St Michael and All Angels Church | |
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51°8′45″N 0°10′47″W / 51.14583°N 0.17972°W | |
Location | Church Road, Lowfield Heath, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11 0PQ |
Country | England |
Denomination | Seventh-day Adventist |
Previous denomination | Church of England |
Website | https://gatwick.adventistchurch.org.uk/ |
History | |
Founded | 15 July 1867 |
Dedicated | 1 December 1868 |
Architecture | |
Heritage designation | Listed building – Grade II* |
Architect(s) | William Burges |
Style | French Gothic |
Years built | 1867–1868 |
Closed | 2004 (reopened 2008 as Horley Seventh-day Adventist Church) |
Administration | |
Diocese | Área 4 |
Parish | South England Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist |
Clergy | |
Minister(s) | Matthew Herel, Wilson Lagos (2019- ) |
St Michael and All Angels Church is a church in Lowfield Heath, a depopulated former village in the Borough of Crawley, West Sussex, England. Built by the Gothic Revival architect William Burges in 1867 to serve the village, it declined in importance as Lowfield Heath was gradually appropriated for the expansion of London Gatwick Airport and of its related development. The last Anglican service was held there in 2004, but the church reopened in 2008 as a Seventh-day Adventist place of worship. The building has Grade II* listed status,[1] which identifies it as a "particularly important building of more than special interest" and of national importance.[2] It is also the only building remaining in the former village from the era before the airport existed: every other structure was demolished, and the church now stands among warehouses, depots and light industrial units.