Worship, Community & Heritage
Both tours were fully booked and everyone was fascinated to see inside and ask questions. The tour began with an illustrated talk about the history of the church, including new information from research conducted as part of the National Lottery … Read More
Both tours are now booked up, but don’t worry if you’ve missed out – we will be re-opening around the mid-end of November with an afternoon service, welcome event and 1850 inspired ‘Bazaar’. We’ll keep you posted when we have … Read More
Work is progressing well and as planned. The partition for the new room is now in place, and has been plastered, giving a better sense of what the completed project will look like. The new wall has a large aperture … Read More
Our free Heritage Open Days event has now been registered. We are running two tours for 10 people on Wednesday 18th September at 11am and 1pm. The event starts with your site safety briefing and will be followed by a … Read More
The new Heritage Fund sign is up on the scaffolding, featuring their new logo since rebranding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to the National Lottery Heritage Fund. A site meeting yesterday provided a good update and chance to see how … Read More
Wycliffe’s first minister, Rev John Thornton lived at Wycliffe Villa on Edgeley Road during his time as minister at the Church. His wife Catherine also ran a boarding school from there according to census returns from 1851 and 1861. Although … Read More
Today’s site meeting provided the the opportunity to photograph where we’re up to. The scaffolding is complete, both inside and outside, with the stonework surrounding the stained glass to be tackled next. Wooden footings are now in place on the … Read More
Our contractors, Maysand Ltd. have started work on the Heritage Funded project and are erecting scaffolding to access the East window for full restoration. They will repair the stone tracery in preparation for Lightfoots to replace the remaining original leaded … Read More
We have a start date now. After a couple of successful meetings, our contractors, Maysand, will arrive on site on June 10th. In the meantime, we are getting things ready for them, and a good start has been made on … Read More
We are delighted to announce that the application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund has been a success! … Read More
