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Bremilham Church, located on a farm within Foxley Parish. It has a good claim to be the smallest church in use in England. Perched on a small grassy mound, it's barely 4 metres long by 3.6 metres wide, has all the appearances of a 'Monopoly House' with its low gabled roof and empty bellcote. The church is dwarfed by the neighbouring farm buildings of Cowage Farm, the residents of which were it's only parishioners until it was subsumed into the parish of Foxley. Inside there's scarcely room for a congregation larger than ten, seating for just four on one tiny pew and no room for an altar.
It is the surviving part of a much earlier church and is Grade II listed. Now a mortuary chapel formed in 1874 on the site of the chancel of the previous church that was probably about three times the size and dated from the 12th century. However, archaeology has also revealed an Anglo Saxon village on the site with a timber church about 400 yards to the east of the present chapel.
One service is held each year and despite it's diminutive size this tiny little church still manages to draw quite a crowd and some big name guest preachers at it's once a year service for Rogationtide on the Sixth Sunday of Easter.
It was only when the present farm owners arrived that the tiny church finally made it into the Guinness Book of Records. For years it was used for keeping turkeys by the local farmer, but when the prensent family arrived they cleaned it up and it was consecrated by the Bioshop of Bristol so that worship could resume.
(taken from https://www.explorechurches.org/church/bremilham-church-cowage along with contributions from the Church Mouse)
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