A FLOWER festival will be held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of a church.

St Dochdwy's Church in Llandough will hold the event from Saturday, July 9 until Tuesday, July 12.

It will be open from 11am to 5pm each day and from 2-5pm on Sunday with other events also taking place.

On July 9, Spectrum Singers, conducted by David Hutchings, a previous organist at St Dochdwy’s, will sing the music of Hollywood at 2.30pm.

On July 10, a parish service will take place with Archbishop Barry presiding is at 10am.

On July 11 at 2pm Llandough Primary School will give a concert and there will be an exhibition of the work of children from the school throughout the festival The celebrations conclude at 6pm on Tuesday, July 12(the actual date of the consecration by Bishop Olivant in 1866) with Songs of Praise.

There is free entry to the festival and to all events and refreshments will be available.

The site of St Dochdwy’s has been a Stone Age settlement, a Roman villa, a Celtic monastery and a Norman Church before the first Victorian Church was built in the 1820s.

That church soon became too small for the village congregation and was moved to Leckwith to replace the Norman Church there.

That building can still be seen although it is now a private house.

The present church, which is the third to stand on the site, was built by Samuel Fripp, a Bristol architect and contemporary of William Butterfield who built St Augustine’s Church in Penarth at the same time and both have similar monochrome brickwork.

A spokeswoman for the church said: "We encourage everyone to come and share in our celebrations."