WORSHIP AT DOWNING PLACE
We are continuing to broadcast Sunday Worship via our Youtube channel while our church buildings are closed.

You can find out about the other ways we are worshipping together via our Worship page.

We hope you enjoy your virtual visit to Downing Place URC and we also hope to be able to welcome you in person in the future. Please do contact us if you would like any more information or if you would like to speak to a Minister.

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ZOOM EVENTS AT DOWNING PLACE

‘SANDSTONE IN MY BLOOD’

Monday 10 May 2021 at 7.30pm

An illustrated talk via Zoom by JANE BOWER to raise funds for Christian Aid

Teacher, actress and author Jane Bower spent her first nine years at Ashwood, the fascinating historic home of the Victorian Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, in Headingley, Leeds. The talk offers humorous and poignant portraits of both Austin and Ashwood, is illustrated throughout with photographs and lasts one hour.

Details on how to make a donation to Christian Aid will follow.

Please register using the blue button below to receive the Zoom code.

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MUSIC & COURTYARD GARDEN

Music at Downing Place

Visit our new Music Pages to listen to church musicians performing a huge range of music, from ancient to modern, using diverse instruments including cello, glockenspiel and accordion as well as piano and organ.

We began recording and broadcasting services in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, and our new Music in Worship page gathers together the best of the music performed at Downing Place in our online services.

Find out too about 2021’s Lunchtime Concert series, launching in April 2021 in our newly refurbished premises at Downing Place

The Courtyard Garden at Downing Place

Downing Place will be an oasis of peace and tranquillity amid all the traffic and shopping in the city centre. We are planning a vista of greenery that will rest the eyes.

The garden will be overlooked by new clear windows all around – in the Gibson Hall, the Kitchen, the Servery and Hub, plus all the small meeting rooms.

Read more about our Courtyard Garden project on our Garden Page where you can view our Planting Scheme; find out more about the plants which have been chosen; and pledge to donate a plant if you would like to do so.

REDEVELOPMENT AT DOWNING PLACE

Beautiful images of our transformed building, now approaching completion.

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Downing Place URC.  Committed to building up people in faith and in following Christ, we are an open and inclusive church in the centre of Cambridge.  We strive to be a community that reflects God’s radical love, welcoming to all.

Our worship is marked by a sense of reverence and of joy, drawing on the riches of the Reformed tradition of liturgy and preaching, with a special appreciation of music. We foster an intelligent and non-judgmental environment for exploring faith, seeking to live out this faith in a commitment to social justice.

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Downing Place is a community of people who seek to take God seriously through worship, study and service that are responses to the living, dying and rising of Jesus Christ and rooted in his teaching.
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