Sixtieth Anniversary Eucharist

for 1 hour, 15 mins
St James the Great, Clayton
Clayton Road, Newcastle Newcastle under Lyme, ST5 3EU, United Kingdom

A special service at 10am, Sunday 26 April 2026, celebrated by the Bishop of Lichfield The Rt Rev’d Dr Michael Ipgrave, OBE, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the consecration of the current church building. You are most warmly invited to celebrate this special occasion in the life of St James’ and the community of Clayton. Light refreshments will be served in the hall after the service where there will be a display about the history of the church.

St James the Great, Clayton

St James has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1950 as a mission church in a converted cowshed to serve the new housing estates being built in Clayton.

In 1969 St James became a Parish Church, when the new Parish of St James the Great Clayton was created.

The current church was built in 1966 , of modern design with steel beams, glass wall to the West Entrance & a copper roof, with a Church Hall & Vicarage. Designed in the Scandinavian style, the building is distinctive both internally and externally and is known locally as “the church with the steep green roof”.

Behind the altar there is an imposing 17' sculpture of the Risen Christ upon a 40' cross.


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Clayton Lane
Clayton
Newcastle under Lyme ST5 3DW

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(01782) 614500
Dave Tovey (Church Warden)
01782 499268

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Sixtieth Anniversary Eucharist

for 1 hour, 15 mins
St James the Great, Clayton
Clayton Road, Newcastle Newcastle under Lyme, ST5 3EU, United Kingdom

A special service at 10am, Sunday 26 April 2026, celebrated by the Bishop of Lichfield The Rt Rev’d Dr Michael Ipgrave, OBE, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the consecration of the current church building. You are most warmly invited to celebrate this special occasion in the life of St James’ and the community of Clayton. Light refreshments will be served in the hall after the service where there will be a display about the history of the church.