Autumn-Winter Events at Parcevall Hall There are still a few places available on the following retreats at the end of 2025. To book a place, please contact the office on admin@parcevallhall.org.uk or 01756 720213 Recorder Players’ Workshop 14 - 16 October led by Hilary Oliver This residential is for recorder...
Open Quiet Days and Retreat Days at Parcevall Hall 2026 Open Quiet Days Our Open Quiet Days are gentle days of prayer and reflection. Each Quiet Day has its own theme, and the pattern of the day is designed by the leader to include guided reflection and free time, talking...
Parcevall Hall is pleased to announce the appointment of Revd Jenny Savage as Chaplain. Bishop Anna writes, "Parcevall Hall is a special haven and sanctuary for anyone seeking rest and time to nurture faith and spirituality. As the Hall launches a new vision to improve accessibility and facilities, and develop...
Jesus Calms the Storm This painting is one of a number produced by an Indian artist, Alfred Thomas, and first published by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1948. His paintings place Jesus and his followers in Indian settings making use of Indian symbolism interpreted in the...
Titian’s famous resurrection painting depicts the encounter between Jesus and Mary Magdalene shortly after dawn on the first Easter day when Jesus had risen from the garden tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathea. When Mary found the tomb empty, she became distressed thinking that the body had been stolen. Unexpectedly,...
Book of Nature Retreat – Timetable Friday 16.00 Arrivals, afternoon tea and household notices 17.00 A Life in Nature - words and silence 18.00 Evening meal 19.30 First talk: Soil and soul 20.30 Evening Prayer (John Philip Newell) 21.00 Perhaps some star gazing - or tomorrow? Saturday 08.00 Morning Prayer...
Retreat for Extroverts 15-16 May led by Revd Matt Woodcock Coming up next month Revd Matt Woodcock will be leading a new venture for Parcevall – a Retreat for Extroverts. This 24 hour retreat is designed for people who find restoration and renewal in the company of others, and who...
St John of the Cross Salvador Dali Salvador Dali’s painting of 1951 was purchased by Glasgow Art Gallery amidst condemnation from art critics – ‘skilled sensationalist trickery’ and ‘calculated melodrama’. Despite this, the people of Glasgow flocked to see it – people of all faiths and none. Fifty thousand...
My Taize Pilgrimage Director of Parcevall Hall, Helen Reid, told the story of her pilgrimage to Taize in 2025 to the Pilgrimage Open Quiet Day in March 2025 We went as a family of four in a diocesan pilgrimage group of just over thirty people led by +Smitha. We hadn’t...