St Michael And All Angels Church, Beaconsfield

WelcomeSt Michael & All Angels Church is delighted to welcome everyone. Our mission is to encounter and develop a loving relationship with God, and to take the gospel out into the community in love and service while providing a supportive Christian fellowship. We are a friendly, welcoming church. We wish to continue and develop our work with families with less formal worship, while continuing our services focussed on sacramental spirituality and prayer following the liturgical year. We believe in living our faith through care for others in the local and wider community as well as within the church membership. We desire to share our belief that Jesus loves us whatever our race, gender etc and in his summary of the commandmentHistoryChurch. Nave and aisles of 1914-16 by G H Fellowes Prynne in Decorated style. The planned spire and Sanctuary were never built because of the First World War, but Sanctuary of 1954-5 and Lady Chapel of 1963. Original part of Kentish ragstone with tiled roof, Sanctuary and Lady Chapel of brown brick with stone dressings and tiled roof. West front has gable with large Decorated traceried window surmounted by statue of St Michael in niche. Lancets to side. Projecting central porch with arched doorcase with plank door with iron hinges and above a further statue of St Michael in stepped surround. Buttresses. Triple traceried window to aisles. North and south aisles have clerestorey and triple traceried windows under relieving arches, separated by buttresses. East end has lower Sanctuary with three leaded-light windows and lower Lady Chapel with three similar windows and arched doorcase. INTERIOR: Three-bay nave with round-arched arcade on stone twisted and decorated columns. Arch-braced roof on stone corbels. Porch has glazed screen with floral motifs to fanlight. Stations of the Cross by the firm of Louis Grosse of 1935. Octagonal tapering stone font with oak cover by Faith Craft 1955. Sanctuary has oak communion rails and stone altar.
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