Parcevall Hall

Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer Retreat
2021-10-29 16:00 - 2021-10-31 15:00 UTC
Witness: Revd Martin Thorpe

A silent ‘listening’ weekend. ‘Jesus invites you into His Presence.’ Contemplative life is the expression of the desire to seek stillness amid the rush of life, to hear ‘the still small voice’ amid today’s modern clamour; to search for and listen to God.
Experienced with others in a group, silence is deeper and more powerful than when alone. By making a dedicated personal space for yourself and your relationship with God, you are giving yourself and Him a wonderful gift.
A Dominical saying is taken for each exercise and contemplated. We listen to God. In intercession towards the end of each exercise we bring others, family, friends and world events into the silence so that they too are enfolded in God’s purposes and healing.
Martin is Team Vicar at St James’ Westbrook Church in Warrington. To book, and for more information on any aspect of this FCP Retreat, please contact Sue Davies on 01924 255129/07749 592 858 or email susandavies367@gmail.com.
For more information about the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer visit www.contemplative-prayer.org.uk

Recorder Players' Workshop
2021-10-12 16:00 - 2021-10-14 15:00
Tutor: Sandra Foxall
Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are key. Expect a wide variety of interesting music and technique tuition, as required. For further details about the workshops themselves, you can contact paulinewelch.moorfield@gmail.com. To book and for all other enquiries, please contact the Hall directly.
Sandra has been Musical Director of the Cleveland branch of the Society of Recorder Players since 1979, and is also Musical Director of the North East Recorder Orchestra. She regularly conducts at national festivals and has tutored on playing days and residential courses. From 1988 to 2012 Sandra was the Administrator of the Recorder Summer School and from 1999, a course tutor.
*There is the option to stay for an additional day, with sessions led by Pauline Welch, departing at 3pm on 15 October.
3-night option – £270

Open Quiet Day
2021-10-11 10:00 - 16:00
Leader: Revd Ruth Harris

Journeying with Christ is the theme for our final Open Quiet Day this year. Using images of individual encounters with Christ, we will explore our own spiritual journeys.
Ruth is vicar in Skipton with Carleton and Area Dean. Originally from the Wakefield Area of the Diocese, she has served as a part time FE College Chaplain.
All are welcome. No booking is required, but please bring your own lunch.
Freewill offering

Friends of Parcevall Hall Eucharist & Lunch
2021-10-07 10:00 - 15:00
The Friends of Parcevall Hall meet for a tine of worship ad fellowship together over lunch.
Coffee and biscuits will be served from 10.30am.

Autumn Rambling in Wharfedale
2021-10-04 16:00 - 2021-10-07 10:00
Wharfedale offers a wealth of landscapes; wild moorland, limestone uplands, wooded alleys and gentle farmland, with the uninterrupted beauty of Upper Wharfedale laid out before you from the hilltops. The colours of autumn are spectacular.
We offer a choice each day of either short or longer walks with our guides, returning to the welcome and warmth of the Hall. Packed lunches are provided, but if at any time you would rather take a stroll around the gardens, lunch can be served for you in the dining room.
Our Chaplain, Canon Graham Bettridge will be resident at the Hall to provide spiritual leadership for those who wish to participate.

Literature Appreciation: Tales from the Underworld
2021-09-21 16:00 - 2021-09-23 15:00
Tutor: Hugh Parry

The borderline between Earth and Hell has always been permeable enough to enable writers to invite some unsavoury characters to pay us a visit and curdle our blood. The fear is salutary, no doubt – and the commercial potential gratifying. This course will look at creepy and demonic spiritual intruders – mostly in early drama, but with one or two surprises, just in case you thought you were safe.
Hugh Parry has offered adult education classes in literature for over 30 years. Although loyal all his life to Shakespeare, he has over the years given courses on a diverse range of topics, including detective fiction, utopias, ghost stories, Cowper, Swift and R S Thomas.

