St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton, from the south-west. The timber bellcote is on the rendered west end. Photograph by David Purchase, 3 July 2011.

Gloucestershire · the first page

A page for every church.

Every Church is a national record of the churches of the United Kingdom. Reverent of the buildings. Exact about the facts. This preview opens with one of them.

St Michael and All Angels Churches nearby

David Purchase, 3 July 2011. St Michael & All Angels Church, Little Badminton. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph. The file in this preview is a resized copy.

The mission

One page, checked, for each church in the country.

The record

Dedication, fabric, and the story that can be sourced. A sentence without a citation does not go on the page. What cannot be verified is left out, or marked to be confirmed.

The map

Christian places of worship already drawn by OpenStreetMap, on free tiles, with the ODbL acknowledged. This preview draws the country around Little Badminton and Badminton.

The support

Alms, appeals, memories and grants, each kept apart. None of them takes money or a name in this preview.

Featured church

St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton

An Anglican church in the civil parish of Hawkesbury, South Gloucestershire, listed at Grade I on 3 March 1961.¹ It is early 13th century, restored in the 14th, with 19th-century windows on the north, and an overhanging timber bellcote at the west end rather than a tower.^1,3

In the mid-1960s a film unit chose the village, found the church had no tower, and built one of scaffolding and fibreglass for the camera.^7,8,9 The sources, and the photographs, are on the church page.

Read the church

The village church at Little Badminton on a bright day, photographed by Adrian Pingstone on 28 July 2013. People in the churchyard are not identified. — Adrian Pingstone, 28 July 2013. Released into the public domain. People in the churchyard are not named. Resized for this preview.

The ground

Churches within 6.5 kilometres

OpenStreetMap places of Christian worship around Little Badminton, which takes in Badminton to the south. The brass point is St Michael and All Angels. Tiles are OpenFreeMap Positron, and they need no key.

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What a page can hold

Six rooms, none of them pretending to be finished.

Point-to-Point

Footpath walks from church to church, on public rights of way. No route is published in this preview, because none has been walked and checked for it.

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Lychgate

Consented memories, in three plain words: Christened here. Married here. A loved one rests here. The buttons on the church page do not store a name.

See the buttons

Alms

A gift that goes straight to the church, through a regulated giving platform. The platform is not connected. The link is a placeholder.

Read the placeholder

Collection Plate

A project appeal with a progress thermometer. The leaking roof below is an example, marked as such, and it is not a debt of this church.

See the example

Bells

Impact, told with a before and an after. Photographs will be published only when a church supplies them and the licence is clear.

Two real photographs

Vestry

The grants desk: what a church may ask for, what it was given, and what it still has to report. No round is open, and no award is invented.

Open Vestry

Bells · example of the layout

Two photographs. Not a restoration.

Bells will show the effect of work, with a before and an after. These two pictures are licensed photographs of the same west end, taken in 2007 and 2011. No building work is claimed between them.

Looking east towards St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton. Photograph by Phil Williams, 30 January 2007. — Earlier photograph. Phil Williams, 30 January 2007. “A view looking east.” CC BY-SA 2.0. The file is the original 640 × 480 photograph. On a wide screen the browser enlarges it.

St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton, photographed by David Purchase on 3 July 2011. — Later photograph. David Purchase, 3 July 2011. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized, not cropped.

Collection Plate · example

Leaking roof, £500 needed

The words of the example. The church has not asked for this money here.

Example · not a live appeal

Collection Plate

Leaking roof

An example of how an appeal will look. St Michael and All Angels has not published this appeal through Every Church, and the £500 is not a sum the church is recorded as needing.

£500

Example targetSample fill £180

The bar is filled to £180 only so the thermometer can be seen. That figure is not money received. The full note sits on the church page.