Our Parish Church
St George's Catholic Church
Moor Lane
Eastfield, Scarborough. YO11 3LW
Tel: 01262 424753
Email: catholicstarofsea@gmail.com
Web: https://middlesbrough-diocese....
Clergy: Rev Albert Schembri (c/o. 32 Victoria Road, Bridlington. YO25 2AT)
Holy Mass is offered at these times:
Sunday mass: 4pm Saturday
Holy days: 10am
Monday: 10am
Confessions
Before or after Mass on request
Facilities
Full access facilities for wheelchairs (access plus disabled toilet)
Loop system for hearing-aid users.
First Holy Communion
The Parish helps our children to prepare fully for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist. Baptised Catholic children from Year 3 upwards may apply to Father Albert to join the preparation programme, which runs from January to June each year.
We try to make it a living faith for the children, sharing our belief in a variety of ways. “Each of us hears, celebrates and lives our Catholic faith in the experiences of our daily lives, not in a vacuum.”
St George's is a church-cum-hall built on the outlying Eastfield district in 1957. An independent parish from 1965 (Architect: Francis Johnson of Bridlington).
A modest design by the Bridlington architect Francis Johnson, built as a combined church and hall.
The church was originally built as a combined church and hall (cost £15,000), to serve the expanding housing estates of Eastfield, southwest of Scarborough. Mass had previously been said in Eastfield Community Centre. The building was enlarged after a separate parish was created in 1965 but reverted to use as a chapel-of-ease in 1999.
Description
A long rectangular building, red brick with pantile roof. Church hall at one end, church at the other, divided by a folding screen enabling the two to be thrown together. The appearance of the building is more that of a church hall or community centre than an ecclesiastical building, i.e. domestic-style windows, doors and proportions. The original windows are of Crittall type with square leaded glazing. 1980s addition along the entrance side of the building, comprising a lean-to kitchen and other service facilities and gabled entrance bays, the church entrance with a larger segmental arch and glazed screen.
The interior has wooden pews (from the demolished Houghton Hall chapel) and sanctuary furnishings of 1957 or later, but all of a piece. There are small recesses for side chapel and electronic organ.