Heart & Soul Singing Retreat
2021-09-03 16:00 - 2021-09-05 15:00
Tutor: Keely Hodgson

Combine singing in harmony with rest nurture and inspiration. No previous singing experience, or the ability to read music, is required. A varied repertoire of songs and rounds are sensitively taught using call and response.
Keely Hodgson is a composer and natural voice practitioner. She has worked as a music specialist in primary and special school settings and leads a number of community singing groups, including Ben Rhydding Community Choir. She organises local monthly events of music and the spoken word.
Keely is committed to sharing the sense of well-being and soulful connection that singing with other can bring, and helping those who have not sung before to discover their unique voice.

Art Appreciation II - Laura Knight and English Impressionism
2021-08-17 16:00 - 2021-08-19 15:30
Tutor: Tim Stimson
Laura Knight’s career began in earnest at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, with her husband-to-be, Harold, and other artists inspired by outdoor painting. In paint and prose she expressed her admiration and solidarity with the hardy fisher folk of Staithes whilst developing her own painting techniques. The Staithes painters were part of the ‘plein air’ movement which erupted in the 1870s.
At Newlyn on the Cornish coast, Laura Knight discovered herself and her art. At the artists’ community revolving around Stanhope Forbes and other talented artists, her brightly-coloured poster-like clarity and optimism ensured her increasing popularity. Her move to London with Harold opened the subject matter or which she has become famous – gypsies, the ballet and circuses. Between the wars Dame Laura Knight was undoubtedly the most popular British painter, interest in whom has re-emerged recently.
Tim’s involvement with art began with the practical. For a number of years he was a professional painter and ceramicist in Scotland and Wales, before returning to university to study literature and the history of art.
For the last 30 years he has been a freelance cultural/art historian, specialising in 17th- and 19th- century art and society. he now lectures for the University of Cambridge, the WEA, the Art Fund and the Arts Society (previously NADFAS), and presents residential study courses in Britain and Europe. Tim has now completed two lecture tours of Australia, the last in 2016, and presented a lecture for Hull City of Culture 2017 on T E Ferens, patron of Hull’s newly refurbished gallery.

Recorder Players' Workshop
2021-08-13 16:00 - 2021-08-15 16:00
Tutor: Terry Smurthwaite
Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are key. Expect a wide variety of interesting music and technique tuition, as required. For further details about the workshops themselves, you can contact paulinewelch.moorfield@gmail.com. To book and for all other enquiries, please contact the Hall directly.
Terry regularly conducts Society of Recorder Players’ meetings at Leeds, Bingley and York. He also conducts a group which meets weekly in Ilkley and has recently founded and conducts The Rombalds Recorders, a group set up to perform early music. In addition to bringing a wide range of music, he is asos able to offer advice on the techniques of ensemble playing and musicianship.

Open Quiet Day II
2021-07-19 10:00 - 16:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Leader: Revd John Bennett
A Way of Reflecting
Revd John Bennett is a former Methodist superintendent in our area, who in 2009 was ordained as an Anglican Deacon at a service at Bolton Priory, where he worked for some time as a non-stipendary curate. Formerly John trained priests teachers and church leaders at St Andrew’s Theological College in Dhaka, where he had responsibility for the English speaking congregation and was lay training programme officer for Bangladesh. He regularly serves at the Anglican Chaplaincy in Taormina, Sicily.
All are welcome. No booking is required, but please bring your own lunch.
Freewill offering

Friends of Parcevall Hall Annual Gathering & AGM
2021-07-05 16:00 - 2021-07-07 15:00
The Friends of Parcevall Hall meet for a time of fellowship and sharing together at the Hall. The AGM takes place on Tuesday 6th July.
Full gathering: £156
Day guest – AGM & lunch: £23
Day guest – AGM, lunch & dinner: £39

