About Us

The present building stands upon the ground where successive churches  have stood since the eighth century. 

The first church was destroyed, along with the town, by the Danes in 874 and it was not until the time of Æthelflæd that a second church arose. The Danes ruined this church in 943 and it was King Edgar who re-founded it around 963. Editha was, in all probability, King Edgar's aunt who  died in the 960's.  She was canonized, shortly after, for her life of  devotion and piety and then made the Patron Saint of the now collegiate church.

In 1345 the town and church were destroyed by fire and so began a  rebuilding, being the fourth (present) church. Begun in 1350 and  completed in 1369, this edifice is a monument to the man whose task it  became to rebuild and enlarge the church, Dean Baldwin de Witney. The college was dissolved in 1548 under the terms of the Dissolution of Colleges Act 1547 and the church became the parish church for the town of Tamworth.

The peal of ten bells is unusual and quite famous, as is the double helix tower staircase, which is one of only about half a dozen in Europe. The bell ringers meet on Wednesdays and teach young ringers.

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Please see our website for more information about St Editha's church.