Concert in Dore Abbey Saturday 13th. June
We are delighted that MiCC will be returning to Herefordshire. Hopefully this will be an annual event and for 2026 Dore Abbey will be the venue for the internationally reknowned Gothic Voices. Tickets will be for sale early in 2026
Tenbury Wells Church ‘Come and Sing’ A collaboration between HHCT, SHCT and W&D Historic Churches Trust
Come and Sing Zadok the Priest and Vivaldi’s Gloria and listen to Octavo at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Tenbury Wells to celebrate the 1350th anniversary of the Hereford Diocese. Rehearsals for the Come and Sing start at 11am. with a short break for lunch (bring your own). Two more rehearsals in the afternoon will complete the preparation for the concert. Light refreshments will be provided. The concert starts at 6pm with a brief introduction and a short piece played by Roger Judd on the Willis organ followed by the choir. The second half will start with a brief talk by Tim Bridges on the church history followed by singing from Octavo.
For tickets https://www.tickettailor.com/events/herefordshirehistoricchurchestrust/2040067
The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Tenbury is the result of the vision and determination of one man, the Reverend Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825–1889). A baronet, priest and musicologist, Ouseley chose as his architect Henry Woodyer, a pupil of the leading Victorian Gothic revivalist William Butterfield, to design both church and college. Woodyer later also restored the nearby Church of St Mary in Tenbury Wells.
With its steep roofs rising to 74 feet (23m) and large eastern apse with tall stained glass windows, the church makes a striking feature in the landscape, particularly when approached across Oldwood Common from Tenbury.
The intricate stained-glass windows were made by the Birmingham firm of Hardman, which worked with Woodyer on his many church commissions, and also with Sir George Gilbert Scott.
The remarkable “Father” Willis organ, with its elaborately decorated pipes, was built and installed in 1873 by the London firm of Henry Willis & Sons, which also provided organs for the Royal Albert Hall and for several cathedrals including St Paul’s. Incorporating parts of an earlier, unsatisfactory organ, it has been only lightly modernised in the decades since.
The font and its huge ornate oak cover, the choir stalls, chancel screen, altar rails, stone pulpit and tiled floors, also remain unaltered in the church, which is Grade II* listed.