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St John is an inclusive community church, welcoming in love, worshipping in faith and witnessing in hope to the love of God and the Good News of Christ in Angell Town and Brixton.

A congregation located in the County Down village of Annalong, a coastal village which lies at the foot of the Mourne Mountains.

The present building is the fourth church to be built in a parish with a varied history.

St George's is reached through a 15th century lychgate that incorporates a small lock-up, said to have been made in 1831 to punish drunkards.

Dating from Norman times, our church will give you a sense of the history of the area whose name derives from ‘Anastan’ a solitary stone and is known to have had prehistoric settlements in the area.

The church was built c1230 by the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem.

Nestled in the countryside, there is, sadly, no historical truth in the legend that the two churches of Antingham in one churchyard were built by two sisters. The pretty church of St Mary and the atmospheric ivy clad ruin of St Margaret.

All Saints dates back to 1596 and is one of Ireland's finest Elizabethan Gothic ecclesiastical buildings with a glorious collection of stained glass and funerary monuments not to be missed.

This archetypal medieval church is set in the heart of the village. It abuts a clearly later square tower (1633) topped by a good spire and on the south side a chapel, refashioned in 1621, juts into the churchyard.

By 1816 a brick shed on the site had been converted for use as a mortuary chapel and when the graveyard was enlarged in 1871 it was replaced by the small brick building which we see today.

St Lawrence's church is a grade I listed building, of late 12th century foundation, rebuilt late 13th after a raid by the Scots, restored 16th by Lady Anne Clifford, followed by two rounds of 19th century internal remodelling.