Come and Sing at Tenbury 20th June 2026
Unfortunately the Come and Sing event at Dore Abbey in Tenbury Wells on 20th June 2026 has been cancelled. This is due to a number of factors meaning that interest has been much lower than expected. We apologise to all who were planning to come, and tickets that have already been purchased will be refunded.
More information about St Michael and All Angels, Tenbury:
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.