Parcevall Hall

Recorder Players' Workshop
2021-05-28 16:00 - 2021-05-30 16:00 UTC
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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer Retreat
2021-10-29 16:00 - 2021-10-31 15:00
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

Advent Retreat
2021-11-30 16:00 - 2021-12-03 14:00
Leader: Joyce Simpson
‘Let us now go even unto Bethlehem.’

The journey to Bethlehem passes through the wilderness, where John, the desert wild man, insists that change is necessary, and change is coming. As pilgrims, in the company of poets, we shall venture into the wilderness, seeking to confront afresh the silence and resonance of God. With perhaps both hope and fear in our hearts, we shall move expectantly towards the question: ‘What might happen if we were to invite God into our lives that bit more radically?’
Joyce Simpson is the retired Head of Humanities at Leeds Trinity University, where she established an MA programme in Literature and Spirituality. Nowadays she delights in discovering the thoughts and insights of fellow-voyagers from different walks of life.

Recorder Players' Workshop
2021-12-03 16:00 - 2021-12-05 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. 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.
Hilary is a retired music teacher having played recorder for over 50 years. She started conducting and teaching whilst in the school 6th 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.

Friends of Parcevall Hall Eucharist & Christmas Lunch
2021-12-13 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.

Christmas Houseparty & Retreat
2021-12-23 16:00 - 2021-12-27 10:00
Spend a traditional Christmas in the warm and welcoming surroundings of Parcevall Hall. Home-cooked food, traditional games and times for reflection shared in good company, all help us to rediscover the true meaning of Christmas in this special celebration.

Open Quiet Day I
2022-01-24 10:00 - 16:00
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. Following a curacy in Dorset and three years as a school chaplain, he was appointed as the Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley in the Falkland Islands which included South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctica.
During his tenure, he conducted a service at the whalers’ station in South Georgia where he preached on the ‘silent land’. This retreat explores, in the light of the various lockdowns during COVID-19, what it might mean to enter the silent land and how God may be encountered.
This is a free event, but please note, booking is now required. Please email or phone the office to book your place.
Please bring your own lunch.
Freewill offering

Heart & Soul Singing Retreat I
2022-02-18 16:00 - 2022-02-20 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 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.
There is a second Heart & Soul Singing retreat from 13 – 15 July, and a third from 14 – 16 October.

Clergy Reading Week
2022-02-21 10:00 - 2022-02-25 10:00
Leader: Revd Canon Andrew Tawn
An opportunity to take time away from the parish to read, reflect, walk, chat, rest and sleep. You are invited to bring along books of your own choice of a theological or spiritual nature. All who are present share with the group which books they have chosen and why. This often leads to conversations with each other during the retreat about books of mutual interest.
After that introduction, apart from meal and prayer times, the remainder of this retreat is relaxed and unstructured – a time of refreshment for body, mind and soul in a place of beauty and peace. The cost can be paid from your CMD retreat grant. If you have not been involved in this event before and would like to know more, please contact Revd Canon Andrew Tawn. For bookings, please contact Parcevall Hall.
Andrew Tawn is Director of Clergy Development for the Diocese of Leeds. Before that he was rector of Addingham. Once upon a time he was a secondary school teacher, and his interest and enthusiasm for how we learn has always been an important strand in his ministry, being involved in training ordinands, Readers and curates before his present full time training role. He loves reading, walking and good food – all of which ingredients are part of the Clergy Reading Week at Parcevall Hall.

Lent Retreat - God's creation inspiring us through Lent
2022-03-01 16:00 - 2022-03-04 15:00
Leader: Revd Ruth Harris
Journeying with Christ is the theme for the Lent Retreat this year.
We have all had a difficult few years coping with Covid and all the measures implemented such as lockdowns and restrictions on meeting with each other. In this time of trial many found new links with the natural world and realised that to slow down and see wildlife, gardens and the rhythm of nature is beneficial to our souls. On this retreat for Lent we will be looking again at God’s world and how it inspires us. Lent is often seen as a time of giving up something, but this retreat will help us find more in God’s creation to encourage us on our journey towards Easter. We will discover more about how Creation can help us draw closer to the Creator.
Ruth is retired and previously served a vicar in Skipton with Carleton, and was Area Dean for the Skipton Deanery. Originally from the Wakefield area, she has served as a part time FE College Chaplain as well as a parish priest. Ruth is a Spiritual Director for the Diocese and serves as part of the Diocesan Tanzania Link Committee. Before ordination, Ruth worked as an archivist for the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Friends of Parcevall Hall Eucharist & Lunch
2022-03-07 11:00 - 15:00
The Friends of Parcevall Hall meet for a time of worship and fellowship together over lunch.
Coffee and biscuits will be served from 10.30am.

Recorder Players' Workshop I
2022-03-15 16:00 - 2022-03-17 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.
Hilary is a retired music teacher who has played recorder for over 50 years. She started conducting and teaching whilst in the school 6th 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.

