Contents
- Home
- General Synod
- News
- Central control not Anglican, says Williams
- Will Catholics stay? The answer is in code
- Cracking the code
- Lord Chief Justice backs Dr Williams over sharia
- Burford and Scargill on the market
- Last day of G8 summit dominated by Zimbabwe
- “A terrible shock”
- Clerics alerted to hoax email
- Jewish school cleared
- Islam lesson: teacher is suspended
- C of E schools win prizes
- Make use of the Anglican Method
- Hands off Australian property says Aspinall
- Synod summary
- Commissioner ‘gloomy’
- Churches feature on at-risk list
- News in brief
- Leaders keep up pressure on Mugabe’s ‘systematic violence’
- Fierce
- Diocese denies Lewis cover-up
- Calm again
- Question of the week
- Comment
- Letters
- Real Life
- Features
- Faith
- Humour and crossword
- Pastimes
- Books
- Arts
- Media
- Gazette
 back to News |
 previous story
|
next story 
|
Churches feature on at-risk list
by Ed Beavan
MORE than 100 historic churches have been included on English Heritage’s new buildings-at-risk list, which was released on Tuesday. The Heritage at Risk register shows that one in 12 of the 70,000 historic sites in the UK assessed by English Heritage is at “high risk of neglect or decay or inappropriate change”. The register aims to encourage action by local authorities, funding bodies, and individuals to seek ways of preserving endangered buildings. As well as churches, the list contains 6000 threatened sites, including battlefields, shipwrecks, castles, parks, and gardens. Chris Pitt of Ecclesiastical Insurance said: “In order to get buildings off the list, people need to take an interest in them and use them. Hopefully this list will help focus attention on the churches in urgent need.”This week, English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund also announced a £6.87-million package of grants for Grade-II listed churches and chapels across England, an increase from £6.6 million last year. Of the 76 places of worship to benefit from grants, 71 are Church of England churches. They include St James’s, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, one of the “Waterloo churches” built in the 1830s after the downfall of Napoleon, which will receive £59,000 to repair its roof. St Mark’s, Lakenham, in the diocese of Norwich, which contains a gallery with boxed pews and a rood screen by Temple Moore, has been awarded a grant of £251,000 to renew its roof. |
| back to News |
 back to top |
previous story
|
next story
|
