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Organ recitals 2025

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Organ recitals at Central: 

(from Philip)

I am delighted to welcome organists from local churches as well as much further afield for our annual organ recital series.

I am very grateful to Tim Jones for coming all the way from St Denys, Walmgate to start us off on Thursday 15 May at 12:30. Tim was born and raised in Chester, and was organ scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford.

On Thursday 29 May it will be great to hear Dr Richard Fenwick. He was Bishop of St Helena, and before that Dean of Newport Cathedral. His time at university included studying music as well as theology and he is very fine organist.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Philip

Thursdays at 12:30pm

Free admission – retiring collection

May 

15 Timothy Jones (St Denys, York)

29 Bishop Dr Richard Fenwick (Llandaff)

June

12 Timara Easter (Concert Organist)

26 Robert Sharpe (York Minster)

July  

10 Alistair Timmis (All Saints, Sherburn-in-Elmet)

24 Alessandro Bianchi (St Edward’s Anglican Church, Lugano, Switzerland)

August

7  Tim Hone (St George, Cullercoats) 

21 Philip J Paul (York Central Methodist)

September

4  Nigel Holdsworth (St Columba’s URC)

18 Thomas Hawkes (Cirencester Parish Church)

Carols at Central 2022

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Join our musical celebration of Christmas…

Sunday 18th December 2022 at 4pm
Everyone welcome, traditional free event
Gather from 3:30pm for Mince pies and Mulled Wine (non alcoholic)

We are delighted that the York Cantores Chamber Choir will join us for our annual carol service. They will help lead the singing of many well known favourites (complete with some descents by Willcocks!), as well as offering some solo items by Peter Warlock, Herbert Howells, Paul Manz and Peter Cornelius.

All welcome, we look forward to a good sing!

Worship in chapel AND online

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Organ Vespers for Harvest

This short service will take the form of music from the organ, readings and prayers, themed around Harvest and Celebrating God’s gifts to us.

11th October 2020 2.30pm

We’re really looking forward to seeing some folk at Central this Sunday afternoon for Organ Vespers. It’s not going to be Church as we know it though, so we need to give you some advance warning that there are certain things that we must do in the Chapel to comply with Covid /government guidelines.

These will be as follows:-

On arrival you will be asked to ‘check in’ using the QR code which will be on display, or alternatively write down your contact details (name and tel number) for Track and Trace purposes.

– Hand sanitiser (provided) to be used on entering and exiting- Face masks will need to be worn (unless you have an exemption)

– A one way system will be in place to enter and exit the building- Some pews will be closed to allow the required social distancing- You are only able to sit with someone from your own household / support bubble.

– We have to keep service times to a minimum and therefore must encourage everyone to be seated as soon as they arrive and then leave promptly at the end of the service.

That said, and technology willing, the service we be streamed on Facebook too! You’ll be able to find the Live stream from 2:25pm onwards at https://www.facebook.com/CentralMethodistChurchYork/. Live streams are available to viewers with or without a Facebook account.

Both live streaming and meeting ‘in person’ in our Chapel are experiments for us – we’d welcome all your feedback after the event.

Residents’ festival 2020

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Central Methodist Church is open for visitors on Saturday 25th January from 11am-4pm. This is officially part of the York Residents’ Festival weekend. The inside of our chapel is usually a wonderful surprise for residents who visit during the festival.

You’ll be very welcome to pop in and have a look around the chapel; some of us will be around to answer any questions you may have.  We hope to have a number of organists playing during the day too, so it’s an opportunity to hear what is generally regarded as one of the best organs in the city.

There’s no need to book in advance and you don’t even have to be a resident. Share the news and invite your friends and family to come and take a look at the inside of our fabulous building and listen to our impressive organ.

There will also be a space for prayer and reflection.

Details of other unusual locations open to visit for free can be found on Visit York’s website: http://www.visityork.org/residents-festival-attractions.aspx