Churches in Burley
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Burley
Church of Saints John Fisher & Thomas More
Bradford Road LS29 7PX
(serves Burley, Menston, Tranmere Park & Hawksworth)
Priest: Revd Joe Smith, The Presbytery (next to Church) 863179, fax 864789
email – ssfisher.more@easynet.co.uk
website – www.rc.net/uk/leeds/ssfishermore
Deacon: Revd. Patrick Kenny 876545
Services
- Saturday: First Mass of Sunday 6pm
- Sunday: Masses 9am and 11am
- Holydays: Masses 9am and 7.30pm
- Weekdays: Wed and Sat Mass 10am
- Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: as announced on weekly newsletter
The Church is usually open for prayer each day between 9am and 7.30pm
All other activities, celebrations and events are advertised in the Parish Newsletter issued every weekend and available in the Church porch
METHODIST CHURCH
Burley
Main Street 863776
Minister: Revd. Helen Harrell, 53 Prospect Road 862179
Caretaker: Mrs Sally Lambert, 1 Lawn Road 863456
Services:
- Sunday
- 9am: Holy Communion (first in month)
- 10.30am: All-age Worship with crèche facilities and activities for children and young people
- 6pm: Evening Worship
- Wednesday: 10–10.30am: Prayer Meeting
- Thursday Cyber Café
- 3.30–5pm for School years 5 & 6, 7.30–9pm for years 7 to 10
- Last Friday of the month 2pm: “Tots and Teddies” service for pre–school children and carers
In addition to our services, we have a variety of weekly, fortnightly or monthly activities including house groups, meetings Bible study and discussion, Wednesday Meeting (talks, slide shows, musical evenings etc.), Table Tennis, Dance Club and a Walking Group.
We host a coffee morning in St Mary's Parish Centre on the second Saturday morning of each month to raise funds for a variety of good causes.
For further details about any of our activities and enquiries about Marriages and Baptisms please contact the Minister. Enquiries about using our premises should be directed to the Caretaker.
PARISH CHURCH
Burley
St Mary the Blessed Virgin
Main Street
St Mary's Church can be found on Main Street, next to The Original Malt Shovel.
Vicar: Revd. Michael Burley, The Vicarage, Southfield Road 863216
Email michael.burley@btinternet.com
Church website: www.burley.bradford.anglican.org
For further information about the Church Services and other activities, please telephone the Parish Office, the Vicar, visit the website or get a copy of the monthly church magazine.
A weekly news sheet is published giving details of all our services and weekly activities. Copies can be found in Church, in the Church porch or from the office.
Baptisms and Marriages: enquiries to the Vicar in the first instance.
Pattern of Worship
- 8am each Sunday: service of Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer
- 9.45am each Sunday: a sung Eucharist. On the second Sunday of each month, sung Eucharist is replaced by "Open House" - our service for all ages - children stay in Church and join in interactive worship. On this day, Eucharist is celebrated at 11am.
- Evening service (times vary through the year)
We hold monthly healing services called "Shalom", teaching sessions, choral evensongs, and special services. Full details can be found on the church website or in the magazine or news–sheet.
Children are welcome at St Mary's and can stay during the services, or there is a provision of a crèche and a growing Sunday school that meets during the service.
St Mary's is a part of the Church of England.
Our Mission is:
- To be rooted in prayer and worship;
- To strive to grow in faith and love;
- To serve the community;
- And to bring others to Christ.
St Mary's Parish Centre
43 Station Road 01943 864405 email parish.office@stmaryspc.co.uk
St Mary's Parish Centre is a new building on Station Road providing a warm welcome to all who enter its doors. It is the outreach and administrative centre for St Mary's Church. It provides facilities for refreshments, and a friendly chat, it hosts all kinds of classes including Pilates, Alexander technique, various art classes, children's French classes, children's drama, children's ballet, post and ante-natal classes and is the base of the “Open Door” project (an ecumenical project – see below).
Parish Office
Our Parish Office manages the administration of the Parish Church and Parish Centre, taking bookings for room hire and answering questions relating to both Church and Centre.
Open Door
At the centre of most homes there's a warm kitchen with a cup of tea.
At the centre of the Christian faith there's a welcome for everyone, old and young.
At the centre of our village there's a place where these two ideas come together – a warm welcoming place where anyone can simply drop in – for a chat, for a cuppa, for information about village activities, or where to go for help, for a listening ear – or just to put your feet up and read a newspaper!
Open Door provides free teas, coffees, biscuits, newspapers and a good old fashioned chit-chat for all, Mon - Fri (excl Thursdays) 10-12am and 2-4pm.
The Parish Centre has various rooms for hire:
The Garden Room
The Garden Room is ideal for children's parties and adult and chilrden's classes. This is also home to The Meeting Place, a bistro-style cafe, which offers tea and coffee, fruit juice and toasted tea cakes each morning, Tues - Thurs from 08:45 - 11:30. On fine days you can enjoy tea or coffee in the newly landscaped garden.
It also hosts Saturday coffee mornings for the village churches and Community Trust.
The Jepson Room
Upstairs, the Jepson Room is ideally suited to business meetings and training events. It has high speed internet access and a wide screen presenter with lap top, seating up to 55 people.
SALEM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Burley
Main Street
Minister: Revd. Mirella Moxon, The Ridge, Burras Lane, Otley 465353
Secretary Mrs Elizabeth Collins 7 Lawn Avenue 01943 862522
Hall hire: Mrs H Cotterill 01943 862991
Church website: www.salem-church.org.uk
- Sunday Worship: 10am, including Junior Church for children of all ages
- Holy Communion: first Sunday of each month
Baptisms, weddings and funerals by arrangement with the Minister.
- Weekday worship: Friday Half Hour service10.30am second Friday of the month.
- Church Meetings: normally fourth Tuesday alternate months: 7.30pm Church Hall
- Bible Study courses: see Salem's monthly magazine.
- Pilots: every Friday in term-time 6 – 7.15pm in the church hall: for a wide age range
- Weekday meetings – Time Together and Rhythm & Brews: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 2pm. Speakers, slides, music, fellowship
Everybody welcome to these purely social events.
- Christian Aid Video Club – 1st Monday of each month in Salem Church 7 – 8pm
All our work with children and young people follows Good Practice Guidelines.
Salem is a small friendly village church which is welcoming to people of all ages. Our church life includes social events, theatre trips and coffee mornings on the first Saturday of each month from 10 – 11.30am when a variety of stalls and home made produce is available.
A free monthly church magazine is available at coffee mornings and “Open Door”, as well as in Church. It is full of news and current events.
Other Churches in the Local Area
BAPTIST CHURCH
Ilkley
Minister Revd. Stuart Jenkins 609511
email hatless@fish.co.uk
Clubs for children and young people.
Sunday morning service 10.45am.
All welcome.