St Mary’s Church Website Design
Bringing the Community Together
Juice Factory designed and developed the website for St Mary’s Church, Morchard Bishop, creating a central online resource to promote the church, the Friends of St Mary’s and the village itself. The website was designed to celebrate the church’s rich history and its importance to the community, while also raising awareness of the challenges it faces and the plans for its future.
Supporting the Church’s Restoration
Placed on the Heritage at Risk Register, St Mary’s requires significant restoration to protect the building and secure its future. Essential work includes making the church watertight, improving accessibility and upgrading facilities. Plans also include a raised bell-ringing platform, alongside improvements that will allow the church to accommodate a wider range of community activities.
The website plays an important role in communicating these plans and supporting the church’s fundraising efforts. With an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund in progress, alongside other fundraising initiatives, the site provides a platform to explain the project, share progress and encourage support for the restoration.
St Mary’s at the Community’s Heart – SMATCH
An important part of the project was promoting SMATCH – St Mary’s at the Community’s Heart. Established to bring together villagers with a shared interest in the future of the church, SMATCH includes people involved in church life, bell ringing, archaeology and the promotion of Morchard Bishop in general.
The website provides a place for these different interests to come together, helping communicate activities, share local history and encourage greater community involvement. Alongside information about the church and its restoration, it also promotes the Friends of St Mary’s and the wider village.
A Website with a Wider Purpose
The website was designed to be more than a source of information about the church. It provides a platform to celebrate its heritage, support fundraising, promote village activities and encourage people to become involved in securing its future.
By bringing together the church, its history, the Friends, SMATCH and the village community, Juice Factory created a website that reflects the ambition to make St Mary’s not only a building to preserve, but a place at the heart of community life for generations to come.
Website Design & SEO
Good search engine optimisation starts with the website itself. Page structure, headings, content, image naming, internal linking and technical performance all contribute to how search engines understand a website.
We build SEO considerations into the design process rather than treating them as something to add afterwards.
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