The history of our church

There have been three St Michael’s church buildings on this site. We know that there was also an earlier chapel on Castle Rocks, which we believe was washed away! 

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The foundation stone for our current building was laid on 13th August 1889 and the church was consecrated at Michaelmas, on 30th September 1890. The Ven. J. Havard Protheroe was Vicar of St Michael’s from 1886 to 1903 and played an important role in the building of the new church in association with Architect Thomas Nicholson of Hereford.

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Alfred Hemming, of Clayton and Bell in London, who was a well-known glass artist, designed two of the windows, the window over the altar depicting the Ascension of Jesus to heaven, and the window above the altar in the side chapel which depicts the Crucifixion. In the side chapel there is a modern stained-glass window of Saints Cecilia and Francis which was made in the 1960s by Laurence Lee Stevens, a craftsman who also did work on the new Coventry Cathedral. Hemmings also designed the windows in the south aisle.

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We are always pleased to have visitors to the church and have more information available should you be interested.