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Timetable of Services for Holy Week and Easter at the Priory
All are welcome to join us for any of our services during Holy Week and Easter. For services outside of normal office hours, please make your way to the chapel via the outside steps.
St Antony’s Priory is a Christian spirituality centre in Durham operated by the Society of the Sacred Mission, an Anglican Religious Order originally established towards the end of the 19th Century.
Today the Priory offers spiritual accompaniment and training for spiritual directors, hospitality for groups and individuals, and a varying programme of other activities, including speaker events put on by the Institute for Anglican Religious Life.
There is a full timetable of weekday and Sunday services in the chapel (which members of the public are very welcome to attend), as well as the principal festivals of the Christian year. Our worship is in the catholic tradition of the Church of England, and includes significant periods of silent prayer. Please note that if attending services outside of normal office hours (e.g. on a Sunday or in the evening) it will be necessary to access the Chapel via the outside steps.
Overnight accommodation is available in the Cottage guesthouse, which has four self-catering rooms for people wishing to spend a few days on retreat.
Latest News from St Antony's Priory
We are excited to be establishing a new Institute for Anglican Religious Life, here at St Antony’s in Durham. This will involve working with Anglican religious communities to ensure the preservation of their legacy, as well as exploring how the wisdom of the past might inform future expressions of religious life. For more information about this development, including our programme of speaker events, see the dedicated Insitute website here.
The Letters of herbert Kelly and Dorothy L. Sayers
In 1937 Herbert Kelly, founder of SSM, and the celebrated novelist and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers, began a fascinating correpsondence that would go on until 1950. This volume, edited and with an informative introduction by Scholastica Jacob, our Librarian and Archivist, publishes the full correspondence for the first time. It is now available to order from Amazon.
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Where we are
St Antony’s Priory
74 Claypath, Durham, DH1 1QT
Getting in touch
T. 0191 384 3747
E. admin@stantonyspriory.org