St. Alban's Church, Southampton

Great church with a great team and vicar

Beautiful old church not many of these left would highly recommend visiting

Great community

Good place if you are a christian

A welcoming atmosphere.

Excellent concert venue

This was a cold and unfriendly church service experience. One or two individuals, including the Vicar, gave a polite friendly welcome but on the whole was not the warm welcoming experience you might expect as a visitor.

Obviously warm hugs or handshakes are out of the question with covid still going on, but no effort beyond that.

The vicar also thought it would be a good idea to merge his sermon with the church's PCC meeting, which is not a great way of handling what is supposed to be a morning worship.

I used to regularly attended church as a child, where it was almost "high church."
A full choir and a packed congregation singing hymns and psalms.

All the pews are now ripped out and replaced with chairs. The choir has been absent for years, and this church's efforts to become more modern and perhaps aimed at younger folk, has resulted in a dwindling membership of the old, and their slightly younger members of family.

Very disappointing.

This is now an extrovert which now has a doctor surgery and chemist on the site.