The service will be live from 9am on the C of E website, page or YouTube channel. It will be available for playback immediately after. All this service content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

09/05/2026

Do join us tomorrow, Sunday 10 May, at any of our services, where you will be warmly welcomed:

9.30am St Andrew's or St Thomas's - Holy Communion

11am St Paul's Hanging Heaton - Morning Prayer or Batley All Saints - Holy Communion

The weekly online service comes from Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon and will be live from 9am on the C of E website, page or YouTube channel and will be available for playback immediately after.

All of this service content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

02/05/2026

All of our four churches in the United Benefice of Batley stand ready to welcome you tomorrow, Sunday 3 May, the fifth Sunday of Easter at any of our services:
9.30am St Thomas's and St Andrew's; 11 am St Paul's Hanging Heaton - all three are Holy Communion.
The 11am service at Batley All Saints (Batley Parish) will be Cafe church: an informal form of worship in the Community Room, where all generations join together with the emphasis on craft and conversation over coffee and cake. So Sunday school will join us too!

The online service this week comes from St Paul's Ireland Wood in our own Diocese of Leeds, live from 9am on the C of E website, page or YouTube channel and will be available for playback immediately after. All of this service's content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.

Enjoy this bank holiday weekend.

18/04/2026

You'll be very welcome at any of our services in the United Benefice of Batley:

9.30am St Andrew's and St Thomas’s (Holy Communion)

11am St Paul's Hanging Heaton (Holy Communion) and Batley All Saints, also Holy Communion.
There will be Sunday school at Batley All Saints at 11am

The online service this week comes from St Luke's Moulsham in Chelmsford and is centred on the theme of hope. It will be live from 9am on the C of E website, page or YouTube channel and available for playback immediately after. All of this service content is manually subtitled and contains British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation throughout.