The stone church of St Michael and All Angels (originally just St Michael) is a traditional Early English church which was restored about 1901 under the auspices of the distinguished architect T. Micklethwaite. It consists of an early 12C Nave, early 13C Tower and Chancel, two side chapels, a porch and a peal of six bells restored in 1995/6.

The Tower was restored in 1951. The walls, which are two metres thick at the base, are supported by ten buttresses. The mechanism for the one-handed clock dates from 1725 and is powered by two large stone weights. The 13C Plowden Chapel on the north side was built, and is still owned by the Plowden family (Roman Catholic). The Walcot Chapel on the south side was built in the late 17C and was converted into a side chapel in 1976. The carved stone heads of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII were added to the entrance archway when the Chapel was restored in 1901. In 1662, John Shipman, "an old servant of the house of Walcot", left money to build a school room over the Walcot Chapel and this was used as the Parish School until 1843 when the present school was built.
	On the north wall of the Nave is a First World War memorial plaque. The Parish War Record Book shows that 150 parishioners served in the First World War. The wooden candlesticks above the altar were given to the church by Archbishop Laud in 17C. The lectern was presented to the church by the Countess of Powis in 1897 and the candlesticks on the altar were a gift from the Earl of Powis in 1910. The church is situated in the Hundred of Purslow, Clun Rural Deanery, South Salop Archdeaconry, Diocese of Hereford.

Nave	Altar	Font
Plowden Chapel	Walcot Chapel	Memorial to Hester Bright (d.1790)

Thanks to the Lydbury North PCC for permission to use extracts and pictures from their leaflet "Welcome to St Michael and All Angels, Lydbury North"

For details of forthcoming events and Services see the church website

Incumbents (1747-1881)

The living was a vicarage, with the chapelry of Norbury annexed, including dwelling and 1 acre of glebe land (worth £486 p.a. in 1863, and £565 in 1877). Norbury is now a separate parish.

* These dates show the earliest and latest records of the individual officiating at a ceremony (which could have been as a curate, for example)

¹ John Bright BETTON assumed the name John Bright BRIGHT by royal licence 12 Oct 1807. He died 22 Dec 1833.

Curates (1762-1881)

Church Wardens (1747-1804)

Cemetery

The well tended cemetery around the church contains over five hundred grave markers spanning the period from 1667 to the present day. The oldest legible headstone being that of John RANSFORD who died 2nd December 1667.

This site includes transcripts of the pre-1950 Monumental Inscriptions.