Adapting Our Church for the Future
An exhibition on our plans: 24th May any time between 10am – 4pm
With short presentations at 11am and 3pm, in St Mary’s Church.
St Mary’s Church serves the community as a place of worship and as a community asset where we have held many community events such as regular coffee mornings, concerts, training in film making, art exhibitions and more.
We are planning to make some exciting changes in the church to create more versatile / usable space, to make it more welcoming, warmer and more efficient to heat and to have more flexible seating. These changes will be sensitive to the historic nature of the building, whilst making it fit for purpose in the 21stCentury.
The church has evolved since it was consecrated in 1315. Every few decades, substantial changes have been made so updating it again now is a continuation of this ongoing evolution.
The changes will come at a significant cost. The church is not funded by the Church of England, it is funded entirely by the local community and charitable organisations that may make grants available. We are applying for grants but we will also need to fund a large part of the work ourselves, so in 2025 and 2026 we will be running fundraising initiatives.
The exhibition in May, in the church, will provide information on what we have planned.