Andreas Church is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its consecration with a special service at 10.30am this Sunday (November 28).

A presentation will also play afterwards showing Manx National Heritage’s iMuseum archive images of people from the village over the past 150 years, and there will also be food after the service in a ’bring and share’ lunch.

The first church to be built in Andreas was erected in or around 1000, with a Rector of Andreas, Deremod, having been appointed in 1121 AD.

It lay derelict until the end of the 18th century, when by 1804 a new one was built by donations from local people - though it was not fully consecrated until 1821.

The iMuseum is also asking people to bring any gifts of photographs or films of their parents/grandparents/great-grandparents’ Sunday school outings, fetes, processions, Christmases, and harvests etc.