For the Peace of the City: Christian-Muslim relations in Britain today
2021-06-21 16:00 - 2021-06-23 15:00
This event has unfortunately been cancelled, but will be included on the programme for next year.
Tutor: Dr Phil Lewis
This retreat presupposes no knowledge of Islam. After a brief introduction, there are four sessions: the first will look at ‘Worship in Islam’ where worship will be the lens through which we see how the Islamic tradition developed over time. It is appropriate to begin with a focus on worship since Islam literally means ‘surrender’/’submission’ to God.
The second session will look sequentially at how first Jesus, and then Muhammad, is understood in the Qur’an and, briefly, in the Islamic tradition. This will draw attention to both similarities and radical differences in how shared religious categories are understood across both traditions, for example, prophecy, martyrdom and ‘God’/’Allah’.
Our third session will delve into how religious leaders – ‘ulama – who provide mosque personnel, as well as legal specialists, are trained in the more than 20 Islamic seminaries in Britain. This will make clear the crisis in religious formation and attempts to address this crisis.
Finally, we will look at the enormous social and religious challenges facing Muslims as a minority in British society, and how Christians are responding to such challenges and creating a more hopeful, shared future.
There will be plenty of opportunities during this retreat to chat informally about issues which interest or concern retreatants about Islam.
After six years researching and lecturing at an ecumenical Christian Study Centre in Pakistan, Dr Phil Lewis spent over twenty five years advising Anglican bishops of Bradford on Christian-Muslim relations, and lecturing in the Peace Studies Department at Bradford University on Islam in the West & Religions, Conflict and Peacemaking. His passion is how Christians and Muslims might live well together, while acknowledging that both remain missionary religions with often difficult, intertwined histories. He was part of the national Christian-Muslim forum set up in 2006 and sat on the European Council of Churches’ Islam in Europe committee. He has written three books on Islam in Britain, the last with a Muslim friend, entitled: Muslims in Britain: new directions in Islamic thought, creativity and activism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). In retirement, he continues to write, review for the Church Times, and teach ordinands about Islam in Britain and Christian-Muslim relations.

Anglican Association Retreat
2021-06-07 16:00 - 2021-06-11 10:00
Please note: This retreat has been moved to 27th September – 1st October 2021. Contact details for information and booking remain the same.
Conductor: Rt Revd Harold Godfrey
Services will be in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorised Version of the Bible. It is not necessary to be a member of the Anglican Association to come on this retreat, and all are welcome.
All bookings should be made through Mrs Rosemary Hall. Rosemary is also the contact for question and enquiries relating to this event. Telephone 0191 285 7534 or email hallrosyhall@gmail.com

Recorder Players' Workshop
2021-05-28 16:00 - 2021-05-30 16:00
Tutor: Ruth Burbidge
Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are key. Expect a wide variety of interesting music and technique tuition, as required. For further details about the workshops themselves, you can contact paulinewelch.moorfield@gmail.com. To book and for all other enquiries, please contact the Hall directly.
Ruth’s musical training includes three years at the Royal Academy of Music, and after several years’ teaching, a year at Trinity College of Music. Well known for her accompanying and tutoring skills, she is experienced in conducting small groups, chamber groups and orchestras throughout the UK. Ruth visits the USA each year to join the faculty on a workshop in Connecticut.

Friends of Parcevall Hall Eucharist & Annual Dinner
2021-05-19 16:00 - 21:30
The Friends of Parcevall Hall meet for a time of worship and fellowship over a three course dinner, served with wine.
Dinner: £22
Dinner, Bed & Breakfast: £73

Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer Retreat I
2021-05-11 16:00 - 2021-05-14 15:00
This event is cancelled
Witness: Revd Brenda Lofthouse
A silent ‘listening’ retreat. He brought me to His banqueting house and His banner over me is love.’ Contemplative life is the expression of the desire to seek stillness amid the rush of life, to hear ‘the still small voice’ amid today’s clamour; to search for and listen to God. By making a space for yourself and your relationship with God, you are giving yourself and Him a wonderful gift.
To book, and for more information on any aspect of this FCP Retreat, please contact Sue Davies on 01924 255129 or 07749 592 858; email susandavies367@gmail.com. For more information about the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer visit www.contemplative-prayer.org,uk
There is a second FCP Retreat for 2021 from 29 – 31 October

