St Francis Church Salisbury

St Francis's Church, Salisbury is an evangelical, charismatic Church of England parish church in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, a member of the New Wine Network of churches. The church stands in the north of Salisbury, on the A345 Amesbury Road. Some two hundred people attend its main services.

St Francis's is a church for all age-groups and maintains a variety of service styles to meet people's needs. These are:

The 9:30 am Sunday service is a traditional modern language Sunday service with a mixture of traditional hymns & modern songs. The thriving 11:00am 'Informal worship service' is a more family friendly time for worship and it aims to be relaxed, reverent and fun. Music is led by a worship band with modern worship songs. Informal Communion is included on the 4th Sunday of the month. Children spend the first fifteen minutes in church before going to lively groups. A congregation for those in their twenties and thirties meets every Wednesday night at 7.30 pm, with modern creative worship and social activities.

As well as Sunday services each week, the church members participate in a large array of mid-week activities, which include the Alpha Course, house groups and children's and youth activities. Church members actively support the bridge project. The church also supports a school and missionaries in the Sudan.

The church was founded in 1930 to serve the north of the city. Work began in 1930, with the consent of the vicars of Stratford-sub-Castle and St Mark's. With much voluntary help, a temporary wooden church was built on the eastern side of Stratford Road and dedicated in November 1930. In 1937 a new district was established, partly from the parish of Stratford-sub-Castle and partly from that of St Mark's, and a vicar was installed. In the same year a building committee was formed and a new site at the junction of Beatrice Road and Castle Road purchased. Building work began in 1938, the foundation stone was laid in January 1939 and the church was consecrated in 1940.

The church building is in a 20th-century style with a wide nave with passage aisles and an apsidal Lady Chapel behind the sanctuary, instead of a chancel. On the south side of the church is a tower, 70 feet (21 m) high. The building was designed by the architect Robert Potter. It is structurally concrete with brick cladding and infill, and the church has artificial stone surrounds to the doors and windows. The cavity walls are faced with variegated red bricks and the dressings are of reconstituted stone. The roofs are of reinforced concrete covered with asphalt. The church is a Grade II listed building.

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