Photographs of the Church of
St. Michael and All Angels, Copford Green

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Copford Green church, known as St. Michael and All Angels' since 1880, before that St. Mary the Virgin, was probably built as a chapel for the adjacent episcopal manor house in the early 12th century.
Although heavily restored in the 19th century, the interior retains much of its original wall painting and still looks much like a church would have been in Norman times instead of the plain interior we are used to today.
The church was substantially renovated in the late 13th or early 14th century and in the late 14th or early 15th century the aisle was lengthened and widened and the porch was added, and the belfry, supported on a heavy frame at the west end of the nave, installed. The screen is 15th century.
In the late 19th century the whitewash was removed and the paintings restored and "supplemented as necessary".