St. George’s United Reformed Church is the ‘Church on the Bridge’ over the River Wansbeck on the southern approach to Morpeth. Our main Sunday service is at 10 30am and includes the Celebration of Communion on the first Sunday of each month, although we have just introduced a new midday service held at 12.30pm on the first Wednesday of each month.  There is a lively Sunday Junior Church and Crèche facility.

We consider ourselves to be a church for the open minded and open hearted. We strive to be a dynamic, accepting and forward looking church that is actively seeking to find new ways of exploring and expressing spiritual insight and experience for the 21st Century.

We aim to be a church where it is safe to ask questions, express one’s doubts and seek answers. We take ourselves seriously enough to know how to laugh and smile, cry and campaign. We are a richly diverse group of people, willing to journey together as we seek to follow Christ’s teaching and apply to our daily lives make sense of the claim of Jesus Christ upon our lives in a complex world.

In partnership with others, we pray and work for the world that God intended. We have very close links with Morpeth Methodist Church and share worship together on several Sundays during the year. We are part of ‘Morpeth Churches Together’, enjoying fellowship with al the other churches within the town. We share in the local work of Christian Aid, Refugee Support Group, Fair Trade and Common Witness.

Revd. Ron Forster, our minister, is also minister of Great Bavington U.R.C. The Morpeth Church building itself was originally built in 1861 and a century later was adapted to include a spacious hall and meeting rooms on a floor above the church sanctuary which is now used by a wide range of local organisations and groups.

Nicholas Pevsner, the art historian, described the church as ‘Facing the whole of Bridge Street with its perversely stepped up west tower ending in an octagonal spirelet’. It has been likened to a space rocket by the less architecturally minded!