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A redundant church, now referred to as a closed church, is a church building that is no longer used for Christian worship. The term most frequently refers to former Anglican churches in the United Kingdom, [1] but may also be used for disused churches in other countries.
The Churches Conservation Trust, which was initially known as the Redundant Churches Fund, is a charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk, those that have been made redundant by the Church of England.
Name And Town Or VillageCounty And CoordinatesPhotographDate [a]St Nicholas, FeltwellNorfolk 52°29′21″N 0°31′15″E / 52.c. 683The remains of the tower and the west ...St Martin, WaitheLincolnshire 53°29′15″N 0°04′00″W / ...10th centuryThe central tower of the church is Saxon, ...St Mary, ChickneyEssex 51°55′43″N 0°17′18″E / 51.10th–11th centurySt Mary's dates from before the Norman ...St Mary (old), West BergholtEssex 51°55′02″N 0°50′18″E / 51.c. 1000The north wall of the church dates from ...The museum is located in the redundant church of St Mary-le-Bow, close to the World Heritage Site of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle. [1] It is bounded on the north and east by Hatfield College; on the south by Bow Lane, and the west by North Bailey. The Museum is mainly run by volunteers.
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The trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1969 under its original name, the Redundant Churches Fund. The legally defined object of the trust is "the preservation, in the interests of the nation and the Church of England, of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality vested in the Fund ...
The charity is run by a board of trustees, nine individuals, who delegate the day-to-day management to a chief executive and the senior management team which includes five directors. Since 2017, the chief executive has been Peter Aiers.The central office of The Churches Conservation Trust is at Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL.
The trust is financed partly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Church Commissioners, but grants from those bodies were frozen in 2001, since when additional funding has come from other sources, including sponsors and the general public. During the 2016-2017 period, the trust's income was £9,184,283 and expenditures totalled £9,...
Northern England
1. List of churches preserved by The Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England This list contains the churches in the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Yorkshire.
East of England
1. List of churches preserved by The Churches Conservation Trust in the East of England This list contains the churches in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
English Midlands
1. List of churches preserved by The Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands This list contains the churches in the counties of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
The Churches Conservation Trust organise camping in churches (or "champing") for the churches in their care to provide accommodation for campers as a form of fund-raising.
The Churches Conservation Trust was originally established in 1969 as the Redundant Churches Fund, a unique partnership of church, state and charity which was the result of tireless campaigning by a pioneering group of 1960s church heritage enthusiasts.
St. Gerard's Roman Catholic Church; St. Mark's Church, Mercara; St Martin's Church, Weymouth; All Saints Church, Shirburn; St Bartholomew's Chapel, West Bretton; St Paul's Church, Kingsand; St Werburgh's Church, Bristol; St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church (Buffalo, New York) St Leonard's Church, Sutton Veny; St Peter's Church, Swingfield
The Friends of Friendless Churches campaigns for and rescues redundant historic churches threatened by demolition and decay. We now own over 40 former places of worship, half in England, half in Wales. We preserve these buildings intact for the local community and visitors to enjoy.
