Our historic church building is the base from which we serve the community and the building itself, open daily, offers a place of tranquillity and peace where people find spiritual refreshment. We would like this place to become a genuine focus for historical and spiritual pilgrimage. To make this happen the building needs to feel more welcoming.

As part of our “Pilgrim Project”, a plan to carry out necessary repairs and improvements, we are addressing the high moisture levels inside the church, some of which were caused by the failure of an ancient soakaway in the churchyard. That issue was addressed three years ago.

The south aisle roof lead is almost 150 years old and the regular leaks added to the high moisture levels. Plans have been drawn up to re-roof the south aisle and, as part of this project, improvements are being made to the rainwater drainage from the roof, and adjacent masonry repairs carried out.

The initial cost of the project was to be £75,000 (approx) but our architect has recommended that we carry out some adjacent outstanding masonry repairs while the contractors are on site. This has raised the cost to £81,200 (approx) so we are doubly grateful for the grants.

The work has now commenced and we are overwhelmed and delighted to report the awarding of six grants from the grant-givers below.

To date, the amount awarded totals £36,800. We are truly grateful, and thank God for his many blessings.

This is a huge leap forward in developing our 'Pilgrim Project' !