Julian of Norwich: 'within listening distance of the silence we call God'
2021-05-10 10:00 - 20:30
This event is cancelled
A study day with Joyce Simpson
‘What seek ye?’, or ‘What do you want?’ are the first words Jesus utters in St John’s Gospel. Julian’s reply is direct and firm: ‘God of your goodness give me yourself’. How does Julian, an anchorite in 14th century Norwich, challenge and support pilgrims in the 21st century? Just as from the window of her cell Julian gave comfort and counsel to the burdened and perplexed, so many have found that to spend time in the company of her book, The Revelations of Divine Love, is to find strength for the journey through life.
Joyce Simpson, retired Head of Humanities at Leeds Trinity University, for many years taught medieval literature to undergraduates, and has a particular interest in Julian of Norwich, who lived through ‘an age of adversity’, characterised by epidemic, war, civic conflict, and harsh struggles for social justice. The day is a quest to discover for ourselves the truth of her insight that ‘Love was his meaning’. Along the way we will ponder ‘Julian and Desire’, ‘Julian and Fear’, ‘Julian and Trust’, and consider the encounter between Julian and that flamboyant pilgrim, Margery Kempe.
Arrival at 10am for Holy Communion at 10.15am. The price includes coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and evening meal.
*There is the option to stay overnight on Monday 10th May.

Art Appreciation I - Cartoonery: English Attitudes
2021-05-04 16:00 - 2021-05-06 15:00
This event is cancelled
Tutor: Tim Stimson
Many artists have discovered that humour is the key to winning the hearts of the English! Caricature, satire and the cartoon have given pleasure, satisfaction, amusement and relief, whilst drawing down censure and puncturing pomposity across class divides since the 18th century.
From the witty and genteel to the vicious and scurrilous, these pithy encapsulations of the recognisable, continue to have relevance today. They are miniature masterpieces, ephemeral yet enduring through time. From the Georgians; Gillray & Rowlandson, to Punch and Strand cartoonists, Tenniel, Sambourne, Leach and Dickie Doyle and from Thelwell to Scarfe, these virtual drolleries have lost none of their appeal.
Tim’s involvement in art began with the practical. For a number of years, he was a professional painter and ceramicist in Scotland and Wales, before returning to university to study literature and the history of art.
For the last 30 years he has been a freelance cultural/art historian, specialising in 17th- and 19th-century art and society. He now lectures for the University of Cambridge, the WEA, the Art Fund and the Arts Society (formerly NADFAS), and presents residential study courses in Britain and Europe. Tim has now completed two lecture tours of Australia, the last in 2016, and presented a lecture of Hull City of Culture 2017 on T E Ferens, patron of Hull’s newly refurbished gallery.
The second Art Appreciation event in 2021 is from 17 – 19 August.

Open Quiet Day I
2021-04-26 10:00 - 16:00
This Open Quiet Day is cancelled
Leader: Revd Nicholas Mercer
‘The Subtle Violence of Busyness’

Revd Nicholas Mercer leads us in a reflection on the lockdown during Covid-19.
Nicholas Mercer was ordained in 2011 after twenty five years as a solicitor. After a curacy in Dorset and three years as a school chaplain, he was appointed as the Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley, Falkland Islands, which included South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctica.
All are welcome. No booking is required, but please bring your own lunch.
Freewill offering

Easter Retreat
2021-04-01 16:00 - 2021-04-05 10:00
This retreat is cancelled
Leader: Canon Graham Bettridge
Join us at Parcevall Hall for this most special week of the year. The programme will be led by our chaplain, Canon Graham Bettridge, taking time to reflect on the significance of Holy Week, and celebrating together the triumph of Easter Day.

Friends of Parcevall Hall Eucharist & Christmas Lunch
2020-12-14 11:00 - 15:00
The Friends of Parcevall Hall meet for a time of worship and fellowship together over a traditional Christmas Lunch. Coffee and biscuits will be served from 10.30am.

