Herefordshire church added to protected list

A North Herefordshire "tin tabernacle" church is among the sites to have been given extra protection in 2020.

The Church of St Mary and Sunday School in Lyonshall has been added to the Historic England National Heritage List.

The tabernacle Church of St Mary was built in 1860 using a corrugated iron prefabricated design known as a ‘tin tabernacle’ that has become increasingly rare.

There are only 86 remaining corrugated iron churches – of all denominations – surviving in England, and fewer than 20 of these are listed. They are rare because mission churches like these weren’t intended for permanent use, and most were eventually replaced.