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Holy Saviour Church, Hitchin, is the beautiful creation of the Victorian architect, William Butterfield.

The Friends are committed to preserve and improve this important building. Built and paid for by the Revd George Gainsford and consecrated on Ascension Day 1865, Holy Saviour Church was built to serve the rapidly developing area of Hitchin between the town centre and the railway station. Almshouses, an orphanage and a school, also in Radcliffe Road, completed Gainsford's scheme. George Gainsford was a High Church Anglican, and both the style of the church building and the traditions of worship established there reflect the principles of the Oxford Movement. His chosen architect was William Butterfield, famous for his involvement with the High Church movement, and designer of, amongst many other churches, All Saints Margaret Street, London, and the Chapel of Keble College Oxford. The neo-gothic building of red brick and Bath stone displays the polychromatic brick patterning characteristic of many of Butterfield's buildings. The stained glass of the windows is of high quality - mostly made by the eminent firm of Hardman & Co of Birmingham.

24/09/2026

Don't forget , we have our first Talk & Tea of the Autumn this Sunday.

22/08/2026

Save the Date , Sunday September 27th , for our first Talk & Tea of the Autumn Season

26/07/2026

What a splendid way to spend a sunny Summer afternoon. Hitchin Band did us proud again for our concert in the magnificent Bunyan’s Barn, Maydencroft Manor.

20/07/2026

Don’t miss Hitchin Band in concert at Maydencroft Manor next Sunday- July 26th.
A great way to round off Hitchin Festival!
Tickets available on the door £12 - cash please .

27/06/2026

The Hitchin Festival 2026 is underway ! Don't miss our two events . Find all the details in the Festival brochure and Hitchin Festival Fb.

09/06/2026

Don’t miss our 2 ( very different) contributions to this year’s Hitchin Festival - “How to build a Mars Rover “ and Hitchin Band in concert at Maydencroft Manor.
See all the details in the Festival brochure ( in print and online). Tickets for both available from the Festival Box Office .

06/05/2026

Save the date, Sunday June 7th... ... for our next Talk & Tea .
‘Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart’:
Gavin Budge's talk will look at the relationship between the Romantic poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge and nineteenth-century medical ideas...

21/03/2026

In our next talk Alan Fleck will explore how Hitchin’s Quaker community supported the town’s Victorian development.

02/01/2026

Happy New Year to all our members and followers!
To kick off our 2026 programme we are delighted to welcome back Christian Woolmar - writer, broadcaster and specialist in all things railway!
Christian’s talk - The Liberation Line , the Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings- will tell of the thousands of British and American railway engineers who, following the D Day landings , laboured to restore the ravaged French railway lines in preparation for the liberation of France.
Save the date!
Sunday January 25th. 3pm, Holy Saviour Church.
£12 on the door. A Talk & Tea event

01/10/2025

We are sad to say that the scheduled talk from the Henry Moore Foundation on October 12 has now been cancelled.
If you have acquired any publicity about this event,
please delete on iPhones etc, destroy paper adverts and pass the word on.

Address

Radcliffe Road
Hitchin
SG51QG

Website

http://www.holysaviourhitchin.org.uk/

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