Plumstead Deanery
East Wickham, St Michael
Welling
Kent
Parish Contacts
Currently Vacant (Vicar)
All correspondence to PCC Secretary:
c/o 50 Tidford Road
Welling
Kent
DA16 3JY
Parish Office
Tel: 020-8301 0380
Parish website: www.st-michaels-welling.bexley.sch.uk/Church.php
Sunday Services
8.00 amEucharist10.00 amSung Eucharist(with crèche, Sunday School & Junior Church)6.00 pmEvening WorshipFacilities: Disabled access, toilets, crèche, induction loop
Further details of all Sunday and weekday services and activities may be obtained from the parish contacts
Information
Tradition: Modern
Catholic
Patron: The Dean & Chapter of
Southwark Cathedral
Population (2001
census): 12,767
Urban Priority Area: No
Deanery: Plumstead
Archdeaconry: Lewisham & Greenwich
Episcopal Area: Woolwich
Diocesan Record Office: Bexley
Local Studies Centre
Introduction to parish
St Michael's is a community that has been richly blessed. We have so many advantages when it comes to the work of revealing the loving purposes of God in the world:
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OUR FAITH
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OUR TRADITIONS
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OURSELVES WITH ALL THE GIFTS GOD HAS ENTRUSTED TO US
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OUR BEAUTIFUL AND ADAPTABLE BUILDINGS & GROUNDS
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OUR STRONG LINKS WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY.
Along with these great advantages go great challenges:
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TO GROW IN FAITH
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TO DEEPEN OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES
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TO STRENGTHEN OUR FELLOWSHIP
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TO INCREASE IN NUMBERS
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TO EXTEND THE SERVICE WE OFFER.
Welling
Kent
Built: 1932 - 33
Architect: E Ford
Listing: not listed
The church is sited on high ground to the south-east of the old chapel of St. Michael, currently leased by the Greek Orthodox church. Both buildings occupy the same large site just off Upper Wickham Lane, East Wickham. The site slopes away to the north-east.
The church was built in the Neo-Romanesque style. It consists of a nave with aisles and an apsidal chancel. Entry is at the west end, via two sets of double doors. The building here is two storey, with a west gallery supporting the organ, organ console and extra seating.
A single storey, pitched roofed block of ancillary accommodation connects into the north aisle, just to the east of the gallery area. It contains kitchen, WC and the choir and clergy vestries. Advantage has been taken of a sharp fall in the land to accommodate storage rooms beneath these rooms.
crèche accommodation has been formed in the north hall area.
Above the north and south halls, in the two storey structure adjoining the gallery, is a church office and store room respectively.
Weekday chapel is held in an area set aside for that purpose, at the east end of the north aisle. There is a sacristy opening off the apse, on the north side.