[4] The church closed in 1999 due to falling attendances and was boarded up for many years, with some walls covered in ivy and in shadow from overgrown trees.

[12][13] In October 2017 the building was put up for sale [14] and it was bought in 2019 by local businessman Norman Routledge, to restore as a performance and events space.

[15] In 2021, memorial panels bearing the names of 842 soldiers of the 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, who were killed in the First World War, were hung in the crypt and rededicated by the Archdeacon of Bristol.

The panels had been moved to St Michael's from the battalion headquarters when it was bombed during the Second World War, and had surivived the 2016 fire before being rediscovered in 2019.

The archive also includes records of the incumbent, churchwardens, overseer of the poor, parochial church council, charities, schools, societies and vestry plus deeds, plans, photographs and pictures.