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Saving Historic Churches. Annual Review 2018-19 caption of cover image St John the Baptist in Blawith, Cumbria © CCT / Andy Marshall 2 Celebrating 50 years of saving historic churches together. Annual Review 2018-19 Welcome from CCT Chairman & CCT Chief Executive 4 Our churches 5-7 Recent achievements 8-9 Facts and figures 2018-2019 10-11 Learning and Participation update 12 Regeneration update 13 Volunteer awards 14 Our new strategy 15 A year in the life of CCT 16-17 Thank you to our patrons and donors 18-19 Front cover: St Peter’s, Deene Who we are 19 © CCT / Andy Marshall 3 CCT does important work. While the to-do list The main focus of this year was firmly on can seem daunting – beautiful buildings need devising a new strategy for CCT. As an constant care and attention (and that means organisation, we spent much of the year money and expertise) – the skill and passion reflecting on what we have achieved and what of our staff and volunteers is inspiring. Our we need to change to ensure that we can thanks go to all our donors and members: meet the challenges and take advantage of the the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & opportunities that exist. We consulted widely, Sport (DCMS), the Church Commissioners to ensure that we understood the needs of the and – via players of the National Lottery – to communities who care for our churches. The the Heritage Lottery Fund for its continuing result is a strategy that will help support the support. communities who care for our historic places of worship. Every one of our churches is unique and each faces different opportunities and challenges. The future of the historic parish church, In the summer, the Trustees visited several particularly in the countryside, is not clear. churches along the Thames Valley over two CCT seeks to ensure that we are ready days. The contrast between St Bartholomew’s, to use our infrastructure of maintenance, Lower Basildon, and All Saints’, Shirburn, was conservation and community skills to offer stark. Both are superb and full of historical a level of support to those wonderful people and artistic interest; but there the similarity who invest time, energy and money to keep ends. The former has been brought to life their churches open. by a dedicated, happy and growing group of local supporters; the latter has a spooky air CCT has restructured the staff team to better of sadness, and gaining access can seem reflect our new focus and we have more staff difficult (awkward neighbours), but if you are in engaging with communities who support the area do go; you will have a very rewarding historic churches across the country. experience. Not only are we working on our own As we look towards our 50th anniversary collection, but we are working very closely events next year, it is increasingly clear that with the Quakers in Norfolk to care for their our assets are not just buildings but people. historic meeting houses and we continue to It is no accident that our mission is to ‘Inspire work in partnership with the Historic Chapels People’, ‘Protect Heritage’ and ‘Create Trust (HCT) and Historic England to make Value’. We need to put people right at the sure that this collection of chapels has a heart of all we do. This means engaging with viable future. Next year we will be reporting communities to ask them what they want from on the progress of our new strategy, but none us and what we can do for them. We may own of this is possible without the support of the our churches, but in fact they belong to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport places where they are. By inspiring people, (DCMS), the Church Commissioners and all of we can better protect our heritage and create those people across England who love their lasting social and economic value. That is the historic church. principal aim of our evolving strategy. Peter Ainsworth Peter Aiers CCT Chairman CCT Chief Executive 4 Our churches Bedfordshire St James’, Luffincott St Mary’s, Itchen Stoke St George’s, Edworth St Mary’s, North Huish All Saints’, Little Somborne St Michael’s, Farndish St Petrock’s, Parracombe The Old Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Margaret of Antioch, Knotting St Michael & All Angels, Princetown Preston Candover St Deny’s, Little Barford St Peter the Poor Fisherman, Revelstoke Holy Trinity, Privett St Mary’s, Lower Gravenhurst St Peter’s, Satterleigh St Mary’s, Potsgrove Holy Trinity, Torbryan Herefordshire West Ogwell, West Ogwell St Cuthbert’s, Holme Lacy Berkshire St John the Baptist, Llanrothal St Margaret’s, Catmore Dorset St Michael’s, Michaelchurch St Thomas’, East Shefford Old Holy Trinity, Bothenhampton The Church, Moreton Jeffries St Mary’s, Lambourn Woodlands All Saints’, Nether Cerne St Bartholemew’s, Richards Castle St Bartholomew’s, Lower Basildon St Cuthbert Old Chancel, Oborne