St Mary's Church — Attraction in Portsmouth

Pleasant cool oasis within city chaos. Mostly quiet except when football is played out on top of the unmarked graves. The graves are unmarked due to all of the headstones being removed, from the graves, and stacked against a side boundary wall. After a few years they were all removed and crushed to use as road filling. No photographic records were made before their movement and subsequent destruction. Evidently its now common practice to clear small, full up graveyards, to make as picnic areas. Built in 1889 at todays value of 1.2 Million pounds, but it seems that no-one thought about spending £100 to make a record, of the deceased, for their...

The team at St Mary's put on a wonderful show for the choir visiting from Caen as part of the twinning association's D-Day celebrations. This church is an architectural marvel. The outer walls are decorated in stones, which give it the look of a church made from pebbles from the beach... very different to many churches. Inside wonderful stained glass (particularly, of course if there is some sun shining behind them) Lovely church organ, which after all this time is in need of some TLC, but the team are raising money to...

Lovely historic church with a wonderful green area in a built up area in Fratton.Very atmospheric building with a wonderful peace and ambiance inside the building.Great heritage and fascinating history.Also when tower is open;you get great views across Portsmouth.Lovely grounds with...