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Home & Away concert comes to Great Yarmouth Minster
Great Yarmouth Minster will welcome two outstanding concert bands for a special Home & Away performance on Saturday 29 August 2026 at 7.30pm. Norwich City Concert Band will be joined by the Sevenoaks & Tonbridge Concert Band for an evening of lively and varied music ...
Vintage Roadshow coming to St Paul’s Church
Vintage Roadshows is coming to St Paul’s Church, Salisbury Road, Great Yarmouth, on Tuesday 4 August from 10am to 3pm. Bring along silver and silverplate, vintage toys, costume jewellery, watches and clocks, gold, medals and militaria, vintage lighters, cameras and lenses, old coins and currency, ...
Windows on the World Festival: Three Late-Night Concerts at the Minster
The Windows on the World Festival brings three atmospheric late-night concerts to Great Yarmouth Minster this July. As darkness falls, join us for a series of distinctive evening performances in the beautiful surroundings of the Minster. Tuesday 28 July at 8pm — Divertimento A wind ...
Reflection: First Sunday after Trinity (7 June 2026)
Our Gospel reading this Sunday begins with Jesus encountering Matthew the Tax Collector and asking him to become his follower. Matthew doesn’t hesitate; he just leaves everything behind to follow Jesus. It was this Matthew who recorded what he had seen and heard during his ...
Reflection: Seventh Sunday of Easter (17 May 2026)
In our reading from John’s gospel, Jesus is praying that God will glorify him and lift him up to the position alongside the Father which the Messiah of Jewish tradition was supposed to attain. When we think of the word ‘glory’ we think of high ...
Reflection: Sixth Sunday of Easter (10 May 2026)
In our reading from Acts (17:22-31) St Paul speaks to the people of Athens. As he speaks he is surrounded by statues and temples but doesn’t openly condemn their gods but instead notices their altar to an unknown God. Paul uses this as an opportunity ...
Our Churches
The Minster
Church Plain, Great Yarmouth NR30 1NE
England’s largest parish church, consecrated back in 1119, 1 of 2 Minster churches in Norfolk. The largest of the parish’s three churches.
St. Paul’s
38 Salisbury Rd, Great Yarmouth NR30 4LH
St. Paul’s was constructed in the late 1890s to look after the booming holiday trade as Great Yarmouth expanded.
St. Mary’s
282 Southtown Rd, Great Yarmouth NR31 0JB
St. Mary’s was completed in 1831. Situated on the east side of Southtown Road, has a long and glorious history.
Worship
Events
Echos at the Minster: Louis Dawes (Euphonium) – Lunchtime Concert
A Warm Welcome
Our coastal East Norfolk parish consists of a family of three churches, Great Yarmouth Minster in the heart of the town centre by the Market Place, St. Mary’s heading towards Gorleston in Southtown, and St. Paul’s to the north off Caister Road in Newtown.
Individually, each church provides a Christian presence in their own neighbourhood and together we unite to care for our precious wider Great Yarmouth community.
Do enjoy exploring our Parish online to find out more about whatever you are seeking. On our website, any words in blue type are a link you can click on to take you to another section or page with specific information.
From the top menu above, you can access other areas of the website such as Parish & Churches, Visit The Minster, Worship, Give, News & Events, Community and Connect. Alternatively pick up related Welcome pages to your left; Greetings from the Parish to read a greeting from the Rector, Fr. Simon; Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals if you would like to make an enquiry about one of these; Covid Update with the latest on our pandemic response; Safeguarding in regard to a welfare concern; Who’s Who for details on our clergy and parish team.
If you have a query or would like to get in touch, we would love to hear from you. Just click Contact Us to send us a message or find out about other ways to reach us.
Safeguarding
The Parish of Great Yarmouth treats the safety of everyone it encounters most seriously, whether visitors, congregations, staff, volunteers, service providers or the wider community. Find out about safeguarding here.
Our Parish Safeguarding Officer, Nerys Dodds, can be contacted about safeguarding concerns on 07739 166078.
“With the Broads to the west over Breydon Water, our famous Great Yarmouth beaches to the east, St. Paul’s to the north and St. Mary’s to the south, and the Minster in the centre, we sit at the heart of this historic, vibrant seaside town and charming East Norfolk.
We hope to welcome you here soon.”
– Blessings, Fr. Simon
