The National Churches Trust (NCT) has announced a £330,000 repair and rescue package for 21 churches and chapels across the UK.
The NCT writes:
We’ve announced a £330,000 repair and rescue package for 21 of the UK’s most historic and community-minded churches and chapels.
Places of worship in England, Wales and Scotland benefit from our latest round of funding. Amongst the churches being offered grants are:
- St Pancras Old Church, one of the oldest churches in London and a site of Christian worship since the 4th century.
- St Anne’s Church, Chasetown, Staffordshire, in 1883 one of the first churches in the UK to have electricity.
- St Mary, St Peter and St Paul, Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, a church with a tower dating from 1270, originally built to guard the Severn river against possible incursions from Wales.
- The United Reformed Church in Ottery St Mary, Devon, one of the oldest non-conformist churches in England.
- St Mary’s Church in Clapham, London, one of the major Roman Catholic Victorian churches of south London.
- St Luke’s Church in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, built in 1886, with a growing congregation and a mission to help ex-offenders from local prisons.
Buildings supported come from a wide range of denominations including Church of England, Church in Wales, Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic churches, as well as a United Reformed Church, Methodist chapels and a building belonging to the Celestial Church of Christ.
National Churches Trust article
