Welcome
The Friends of Garway Church (FoGC) was created to help restore, conserve, maintain and improve the fabric, furnishings and fittings of the Parish Church of St Michael’s Garway in the Diocese of Hereford.
Our focus is to work with the Parochial Church Council (PCC) to support the upkeep of the building, monuments, stained glass, ornaments and chattels both in the church and its grounds.
This website aims to make our work available to a wider audience and to foster public interest in the building and its grounds and to provide an on-line resource for interested people.
If you would like to become a member of the Friends of Garway Church and help with our work please see our membership page.
We are always delighted to hear from anyone who has a story to tell about the Church or ideas to help with fund raising.
Meet the Templars at St. Michael’s Church and on Garway Common
Friends of Garway Church are excited and privileged to welcome The Company of the Black Bird medieval re-enactors to Garway this summer on 23rd and 24th June.
St Michael’s Church, Garway
This historic church was built by the Knights Templar. They built six churches in England and Garway is one of the best preserved, with more Templar features to be seen than in any of the others.
The church building is not in the centre of the village (see map and directions) but nestled in the hillside alongside a natural spring of water where Garway’s first church was built 14 hundred years ago.
For more information on St Michaels Church please use this link:
Just south of the church on private land there is a dovecote, which is said to be the finest medieval dovecote in England.
The Friends are able to offer tours of the church. Further information is available here.