Welcome to St Winefride's!

My Dear Friends,

This website is offered in order to provide you with useful information about the times of services here at St. Winefride's and to list the activities in which our parish community is involved.   If you are new to this area may I offer you a very warm welcome and pray that you will experience in this community the warmth and love of Christ. 

We as a parish are trying to build a community where everyone is included. Where our worship of God together .is a celebration of all that God is doing in our lives and in our community .Where the Holy Spirit is at work in each baptised person enabling him or her to care and share; to pray and serve each other and the wider community ."There are many gifts but always the same Spirit, many services but always the same Lord".

You can find us opposite the Crown pub on Booths Hill Road. Click on this link to see a map of our location.  If there is anything in which you would like to share, or know more about, please email or telephone.

I pray that God will bless your life here in this beautiful part of Cheshire. Your coming here is a blessing for our parish.

Welcome. 

May God bless you always.

Fr Tony Elder

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Parishioner Records

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History of St. Winefride's

For over 150 years Mass has been said in the Lymm area. Initially from 1856 in a little chapel, St. Mary's, erected by a retired doctor, Dr. W. Brigham .At that time, priests came out from St Peter's, Woolston and then later from Altrincham until 1868 when, sadly, the chapel was sold and eventually demolished.

In 1902 priests from Our Lady's, Latchford began to offer Mass in a converted saddle room at the home of Mr. C. de Parmlter. This building can still be seen today on Rushgreen Road. In 1905 the diocese bought nearly 5 acres of land in the hope that a church could be built On the 19th November, 1933 Bishop Moriarty presided at the opening ceremony of a church dedicated to St Winefride's, costing £1,000 and designed to hold 120 people. The church was extended in 1968 and again in 2004, now seating 200 parishioners and the same building holds a welcome for you today.

The parishes of the Diocese have now been grouped into 26 Local Pastoral Areas - each of which belongs to a Region, of which there are 6 and over each of which, as my representative, there is a Regional Dean. The Regions are Shropshire and Wrekin, Central Cheshire, North Cheshire, South Trafford and Wythenshawe, Stockport and Tameside, and the Wirral. With the introduction of these changes, the 13 Deaneries of old have ceased to exist and from now on it will be the parish and LPA that form the loci of activity. Lest anyone is still in any doubt, let me repeat that the purpose of these arrangements is not to do away with parishes and local communities but rather, wherever possible, to support them. As resources - human and material - reduce, it surely makes sense to share and support one another in a spirit of co-operation.

St. Winefride

Was born at Holywell, Wales, about 600; and died at Gwytherin, Wales, 3 Nov., 660. At fifteen years old she decided to become a nun and serve god, however this angered the son of a local prince who sought her hand in marriage.  He drew his sword and at one blow severed her head from the body. The head fell to the ground and a spring gushed from the ground beside it.  St. Beuno, placed the severed head back on the body and Winefride awoke, as if from a sleep.  Winefride carried out her desire to serve god and many miracles are attributed to her.