NEW VICAR OF HYTHE
 
Hythe has a new Vicar. The Rev Tony Windross was welcomed into the Parish of St Leonard (which includes the churches of St Michael and All Angels (the ‘tin tabernacle’) in Stade Street and Holy Cross, Palmarsh) at a Service of Licensing and Installation led by the Bishop of Dover, the Right Rev Dr Stephen Venner, in St Leonard’s Church on Tuesday 2 September.

Tony Windross comes to Hythe from Norfolk where he was the incumbent at St Peter’s, Sheringham for eight years after previously being curate-in-charge of St Luke’s, East Grinstead, his first full-time parish ministry, during 1997-9. He and his wife Pat have four sons, Peter, David, Andrew and Paul.

Rev Windross spent his early years in Margate (which makes him a fully-fledged Man of Kent) but left at the age of four when his family moved to Eastbourne. After leaving school he studied economics and geography while at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and also whilst there met and married Pat.
After Cambridge, Tony went to Birmingham University on the post-graduate certificate of education course and then taught for 24 years.
The Rev Tony Windross and his wife Pat

Early in his teaching career he began to work for a London University degree in philosophy, gradually focusing on the philosophy of religion, which in due course led to him being ordained and working as a non-stipendiary minister for four years before moving to East Grinstead.

Rev Tony Windross also becomes Chaplain to the Hythe Town Council.
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