A Day of Silence, Prayer and Reflection - Being with Jesus
2022-03-22 11:30 - 15:30
Leader: The Right Reverend Lord Hope

You are welcome to begin this day of silence, reflection and prayer by joining our weekly Holy Communion at 10.15am, otherwise the day will begin at 11.30am, and includes lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea.
David Hope was born in Wakefield where he attended the Grammar School and sang in the Cathedral Choir. He went on to Nottingham University where he gained a degree in Theology, and then to St Stephen’s House, Oxford, to prepare for ordination. Whilst there he gained a doctorate in early liturgical texts. He was ordained in 1965 in Liverpool where he served a curacy for four years, part of this time spent as a priest student in Bucharest, licensed to serve in Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria! – all still under strict communist regimes. His first incumbency was in Warrington, a council estate of some 15.000. He returned to St Stephen’s House as Principal in 1974 and in 1982 became Vicar of All Saints Church in the west end of London. In 1985 he returned to Wakefield as Diocesan Bishop, and in 1991 became Bishop of London. In 1995 he became Archbishop of York. Following retirement in 2005 he returned to parish life as vicar of St Margaret’s Ilkley, but retired due to ill health eighteen months later. He now describes himself as priest of last resort!
The price for this event includes lunch

The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales: Chiang Yee
2022-03-28 11:00 - 13:30
Tutor: Will Poulter
Chiang Lee left China and came to England in 1933. He travelled much of the country, and was a regular guest of Sir William Milner at Parcevall Hall. He documented these times with writings and paintings, observed through the lens of a different culture and in a distinctly Chinese style. His book The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales is one of a series he wrote whilst living in England in the 1930s and 40s. Join Will Poulter as he talks about Chiang Lee’s life, writings and paintings, and his intriguing depictions of the Yorkshire landscape.
Since 2001, William has worked in a variety of capacities for Leeds Library and also as a Communities Librarian. His career has included several roles in specialist departments. He is currently a Librarian for the Business & IP Centre.
Prior to 2001, he studied art, design, illustration and photography at Leeds College of Art, and later completed a degree in Philosophy and Creative Writing. Alongside his love of art, philosophy and literature, he has a particular passion for Oriental art and thinking, with a special interest in Zen and Ch’an ideas. William trained as a bookbinder and now volunteers in this capacity at the private Leeds Library.
This option includes lunch.

The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales: Chiang Yee
2022-03-28 14:30 - 16:30
Tutor: Will Poulter
Chiang Lee left China and came to England in 1933. He travelled much of the country, and was a regular guest of Sir William Milner at Parcevall Hall. He documented these times with writings and paintings, observed through the lens of a different culture and in a distinctly Chinese style. His book The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales is one of a series he wrote whilst living in England in the 1930s and 40s. Join Will Poulter as he talks about Chiang Lee’s life, writings and paintings, and his intriguing depictions of the Yorkshire landscape.
Since 2001, William has worked in a variety of capacities for Leeds Library and also as a Communities Librarian. His career has included several roles in specialist departments. He is currently a Librarian for the Business & IP Centre.
Prior to 2001, he studied art, design, illustration and photography at Leeds College of Art, and later completed a degree in Philosophy and Creative Writing. Alongside his love of art, philosophy and literature, he has a particular passion for Oriental art and thinking, with a special interest in Zen and Ch’an ideas. William trained as a bookbinder and now volunteers in this capacity at the private Leeds Library.
This option includes afternoon tea.

Spring Walking in Wharfedale
2022-03-29 16:00 - 2022-04-01 15:00
Wharfedale has a variety of landscapes; wild moorland, limestone uplands, wooded valleys and gentle farmland, with the uninterrupted beauty of Upper Wharfedale visible from the hilltops.
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 here for a part of your stay to provide spiritual leadership for those who would like to participate.
Our second walking break this year is from 24 – 27 October

Anglican Association Retreat (part silent)
2022-04-04 16:00 - 2022-04-08 10:00
Conductor: Canon Andy Hawes SSC
The Passion According to Luke
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 questions and enquiries relating to this event. Telephone 0191 285 7534 or email hallrosyhall@gmail.com

Literature Appreciation I
2022-04-12 16:00 - 2022-04-14 15:00
Chaucer
Tutor: Hugh Parry
Chaucer now seems to be treated as the purveyor of rollicking pseudo-Medieval romps, flattened of course in to modern English: not a fate which genius deserves. This course will sidestep the favourites beloved of travelling players and setters of school syllabuses, and give a glimpse of his quality through some of his less familiar Canterbury Tales, as well as taking you on a journey to some strange places of the imagination where you will meet duchesses, goddesses, bird, good women – and not so good women.
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.
The second Literature Appreciation event this year is from 27 – 30 September
