Clergy
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Lore Chumbley is our priest-in-charge. Lore was a Consultant Hand Surgeon in the Liverpool Plastic Surgery Unit for 20 years until 2013, when she decided to spend more time on the Church. She was Curate at St. Thomas’ Stockton Heath and St. Mary Magdalene from 2011 to 2016. To contact Lore, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 07595 294146. We are fortunate to have a number of other priests in our congregation, who also help to lead services at Christ Church. |
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Simon Tatton-Brown worked as a probation officer in Manchester before training for ordination at the College of the Resurrection (Mirfield). For six years he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester, and he’s been a parish priest in Prestwich (north Manchester), Westhoughton (near Bolton) and Chippenham. When he retired in January 2014 he joined us at Christ Church and sings in the choir, as well as preaching and presiding on a regular basis. |
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Beryl and Peter Bowes recently moved to Bath and now have the Bishop’s permission to officiate. Beryl qualified as a general and children’s nurse after training at Great Ormond Street hospital in London. Peter trained as a solicitor. Beryl was ordained deacon in 1991 and in 1994 became one of the first women to be ordained priest. She worked for a number of years as a hospital chaplain in Hull before moving into parish ministry Peter became a Reader in the Church of England in 1971 and continued in that role until ordained in 2003. Prior to retirement seven years ago, Beryl’s and Peter’s final posts were as Incumbents of two adjacent benefices in North Yorkshire, Beryl’s a seven church rural group and Peter’s a small market town. |
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Angela Soboslay is our Verger. She works with great commitment to help ensure the day-to-day smooth running of the church, helping to prepare for services, performing some administrative tasks and generally helping to keep things ticking over.
Mark Elliott is Director of Music at Christ Church. He studied Music and Computer Science at Keele University where he was organ scholar. Mark is also a Church of England Reader and when not directing music at Christ Church he works for a financial software company in Yate. He can be contacted by email on