About Us

The church was built in 1892 by the architect Temple Lushington Moore.[1] Its distinctive feature is the twin aisled nave with the single aisle chancel. The stained glass windows were designed by Francis Skeat in the mid 20th-century.[2]

The church is located on Sandown Road, Lake, and is generally open daily, Monday to Saturday, from 8.00am to early evening, although it is occasionally locked earlier on Wednesday and Saturday,

The church has a splendid small three manual pipe organ by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd dating from 1901. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

The Parish, which is part of a Benefice with St Saviour-on-the-Cliff, Shanklin; All Saints, Godshill; and St Alban’s, Ventnor, all which are within the Catholic tradition of the Church of England, and as a member of the Society of St WIlfrid and St Hilda, under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough. Our patron is our Diocesan Bishop, Rt Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, the Bishop of Portsmouth.

The principal act of worship is the Parish Mass at 9.30am on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month.

Mass is also celebrated on Monday at 10.00am and Tuesday at 6.30pm 

On other weekdays Mass is celebrated at St Saviour's, Queens Road, Shanklin: Wednesday - 9.30am - Mass followed by coffee and Lectio Divina bible study. On Sunday there is Mass at St Saviour's 11.00am again on every 1st and 3rd Sunday.  

Principal Feasts are celebrated with a Benefice Mass, alternating between the two churches and every 5th Sunday at one of the churches in the Benefice

Website:  https://www.shepherdandsaviour.co.uk/