Events & Concerts


General Information

Welcome to our Events and Concerts area. Here, you can find out about what’s happening at St. John’s.

If you are looking for information on our worship, please visit our Worship Services area, where you can find our service times, styles, and locations. Any variations from the regular pattern appear on this page.

Other activities include our Welcome Centre on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12 noon to 3 pm (run jointly with Our Lady & St Thomas RC Church), and on Fridays from 12 noon to 2 pm the church is open for private prayer.

Concerts

St John’s Church has held fortnightly lunch-time concerts since 1975. Concerts are held on alternate Thursdays throughout most of the year with breaks at Christmas, Easter and the summer. Please check this calendar for the next few dates (and programmes, when available).

Light refreshments are available from 11.45am and the concert begins at 12.30pm. There is usually an interval and the concert finishes at around 1.45pm.

Admission is free but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses. Please come and join us!

December 2021 – February 2022

Dec
24
Fri
Midnight Eucharist of Christmas
Dec 24 @ 11:30 pm – Dec 25 @ 12:30 am

The birth of Jesus was announced to nearby shepherds by angels in the middle of the night. Join us for our First Eucharist of Christmas.

Dec
25
Sat
Christmas morning Communion
Dec 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Our sung Eucharist on Christmas morning.

Dec
26
Sun
Said Holy Communion service in Church
Dec 26 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Our weekly Sunday Eucharist will be a said service this week, for the First Sunday of Christmas.

Jan
2
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Jan 2 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Jan
9
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Jan 9 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Jan
16
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Jan 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Jan
23
Sun
United Service in morning at Baptist Church; Communion in evening
Jan 23 @ 10:30 am – 11:45 am

To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, our morning service this week will be a united service at Harrow Baptist Church, College Road, at 10.30 am.
There will be a Communion Service at St John’s at 6 pm.

Jan
27
Thu
Concert: Valentin Schiedermair (piano)
Jan 27 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Valentin Schiedermair
‘Mozart’s 265th Birthday concert’
Mozart: Sonata in C major K. 330
Beethoven: Sonata in E major Op. 14 No. 1
Chopin: Waltz in A flat major Op. 42
Bach: Prélude from English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808
Mozart: Sonata in A major K. 331
Chopin: Etude in F major Op. 25 No. 3
Prélude in F sharp minor Op. 28 No. 8
Prélude in E flat major Op. 28 No. 19
Prélude in D minor Op. 28 No. 24

Jan
30
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Jan 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Feb
6
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Feb 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.