St George’s Church, Radford Avenue, Kidderminster, DY10 2ES
About Us:
St George’s is a Grade II* listed, “Waterloo” church built after the battle and consecrated in 1824. It was rebuilt after a fire gutted it in 1922. Located close to the center of Kidderminster, the church tower can be seen for miles around. Whilst it may appear imposing from the outside, St George’s has a light and airy feel, and you will always receive a warm and friendly welcome. To find out more about the history of the church, and the churchyard, please scroll down to the bottom of this page or, alternatively, come along to a service or an event where the church is open. There are guidebooks and leaflets available to look through.
Giving:
St George’s Church is one of the five churches within the Parish of Kidderminster East, located on the corner of Birmingham Road and Radford Avenue in Kidderminster. It costs £289 a day to run the church and we receive no government funding. A donation will assist us to continue our work with our local community (including monthly Pop-Up Café and weekly Friday morning coffee shop) and enable to us to continue to look after our Heritage church for future generations.
So please give as generously as you can and thank you for your support.
Services:
At St George’s we use a variety of different styles of music and worship. We have services ranging from the formal liturgy of Holy Communion to the informal Worship4All. Most services are around one hour long. We also have a children’s corner with toys and activities.
Please see our Services and Calendar pages for more information regarding when the next service will take place.
Accessibility:
The church has off-road disabled parking spaces, limited parking spaces in the main drive as well as limited parking on the road outside the churchyard. There is a Hearing Loop system for those who are hard-of-hearing.
Wheelchair access is through the side door by the Annexe. Toilets for disabled and baby changing facilities are available in the Annexe.
Events:
Life Events (Christenings, Weddings, and Funerals) are available by arrangement. Please see the individual pages for further details.
We are fortunate to be able to host a variety of concerts and other performances. For further information regarding the next event please see our Calendar.
Additional Information:
- The church has an active choir (to which new members are always welcome) and music makes up a large selection of the worship at St George’s.
- St George’s is a Fairtrade Church.
- The church has an Annexe which is used by many different groups throughout the week and can be hired for special occasions. It has a meeting room and recently refurbished kitchen.
- St George’s have a maintenance team, which meet every Monday morning from 9:30am till 12:30pm. They work to keep the Church, Churchyard and Annexe in good repair for future generations. The volunteers take on tasks, of painting, carpentry, bricklaying, gardening, cleaning, etc. It is a social group, of men and women, enjoying a morning together. The group, ‘Faith in Maintenance’, welcomes anyone who would please come like to join.
- To enquire about booking the hall, please contact Lynn Towler on [email protected] or 07989756214.
- Please check our ‘Groups’ menu to find out about all the different activities that run throughout the parish.
History:
Mattie Underhill (previous Church Warden) completed a digitisation of St. George’s Churchyard in 2014. As a keen amateur photographer, it was Melvyn Thompson’s recent book ‘St George’s: A Waterloo Church’ and a ‘Party in St George’s Park’ which prompted her to carry out the work.
Names are now in an alphabetical index, which can be requested from Mattie, whose contact details are below, or a printed version is available in St George’s Church for inspection when the church is open.
Mattie also has a select amount of pictures and possibly further information that may be of use to people intending to search their family history and/or the history of the church. She can be contacted iva email [email protected].
The main location of historical information is the county library: The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3PD, which houses microfilm copies of baptisms, marriages, burial and some newspaper records for the county, parish
‘St George’s: A Waterloo Church’, is a local history book published in September 2009. The book has been compiled and written by Melvyn Thompson whose association with St. George’s choir started near the end of the Second World War.
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