image for illustration: Church of St Peter Melverley, Ralf Tenbrink, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The National Churches Trust (NCT) has reported on how, with supporters and Friends – those who leave a legacy to the National Churches Trust – as well as partner organisations, 77 more churches have been saved for the future thanks to a grant.
National Churches Trust writes:
…. Every church has a story to tell. But with one in 20 UK churches not knowing if they will still be here in five years’ time, we risk losing so much. These buildings are not just bricks and mortar, they are memory, and places of connection and refuge. Beauty, faith and hope. It falls onto the shoulders of local people to fundraise for repairs to churches. But thanks to you…
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Here are just seven wonderful things that your generosity is making possible:
- Fixing a Grade I Listed rare early British timber church in Shropshire
- Restoring a crumbling bell tower to make it safe to use again in Powys
- Making urgent repairs to a rare ironstone spire in Leicestershire
- Enabling a catholic church in Leeds, which has been closed for almost a year, to reopen in time for Easter celebrations
- Supporting seven churches on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register, which need urgent repair work
- Bringing a Norman doorway back into use at a City of London church
- Funding urgent repairs to a heavily-storm ravaged and iconic Inverness church
