North Barrow Churches – St James the Great, and St Francis with St Matthew, Barrow-in-Furness

We are delighted you have found our website.

The North Barrow Team Ministry serves the Hindpool, Ormsgill and Parkside areas of Barrow-in-Furness:

St James the Great in Hindpool now provides services for all the above districts.
The churches of St Francis (Ormsgill) and St Matthew (Parkside) are now sadly closed.
The St Matthews community hall still serves area for other activities and groups.

In these pages you will find information about life in our team. There is space to explore the faith, to pray, to ask questions and to make contact with us. We hope the information will be helpful but its really just a means to an end, that end is to bring people to the love of Christ.

At St James we work hard to maintain a safe environment for all. We are committed to implementing the House of Bishops’ safeguarding policies and good practice guidance. If you have any concerns or enquiries regarding safeguarding, please contact our safeguarding officer (contact details on our Safeguarding webpage).

In a rapidly changing world the church sometimes struggles to keep up yet we exist, as we always have, to proclaim that love of God to all.

May you glimpse something of that love through our website and we hope to see you soon.

With every Blessing

Services and Events Calendar

The following calendar lists events at St James.
This will show special events and services in addition to the regular services.

News – Posts

Bellringing – 2 hours from 2.30pm Sat 10th October
St James’ church welcomes bellringers from across the Furness and South Lakeland branch of the LACR (Lancashire Association of Change Ringers) for their monthly ringing meeting and Annual General Meeting. This month it is the turn of Barrow-in-Furness to host the meeting. There will be bellringing from 2.30pm lasting 2 hours overall by ringers of … Read more
Harvest Supper – Mon 5th Oct at 6.30pm
Everyone is warmly welcome to come along and join us for our annual Harvest Supper on the Monday evening at 6.30pm, where pie and peas will be served (Meat and Potato pie, or Cheese and Onion pie) and there will be a quiz to entertain. Please add your name to the list in church if … Read more
Photos – Licensing of Revd. Alfred Jennings
It was a pleasure to welcome so many people to the licensing of our new vicar Revd. Alfred Jennings on Saturday 12th September 2026 Here is a gallery of a collection of photographs taken on the day.
Quarter Peal – Fri 2nd Oct 4pm
Our bellringers will be attempting to ring a quarter peal of Plain Bob Major on Friday 2nd October at 4pm It is an opportunity to improve ringing through an extended non-stop ring of just under 1 hour (typically 45 to 55 minutes) but will take an hour by the time we ring the bells up … Read more
Revd Alfred Jennings – licensing service
We welcome Revd. Alfred Jennings as he is licensed as Revitalisation Priest of St. James and North Barrow by the Rt Rev Dr Michael Leyden (Suffragan Bishop of Penrith). This special service takes place at 2pm on Saturday 12th September 2026 at St James’ church. There will be an hour of bellringing just before the … Read more

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Photos from the licensing service of Revd. Alfred Jennings are now posted on the church website at

Photos – Licensing of Revd. Alfred Jennings – North Barrow Churches

Photos – Licensing of Revd. Alfred Jennings September 27, 2026 by North Barrow Churches It was a pleasure to welcome so many people to the licensing of our new vicar Revd. Alfred Jennings on Saturday 12th September 2026 Here is a gallery of a collection of photographs taken on the day. Categories ...