Worship, Community & Heritage
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
Happy New Year and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2019! We were rather tight on the budget with our Heritage Lottery Fund application and not able to furnish the proposed new community room as we would have preferred, … Read More
Well that’s it, the second round form has been submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund for restoration works to the church. We have applied for £218,500 to repair the stonework, stained glass window, steps and entrances, including an accessible lift. … Read More
Thanks to HLF and lottery players, badly damaged windows have been repaired. … Read More
