Recent Grants

Hethel, All Saints

£1,500 Awarded March 2020 Remove internal plaster on south wall of chancel affected by damp. External hard render to be removed and replaced with lime render. The interior plaster will be replaced with lime plaster and lime wash once the walls have dried out. Buttress repairs.

Brockdish, St Peter and St Paul

£5,000 Awarded March 2020 Re-plaster and lime wash chancel. Repair and replace stained glass windows made by John Winter in late 1851, and those created by James Powell & Sons.

East Rudham, St Mary

£1,000 Awarded March 2020 Roof and gutter repairs. The damage may have been caused by attempted lead theft.

Great Ryburgh, St Andrew

£1,000 Awarded March 2020 To re-lead and repair the westernmost south chancel window, a William Wailes window dated 1870 that is one of 12 remaining windows in the church commissioned by the Tatham family between 1866 and 1883.

Acle, St Edmund

£3,000 Awarded March 2020 Re-thatching the north side of the nave and tidying of the ridge. Small repairs on south side where necessary. Once the thatch is removed, some of the roof timbers may need to be made good.

Tuttington St Peter & St Paul

£10,000 AWARDED July 2019 Urgent tower repairs. Chancel and nave roof repairs, rainwater goods and drainage, buttress and parapet repairs, tracery and ferramenta repairs

Tilney, All Saints

£5,000 AWARDED July 2019 Installation of roof alarm to north and south aisle roofs following lead theft

Taverham, St Edmund

£500 AWARDED July 2019 Repairs to north and east chancel windows, and nave windows. South aisle roof repairs

Swaffham Baptist Church

£500 AWARDED July 2019 Repair brickwork and coping stones on facade, replace fascias and soffits on both towers. Replace rainwater goods on towers.

Pakefield, All Saints & St Margaret

£3,000 AWARDED July 2019 Replace thatch ridge and north and south roofs. Clean and redress thatch on north roof, re-thatch south elevation of south roof

Morley, St Botolph

£2,000 AWARDED July 2019 Switchgear repairs following recent inspection

Great Cressingham, St Michael

£500 AWARDED July 2019 Tower roof lead replacement and repairs to trap door.

Deopham, St Andrew

£7,000 AWARDED July 2019 First step of substantial repairs

Breckles, St Margaret

£4,000 AWARDED July 2019 Replace rainwater goods on chancel, aisle and south porch. Improve surface water drainage. Minor repairs to roofs and high level masonry.

Norwich, St John de Sepulchre

£2,000 Awarded 2019 In 2019, a grant of £2,000 was awarded for repairs to the vestry, south transept, buttress and roof. This was part of a large project for the church, which is the care of Norwich Historic Churches Trust, and several funders were involved.