Recorder Players' Workshop V
2020-12-04 16:00 - 2020-12-06 15:00
Tutor: Hilary Oliver
Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are key. Expect a wide variety of interesting music and technique tuition, as required. Contact Pauline on paulinewelch.moorfield@gmail.com for further details. Bookings should be made through the Hall.
Hilary is a retired music teacher having played recorder for over 50 years. She started conducting and teaching whilst in the school sixth form, then continued her musical studies at the Birmingham School of Music. She has worked as a peripatetic woodwind tutor for more than 25 years. Playing in a local consort as well as an early music wind ensemble, she also conducts SRP meetings to indulge her passion for both ancient and modern recorder music.

Advent Retreat: Praying the Psalms in Advent
2020-12-01 16:00 - 2020-12-04 15:00
Leader: Canon Adrian Botwright
Sadly Fr Bill Scott, a long-time friend and supporter of Parcevall Hall, who was going to lead this retreat for us, died on 17th July this year.
Praying the Psalms in Advent
Canon Adrian Botwright was Rector of Holy Trinity in Skipton for almost 20 years. He now lives in Thirsk and focuses on leading retreats, quiet days, offering spiritual direction and serving as Chaplain in various places, including four weeks each year on Bardsey Island. He enjoys hugely music, poetry, walking, trains, a campervan, and scuba diving.

Literature Appreciation II
2020-11-13 16:00 - 2020-11-15 15:00
Tales from the Underworld
Tutor: Hugh Parry

The borderline between Earth and Hell has always been permeable enough to enable writers to invite some unsavoury characters to pay us a visit and curdle our blood. The fear is salutary, no doubt – and the commercial potential gratifying. This course will look at creepy and demonic spiritual intruders – mostly in early drama, but with one or two modern surprises, just in case you thought you were safe.
Hugh Parry has offered adult education classes in literature for over 30 years. Although loyal all his life to Shakespeare, he has over the years given courses on a diverse range of topics, including detective fiction, utopias, ghost stories, Cowper, Swift and R S Thomas.

'No Coward Soul is Mine'; Women, Poetry & Spirituality
2020-11-09 16:00 - 2020-11-11 15:00
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
Tutors: Professor Rosemary Mitchell & Dr Hannah Stone
This two day residential course will explore the intersections between women’s lives, poetry and spirituality. Academics and poets Hannah Stone and Rosemary Mitchell will share poetry focusing on religious women, including Joan of Arc and Julian of Norwich – from their recent collection, Holding up Half the Sky.
Rosemary and Hannah will also introduce you to women writers of spiritual poetry form the past and the present, including Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Raine, Mary Oliver, Christy Ducker, and Yorkshire-based Clare Wigzell and Pam Scobie.
Two poetry workshops offer the opportunity to craft your own poetic response to spiritual women who have inspired you, Rosemary and Hannah will also offer one to one supervisions; chances to discuss what you have written and elements of your own spiritual journey discovered through poetry. There is no need to bring any prepared work, but if you wish to use existing poetry drafts that would be most welcome.
Rosemary Mitchell is Professor Emerita of Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University, where she served as Director for the Centre for Victorian Studies for seven years. She studied 19th-century French art history as a postgraduate at the University of Oxford, where she took her doctorate. She is currently training for ordination in the Church of England, and is a frequent speaker at courses which explore the arts, spirituality, and faith.
Hannah Stone is the author of two collections of poetry, Lodestone and Missing Miles. One of the poems from Lodestone was chosen by American Poet Laureate Billy Collins to win the Yorkshire Poetry Prize in 2015. She convenes the annual poets/composers forum for the Leeds Lieder Festival. She was a Reader in Eastern Christianity at Leeds Trinity University, with numerous academic publications focusing on the spirituality of the early Eastern Christian Church and Mid-Byzantine Church history.

