FRIENDS OF ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS’
Heritage weekend September 11th – 12th
The church will be open, on Saturday 11th between 10 am and 4 pm and on Sunday 12th between 3 pm and 5 pm.
Free guided tours at 10 am on Saturday and 3 pm on Sunday.
Breakfast will be served as usual in the hall on Saturday between 9am and 11am
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Saturday 18th September at 6pm
"Domus Ecclesiae and all that"
an illustrated talk by John Wells-Thorpe OBE, former vice president of the RIBA
Admission £5 to include a free glass of wine, there will be a pay bar too.
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Saturday 9th October at 2. 45 pm
Friends’ Annual lecture:
Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites
An illustrated talk by Jon Whiteley, Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum. Admission £7 to include a cream tea
At 1.15 before the lecture, Philip Adams, Director of Music, will give a free organ recital of music from the period.
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It’s superb, soaring architecture, with affinities to Beverley Minister, and Canterbury and Amien Cathedrals have led to it being known locally as ‘the cathedral of the backstreets in the heart of the city’
‘One of England’s grandest Victorian churches’ and owing to its internationally-famed stained glass, ‘A Pre-Raphaelite jewel.’ : Sir Roy Strong
‘Magnificent in conception and noble in size, the new church is..........perhaps the finest of those precious works that testify for all time to the genuius of William Burges. S. Michael’s with its cathedral-like nave or arcade, triforium, clerestory and vault is as grand in its way as anything the 19th century produced.’ : H.S. Goodhart-Rendell: of the Burges church:
Not only is it placed within Simon Jenkins best 1,000 BUT his top 100, making it the foremost of any century in Sussex.
It contains works by two of the 19th centuries greatest church architects, George Bodley [one of his very first] and William Burges;
Stained glass by the leading Pre-Raphaelites: William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Philip Webb and Peter Paul Marshall;
Also windows by other notables: William Worrall. H.W. Lonsdale, Clayton & Bell, Kempe and Tower;
Decorative work by William Webb [chancel ceiling], Cecil Hare [reredos – Lady Chapel]; stone and wood carvings [inc. Misericords, S. Michael, angels] William Nicholls]; possible rood figures by Peter Rendl, reredos and metal screens and rood by Romaine Walker; altr by Temple Moore; textiles and vessel by Burges, etc, etc
Please help us maintain this Grade 1 listed building [only one of two such churches in Brighton]
by joining THE FRIENDS OF SAINT MICHAEL'S
Membership is by annual subscription of £10 [£15 for couples]
Life membership £100 (£150 for couples)
For membership please contact the Membership Secretary:
Chris Such at St. Michael's Parish Office, S. Michael's Place, Brighton, BN1 3FU
or tel. 01273-727362
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