IHSInkpen's Churches
St. Michaels and All Angels
Church. 13th century foundation, extensively restored and rebuilt 1896-7 by C.C. Rolfe in Early English style. Flint walls with Bath stone dressings, tile hung and lead roofed belfry and tiled main roof. Nave, Chancel, north aisle and south porch, steeply pitched roof with gable parapets and short square belfry over west end.
East end has three simple lancets.
Interior: six bays, roof double purlins on trusses with arch braces to ties and queen struts above, simple arcade of three wide arches to north aisle. Carved timber rood screen with rood and figures of Mary and John, by Harry Hems of Exeter. In the chancel lies a weathered stone effigy of a crusader knight, under the belfry are two re-set C18 memorials, to the left in white and grey marble a casket surmounted by an urn to Mrs. Audrey Brickerden and Mrs. Catherine Fisher, 1727 and 1728 and to the right in brown, grey and white marble a pedimented casket on a base flanked by flaming urns to John Fisher of Bristol 1765.
Church leaflet by Tony Goodhart 1994
St. Gabriels
Upper Green. Adjacent to the Crown and Garter PH. The church war demolished in the late 1980's.
Christchurch Chapel
Christchurch chapel of ease, Kintbury Crossways, Kintbury.
It was founded in 1867. It closed after 1950. Closed and demolished in 1950s, although churchyard remains in use.
Primitive Methodist - Lower Green
It was founded in 1860. It closed after 1915. Closed, seems demolished. More information about this church may be available from Church History. The Primitive Methodist church was an early 19th century (1807) secession from the Wesleyan Methodist church and was particularly successful in evangelising agricultural and industrial communities at open meetings. In 1932 the Primitive Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
Wesleyan Methodist - Middle Green
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