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Great Witley Church is part of a larger United Benefice which includes the parishes of:

Great Witley

Little Witley

Shrawley

Astley

Abberley

United Benefice map
visit the Abberley village website

 

 


Little Witley Church

Church of St Michael, Little Witley

Parish church. C13 foundations, rebuilt 1867 probably by S W Perkins. Red sandstone ashlar, tiled roof. Early English style. Nave with south porch, north vestry, apsidal chancel. 3-bay nave, octagonal plan bell- cote to west end, 3 columns with stiff-leaf capitals, decorative closed sides, conical capping and finial, pointed arched, Y-traceried windows with stiff-leaf capitals to responds, hoodmoulds and stiff-leaf stops flank central part. Timber-framed gabled porch; doorway similar to window surround, moulded archway and stiff-leaf ornament; buttressing to west end and to chancel arch, semi-circular headed doorway on north face only remains of earlier church, 2-bay chancel has simple lancets. Interior: trussed rafter roof to nave supported on stiff-leaf corbels, pointed chancel arch similar to doorway and window surrounds, supported on 2 orders with sitff-leaf capitals.

 

 

Do you know about the 
"Wilden to Witley" country church trail?
 

Visit their website
www.wildentowitley.org.uk

 

more local links

 

 

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Britain's finest Baroque Church.  St. Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley,  A443 Worcester - Tenbury Wells road, 10 miles north-west of Worcester.    As the parish church for the villages of Great Witley and Little Witley  it is used regularly for services and concerts. The church is open to visitors daily. The church, now almost fully restored, displays a splendour which is unique amongst country churches in Britain, with exquisite gilded decorations throughout, numerous paintings by Antonio Bellucci, ten painted glass windows depicting scenes from the New Testament, highly decorative carving and a large monument by Rysbrack. It also has a fine organ, its case being from the instrument on which Handel played.   Many musicians consider its acoustics for music to be as fine as any building of its size outside London