St Cosmas & St Damian’s, Stretford St George’s, Portland St Mary’s, Wormsley Bristol St Edwold’s, Stockwood The Chapel, Yatton St John the Baptist, Bristol St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford St Mary the Virgin’s, Yazor St Paul’s, Bristol Whitcombe Church, Whitcombe St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol St Peter’s, Winterborne Came Hertfordshire St Andrew’s, Winterborne Tomson St Andrew’s, Buckland Buckinghamshire St Mary the Virgin, Little Hormead St Lawrence’s, Broughton East Sussex Oxhey Chapel, South Oxhey St Mary’s, Edlesborough St Andrew’s, Hove St James’, Stanstead Abbotts St Mary’s, Fleet Marston St Peter’s, Preston Park The Assumption, Hartwell Kent St Mary’s, Pitstone Essex St Mary’s, Burham St Michael & All Angels’, Thornton St Michael’s, Berechurch St Thomas à Becket, Capel St Mary’s, Chickney St Mary’s, Capel-le-Ferne Cambridgeshire St Leonard-at-the-Hythe, Colchester St James’, Cooling St Margaret’s, Abbotsley St Martin’s, Colchester St Michael’s, East Peckham All Saints’, Cambridge All Saints’, East Horndon St Mary the Virgin’s, Fordwich St Peter’s, Cambridge Holy Trinity, Halstead St Bartholomew’s, Goodnestone All Saints, Conington St Mary the Virgin, Little Bromley St Mary’s, Lower Higham St John’s, Duxford St Mary the Virgin, Stansted Mountfitchet St Catherine’s, Kingsdown Guyhirn Chapel, Guyhirn All Saints’, Vange St Clement’s, Knowlton St Michael’s, Longstanton St Mary’s, West Bergholt St Mary’s, Luddenham St Peter’s, Offord D’Arcy St Andrew’s, Willingale Spain St Benedict’s, Paddlesworth St John the Baptist, Parson Drove St Peter’s, Sandwich St Andrew’s, Steeple Gidding Gloucestershire St Mary’s, Sandwich St Cyriac & St Julitta, Swaffham Prior St Swithun’s, Brookthorpe All Saints’, Waldershare St Andrew’s, Ufford St James’, Charfield All Saints’, West Stourmouth St Michael & St Martin’s, Eastleach Martin Cheshire St Nicholas’, Gloucester Lancashire Christ Church, Macclesfield St Oswald’s Tower, Lassington The Old Church, Becconsall St Mary’s, Thornton-le-Moors St Mary’s, Little Washbourne Holy Trinity, Blackburn St Arild’s, Oldbury-on-the-Hill All Souls’, Bolton Cornwall St Nicholas of Myra’s, Ozleworth St Thomas’, Friarmere St Anthony-in-Roseland, Roseland St Nicholas’, Saintbury Christ Church Tower, Heaton Norris St Kenelm’s, Sapperton St John the Evangelist, Lancaster County Durham St Mary’s, Shipton Sollars St Leonard’s, Old Langho St Andrew’s, Shotley All Saints’, Shorncote St John the Baptist, Pilling St Saviour’s, Tetbury St Mary’s, Tarleton Cumbria St Ninian’s, Brougham Greater Manchester Leicestershire The Old Chancel, Ireby St George’s, Carrington St Peter’s, Allexton St Gregory’s, Vale of Lune St Edmund’s, Falinge All Saints’, Beeby St Werburgh’s, Warburton St Mary’s Tower, Brentingby Derbyshire St Michael & All Angels, Edmondthorpe St Werburgh’s, Derby Hampshire St Mary’s, Freeby All Saints’, Kedleston St Mary’s, Ashley St Mary’s, Garthorpe St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore All Saints’, Leicester Devon St John the Baptist, Upper Eldon St Mary Magdelene, Stapleford St Nonna’s, Bradstone St Nicholas’, Freefolk St Michael’s, Stretton-en-le-Field St Martin’s, Exeter St Mary’s, Hartley Wintney Withcote Chapel, Withcote 5 Lincolnshire North Yorkshire Talbot Chapel, Longford St Mary’s, Barnetby-Le-Wold St Martin’s, Allerton Mauleverer St Martin’s, Preston Gubbals St John the Baptist, Burringham St Mary’s, Birdforth St Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury St Michael’s, Burwell Holy Trinity, Coverham St James’, Stirchley St Michael’s, Buslingthorpe St Michael’s, Cowthorpe St Michael’s, Upton Cressett All Hallows’, Clixby St Andrew’s, East Heslerton St Andrew’s, Wroxeter St George’s, Goltho St Stephen’s, Fylingdales All Saints’, Great Steeping St Mary’s, Lead Somerset St Barbara’s, Haceby St Mary’s, Roecliffe St Nicholas’, Brockley St Benedict’s, Haltham-on-Bain Christ the Consoler, St James’, Cameley All Saints’, Haugham Skelton-cum-Newby St Michael’s, Clapton-in-Gordano St Peter’s, Kingerby All Saints’, Skelton-in-Cleveland All Saints’, Dodington St Helen’s, Little Cawthorpe St Mary’s, South Cowton St Martin of Tours, Elworthy St Peter’s, Normanby-by-Spital St Mary’s, Stainburn The Blessed Virgin, Emborough St Nicholas’, Normanton St John the Baptist, Stanwick St Mary’s, Hardington Bampfylde St Mary’s, North Cockerington Holy Trinity, Wensley St Andrew’s, Holcombe St Andrew’s, Redbourne St Martin’s, Whenby All Saints’, Langport All Saints’, Saltfleetby St Peter’s, Wintringham Low Ham Church, Low Ham St Botolph’s, Skidbrooke Holy Trinity Goodramgate, York St Andrew’s, Northover St Lawrence’s, Snarford St Lawrence’s, York All Saints’, Otterhampton St Peter’s, South Somercotes St Thomas a Becket, Pensford St John’s, Stamford Northamptonshire Holy Saviour’s, Puxton All Saints’,
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