Facilities and features
Accessibility
The toilets (including accessible toilet) are situated at the rear of the Old school Bookshop near the entrance to the churchyard. They are normally only open on Sunday mornings and during other church events, including funerals and weddings
Available in the toilets
Parking very near the entrance to the church is limited but parking around the village green is also available
See entry re toilets. One of the toilets is accessible to those with disabilities
Please use our sensory guide - designed in conjunction with Chapel Green School for pupils with special needs.
There are steps at the main (south) door into the church, however the north door can be opened from the inside and provides a level entrance, a ramp is also available near the north door to make access for wheelchairs easier
Please set your hearing aid accordingly
Assistance dogs are welcome
Please use our memory friendly sensory guide to enhance your experience of our building
The north door can be opened from inside the church and provides a level access, an easy to use ramp is availabe near the door to make wheelchair access easier.
Our Building
We have some fascinating medieval stained glass as well as Victorian windows (including one by the Kempe studios)
The church building is open every day for visitors and private prayer, from about 9.30 to sunset
The Church is Grade 1 listed
Music and Worship
We have a set of bells rung using an Ellacombe apparatus, which is a mechanism devised for performing change ringing on church bells by striking stationary bells with hammers.
On the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00 am
Groups, Courses and Activities
Help for Visitors
A fully illustrated church history/guide book is available in the church for a donation (minimum requested £2.00).
Two free leaflets - A 'sensory guide', for those with special needs, and a 'Heritage detective trail' guide for younger visitors, are also available, to help everyone enjoy their visit
A plan of the churchyard, with a list of names known to have a gravestone, is available at the back of the church to help those researching family history or looking for relatives graves. This plan was created some time ago and some names are included in the list where the gravestone may no longer be legible, but it should still be possible to identify the grave from the plan.
Information about the heraldry represented in the medieval windows is also available
The church is open every day from about 9.30 to sunset
Other Features
The churchyard is maintained as a conservation area, to enhance wildlife including wildflowers, this means that some areas of the churchyard are only cut once or twice a year.