West Huntspill church gets £15,000 funding boost for urgent roof repairs
St Peter and All Hallows Church in West Huntspill has this week received a £15,000 boost from the governmentâs Culture Recovery Fund to help fund urgent roof repairs during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lifeline grants from the Culture Recovery Fund are designed to protect heritage sites and ensure that jobs and access to culture and heritage in local communities are protected during the months ahead.
St Peter and All Hallows has been awarded £15,000 for essential repairs to the roof of the main church, which will stop water seeping through causing damage to both the roof timbers and interior of the church.
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All Saints Church of Croydon cum Clopton.
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The Church of All Saints Croydon cum Clopton has received a financial boost from the government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help fund emergency repairs and restoration during the coronavirus pandemic.
These lifeline grants from the fund are designed to protect heritage sites and ensure that jobs and access to culture and heritage in local communities are protected during the months ahead.
All Saints’ has been awarded £24,925 towards the cost of emergency repairs which will enable the whole building to re-open.
Severe cracks in the chancel floor have meant that the chancel has been closed off for some considerable time and, following a structural investigation, this grant will enable making the chancel floor and the burial crypt beneath it safe. In addition, this award will enable the repair of several windows, which are already propped to avert collapse and where severe loss of ancient
A UNIQUE 225-year-old textile site in Wellington has been awarded a £348,420 grant by Historic England as part of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. Tone Works is the well-preserved cloth finishing works of the Fox Brothers textile company, where the final stages in the production of fabrics such as serge were carried out. Fox Bothers was founded by Thomas Fox in 1796 and grew to dominate the textile industry in the South West, with Tone Works completing the finishing stages on cloth sent from across the country. When the site closed in 2000, most of its traditional textile working machinery and equipment remained in place, some with part-finished pieces of cloth left in the machines.
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