Welcome to St Ida’s. Our village church serves the community and offers a place of calm in the busy-ness of life. Please feel free to visit.
Coronavirus - Our church building is open for public worship. Services take place at 9.30am, except for the 4th Sunday in the month when it is at 8am. Under current covid19 restrictions, social distancing is observed and we don't sing. However there is always music as part of the service.
https://www.alphingtonstmichaels.org/ide-and-shillingford/st-idas-ide/
St Ida’s Church 1 Old Vicarage Close, Ide EX2 9RE
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8772/
Historic England Grade II Parish Church. C15 tower, the rest of the church 1833 by Hooper and Cornish. Tower volcanic trap brought to course, the rest cement-rendered with a slate roof. Plan of tower, nave, shallow chancel, north-west vestry, south porch. Perpendicular C15 tower; the rest of the church was entirely rebuilt in 1833 with an unambitious rectangular nave and shallow chancel with pre-archaeological Gothic detail. In 1909 the chancel was refurbished and the nave was partly re-seated in the early C20 enriching an otherwise rather spartan interior. 4-bay battlemented nave with tall 3-light windows with Perpendicular style tracery. Shallow chancel with similar 4-light east window and a battlemented gable. Flat- roofed north-west vestry, battlemented south-west porch with arched outer doorway. The battlemented west tower (no pinnacles) with a 4-sided south-east stair turret has 2-light traceried belfry openings on all 4 faces and a 1-light chamfered opening at bellringer's stage on the south side. Hooper and Cornish did not treat the west face of the tower sympathetically in 1833, their arched west doorway cuts into the remains of the 3-light Perpendicular west window which has volcanic trap tracery.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165744