Heart & Soul Singing Retreat III
2020-11-06 16:00 - 2020-11-08 15:00
Tutor: Keely Hodgson
Combine singing in harmony with nurture, rest and inspiration. No previous singing experience, or the ability to read music, is required. A varied repertoire of songs and rounds are sensitively taught using call and response.
Keely Hodgson is a composer and natural voice practitioner. She has worked as a music specialist in primary and special school settings and leads a number of community singing groups, including Ben Rhydding Community Choir. She organises local monthly events of music and the spoken word.
Keely is committed to sharing the sense of well-being and soulful connection that singing with others can bring, and helping those who have not sung before to discover their unique voice.

Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer Retreat II
2020-10-30 16:00 - 2020-11-01 16:00
THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED
I know the plans I have for you
Plans to prosper and not to harm
Plans to give you hope and a future
Jeremiah Ch 29 v 11
Contemplative life is the expression of the desire to seek stillness amid the rush of life, to hear ‘the still small voice’ amid today’s modern clamour; to search for and listen to God.
Experienced with others in a group, silence is deeper and more powerful than when alone. It is greatly helpful and encouraging. By making a dedicated personal space for yourself and your relationship with God, you are giving yourself and Him a wonderful gift.
A Dominical saying is taken for each exercise and contemplated. We listen to God. In intercession towards the end of each exercise we bring others, family, friends and world events into the silence so that they too are enfolded in God’s purposes and healing.
To book, and for more information on any aspect of this FCP Retreat, please contact Sue Davies on 01924 255129 or 07749 592 858; email susandavies367@gmail.com. For more information about the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer visit www.contemplative-prayer.org.uk.

Recorder Players' Workshop IV*
2020-10-13 16:00 - 2020-10-15 15:00
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED

Tutor: Sandra Foxall
Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at experienced adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them. The ability to hold your own part in a group and good sight-reading skills are key. Expect a wide variety of interesting music and technique tuition, as required. Contact Pauline at paulinewelch.moorfield@gmail.com for further details. Bookings should be made through the Hall.
Sandra has been Musical Director of the Cleveland Branch of the Society of Recorder Players since 1979, and is also Musical Director of the North East Recorder Orchestra. She regularly conducts at national festivals and has tutored on playing days and residential courses. From 1988 to 2012 Sandra was the Administrator of the Recorder Summer School and from 1999 a course tutor.
* There is the option to stay for an additional day, with sessions led by Pauline Welch, departing at 3pm on 16th October.
Price for 2-night workshop: £185
Price for 3-night workshop: £263

Open Quiet Day IV
2020-10-12 10:00 - 16:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Leader: Revd Canon Dr Flora Winfield
‘Burned by my vision of a world that shone’; walking through autumn in poems, psalms and prayers. The line comes from Clive James’ poem, ‘Japanese Maple’ in Sentenced to Life.
Among the first women to be ordained in the Church of England, Flora Winfield has worked in parish ministry, university and military chaplaincy, ecumenical relations, international conflict transformation and humanitarian diplomacy.
Since 2007, Flora has been a member of the personal staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 2014-2017 as the Anglican Communion Permanent Representative to the United Nations. At present she is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special Representative to the Commonwealth.
All are welcome. No booking is required, but please bring your own lunch.
Free will offering

Autumn in Poems, Psalms & Prayers
2020-10-11 16:00 - 2020-10-13 10:00
Leader: Revd Canon Dr Flora Winfield
A two-night retreat, with a full day led by Flora Winfield.
‘Burned by my vision of a world that shone’. The line comes from Clive James’ poem, ‘Japanese Maple’ in Sentenced to Life.
Among the first women to be ordained in the Church of England, Flora Winfield has worked in parish ministry, university and military chaplaincy, ecumenical relations, international conflict transformation and humanitarian diplomacy.
Since 2007, Flora has been a member of the personal staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 2014 – 2017 as the Anglican Communion Permanent Representative to the United Nations. At present she is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special representative to the Commonwealth.
Flora will lead our day together on Monday 12th October. This retreat replaces the Open Quiet Day, which due to restrictions on numbers, can no longer go ahead. The maximum number of participants will be 7, and bookings are on a first-come-first served basis.
