Owing to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Epidemic, this Service is CANCELLED and the Church building CLOSED until further notice.

Please DO NOT COME to St Michael’s. We will bring a little of St Michael’s to you through Pewsheets emailed by Oliver, and Prayers & Reflections from Fr Nigel on our Facebook & Twitter accounts.

All Services & Events are currently cancelled and all Buildings closed, in line with Church of England Rules. Clergy may be contacted by email or phone as usual.

Wednesday 8th April at 7pm, Spy Wednesday when Judas arranged to betray Jesus, the traditional 14 Stations of the Cross are prayed. The devotional poem “Stabat Mater dolorosa” would have been sung. E.g. by Palestrina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz9o-wF7RoU

Stations of the Cross are said weekly during Lent on Wednesdays. Click the BAR BELOW to follow our Stations with links to Music from The Crucifixion by Stainer.

Like many Anglo-Catholic churches, St Michael’s has a set of 14 painted carvings depicting biblical and legendary events on Christ’s painful journey from Pilate’s palace to his Crucifixion at Calvary. They were made by an artist in Oberammergau, Bavaria, and given to the church in the 1920s.

In previous years we have used music for Stabat Mater dolorosa, dum pendebat filius by Charpentier, Pergolesi, Scarlatti and others.

In 2018 the choir sang the Via Crucis  by Franz Liszt – link to Words and translation  directed by Amy Down with organist Gabrielle Lewis, as a change from the devotional poem Stabat Mater Dolorosa.