Welcome To St Mary’s

The Parish of St Mary is an established Catholic community situated at the northern most tip of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, serving Leek and the surrounding Staffordshire Moorlands district.

Come and say hello! Refreshments are served after Mass on Sunday, in the presbytery next to the church. Visiting at another time? Please get in touch to discover what we are all about and see around our beautiful church.

Public acts of worship in Catholic Churches in England and Wales

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ISSUED ON 18th MARCH 2020 due to Coronavirus Pandemic

“At this time we must not gather for public acts of worship in our churches. This will begin from Friday evening, 20th March 2020, until further notice.”

Click HERE for full letter from the President and Vice-President on behalf of all the Bishops of the Conference of England & Wales

UPDATE 23 March 2020

Dear Parishioners,

This evening, Monday 23 March, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, has asked everyone in the United Kingdom to stay at home except for shopping for necessities, exercise, medical care and travelling to and from essential work to stop the spread of the virus.

This means that it will no longer be possible to open the church for private prayer.

However, I want to assure you that I will celebrate Mass every day and keep all of you in my prayers.

I would like to encourage all of you to continue to watch the live stream Masses, making a daily Spiritual Communion with your daily prayers and to keep in touch with your families, friends and fellow parishioners.

Keep looking at the Deanery and parish Facebook pages.
Let’s encourage and look after each other. Let’s do all we can to stop the virus. It may be tough, but we can get through this together.

‘O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next.’ The psalm writer had strong faith, we can have confidence that the Lord will be our refuge at this time.

Fr Martin Parish Priest